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JANUARY 3, 2017

What better way to celebrate the New Year than to recognise some of the work done by a few of the youngest members of the VR industry? Schwartz’s studio helped pave the way for room-scale VR by working on an early version of the HTC Vive before it was formally announced. Congrats to all those selected!

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VRScout

JANUARY 25, 2018

In darker times, the best 360° videos we had access too were grainy, nauseating clips of GoPro stunts and claustrophobic concerts. But now everywhere you look, amazing creators are creating high quality VR videos our past selves could only dream of. They’re part of any successful industry. Let’s get lost.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

” SteamVR and HTC Vive on Mac OS. While Steam has been Mac compatible for some time now, Apple announced that Valve will be bringing SteamVR to Mac too, allowing the HTC Vive to run VR games on Mac systems. Apple is updating their professional video editing application, Final Cut Pro X, to support 360 degree video editing.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

Professional gaming, or esports, has quickly developed from a niche competitive scene into a full-blown industry that has attracted the attention of both spectators and corporations alike. Recently, HTC and HP announced a partnership with the company, putting down a $50,000 Prize pool for ESPORTS tournaments in 2019.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

. “When it comes to VR video playback, there’s at least 20 different SDKs [you could find when you search], there’s no universal option. We introduced [the OZO Player SDK] available for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Gear VR, Google Daydream, and Cardboard (iOS and Android),” Sayed told Road to VR.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

It’s interesting to note that although Nintendo did not directly develop this virtual version of the 2005 arcade classic Mario Kart GP , it is an official remake and has Nintendo’s blessing… but the experience will be using the HTC Vive and not Nintendo hardware (will the Nintendo Switch soon be the first VR-compatible hardware from Nintendo???).

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JULY 19, 2017

The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have good content and roomscale capabilities, but they’re tethered and the resolution isn’t great. The target market happens to be industrial and enterprise clients (such as major car brands like BMW, which already is a paying customer) rather than gamers and everyday consumers.

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VRScout

APRIL 5, 2017

Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light & Magic to release a ridiculously intense 360-degree VR experience centered around the epic intergalactic battle. ” You can watch the 360° video below. The Nissan Rogue gets battle-tested in this new Star Wars-themed VR experience. .

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

It’s available or in beta on most current headsets, including PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung GearVR and Google Cardboard. We decided to focus all of our effort in creating a platform the music industry could distribute their content and users could access their content,” he said. Nobody was in music.

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

The 360 film industry is still young and it’s maturing rapidly. With his name on more than 20 360 film projects to date, Armando Kirwin has had an inside view as to where things started, where they’re going, and why. On location with the Facebook Surround 360 camera. Guest Article by Armando Kirwin.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Recently, HTC and HP announced a partnership with the company, putting down a $50,000 Prize pool for ESPORTS tournaments in 2019. The esports audience is the ‘audience of the future’ here and now with 80% of the demographic being made up of 18-35 year olds,” explains Margot James MP, Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries.

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APRIL 28, 2017

Virtual reality cameras have been hot hardware in the industry this past month and now Adobe is bringing innovative new software to the table as well. Earlier this week, Variety reported that Adobe’s head of Research Gavin Miller is claiming a new process for 360 video post-processing.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When he’s not hosting massive giveaways for his viewers (he recently gave away an HTC Vive ), he’s uploading VR highlights, previews, features and live-streams. When it comes to finding consistently captivating 360 video content, few rival the official New York Times channel. THE NEW YORK TIMES.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. THE INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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MAY 1, 2017

The event is a chance for the 3D visuals company to focus on its support for the VR/AR industry and encourage creators to develop using its tools. Since releasing, Superhot has been given a juicy content update that makes a great game even better and has begun to tease support for other VR headsets like the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

While in all past years the answer had always been “HTC Vive”, now the king is Oculus, with both the Rift S and the Oculus Quest getting the majority of answers (especially the Quest). This week I have read the results of two very interesting surveys: GDC, as every year, has asked VR developers what platform they’re currently interested in.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 14, 2016

During the first day of VR On The Lot , a virtual reality industry conference at Paramount Pictures Studios, Sony Music unveiled a new VR experience from superstar Norwegian DJ Kygo. Set to the hit song “Carry Me,” this new music experience is a stunning look at what the future of music videos may look like.

