Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2019

When Oculus revealed its newest PC headset, Rift S, at GDC last month, it was a surprise to see the ‘Lenovo’ logo on the side. Oculus explained that Facebook tapped the company to help in both the design and manufacture of the headset. Jason Rubin has been a key spokesman for Oculus since he joined the company in 2014.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2018

Valve’s monthly Steam hardware and software survey is out again, and it appears HTC Vive is holding firm ground on the platform after Oculus Rift took majority market share in March as the most popular VR headset on Steam. All except the Samsung Odyssey pack in the same specs: two 2.89″, 1,440 x 1,440 resolution LCDs.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2017

Oculus’ founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus, circa 2014 | Photo courtesy Oculus. This roughly affirms what we’ve heard from other key figures in the VR space.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by VRTUOLUO) A leak shows a prototype of the Samsung XR headset We finally have a leak of the Samsung headset that makes us see something about it. The report talks about Samsung wanting to target the $1000–2000 range, which in my opinion risks being neither expensive nor affordable.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

In March 2014 Facebook bought Oculus and the current wave of interest in VR and AR was reborn. Of the 25+ venture-backed VR/AR education companies that launched since 2014, over ten cater to K-12 teachers, providing interactive tools, learning software, augmented books, and lesson plans aligned to Common Core standards.

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Road to VR

APRIL 1, 2017

With the Galaxy S8 and S8+ coming later this month , Samsung is hoping to sweeten the deal with a free Gear VR headset and Controller for US and Canadian pre-orders before April 20th. And while there are plenty of free games on the Oculus app store, Samsung is also giving away a free Oculus content pack to get you started (US purchases only).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Samsung today announced its latest and greatest flagship phone lineup, the Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e, and S10 5G. The latest version of the headset (SM-R324NZAAXAR), which supports an impressive 14 different Samsung smartphone models, now also supports the four new members of the Galaxy family. Image courtesy Samsung.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2018

Marcos has since left Mozilla in order to work on the Supermedium WebVR browser, which creates a desktop VR browser designed for the Vive or Oculus to easily go in and out of viewing WebVR content as a seamless VR experience. spec include Firefox Release 55, Oculus Browser, Samsung Internet, & Microsoft Edge.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 27, 2025

The trailer for Darknet is embedded below and you'll want to take particular note of the timestamp on its publication of October 6, 2014. Darknet was the first full game to launch on Samsung Gear VR, which is considered to be the first consumer VR headset.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2024

Google Cardboard was first out the door way back in 2014, and introduced millions to a very basic VR experience made by slapping a smartphone into a cardboard viewer with simple lenses. Meta and Samsung’s similar Gear VR project faced a similar fate. Google has had several starts and stops in the XR space.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2017

With notable exceptions, these are often companies producing cheap replicas of existing mobile hardware like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear without any additional, unique features. In the wake of Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014, investment spiked: 270 million yuan ($38.9 It’s growing.

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MAY 8, 2017

The manufacturers have released only limited data points — with Samsung coming out with the largest number to date revealing the technology giant sold 5 million Gear VRs through the beginning of the year. The firm projects the overall mobile VR king this year will be Samsung approaching 10 million units total. percent from 4.56

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JANUARY 2, 2017

We don’t have a clear idea on precisely how many units have been sold for the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Daydream View, or any other major headset on the market. According to a Homido representative, the company has collectively sold approximately 557,000 HMDs since 2014.

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AR Insider

MARCH 23, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2017

After it was introduced in 2014, Chinese manufacturers flooded the market with these ‘Plastic Cardboards’, which on the surface seem to fill a use: headsets made of cardboard get greasy and dinged-up fairly quickly, so having a more robust plastic version helps keep them in good shape longer.

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VRScout

JUNE 22, 2016

After acquiring Oculus in 2014, Facebook has been slowly looking at ways to integrate their connected network of global users more closely with the immersive world of VR. Then in March, Facebook owned Oculus announced that you would be able to like and share your favorite Facebook 360 videos all within the Gear VR.

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APRIL 28, 2017

In 2014 Facebook purchased Oculus, making it a matter of time before the acquisition’s virtual reality hardware would be incorporated into Facebook’s wider mission of “connecting the world.” In between these two conferences, Facebook released a smattering of other Social VR applications within the Oculus brand.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

Born from a successful Kickstarter campaign back in early summer of 2015, FOVE attracted over $480,000 in crowd sourced funds along with an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures. We started FOVE as a small team back in 2014, and now we’re finally realizing an entirely new way for humans to interact with a virtual world.”

