VRScout

MAY 16, 2016

Samsung has sold over 300,000 Gear VR headsets in Europe this year. Continuing on the record pre-order sales in Europe for the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, Samsung has announced an exclusive Gear VR content package for new Galaxy S7 customers. Both numbers are milestones for Samsung, Oculus and mobile VR in general.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Initially kicked off in 2017, Microsoft was well positioned to make Windows a home to a fleet of PC VR headsets , which were notably some of the first headsets with inside-out tracking, including entrants from Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Samsung.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2020

Existing Spatial investors also include the likes of Samsung NEXT, Baidu Ventures, and LG Ventures to name a few. We had a chance to go hands-on at MWC 2019 last year, and again at CES 2020 earlier this month.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

Anyway, he confirmed that the first smart glasses that will be released this year won’t have true AR and said that now Oculus wants to expand beyond the gaming ecosystem. Steam has just published an overview of VR in 2020, affirming that: There have been 104M SteamVR sessions; 1.7M dollars in 2020, accounting for more than 54.7%

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

billion and in 2020 it has been predicted to achieve $22.9 As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. billion, the next year it increased to $3.6

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We’ve seen similar hinges and on the Vive Proton prototype standalone first revealed in February 2020, although we’ve never seen it in action. There’s not much to tell from the eight-second video, however it appears the headset’s temples can articulate, which suggests they may fold to some degree. Image courtesy HTC.

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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

MAY 26, 2020

Like Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go, the headset only includes a single remote, which appears to have a touchpad and button array for basic input. Along with optical hand tracking comes room-scale tracking, making Mova closer to Oculus Quest or Pico Neo 2 in function. Image courtesy XRSPACE.

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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. So three years and several months later, halfway to 2020, how has adoption of VR/AR in education progressed? Image Credit: Samsung. Some analysts projected that education would be the 4th largest sector for VR/AR investment.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020. As VR hardware continues to compress in price and powerful smartphone based systems like Samsung’s Gear VR and Google’s mobile VR Daydream platform gain steam, it’s expected that 50% of worldwide revenues will be generated by VR/AR hardware sales according to the report.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Though it’s Facebook’s newest headset, Oculus Quest may be the company’s most popular so far, at least as far as search volume is concerned. Released earlier this year, Oculus Quest has entered the fray and made a big splash. Worldwide, Quest tied with PSVR, the longstanding leader in holiday shopping search volume.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2020

Pimax is showing Artisan at CES 2020, so we’re hoping to find out more when we stop by their booth on our haunt through the convention’s massive halls. SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Sells Out at Major Retailers, Availability Slips into Late February. Nolo VR Tracking. Image courtesy NOLO VR.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

Qualcomm indicated that XR2+ Gen 2 will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a fifth headset from a currently undisclosed company. GPU performance, on the other hand, took a huge leap with the Gen 2 architecture.

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Road to VR

MAY 28, 2020

While it was impressive for the time, competitors like Oculus have since launched headsets with four or more tracking cameras which offer a much larger tracking volume. HP says Reverb G2 maintains the same 114-degree field of view as the original Reverb (which we’ve found to be comparable in FOV to Oculus’ headsets).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

Since it features no computational unit and no battery, it can be smaller and lighter than “shoebox” headsets like the Oculus Quest that must contain everything inside; Thanks to the use of pancake optics, the screen can be closer to the lenses , for a very compact design. Zoom on the 6DOF controllers. The importance of Huawei.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Valve let Tested’s Norman Chan and Will Smith into their headquarters recently for a multi-hour session with Half-Life: Alyx , the studio’s famed flagship VR game coming out in March 2020. Rotational teleportation also lets you select your ‘landing’ position, ostensibly the same movement scheme seen in Oculus Home.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The first Windows MR headsets arrived in late 2017 from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, aiming to compete with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that had launched a year earlier. HP's Reverb G2 added two extra side cameras, but by the time it launched in 2020 it was already too late for Microsoft's platform.

