Road to VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

According to his LinkenIn bio , Bar-Zeev worked on Hololens (first dubbed ‘Screen Zero’, then ‘Fortaleza’) up until 2012 when he left Microsoft to found his own company Syntertainment. If the tweet below means anything, he probably won’t be heading to Facebook/Oculus anytime soon.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2016

The collection already boasts an impressive number of 360-degree images, beginning four years ago with their partnership with the International Olympic Committee to become the Official Photographic Agency at the 2012 London Olympics. There they began their initiative capturing the events and spectacles in glorious 360 degrees.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. A decade later, Oculus VR is gone “ for now ” and the earliest faces to rally developer and enthusiast support for the imminent consumer revival of virtual reality have moved to other startups.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Then, in 2012 they posted the video that would go viral and change everything for them. The Within app is free to download via the App Store , Google Play , Oculus , SteamVR , Viveport , PSVR , and WebVR. The video series SOKRISPY DREAMS is available now on Within alongside a helping of other immersive content.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Bell and I discuss what it was like founding the company, building the prototype and looking forward to Google Project Tango. It sounds like you guys had a pivot somewhere around 2011–2012 when you had that realization. tl;dr — Soon you’ll be able to capture spaces using Google Project Tango phones.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. months away!

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Watch YouTube in VR with your friends, Google pours resources into shared social VR experiences, upcoming standalone headsets will be wireless, the Snapchat vs. Facebook continues, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WATCH YOUTUBE IN VR… WITH YOUR FRIENDS!

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2016

Provided the project reaches its $80,000 funding goal, the studio is aiming to release Mythica VR on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift/DK2, Google Cardboard and with future support for Google Daydream. Pledge $20 or more – The game on release, for PC with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, or iOS or Android with Google Cardboard.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. Did Seebright just release the augmented reality equivalent of Google Cardboard?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Samsung’s incubation program, called the C-lab, has backed developer education since 2012, and the C-lab program will be showcasing four of their prime VR/AR projects in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress this week (remember that now-iconic Dystopian photo of Mark Zuckerberg strolling through a crowd of oblivious VR headset-wearing journalists?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

” The new feature is available across all of the app’s supported headsets including Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift and Gear VR. See Also: Social App ‘vTime’ Now Available for Oculus Rift. With the basic swath of pre-set avatars at my disposal, I was able to create Samuel L.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 8, 2016

Quick to adapt to new image technologies, Getty images began building its collection of 360 and gigapixel imagery four years ago, pioneering the use of these techniques in its role as the Official Photographic Agency for the International Olympic Committee at the 2012 London Olympics.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The VR industry today is likely not exactly what Brendan Iribe envisioned it would be back in 2012. At that time, Oculus had ambitions of releasing an affordable VR headset in the near future that would allow players to step into the game. In the short term, the new Oculus doesn’t sound all that different from the old one.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 7, 2016

Getty has been experimenting with 360-degree image capture since the 2012 London Olympics, but plans to really dive in at this summer’s games in Rio. Not many people have plunked down cash for a dedicated virtual reality device, but with Samsung’s Gear VR and Google Cardboard out there, Airey said the time is right to get started.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

THE IMPLICATIONS OF VIRTUAL LEARNING In 2012, the first crowdfunding campaign was started for the Oculus Rift, a popular virtual reality headset now owned by Facebook. Ray and Deb (2016) observed the effects of using Google Cardboard, a cheaper alternative to most virtual reality headsets due to its use of smartphones.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

In response to the acquisition, it appears that all of the startup’s apps have been removed from both the App Store and the Google Play store. Certainly, this acquisition is impactful for Facebook and will pair well with technology gleaned through its Face.com purchase in 2012.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

The Once & Future Web – Google. And the timing couldn’t have been more ideal; the Oculus Kickstarter had been gaining steam in the broader community. Not only was the little room packed to capacity, Nate Mitchell, a co-founder of Oculus flew up to demo content and hardware nobody had seen before. Enter: SVVR.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It is rumored that the Oculus team will spend a considerable amount of time discussing Project Santa Cruz at the event in California.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 7, 2017

Tony is the co-creator of 3D graphics standards, including VRML, X3D and glTF, the new file format standard for 3D web and mobile applications.Tony is also the author of O’Reilly Media’s books on Virtual Reality and WebGL: Learning Virtual Reality (2015), Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL (2014), and WebGL Up and Running (2012).

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Oculus Rift. Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Oculus Rift.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Oculus Rift. Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Oculus Rift.

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VeeR VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In 2012 the only way to have experienced virtual reality was with a high-powered computer and headset. No price was announced but it is rumored to be the same cost as it’s North American equivalent Oculus Go at $199. Facebook announced a new VR headset, the Oculus Go at the Oculus Connect 4 keynote. 75 Hz refresh rate.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

After its 2007 release of google Street View, in 2010, google introduced stereoscopic 3D mode for Street View. It was also in 2010 that 18-year-old Palmer Luckey created the first prototype of Oculus Rift, the famous VR headset. Two years later, in 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR company for 2 billion USD.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. That grid’s share of all active OpenSim users has fallen from a high of 40 percent in the summer of 2012 to its current low of just 15 percent. But the next-most-popular grid, OSgrid, still has a long ways to go before it catches up.

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Doc-Ok

OCTOBER 20, 2016

For one, measuring the user’s IPD and entering it into the VR software, either manually or through a sensor on a physical IPD adjustment knob or slider on the headset, as in both Vive and Oculus Rift, is an important component of creating convincing VR displays. I should have consulted the Googles back then. Alas, not so fast.

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HaptX

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A search on Google Trends reveals more searches for “VR gloves” than “haptic gloves.” With Oculus Go arriving in early 2018 and HTC Vive an official partner of RPO, headset-makers see a huge upside, regardless of whether the movie is commercially successful. Perhaps the movie could be VR’s Clownfish boom. Warner Bros.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 16, 2017

InWorldz has been the most popular grid every month from 2012 on, and had 5,276 active users last month. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. There’s no centralized way to find OpenSim grids, so if you don’t tell us about it, and Google doesn’t alert us, we won’t know about it.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 17, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. InWorldz’ share of all active OpenSim users has fallen from a high of 40 percent in the summer of 2012 to its current low of just 15 percent. Land area of OpenSim’s public grids, in standard region equivalents. Hypergrid Business data.).

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 16, 2018

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. In 2012, Avination more than doubled in size. There’s no centralized way to find OpenSim grids, so if you don’t tell us about it, and Google doesn’t alert us, we won’t know about it.

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VRWorld

APRIL 17, 2017

However, there’s a precedent for adding some of those elements already – Slots Million has an entire VR casino with 1,000 machines to play while Oculus launched their own Casino VR Poker as a multiplayer version of the popular card game that includes functionality for bluffing and player chat.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. Google Earth VR. billion per year. 3D Organon VR Anatomy.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. They see the value.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. The first Oculus was… out in, what, early 2012? But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon. We’ve been playing with headsets since 2012.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. The first Oculus was… out in, what, early 2012? But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon. We’ve been playing with headsets since 2012.

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