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MARCH 27, 2017

HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia. ” HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open an accelerator in Israel, joining locations in San Francisco, Beijing, Shenzhen and Taipei.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

HTC’s Vive X accelerator is a $100 million fund for AR/VR companies that the company announced last year. Today HTC is revealing the second batch of companies that will receive investments and mentorship from the program. Multiverse is poised to create industry-defining content and help bring VR to the masses.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that’s that’s one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we’re training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that’s that’s one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we’re training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Fallon himself has been called the King of Social Media in the entertainment industry, and his influencer status has been a calling card of his career. FACEBOOK LAUNCHES LIVE 360 VIDEOS WITH NAT GEO. Content creators are challenged to build monetization models in the growing virtual reality industry. TV viewers, 12.6M

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This way, Oculus can again start a new battle against HTC, whose Focus heaset will be priced in the range $500-$600 but that at the moment has only one 3 DOF controller. The Facebook Surround 360 Open edition (Image by Facebook). One of the most shared content types in VR is currently 360 videos. Facebook Cameras.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

This week marks the arrival of one of the pivotal VR gaming experiences, EVE: Valkyrie , on HTC Vive. We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. This application is essentially branded 360-videos for the Qantas airline. Get on that.

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JUNE 27, 2022

You can also film 360 degrees movies by yourself using any of the amateur spherical cameras. The most popular devices include currently: Meta Quest 2, Pico G2 / Neo3, HTC VIVE Focus and Flow (coming up as the glasses?—?size Being from the event management industry I thought VR is a perfect tool for business events and presentations.

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JUNE 14, 2017

It’s early days for the show so we don’t have a full line-up of what’s going to be there just yet, but you can expect a pretty good variety of projects across gaming, 360 video and more as well as talks from industry leaders. The last event had sessions from Google, Microsoft, HTC and more, for example.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

You’ll use your remote to pan around the 360 video on your flatscreen (which is, admittedly, nowhere near to the experience in a headset), but this will also support live 360 video– which will probably be pretty cool to watch content like live concerts or sporting events. INTEL TO LIVE STREAM THE PGA TOUR IN 360.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

OTOY, a graphics-based software solution whose cloud-based light field streaming and hybrid rendering tech has been used in films like Fantastic Four and Spiderman 3 is one of the most well-funded companies in the mixed reality industry with $101M in funding and a $300M valuation. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive….

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Leading up to the short film’s debut, UploadVR interviewed Hassin about the project, its inspirations, and his views on the current immersive technology industry as a whole. Josh Hassin: Well for 360 video I would say, that the guys at Within (Chris Milk and Co) have been very inspiring.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let's talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that's that's one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we're training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let's dive in there. They're also testing retention rates.

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JUNE 21, 2017

Today at an event in San Francisco HTC hosted a Vive X Demo Day for its second batch of funded company demos. The headset-agnostic tech stack connects advertisers with developers and publishers to deliver immersive, native VR/AR/360 video advertising experiences. China, and more.

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JULY 6, 2020

Since around 2010 modern day VR has come out through the companies of Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the Sony Playstation VR. The ability to create 360 video has been around since around 2016 when users could attach a few GoPro’s together in a rig to capture pictures and video.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that’s that’s one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we’re training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The VR revolution is taking place just a little behind another major leap for the games industry; streaming. At the 2017 Game Developers Conference this week the company will showcase interactive streaming of a game inside the HTC Vive. Mixing the two together is a logical step, but Genvid Technologies is going one further.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved.

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JULY 9, 2017

Dunkirk’s VR experience launched this weekend with access on YouTube 360 , Facebook 360 , LIFE VR , and most major headset platforms like the HTC Vive. The 360 experience will also be available for viewing at the brand new two-day VR in the Sky event going down July 12th at the Time Inc. headquarters in NYC.

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