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2019

Minecraft has turned into a global phenomenon, prompting Microsoft to buy the indie studio in 2014 for a whopping $2.5 The VR version of Minecraft also came to the Oculus Rift in 2016. The VR version of Minecraft also came to the Oculus Rift in 2016. InXile – The Mage’s Tale.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Starting with its $2B acquisition of Oculus in the spring of 2014, Facebook has continued to build out its virtual reality strategy in a big way. You will also be able to stream your virtual experiences in the Samsung Gear VR to Facebook Live before the end of this year, so stay tuned for more information on that angle.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Facebook acquired VR specialist Oculus all the way back in 2014 and, while its funding and resources have greatly accelerated what the latter has been able to do, it still hasn’t released a tailored version of its own social network to run on Oculus products. As for an Oculus Rift edition of the app?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This will be Zuckerberg's publicly-known trip to South Korea since 2014, when he visited Samsung to finalise the Gear VR smartphone headset partnership. Samsung handled the hardware for Gear VR, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was manufactured and co-designed by Lenovo.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’m Chen, General Manager and Chief Editor of VRTUOLUO , also a senior media expert who has dug and studied deeply the XR industry since 2014. With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2016

Well it looks to be ready to drop soon as a recent blog post from Minecraft developer Mojang, who was acquired by Microsoft back in 2014 for a reported $2.5Bn, has stated that they expect Oculus Rift support to be “turned on” in the “coming weeks”, marking the first time the game has officially appeared on the platform.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The launch of Apple Vision Pro is in some ways the most significant event for the XR industry since the acquisition of Oculus by Meta back in 2014. To that end, he suspects that Samsung and Google—which are collaborating on an upcoming XR headset—”must be in panic mode” after seeing what Apple produced.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is Zuckerberg's first publicly-known trip to South Korea since 2014, when he visited Samsung to finalize the Gear VR smartphone-holder headset partnership. Samsung handled the hardware for Gear VR, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was co-designed and manufactured by Lenovo. Quest Pro 2?

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Road to VR

APRIL 8, 2019

Samsung’s Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ Headset. In 2014, Oculus and Samsung launched the first Gear VR headset which they dubbed the ‘Innovator Edition’ (not dissimilar to Magic Leap One ‘Creator Edition’).

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AllThingsVR

MARCH 14, 2016

Samsung actually partnered with Oculus, the creators of the Oculus Rift, to create the software which runs the Samsung Gear VR headset. First and foremost, the Gear VR only works with a very limited number of smartphones, all of which are created by Samsung. That will help explain a lot of the branding.

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2016

Samsung reportedly confirmed back at the company’s own developer conference that a new, standalone VR headset was on it’s way and new trademark filings may indicate it’s name. The post Samsung’s New Standalone VR Headset May be Called ‘Odyssey’ appeared first on Road to VR. local time.

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JUNE 6, 2023

In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. Meta Quest vs. Apple Vision In buying Oculus in 2014, Zuckerberg first put forth his quest for spatial computing. Could something rivaling the introduction of Mac, iPod and iPhone really follow this? Then Tim Cook said "One More Thing".

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Way back in 2014 not long after VRFocus had first arrived on the virtual reality (VR) scene we spoke to Fireproof Games’ co-founder Barry Meade about bringing its popular mobile franchise The Room to VR, with him saying that: “It would be very, very difficult to port.”

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Attendees can sign up for Circuit Stream’s workshops when they register for VRLA.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream. Speaking of the Metaverse… say hi to Metaworld.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Original investors included Comcast Ventures, HTC and Samsung, but now join Horizons Ventures, Twentieth Century Fox, Evolution Media Partners (backed by TPG and CAA), China’s Shanghai Media Group, Youku Global Media Fund and LDV Partners. SEE ALSO Comcast, Samsung, and HTC Join $6 Million Investment in VR Animation Studio 'Baobab'.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Google has been playing in the VR space since 2014 back when they launched the Cardboard initiative, a super low barrier starting point for VR which let people pair any modern smartphone with a $15 headset literally made out of cardboard.

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Next Reality VR

MARCH 25, 2016

Since its purchase by Microsoft in 2014, Minecraft has regularly been pushed to new platforms such as Windows 10, Wii U, and Fire TV. Recently, Oculus, whose technology powers the Samsung Gear VR, demoed a modified Minecraft Pocket Edition for the Gear VR at GDC 2016.

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