The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

With HTC Vive the sensor window has been part of their design language since the first Vive SteamVR kit in 2016, this was continued with Vive Pro, Vive Trackers, and Vive Pro 2. Holoball, 2016, £10.99, free demo. Selfie Tennis, 2016, £7.19. Blobby Tennis, 2016, free of charge. Paddle Up, 2016, £6.99.

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JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. Things are changing though.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. At the end of the month, Oculus officially delays the release of Touch controllers until the last half of 2016. January 2016. February 2016. March 2016. April 2016.

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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…). The fun thing is that since it is a publication very focused on the Chinese market, outside China almost no one knows them.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. Streaming services Netflix and Hulu have been in the VR space for a while (Netflix announced their app for Gear VR all the way back in the fall of 2015), and Sony-owned Crackle is attempting to catch up.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR. “I had a lot of trouble transitioning to Unity and VR, and 3D art I’d avoided for ages,” Sarah Northway said.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 13, 2017

For many in 2016, the hardware that delivers the most immersive experiences was too expensive and the software too shallow for many to justify the purchase just yet. Gaming is likely to be the bridge to that change — the content that offers a reason to buy it and helps put immersive hardware in millions of homes. Things are changing though.

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. As late as October, the market researcher thought Sony would ship 2.6

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Uniting the Industry Multiple companies, from Meta Platforms, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Microsoft, HTC VIVE, ByteDance, Sony and even massive telecoms like Nokia and T-Mobile are chipping in to increase adoption rates for spatial technologies. Unity has also joined in on the industrial metaverse to deliver tangible results.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

There is a small tab (visible in the image above) that starts a simple Unity-based application, with a series of white and green dots that must be followed by the user. In comparison, the Valve Index’s older BOE panels have a native resolution of 1440 x 1600 with SteamVR reporting 100% resolution as 2016 x 2240 per eye.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. This could explain why the Wand and Index motion controllers are still the only choices for SteamVR , despite the Vive launching to consumers back in 2016.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Founded in 2016, VeeR is a leading VR entertainment platform available worldwide, across all major VR headsets? BigscreenVR has partnered with many of the major movie studios including Paramount Pictures and Funimation (Sony Pictures). 3- Ayden Ye. web, and mobile. 37- Arvind Neelakantan. Tech Evangelist at Epic Games (India/ASEAN).

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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. In September 2016, Joelle co-led the launch of LIFE VR, Time Inc.’s Life VR, CNN and Discovery VR).

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