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MARCH 20, 2020

Before the postponement, a litany of companies stepped back from GDC 2020 such as Epic, Microsoft, Unity, Sony, Electronic Arts, Facebook, and Kojima Productions.

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MAY 4, 2017

However, this week Iribe was a featured speaker at Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. .” Facebook declines to comment on the size of its individual teams as a matter of policy. There he was asked to address why he stepped down as the CEO of Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

More info John Riccitiello steps down from its role as Unity CEO The last chapter of the drama about Unity’s pricing change is that John Riccitiello has left his role of CEO at the company.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2017

Taking much of what they learned and built already with Tango since 2014, Google’s ARCore doesn’t require any additional hardware and works with Java/OpenGL, Unity and Unreal. With more than two billion active devices, it now looks like Android may be on its way to the largest mobile AR platform in the world.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps, and games (just ask Unity). That figure declined to 15 percent in 2014 and about 10 percent today. VR shows similar patterns to media that were increasingly ad-supported as they matured. Over time, developers learned they could reach scale through free downloads.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one? Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for. I started working in XR in 2014, long before the term was even coined.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 13, 2016

Unity raises $181M monster round at a reported $1.5B valuation Over the last few years, Unity Technologies has grown to become indispensable to the gaming industry and much of the entertainment industry as an engine for building experiences in one place and distributing them across a swath of platforms. Read more here.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

We already knew that Meta should manufacture its first AR glasses, codenamed Orion, in 2014 , and that they should be built with high-end features and be manufactured in the US. Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The company’s headset traditionally has a big showing at the event, having been revealed there in 2014, but this is the first iteration of the show in which the device is already on the market. There are scheduled Unreal Engine 4 and Unity Engine PSVR demonstrations too.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

John Riccitiello, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman, Unity Technologies , has immediately stepped down from his position at the firm. The executive decided to resign from his post after the ongoing debacle with Unity’s pricing structure change last month.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To boot, Labo VR actually has Unity support , meaning third-party developers can create games and experiences for it; the fact is the headset and slot-in Switch form-factor just isn’t built for long-term play like a standalone or PC VR headset though. Fun Labo VR adds-on aside, Nintendo has expressed some skepticism of VR in the past.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). 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.

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MAY 1, 2017

Unity’s CEO had one last segment left in his company’s nearly three-hour-long keynote address this morning. Tagged with: brendan iribe , Unity Vision Summit Facebook Twitter Reddit More. To close out the show with a bang, John Riccitello invited stage hands to bring forth a pair of comfortable chairs.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2018

Some of the ways the company suggest conquering this challenge include: individual game support, native engine support through Unreal or Unity, an API wrapper (which could break after headset software updates), native support through OpenXR, or native support from headset manufacturers.

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JULY 24, 2017

He’s referring to a conversation he had with Jason Rubin—Head of Content at Oculus—way back in late 2014. “We Was there a temptation to jump into engines such as Unity or Unreal to jumpstart development? We were in the last six months of working on The Order (2015) and we had ideas in the team about what we wanted to do next.

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MAY 26, 2017

Google Expeditions was born out of a hackathon soon after the Google Carboard launched back at Google I/O 2014, and it’s since been shared with over 2 million students who have gone on virtual field trips. SEE ALSO For Google, the Future of VR Is on the Open Web with WebVR & WebAR.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you know her name, you are here since the early days, and you are also a bit naughty I’m happy to see her still around trying to innovate the XR space! (If you are new to VR, Ela Darling is a an adult actress that like in 2014–2015 tried to use Kinects to stream volumetric videos of cam girls in VR. Register now.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

We talked Unity, open standards, the metaverse, and more, but the general thread pointed to OTOY as one of THE pivotal companies in the VR space. In March of 2014, OTOY released a brand new 3D format called.ORBX, and it’s been growing ever since. The Big Unity Announcement. At Unity 3D’s conference in L.A. What is OTOY?

