Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2018

Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. Like its 2D forebears such as GeoGuessr (2013) , Go Guess tasks you with investigating the captures by hunting for clues. Image courtesy Oblix.

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ARPost

JANUARY 21, 2022

We’re talking, of course, about Google Glass. Google Glasses were the first arguably-AR glasses on the consumer market, coming out in 2013. After all, it was a Google product and a lot of people expected the world. Google Glass retired to the enterprise sector and much of the public gave up on AR glasses.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 26, 2023

In 2017, Gemba grew out of executive training company The Leadership Network, which was founded in 2013 by CEO Nathan Robinson and Chairman Victor Lewis.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2023

When prompted about the company’s criticism of Google Glass around the time the device was introduced back in 2013—saying that head-worn devices would feel to invasive—Cook suggests he may have changed his mind on that point. “My My thinking always evolves.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Proton Pulse , originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week. The game was also released on Google Cardboard, Google Daydream, Samsung GearVR, Oculus Go, and the Oculus Rift consumer headsets.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2020

Alongside gaining the attention and favor of key companies like Valve and veteran engineers like John Carmack and Michael Abrash, the company managed to rapidly raise a string of investments from high profile VC firms; a Series A round of $16 million in early 2013 followed by a Series B round of $75 million in late 2013.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2024

billion in 2013, or just around three years after Magic Leap was founded by Abovitz in stealth mode. .” With the entrance of Apple Vision Pro, one such entity to follow suit is Stryker’s Mako , a robotic surgery group initially founded as a standalone company by Rony Abovitz, the founder and first CEO of AR unicorn Magic Leap.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The footage was created in-house by the Sky VR Studios, in collaboration with Google. To bring these immersive videos to as many people as possible, Sky will also be giving away thousands of Google Cardboard headsets to people visiting Sky Backstage at The O2 from October 20th.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2017

The recent screen-based AR solutions (such as Google Tango and Apple’s phone and tablet AR ) and a number of AR headsets. CastAR’s consumer hardware was due to launch this year. Concept render of the CastAR headset and controller | Image courtesy CastAR. A prototype development kit of the CastAR headset, circa 2015 | Photo by Road to VR.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Today a blog was posted on the Eyefluence site stating the company has joined Google. I have yet to see an official announcement from Google or any other press on this. link] "In early 2013, our journey began with a mission to transform intent into action through your eyes. Here is the content of that post.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” SEE ALSO Google is Adding a VR Shell to Chrome to Let You Browse the Entire Web in VR. To help developers build VR web content, Oculus also announced React VR , a VR-focused version of the React open source javascript library created by Facebook in 2013 that helps developers build user interfaces for web-based content.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 12, 2022

Google agreed to pay $118 million to settle a long-running pay-equity case, according to the plaintiffs' law firms Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Altshuler Berzon LLP. Google , had been pending since 2017. The settlement covers around 15,500 women employees with over 200 job titles in California since September 2013.

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VRScout

MARCH 29, 2018

The share of deals of women-led VR and AR companies has consistently increased since 2013, but the low rate is striking. We’re just beginning to craft the experience of VR — building worlds and defining how to interact or communicate — using an immersive medium,” said Lindsay Metcalfe, the design manager for Google VR. “As

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Knight Foundation, the Google News Initiative, and the Online News Association. It is available to the public for testing purposes and as part of the Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon activities, which honors Swartz who committed suicide in 2013 facing federal charges for downloading scientific journals that same year.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Investments in AR/VR companies are at 2013 level. Bad news for the VR ecosystem come from DigiCapital: the investments in AR/VR companies for the first quarter of 2020 are the lowest in these years and are back to the level of 2013. More info (Google Lens) More info (AR copy to Photoshop) More info (VROOM).

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Justin Moravetz initially released a Proton Pulse demo to the Oculus forum in April 2013 in the days before Oculus Share. I saw the most success on Google Play and the Apple App Store,” Moravetz wrote, with cardboard-compatible releases for iOS and Google Play. The demo arrived just as DK1 was shipping to Kickstarter backers.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” Since its founding in 2013, vTime has operated out of their Liverpool, UK-based studio. vTime now supports Oculus Rift, Windows VR headsets, Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Gear VR, Google Cardboard, as well as non-VR modes through Android and iOS. In April 2018, the company secured $7.6 See how to download vTime here.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Google launched Google Glass , and Microsoft launched HoloLens , a head-mounted display (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). 2010s : Companies are investing in the potential of this area like Google with ARCore and Apple with ARKit (Papagiannis, 2017). Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez.

