Tech Trends VR

JUNE 5, 2018

In 2016, straight out of high school, Jak Wilmot started one of Atlanta’s first VR animation studios – Disrupt. In 2016, straight out of high school, Jak Wilmot started Disrupt, one of Atlanta's first VR animation studios Click To Tweet.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2017

Once known as Project Arena , the game is the result of early experimentation with VR motion control from CCP’s Atlanta studio. “With Sparc , we’ve set out to deliver an original sport for the current generation of VR hardware,” said Morgan Godat, executive producer at CCP Games’ Atlanta studio.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2018

CCP Games , the Icelandic studio known for their long-running MMO Eve: Online (2003) , shuttered their VR production studios in a surprise move last year, selling off their Newcastle-based branch behind their multiplayer space dogfighter EVE: Valkyrie (2016), and completely shutting down their Atlanta studio behind sports game Sparc (2017).

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VRScout

APRIL 26, 2017

Pulseworks , an Atlanta-based motion theater company, built the VR Transporter for the Smithsonian. The VR Transporter is a “permanent installation” at the National Air and Space Museum’s Simulator Gallery and will run “indefinitely,” a Smithsonian spokesperson told VRScout.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2019

In late 2017, CCP Games shuttered their VR-producing studios , shifting their focus to PC and mobile games after selling off the Newcastle branch behind EVE: Valkryie (2016) and closing down the Atlanta-based branch behind SPARC (2017).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

EVE: Valkyrie (2016), the space dogfighter originally developed by CCP Games , just opened up its free weekend, which gives anyone with an Oculus Rift an all-access pass to play for the next few days. SEE ALSO CCP to Shelve VR as It Shutters Atlanta Office, Sells Branch Behind 'EVE: Valkryie' in Newcastle.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2022

EVE: Valkyrie (2016), the sci-fi dogfighter from CCP Games, used to be one of most talked about titles in VR thanks to its cross-platform multiplayer, high visual polish, and position as one of the first games on Oculus Rift and PSVR. EVE: Valkyrie included in original Oculus Rift | Image captured by Road to VR.

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Oculus

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Last month, we teamed up with the Forever Young Foundation to launch the newly built Creators Zone at the Johnson STEM Activity Center in Atlanta,

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Launched today across all platforms including PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive comes the Winter Update which includes custom matches, spectator mode, a new map, and support for TrackIR and Tobii for non-VR players. SEE ALSO CCP to Shelve VR as It Shutters Atlanta Office, Sells Branch Behind 'EVE: Valkryie' in Newcastle.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

CCP is stepping back from VR and has closed it Atlanta office responsible for Sparc and is selling its Newcastle office responsible for Eve Valkyrie. I have been a fan of the VR work of CCP for a while and EVE VR was my first Oculus experience all the way in 2013. This transition may have been a look at things to come.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 13, 2017

The developer’s team in Atlanta this week confirmed that Sparc will be coming to Sony’s headset first in Q3 of this year. It’s expected to hit both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift too, but it sounds like fans will have to wait either until the very end of the year of sometime in 2018 to get their hands on it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

The event should have been hosted in Atlanta, with a little VR spinoff, but now that real event has been canceled, the whole event will be in VR. Oculus rejects Crisis VRigade again, causing backlash from the community. It was rejected by Oculus, but it found great success on Quest’s unofficial store.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

I want companies to hire people that look like me that come from cities countries like east Oakland, Baltimore, Compton, Atlanta, Brazil, Detroit, Brooklyn, Nairobi, Zimbabwe, Johannesburg, New Orleans, and more. Have you ever walked into a crowded building and no one looked like you?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

CCP games, the developers behind EVE: Valkyrie, have revealed their next made-for-VR title Sparc, a futuristic TRON-esque sports title for HTC Vive, PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift & Touch. said Morgan Godat, Executive Producer at CCP Atlanta. SEE ALSO 'EVE: Valkyrie' Gets Major ‘Wormholes’ Update with Intriguing New Game Mode.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Currently in development for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR, Sparc will be the first wholly original IP to be shipped by CCP outside of the EVE universe when it releases in 2017. said Morgan Godat, Executive Producer at CCP Atlanta. CCP Games today announced Sparc, a unique virtual sport only possible in virtual reality.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

said Morgan Godat, Executive Producer at CCP Atlanta. Sparc is currently slated for a 2017 release on Oculus Rift with Touch, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR (PSVR). “After our early experiments with standing VR gameplay, we were excited by the idea of building an original sport designed for the current generation of VR hardware.

