Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Notably, Luxottica partnered with Google in 2014 to design and distribute additional frames for Google Glass in effort to make the smartglasses a high fashion item. The partnership is the direct result of Facebook’s struggles to reduce the device’s size into an appealing form factor, the report claims.

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JUNE 6, 2023

In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. Apple's announcement today is a very good validation of the overall XR/spatial computing sector," Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz wrote to me. Could something rivaling the introduction of Mac, iPod and iPhone really follow this? Apple Vision Pro.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

When you think of Oculus you typically think of one thing: virtual reality. However, ever since the startup was acquired by Facebook in 2014, the writing was on the wall that the organization would grow beyond the scope of a gaming focused HMD. The Oculus product roadmap as shown at last year’s F8 conference.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

When you think of Oculus you typically think of one thing: virtual reality. However, ever since the startup was acquired by Facebook in 2014, the writing was on the wall that the organization would grow beyond the scope of a gaming focused HMD. The Oculus product roadmap as shown at last year’s F8 conference.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2017

With the Glass team at the time teasing, “we’ve outgrown the lab and so we’re officially ‘graduating’ from Google[x] to be our own team here at Google. And, rather unfortunately, it seems the hard-won lessons learned by the Glass team have gone underutilized.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 26, 2018

This year was awesome for VR gaming, but 2019 is looking even brighter with a slew of highly polished titles coming to PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. In this exciting Oculus exclusive, the enemy will stop at nothing to gain an advantage. Here we take a look at 15 tantalizing VR titles confirmed for release in 2019. Platform : Rift.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

” As just one example, Facebook has increased its annual R&D spend by $10 billion between 2014, when it bought Oculus, to the present. Then there’s Magic Leap. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” Lots of that is likely going to AR & VR.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

It’s a belief that started at least as far back as when he advised and invested in Oculus prior to the company’s 2014 acquisition by Facebook. It’s not where the VR industry is today that brings Riccitello to VRLA, it’s where he believes it will ultimately go. These guys have invested billions.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

This idea is used in mainline Quests, Pico headsets, Valve Index, HP Reverbs, Oculus Go, and the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The Oculus Rift S was Facebook’s only previous headset with a halo strap. It’s a welcome reversal after years of field of view stagnation in Oculus headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

I really hope to have heard this before starting my entrepreneurial adventure in 2014. The only sure purchase for me on day 1 among the above devices has been the Oculus Quest. I wrote a review on Magic Leap One because my friend (and ex partner ) Gianni made me try it. Suzanne Borders. Is it necessary to own all of them?

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JANUARY 14, 2017

We’ve been investing in it since 2014. GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. Outside of the sort of people in this room and in the games press, I don’t think most people know what Magic Leap is. We got into AR seriously in 2014. It’s my job to re-engage them and go from there.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

Think about what happened to VR: we had the Oculus devkits, which interested only us developers. When I entered VR in 2014, I was expecting the market to enter the mainstream in 2016, with the release of Oculus CV1. I nnovation usually doesn’t follow a linear route, but goes through sprints and disruptions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So RetinadVR actually got started in Montreal in 2014. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. So RetinadVR actually got started in Montreal in 2014. Alex: Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So RetinadVR actually got started in Montreal in 2014. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. So RetinadVR actually got started in Montreal in 2014. Alex: Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So RetinadVR actually got started in Montreal in 2014. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. So RetinadVR actually got started in Montreal in 2014. Alex: Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

My first VR headset was just a [garbled] headset I imported from the States in 2014. 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. Alan: It's interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

My first VR headset was just a [garbled] headset I imported from the States in 2014. 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. Alan: It's interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. I finally — finally, after a year and a half — I got to try out the Magic Leap in Laval, and it was a good experience. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. I finally — finally, after a year and a half — I got to try out the Magic Leap in Laval, and it was a good experience. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched -- what I love -- VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. I finally -- finally, after a year and a half -- I got to try out the Magic Leap in Laval, and it was a good experience. Alan: What do you try it?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. I remember back in 2014 when a lot of folks figured that the horizon, to at least being able to hit the hockey stick part of that, was going to be three to five years. And this is why companies like Spatial, for example, have raised millions of dollars as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. I remember back in 2014 when a lot of folks figured that the horizon, to at least being able to hit the hockey stick part of that, was going to be three to five years. And this is why companies like Spatial, for example, have raised millions of dollars as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. I remember back in 2014 when a lot of folks figured that the horizon, to at least being able to hit the hockey stick part of that, was going to be three to five years. And this is why companies like Spatial, for example, have raised millions of dollars as well.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

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