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AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Google buys Eyefluence, an eye-tracking startup Google wanst to know everywhere that you’re looking. Today, Eyefluence announced that it has been acquired by Google. The eye-tracking interface startup founded in 2013 had raised $21.6M Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2016

When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise.

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ARVR

AUGUST 8, 2022

Detractors dismissed the Focals as just another re-spin of Google Glass, with the Verge dubbing it a ‘smartwatch for your face’. The doomed Google Glass, circa 2013, had a more stable display with over twice the resolution. After a prolonged absence, Google seems to be interested once again in developing a consumer AR product.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 24, 2016

Google creates VR montage of Pride parades around the world Google has launched a new project to bring Pride parades around the world to people who can’t physically be there. According to a Pew Research Center study in 2013, more than half of the 1,197 adult LGBTQ individuals they surveyed have never gone to one.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2019

Like Google Cardboard before it, the Labo VR Kit for Switch is effectively a drop-in holder for the console, with lenses which each see one half of the screen for a stereoscopic view. “We wanted to design an experience that encourages both virtual and real-world interactions among players through passing around Toy-Con creations.”.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

This means that for the first time ever, NBA fans will be able to personalize their NBA All-Star Weekend experience by having the ability to switch between multiple 360° courtside views of the game using a Samsung Gear VR or a Google Daydream View headset with a compatible mobile device and the NextVR app. JBL THREE-POINT CONTEST.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Google’s history with hardware has been somewhat hit-or-miss, but there’s no doubt that its Chromecast streaming stick has been a huge success, helping to change the way we watch movies and shows and listen to music since 2013. Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 16, 2017

Samsung updated the WebVR support for its browser on Gear VR, Google introduced the promised experimental Daydream support for the mobile version of Chrome, and Oculus launched the preview version of its Carmel web browser that will one day have us exploring the Internet through the Rift and Gear VR. You can grab the tool from GitHub.

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XROM

MAY 15, 2024

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, hinted at a potential comeback for Google Glass during a recent interview with CNBC. This wearable technology, initially launched in 2013, faced significant commercial challenges. The original Google Glass launch in 2013 faced significant hurdles.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Source: [link] When it debuted in 2013 the Google Glass was the first of its kind. The Smart-Accessory Revolution A Pew Research Center survey conducted at the beginning of 2013 showed that only 51% of adults in the United States owned a smartphone, 6 years after the launch of the 1st-generation Apple iPhone.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Google (search). Facebook has moved up in our view, while Google and Microsoft have stepped down.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Google was the first major technology company to release a head-worn computer when it introduced Google Glass in 2013. Google’s approach was significantly lighter and simpler than what’s come since.

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AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Funding Roundup: Google Acquires Eyefluence, Oblong Industries Raises $65M & InContext Raises $15.2M Google buys Eyefluence , a company that specializes in turning eye movements into virtual actions, to boost its VR hardware. The eye-tracking interface startup founded in 2013 had raised $21.6M

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this weekly VRScout Report, Google Earth in VR is a rush, Facebook analyzes your face w/ augmented reality, GE uses AR to talk to machines, the funding wrap-up, cure lazy eye with VR, and more…. GOOGLE EARTH IN VR IS A RUSH. GOOGLE VR BRINGS 100M UK SCHOOL CHILDREN.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2019

Cloudhead Games have been at the forefront of VR development ever since the studio brought a 2013-era prototype of The Gallery: Call of the Starseed (2016) to the Oculus Rift DK1 and Razer Hydra motion controllers. Unger deleted the tweet shortly after posting it on Friday, although it can still be found in Google’s webcache.

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ARVR

AUGUST 29, 2020

Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 2. Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video | Hulu Did you know the first virtual reality headset was created over 50 years ago? Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 4.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 20, 2017

The VR industry is moving a lot faster than it did in 2013 — when GameFace started — and companies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook are racing to provide better and more convenient solutions built by ever-growing teams.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

Another discussion group, the official Second Life Educators forum , has only had 214 posts since it launched in 2013. Image courtesy Google Expeditions.). Number of messages each month in the SL Educators mailing list. The company started out with low-cost cardboard viewers, but has since added more durable plastic viewers as well.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

However, Almeida said that he had been waiting for something like an Apple headset for even longer than that – ever since he was, like so many others, disenchanted by the Google Glass device that launched in 2013.

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