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Oculus

JANUARY 25, 2022

Atlanta-based Overtime Elite has partnered with Meta Quest to make Quest 2 the professional basketball league’s official VR headset. As part of that partnership, Meta.

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Oculus

JANUARY 19, 2021

A 360° VR film docu-series, IN PROTEST: Grassroots Stories from the Front Lines chronicles heroic Black voices in America as they confront inequality and injustice.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 26, 2023

“It all started in a parking lot in Atlanta, early 2016. ” Plus, some players across Oculus, Vive, Windows Mixed Reality, and Pico 4 headsets faced issues with controller bindings. We recently spoke with Gunderman to learn more, who informed us that Orbital Strike VR is a game seven years in the making.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

With a VR headset and controllers like Oculus Touch, your hands aren’t abstracted on a TV in front of you, they’re in your vision, placed exactly where you expect them to be. “I had this amazing moment last year when I was playing with Callum [Underwood] from Oculus. VR motion control changes all that.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 28, 2017

“The plan for the pitch was to fly to Atlanta, get Mike Lazzo from Adult Swim in a Vive. Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality is available for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. You can purchase it on Steam or Oculus Home and declare the “stupidest thing” for yourself. We did and he absolutely flipped out.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A VR studio in Atlanta is being shut down, while another in Newcastle, UK, is being sold off. It was the game Oculus used as a demo for the Crystal Cove version of its development kit in 2014, before Oculus was acquired by Facebook. The latter spearheaded the development of EVE Valkyrie.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2022

Supports Oculus Quest 1 and 2, Rift S, HTC Vive, and Valve Index. Fanaticus XR is an independent digital studio based in Atlanta, Georgia. Up to 8 guessers can join in on the action from the free mobile app, available in IOS and Android, while artists will use their VR headset to draw items and keep their friends guessing!

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Schell Games released its latest virtual reality (VR) title Until You Fall back in August via Steam Early Access – followed by Oculus Store in October – and since then rolled out a couple of patches. The team will also be demoing at DreamHack ATL conference in Atlanta, GA later this month.

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Everything VR & AR

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

To call in and do so, call us at: 314-529-1998 Simply call the number above and leave your name, where you are calling from and what your question is or anything else you would like to say and we may play your message on an upcoming episode of Everything VR & AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 11, 2020

But today, the biggest thing, the biggest trend that we see is moving from the PC based platforms -- the HTC Vives and the Oculus Rifts -- to the Android based platforms like Quest and Vive Focus Plus. Right now, the big challenge in that space is that the best quality headset that's out there is the Oculus Quest. That's a great one.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 11, 2020

But today, the biggest thing, the biggest trend that we see is moving from the PC based platforms -- the HTC Vives and the Oculus Rifts -- to the Android based platforms like Quest and Vive Focus Plus. Right now, the big challenge in that space is that the best quality headset that's out there is the Oculus Quest. That's a great one.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 11, 2020

But today, the biggest thing, the biggest trend that we see is moving from the PC based platforms -- the HTC Vives and the Oculus Rifts -- to the Android based platforms like Quest and Vive Focus Plus. Right now, the big challenge in that space is that the best quality headset that's out there is the Oculus Quest. That's a great one.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

And we were in Atlanta talking to a group of Sprint-- the different leaders within Sprint. At Oculus, they said 10 years. With Sprint, I'll just give you kind of a quick introduction to how that project came into being, which was was really interesting. And we went in quickly with our solution. It may take years.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

And we were in Atlanta talking to a group of Sprint-- the different leaders within Sprint. At Oculus, they said 10 years. With Sprint, I'll just give you kind of a quick introduction to how that project came into being, which was was really interesting. And we went in quickly with our solution. It may take years.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

And we were in Atlanta talking to a group of Sprint-- the different leaders within Sprint. At Oculus, they said 10 years. With Sprint, I'll just give you kind of a quick introduction to how that project came into being, which was was really interesting. And we went in quickly with our solution. It may take years.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. Follow Lichter Filmfest on social media: Atlanta Film Festival Date: April 13 - 22 Now in its fourth decade, the Atlanta Film Festival—one of only two-dozen Academy Award® qualifying festivals in the U.S.—is

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