Road to VR

JANUARY 26, 2023

Gemba, the corporate VR learning platform, announced it’s closed an $18 million Series A funding round, which the company says will be used to continue expansion into Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. The latest funding round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, now valuing the UK-based company at $60 million.

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Road to VR

JULY 21, 2017

A survey sponsored by HTC America is currently open on SurveyGizmo , with the option to enter a prize draw, which includes three Vive systems and seven gift cards worth $100 – $150. Winners of the prize drawing will be contacted by August 4th, with gift card winners taking home an $100 Amazon card or a $150 Viveport card.

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AR Insider

MARCH 8, 2021

This week, we look at takeaways from Microsoft Ignite, Space X, Pokemon Go and VR training from Bank of America. Bank of America is bringing VR instruction to its 4,000 banks. Corporate America is slowly seeing the use cases of VR. W elcome back to Spatial Beats. You can now buy them directly on the Quest website.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2021

” Epson’s Moverio BT-40 and BT-40S AR headsets are available for pre-order now and will be available for purchase on Amazon and through Epson’s distribution in Q2 for $579 and $999 respectively. Image Credit: Epson. As a pioneer in this space, we look forward to seeing how these new smart glasses are implemented by customers.”

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

HTC recently announced they’ll be sweetening the pot this Black Friday for potential Vive-owners located in North America by throwing a free Deluxe Audio Strap your way when you purchase an HTC Vive. The deal also includes the previous offer of a free Fallout 4 VR pre-order , bringing the overall savings to $160.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 25, 2021

President Joe Biden and other White House officials plan to meet with a cadre of business, tech, education leaders and others on Wednesday to discuss a pretty pressing issue: How exactly to keep America from getting hacked so much. Read more.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2024

Now the company has given us a glimpse into the top 10 PSVR 2 games sold across North America, Europe and Japan. Sony launched PlayStation VR 2 in early 2023, bringing with it relatively few exclusives to go alongside a good number of updated games previously launched on other headsets.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2019

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) April 5, 2019. With the Switch VR Labo Kit launching on April 12th, the two games will see free updates on the 25th to add VR features. Experience 2 beloved games in new ways with the Toy-Con VR Goggles from the #NintendoLabo : VR Kit! link] pic.twitter.com/M0C6w59lIT.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

At CES 2017 today, VentureBeat reports that Samsung Electronics America chief Tim Baxter has officially stated during the company’s press event that they’ve officially sold 5 million Samsung Gear VR headsets, which are powered by the Oculus Home platform.

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GizModo VR

JULY 31, 2020

An Anker charger Gold Box , an Amazon sale on Razer controllers , an Avengers: Endgame replica Captain America , a TaoTronics percussion massager , a steep discount on the Lelo Sona at Ella Paradis , a 12- or 24-pack of hand sanitizer at SideDeal , and a Ghost in the Shell 4K Blu-ray price drop lead Friday’s best deals. Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

After a summer of nationwide protests against unchecked state violence brutalizing Black people in America, Amazon’s ever-escalating push to make itself indispensable to daily police work is drawing fresh scrutiny from a host of leading civil rights advocates. The tech giant’s efforts to support and enhance police… Read more.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The company says it will have more information on international availability later, as for now, the accessory bundles are North America-only. Sold exclusively through Amazon , the Vive Tracker + Hyper Blaster bundle includes a copy of Duck Season and will set you back $150. Hyper Blaster. image courtesy Hyperkin.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Quest 3S From Amazon & Target Comes With A $75 Gift Card For Black Friday Amazon and Target are giving a $75 gift card with Quest 3S headset purchases until the end of Sunday. UploadVR David Heaney For Black Friday 2024, Amazon and Target are giving a $75 gift card with Quest 3S headset purchases until the end of Sunday.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The European Parliament has called for EU lawmakers to institute a ban on law enforcement’s use of facial recognition, as well as other surveillance tools commonly used in the course of algorithm-driven predictive policing. Read more.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Mirage AR’s new Marvel title is said to let you jump into the boots of six super heroes—Doctor Strange, Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and Star-Lord—and battle against super villains in an original story. Now, Lenovo is returning with a new AR game, MARVEL Dimension of Heroes , and a pair of 6DOF controllers too.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Bundle for North America markets only). Shop on Amazon. Sold on Samsung and Amazon. The Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal will be available online and in all retail locations where Vive is sold. To find a location to purchase Vive near you, click here or head to vive.com. Oculus Rift Discount. A lot can happen in a year.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 1, 2022

Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse have voted in favor of unionizing, according to vote counts published on Twitter. They will join the independent Amazon Labor Union, a new organization unaffiliated with pre-existing unions. Welcome the 1st union in America for Amazon.". Tweet may have been deleted.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