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Topshop is no stranger to using VR as a marketing tool (they live-streamed a virtual catwalk all the way back in 2014), but they’ve really taken the plunge on this one. Based in San Francisco, Unity Technologies has raised a new $400M round of private equity from Silver Lake Partners– bringing their total funding to almost $690M.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Ben Throop: The first prototype of the mechanic was in June 2014 at the Boston VR Bender game jam that Owlchemy, Valve, and Unity put on. I met Alex and Devin from Owlchemy, Chet and Aaron from Valve, and Pete Moss from Unity there. The world and trappings of Headmaster evolved November 2014 and through the holidays.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Another virtual piano demo built in Unity. Unity Wizard. A fully interactive MMO game using Leap Motion, Firebase for real-time gaming, and Unity. The post Cal Hacks 2014: Voice-Commanded Virtual Reality and Musical Data appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. LightConductor. What was your favorite hack of the weekend?

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MARCH 25, 2024

One leading XR streaming solution provider is Innoactive, which leverages RT3D engines from Unreal, Unity, and NVIDIA to promote the adoption of workplace XR services – allowing clients to distribute XR applications directly to a range of end-devices with the compute processing happening remotely on the cloud.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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JULY 23, 2017

While Facebook bought Oculus in 2014, Presence Capital contends that its was the first VC fund to focus on VR/AR. Before joining Presence, Bragiel founded three startups and started five funds across four continents, including being an early adviser to companies such as Uber and Unity. Six of its investments are in game companies. “A

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To build out the software ecosystem, Qualcomm lined up a wide range of partners, including Epic Games’s Unreal Engine, Niantic’s Lightship platform, Unity, Viacom CBS and others. In 2014, we created new chips dedicated to virtual reality and augmented reality — and we are here for the long run.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. The organizers of VR’s biggest awards ceremony, The Proto Awards, say they won’t be hosting an event in 2017.

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JUNE 10, 2016

In 2014, Snapchat paid $15M for Vergence Labs, a company experimenting with augmented reality and whose notable product was Epiphany Eyewear – a stylish pair of smartglasses that could possibly lay the groundwork for an eventual Snapchat augmented reality device.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Ever since Oct 2013 when we initiated Project Dexmo, we haven’t stop improving it: In June 2014 we came up with the design of “switching force feedback”, proved the concept and filed a US patent for it. In Oct 2014 we launched and then canceled the KS project. We built some Unity plugins that is somewhat similar to the Vive.

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JULY 7, 2017

10:15 am – 10:45 am | Keynote: The World’s Most Compelling New Experiences (Unity). Tony Parisi | Head of VR/AR Strategy, Unity. Julie Shumaker | Vice President, Business Development, Unity. Tony Parisi is a virtual reality pioneer, serial entrepreneur and angel investor.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

In 2014, he founded Innerspace VR with Hayoun Kwon. Part of Time Warner’s 150 incubator, a recent alum of the Sundance Institute New Frontier Lab and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, Josephine Decker premiered her first two narrative features at the Berlinale Forum 2014 to rave reviews. Julio Medem.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Farrow stated that her medical school, one of the top 25 institutions in the United States, developed a new facility in 2014. Several of the world’s biggest tech giants, including Meta Platforms, Sony, Agora, HTC VIVE, Unity Technologies, Qualcomm, Magic Leap, Lenovo, and many others joined the event.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Where the first Connect back in 2014 was about introducing creators to early VR design and development concepts and pre-release hardware, this year’s conference looks to have gone and grown up, indicating the move from enthusiasts nice to a rapidly evolving industry.

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). That figure declined to 15 percent in 2014 and about 10 percent today. VR shows similar patterns to media that were increasingly ad supported as they matured. Over time, developers learned they could reach scale through free downloads.

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ARVR

JULY 5, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). That figure declined to 15 percent in 2014 and about 10 percent today. VR shows similar patterns to media that were increasingly ad supported as they matured. To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps?—?similar

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 8, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). That figure declined to 15% in 2014 and hovers around 10% today. VR shows similar patterns to media that were increasingly ad supported as they matured. Over time, developers learned they could reach scale through free downloads.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Rokoko was founded in March 2014 and since then they’ve charged forward with a goal to make a suit that was easy for animators themselves to operate without help. You can record or stream up to 5 characters at the same time with just one wifi router in Unity or Smartsuit Studio. This makes the workflow much more smooth and light.

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