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2018

The VR Olympics is being delivered exclusively through the NBC Sports VR app on Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, Windows, Android and iOS devices. STRIVR primarily uses an Oculus Rift for their training, as well as Samsung Gear VR for the times when the team is on the road.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest may have sold only 400,000 units. It seems that according to it, Oculus Quest , considered by many the first VR headset that can become mainstream, has sold only 180,000 units in Q3 of this year, for a total number of 400,000 units sold since launch. Top news of the week. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

revenues in 2021 , up from $1.14B in 2020, with a 2x growth over one year period. These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. Oculus support at its best Funny link. And there are good news and bad news. Reality Labs had $2.3B

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) took place this Wednesday and Thursday at the San Jose Convention Center. Unlike last year’s event, with the unveiling of the Oculus Quest and Rift S, there wasn’t any expected major hardware announcements. But Oculus Connect is always a great opportunity to see advancements in the overall ecosystem.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

But Samsung isn’t stopping there… THE NEXT GENERATION OF GEAR VR MAY COME WITH CONTROLLER. Although not yet officially confirmed by the Korean company, a recent FCC filing indicates that the next version of the Samsung Gear VR will boast its own controller. OCULUS RIFT ARRIVES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Oculus Quest 2 (Image courtesy Oculus.). 2020 has been a challenging year and nobody could be blamed if they were looking for a little reprieve from reality. Oculus Rift S PC-Powered VR Gaming Headset. Oculus Rift S (Image courtesy Oculus.). Oculus Quest All-in-one VR Gaming Headset. Oculus Quest 2.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

EarthxFilm – which is part of the annual EarthX event – and its interactive arm EarthXR has teamed up with Samsung XR to bring you a collection of films dedicated to these causes. . Starting now, EarthXR will be hosting environmentally-focused 360-degree videos by a variety of filmmakers on Samsung XR -supported platforms.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 2, 2020

After aggressive product rollouts in 2016 and 2017, Google quickly abandoned its VR efforts, which, much like the Samsung Gear VR, allowed users to drop a compatible phone into a headset holster and use the phone’s display and compute to power VR experiences. Review: Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 is outstanding.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 1, 2016

52 Million VR Headsets by 2020? Analysts are saying there could be as many as 52 million headsets sold by 2020, made up mostly of the recently released HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. That’s one of the reasons Oculus has starting showing off their wares at Best Buy stores so customers can try out the experience for themselves.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Shaun: We first started working with AR five or six years ago and had the opportunity to test the first version of the Oculus alongside our 8K IMAX technology with the widest lenses possible. Shaun: Looking toward 2020, there are a variety of projects we are currently working on. February 2020.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

First showcased at Oculus Connect 6 (OC6), the title stays in the same universe whilst offering its own narrative twist. The Room VR: A Dark Matter has been scheduled for release on 26th March, supporting PlayStation VR, Oculus Quest , Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S , Valve Index, Vive Cosmos, HTC Vive , and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

I expected a lot of AR/VR news from there, like the announcement of the price of the Vive Pro or the release of the Oculus Go by Xiaomi and Facebook… but actually I’ve been disappointed by everyone. Samsung S9. Samsung has released its new flagship phone: the Samsung Galaxy S9. It has a 5.8-inch

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?)

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Voices of VR

APRIL 8, 2025

Apple Immersive Video is much closer to what we've seen from the XR industry and VR 180 filmmakers from the past decade, and Apple's technology is likely derived from their 2020 acquisition of NextVR. NextVR focused on live stereoscopic broadcasts of sports events on VR headsets starting with the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift in 2014.

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InstaVR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

After a relatively quiet summer — outside of the Oculus Quest release ! First off, some of the early major players like Google, Apple, and Samsung seem to be taking a step back. Speaking of Oculus, a lot of headset news coming from their offices (more on that below). — we have a slew of news to start the Fall.

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InstaVR

MARCH 15, 2020

San Francisco, CA – March 16, 2020 – InstaVR Inc ( www.instavr.co ), the leading web-based virtual reality (VR) authoring, publishing, and analysis company, today launched organization-wide Academic pricing to give universities a more cost-effective way of utilizing VR across all departments. This severely limited access to the technology.

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ARVR

MARCH 29, 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 12, 2016

. • VR was “the biggest loser” in sales this year, PSVR sales forecast greatly lowered – SuperData. • The holiday season seems to have given virtual reality a reality check. • Despite slow 2016, VR is still forecast to hit $14 billion in consumer software sales in 2020. Facebook – Oculus Rift. Samsung – Gear VR.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 26, 2016

Apple is Playing The Long Game With VR – And It May Work Opinion: Slow and Steady Might Win the Race A lot of VR fans may be focused on the big guns, like the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Playstation VR, but the real pioneer in marketing virtual and augmented reality to the masses is mobile VR, such as the Samsung Gear VR headset.

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