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

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Tonight Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Hugo Barra will become the new head of Facebook’s virtual reality efforts, which includes leading its Oculus team. Co-founder Brendan Iribe recently vacated his role as CEO of Oculus to lead a PC-focused VR group. to lead Team @oculus. It seems fitting. So excited!”

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus. Successfully funded projects will go into production in early 2017 and will be available on the Oculus platform. in Digital Art and Video in May of 2013.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Announced today on their blog , Oculus is transitioning to ratings provided by the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) which is the same system used in the Google Play Store and Nintendo eShop. The IARC is fairly young, having been formed just in 2013 by the ESRB and other international rating organizations.

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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. The April launch timing for the Switch Labo VR Kit is quite interesting considering Oculus’ upcoming Quest headset is also set to launch this Spring.

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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.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 8, 2016

Searches for “HTC Vive” Have Caught up with “Oculus Rift” and May Be Accelerating When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. As the market matures however, serious competition for name recognition has begun. Read more here.

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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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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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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. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

There is not even an assembly kit like with Google Cardboards. If you have already heard his name, it is probably because he is the author of this famous photo of Sergey Brin wearing Google Glass in the metro. pic.twitter.com/cx93BXKY — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) January 21, 2013. You must buy yourself the various components.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

I found very interesting that they are trying to create full-body VR content for the Oculus Quest. I have instead tried another demo for Oculus Quest called Anamika, where you impersonate a four-armed Indian goddess. They showcased a series of 360 videos shot by them and that could be enjoyed through an Oculus Go.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2016

NBC’s popular late night talk show The Tonight Show with host Jimmy Fallon has debuted a new segment called Virtual Reality Pictionary which uses the HTC Vive and Google’s Tilt Brush VR paint app. Jimmy Fallon is no stranger to VR. The the entire segment in the video at the top of the article.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Google , Intel, Facebook and Microsoft have all either already begun or announced significant VR initiatives in the past 12-24 months. Most recently, Apple hired Zeyu Li of Magic Leap — perhaps the most well known AR company in existence — as well as Yury Petrov from Facebook’s Oculus.

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Cats and VR

APRIL 28, 2016

In 2013 I was blown away with my first experience in Oculus Rift. I was ready for VR when I first used an Oculus Rift as it placed me in a more immersive form of media I have already experienced such as gaming and movies.

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JANUARY 14, 2023

” Sometime I wonder what the path to consumer VR would have looked like if Palmer Luckey & Brendan Iribe hadn’t sold Oculus to Facebook. What if Oculus hadn’t hired researchers like Abrash from Valve? — Jeri Ellsworth (@jeriellsworth) February 13, 2013. ” Yup. Got fired today.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell is a book published in 2013 with historians Paula Fleming and Denis Pellerin. Guitarist Brian May is celebrating this years Halloween with launching the Diableries and The Diabl-O-Scope augmented reality apps , enabling users to explore the underworld whilst listening to Queen.

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Immersive Authority

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

This camera succeeds the original 4GB 12MP Theta camera that was launched in September 2013 which produced media that many users were unhappy about due to the lack of image quality. Jump is an amazing piece of hardware developed by Google. Google teamed up with the popular GoPro team to develop Jump. Bublcam costs $799.

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JULY 7, 2017

Since joining TIME as an Associate Photo Editor in 2013, Mia has embraced immersive digital storytelling in many forms, culminating with her involvement shaping the editorial voice of Time Inc.’s He is currently developing VR episodic series for Felix and Paul Studios and for Google. Mia Tramz | Managing Editor of LIFE VR, TIME.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 26, 2016

After graduating Stanford, he joined Google as an ‘Associate Product Marketing Manager,’ working on Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Spreadsheets and other products. In total, Kevin spent two years at Google; during his second year, he joined the Corporate Development team, learning on how Google ticks.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Development of the free-to-download game, which is released for Samsung Gear VR headset and Facebook’s Oculus Rift, was funded by German mobile carrier Deutsche Telekom AG. A 2013 study from the University of Reading has recently resurfaced , concluding that drinking 1-3 glasses of champagne each week can boost brain health.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Despite being an emerging concept for the last few years, Google’s April Fools-joke-turned-into-reality made the technology a mass hit. Picking up awards at two industry shows, VR Roulette combined Oculus Rift and Leap Motion controller s to plunge players into a virtually interactive casino. UCI Google Glass.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The total number of registered users went up by 12,161, the biggest single-month increase since early 2013, to 511,530, crossing the half-million mark again. For those who are new readers, OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. December Region Counts on the Top 40 Grids.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Investments in AR/VR companies are at 2013 level.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

And then the Oculus Kickstarter happened. And Oculus did hold on to that exclusivity for quite a while. Out of seemingly nowhere, Facebook decides to enter the field, and buys Oculus for 2.4 I mean, using computers with MIND CONTROL!? that didn’t go over too well. non-literal quote from head professor). VR was here.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

The game was funded via a Kickstarter campaign in October 2013, and was released in August 2016 for PC, with a macOS version released in March 2017. A virtual reality version for Oculus Rift system was published in November 2016, while HTC Vive and Oculus Touch versions were released on March 22, 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Harkening back to the idyllic days of Oculus Connect, I had hallway run-ins with countless brilliant XR people, some of whom I’ve known for many years and others I’d only met in the metaverse before today. I came out of Orion buzzing with the same level of excitement I had after trying the Tuscany demo on my Oculus Rift DK1 back in 2013.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony).

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2017

Founded all the way back in 2013 by Eric Romo, Altspace VR was a social world that broke new ground– allowing new and old friends to virtually congregate. WILL GOOGLE LET YOU ANIMATE YOUR SCENES MADE WITH BLOCKS SOON? THE 2ND GOOGLE TANGO COMPATIBLE PHONE IS FINALLY HERE… AND IT’S NOT MADE FOR GIANTS.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

In a 2013 Time interview , he briefly — and modestly — spoke of The Sword of Damocles, noting, “The name virtual reality might be applied, but it didn’t come along until ten years later.” Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2017

This is partially explained by the absence of Western actors like Google and Oculus, which has triggered an upsurge of players wanting to fill the void, seen in the countless of Cardboard and other headset variants, facilitated by the manufacturing power of China, especially Shenzhen. It’s the same with VR.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

To me, modern VR started when Google released the Cardboard App in 2014 basically for free to a world that basically scratched its head and said, ‘huh?’ It is still far from clear what Google was thinking but it sent a kind of signal. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be. That was 24 years after ‘The Year of VR.’

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Back in 2013, Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems successfully sued Facebook over data privacy breaches. The first seeds of Zuckerberg’s infatuation with the metaverse were sown with Facebook’s acquisition of virtual reality (VR) headset manufacturer Oculus back in 2013.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all.

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