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OCTOBER 16, 2020

If you haven’t followed the growth of Oculus over the years, among other things, Carmack was an instrumental force in both driving the company to build the smartphone-based Gear VR headset in 2015 and eventually crystalize that into the 3DOF standalone Oculus Go in 2018. If you’re feeling nostalgic, you can give it a watch here.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Coatsink , a British studio and publisher founded in 2009, has had a hand in the creation of a number of VR titles over the years including: Esper (2015), Esper 2 (2015), Onward (2016), A Night Sky (2017), Augmented Empire (2017), They Suspect Nothing (2018), Shadow Point (2019), and Jurassic World Aftermath (2020). If so, that.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Though the studio doesn’t deal exclusively in VR games, about half of Coatsink’s work has been either fully self-developed VR titles or acting as a publisher on VR titles, most of which had the backing of Oculus Studios: Esper (2015). Esper 2 (2015) – Oculus Studios. Onward (2016). A Night Sky (2017) – Oculus Studios.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Since starting VIVE in 2015, we’ve integrated technology with humanity. .” The company says its partnering with hundreds of partners to expand its growing platform, including Beatday, Engage, VRChat, and Vive Sync. Users can connect to Viveverse using the Vive Connect cross-platform app.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Since its foundation in 2015, haptic technology company bHaptics has released several VR-ready haptic suits compatible with over 100 games and apps, from VR rhythm games like Beat Saber to action-adventure games like Half-Life: Alyx , with the list growing every day.

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JULY 13, 2021

Looking Glass Factory, a Brooklyn-based company specializing in holographic light field display technology, has been working since 2015 to bring 3D technology into the mainstream with its lineup of Looking Glass holographic displays.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Established in 2015 by its parent company the Antser Group, Cornerstone has even created its own VR tool for use in child adoption and fostering. Having launched the first iteration of its social network on Gear VR back in 2015 , vTime XR has continued with a decidedly different approach to building an immersive social space.

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VRScout

MAY 17, 2020

Originally released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 back in 2013 followed by the PC in 2015, GTA V has since gone on to become one of the highest-grossing video game titles of all-time, due in no small part to Rockstar’s GTA Online service and lucrative microtransactions, referred to in-game as “Shark Cards.”

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

According to NintendoLife , back in 2015 Oculus offered to contract Sakurai to create a VR game, but ultimately he declined, citing the medium’s small audience size.

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Road to VR

JULY 14, 2021

Founded in 2015, Resolution Games has been responsible for some of the most well-known titles from the early days of consumer VR, including Bait! 2016), Wonderglade (2017), and Solitaire Jester (2015). Including the current round, this brings the company’s total outside investment to $38.5

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Created by Free Lives , the studio behind Broforce (2015) and Genital Jousting (2018) , Gorn is officially headed to the Quest platform on January 28th, 2021. GORN (2019) , the single-player arcade battle simulator, is finally coming to Oculus Quest next week.

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VRScout

MARCH 13, 2020

billion in 2015; companies such as Google and Alibaba Group were among those that backed the startup, making their post-money valuation around roughly $3.7 Back in 2015, Magic Leap released a teaser video showcasing what owners of the Magic Leap One headset could expect out of the experience.

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2025

Going Deeper PresenZ demo content from 2015 Give your memory some serious props if Presenz sounds familiar… indeed we first wrote about the tech way back in 2016. Presenz exists with the goal of becoming a streamlined pipeline for getting that kind of top-tier CGI content from major studios into VR headsets.

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Road to VR

APRIL 10, 2020

Universe Sandbox, the physics-based space simulator from Giant Army , made a splash on PC back in 2015, later getting VR support so you could physically smash the Moon into the Earth with your own two hands.

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VRScout

JANUARY 15, 2022

According to Bloomberg’s sources, the headset has been in development since 2015 and is intended to replace the iPhone over the next 10 years. Image Credit: Karl Mondon/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2021

Founded in 2015, Pico claims to have more than 300 employees around the world. Japanese VR news publication Nweon reports that due diligence for the deal was happening as far back as June. If that’s true, and the deal discussion is still ongoing, it suggests the deal is quite far along and could be nearing a conclusion.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Launched back in late 2015, Horizons brought to the space-faring simulator the option to finally head out of the ship, land on planets and drive surface recon vehicles to explore the ground below, craft weapons, and allow for multicrew action. Before today, Horizons cost $30 on top of the base game’s $30 price tag.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

We’ve been around for quite a while now, in AR terms; since 2015,” Duff told ARPost in a May interview. “I JigSpace is an authoring platform as well as a viewer for augmented reality educational models called “jigs.” “Jig” Jig” is also a shorthand for the complete company name.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Back in 2015, the company launched the Samsung Gear VR, a head-mounted VR display powered by a compatible Android smartphone, followed by the Odyssey+, a PC VR headset, in 2018. On top of that, Samsung already has a considerable amount of experience developing VR hardware.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2017

VR specialists Viemr had divers capable of holding their breath for up to 5-minutes record the footage during a 10-day shoot at the Red Sea in December 2015. While submerged, you can watch video reels of bottlenose dolphins swimming in their natural habitat.