To bridge the gap between The Boys ’ second and third seasons , Amazon Studios has been dropping a number of in-universe reports from Vought News Network, the media organization owned by the villainous megacorporation at the center of the streaming series. While the news segments have hinted at some of the developments… Read more.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It was for America, but it’s the Augmented World Expo – there are three live AWE conferences throughout the year. Other big companies include HTC Vive , HaptX , Niantic , and Amazon. Wait, wasn’t AWE a few months ago? Next, it’s time for AWE EU. We saw what AWE had to offer in Santa Clara this spring. What to Expect.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Amazon’s electronic palm reader technology, known as Amazon One, launched at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver on Tuesday, according to a press release from the retailing giant. It’s the first deployment of Amazon One’s biometric reader outside of an Amazon-owned property and is certainly a sign of things to come.…

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2021

Bloomberg was first to report that Biden has plans this Wednesday to meet with the CEO’s from Apple, Microsoft and Amazon to… Read more. After over a year where the U.S. faced slews of cyberattacks hitting hospitals , banks , and just about everything else , President Joe Biden is turning to tech’s top players for some advice.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

VR training goes big with Accenture and Bank of America. The second big piece of news comes from Bank Of America, which has just confirmed that it will train 50,000 of its employees with virtual reality. Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids. This is positive for the European XR ecosystem.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The number of trees cut down in the Brazilian section of the Amazon rainforest in January was five times greater than the same period last year, according to satellite imagery data from Brazil’s space research agency, INPE. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 25, 2021

Imagine that you were granted one wish, and that wish were that America got to watch a real-world Hollywood switcheroo involving Jeff Bezos and an Amazon warehouse worker. And now hold onto that pleasant thought so you can stomach this news: According to a new Oxfam study , the spare change that the world’s top ten… Read more.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Mixed reality app installs will increase as digital assistants, such as Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri, become an integral part of the MR ecosystem. According to the Juniper Research white paper, the top three areas are the Far East and China, North America, as well as Western Europe.

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Mashable VR

MAY 21, 2022

Amazon Prime Video subscribers have an embarrassment of riches to sift through when they're hunting for their next focused look at a particular topic or subject. But here's a rundown of documentaries available on Amazon Prime Video that we're most excited about. Val (2021) He's played Batman and The Doors frontman Jim Morrison.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 12, 2022

The Amazon rainforest in Mato Grosso Brazil is shrinking. Brazil’s space research agency, INPE, reported that the first quarter of 2022 set a new deforestation record for the rainforest— 941 square kilometers were cleared from Janaury to the end of March. This is the largest area of deforestation that the agency… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Looking at the chart of the sales on Amazon US, it is possible to see that the headset had five times the peak sales volume during the 2024 holiday season as it did in 2023. This is impressive. The numbers are still not comparable to those of Quest, but they are still very good.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

One of the largest industry events in North America, the Vancouver-based conference will spotlight how tech giants and startups are creating new ways to visualize and interact with virtual worlds. Speakers from goliaths like Amazon, Ford, and IKEA will rub shoulders with Vancouver up-and-comers including Motive.io

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2018

If you’ve been looking around the web for a HTC Vive, you’ve probably met with a big ‘sold out’ sign recently in the US; Amazon, Best Buy, New Egg, and even HTC’s own website have been out of stock for a while now. That’s set to change in a few weeks, a HTC spokesperson told us. “We

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

An Amazon ad appearing on the streaming platform Peacock shows the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S and the caption: “Meta Quest, starting at $299.99”. Regarding the actual release date, we have also a rumor: someone spotted on the Australian Amazon page an entry about the Quest 3S and the availability date being October, 16.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

rooom has also been working with established partners in the space including Matterport and Amazon. Nash is rooom’s newly-announced “CEO Americas.” Elstner echoed the sentiments of many executives in his position, saying with “mixed emotions” that the pandemic both spurred rooom’s development and increased its adoption.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Bouman, formerly President, CEO and Chair of Sharp/NEC Display Solutions Americas, takes the helm as founder David Nussbaum transitions to the role of Chair. Spatial computing innovator Proto Inc. , who successfully exhibited its AI-powered holograms at re:Invent 2024, has appointed Todd Bouman as its new CEO.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Because of ongoing Covid lockdowns in China, Pimax were unsure if the controllers would ship with batteries (held at another warehouse location), so advised me to purchase them on Amazon and provided a link. Main Markets Domestic Market , North America. Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole).

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VRScout

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Daniel O’Brien, General Manager for the Americas Region for HTC sat down with VRScout during their NYC Launch event at VR World and talked passionately about design saying, “We looked at it from three different levels, hardware and technology, software, and experience.”. Feature Image Credit: HTC.

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GizModo VR

JULY 29, 2021

Americans are used to hearing about what a great country they live in—how lucky they are to have been born in, or to have immigrated to, the United States. American exceptionalism”—a phrase, funnily enough, coined by Joseph Stalin—is an idea that, on the whole, is still embedded in the country’s collective identity.… Read more.

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ARVR

AUGUST 29, 2020

Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 2. Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video | Hulu Did you know the first virtual reality headset was created over 50 years ago? Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 4.

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