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MAY 4, 2021

Thief in the Shadows – GDC 2015. Bullet Train – Oculus Connect 2015. Although Epic hasn’t released any VR content lately, the company was early in pursuing the new technology and released six VR tech demos between 2013 and 2015, ahead of the release of Robo Recall in 2017.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2020

The Project Cars franchise has included VR support since the first in the series was released in 2015, which at the time was experimental but notably a step in the right direction for racing sim fans. .” SEE ALSO 'Project CARS 2' VR Review – An Ambitious Sequel With Serious Potential.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Founded in 2015 in LA, the company is also hoping to use its latest funding round to conduct more payer pilots, develop its product pipeline, and build out its clinical, marketing and sales teams.

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APRIL 22, 2022

Although this is first F1 title to support VR, Codemasters is known for several VR-compatible games throughout the years, including Project Cars (2015) , the Dirt Rally series , and pioneering VR racer Toybox Turbos (2014). The UK-based Electronic Arts subsidiary was also behind F1 2020 and F1 2021.

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APRIL 1, 2020

Although it now puts a major focus on retail and industrial training, Strivr actually first catered to professional and collegiate sports teams when it was founded in 2015 by former Stanford Cardinal kicker Derek Belch and Jeremy Bailenson, the founding director of Stanford’s Virtual Human interaction Lab. With more than 1.5

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

” Cher Wang, who took over as CEO in March 2015 and then later stepped down to make way for Maitre, is said to return to the position of CEO from her previous position as Chairwoman of the board. Maitre took over as CEO just shy one year ago in late September 2019.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2024

Originally released in 2015 for Samsung Gear VR and developed by former Meta CTO John Carmack, the app experienced very few updates over the years, with the latest arriving in 2019 alongside the launch of the original Quest.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

The earlier Oculus Lipsync SDK from 2015 offered this capability for lip movement only, and Meta's Audio To Expression is its official replacement, offering cheeks, eyelid, and eyebrow movement too. And remarkably, Meta claims Audio To Expression actually uses less CPU than Oculus Lipsync.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2020

The company has come a long ways since it initially launched the platform on Samsung Gear VR in 2015, amassing over 40 patents and strategic broadcasting partnerships with the likes of the NBA, NHL, WWE, FOX Sports, Live Nation, and the International Champions Cup, and significantly upping its video quality in the process.

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2021

Founded in 2015, Moth+Flame currently develop a few VR training platforms, namely READY VR and PromiseVR , which respectively focus on the acquisition of hard and soft job skills. According to Crunchbase , this follows a May 2021 raise which amounted to $2.6

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The perennially avant-garde singer-songwriter Björk has brought her entire 2015 album, Vulnicura , to virtual reality. After originally releasing Vulnicura in 2015, Björk followed it up with Vulnicura Strings , a redux of the original album without the electronica elements.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

VR support has been on the table since Facepunch announced in 2015 it was working on a spiritual successor to Gary’s Mod (2006) , which will not only include a sandbox as you’d expect, but also an entire development platform for users to make and publish their own third-party games.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Its evolution from an earlier version, developed in 2015, has undergone continuous improvement based on real user feedback a development approach that aligns with enterprise software standards. The platform has already been tested by more than 1,000 students as part of UniSA’s curriculum.

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JUNE 22, 2021

This was after Studio TRIGGER, creators of the original anime and shows such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, released its second Little Witch Academia film, which also found success on Kickstarter in 2015 by garnering over $625,000.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2023

” Founded in 2015 and later acquired by ByteDance in 2021, Pico Interactive has created a number of standalone VR headsets over the years. Its most recent of which, Pico 4, was released in 2022 as an apparent competitor to Meta’s Quest 2.

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Next Reality AR

JANUARY 14, 2020

Don't Miss: Magic Leap Patents Signed Over to JPMorgan Chase as Collateral Just Months After Major Funding Push If you're just getting up to speed on the case, the background is that Nreal co-founder and CEO Chi Xu previously worked at Magic Leap as a software engineer back in 2015. Later, he went on to.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

Dan Morris has been at Oculus since 2015, spending four years at the Head of Store, and another two years as the Head of Developer Relations, according to his LinkedIn profile. Niantic announced today that he’s moving to the company to take on the role of Director of Developer Relations.

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