VRScout

APRIL 26, 2021

Here, attendees could attend virtual screenings, enjoy live musical performances, and experience a generous catalog of interactive mixed-media projects.

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MARCH 14, 2017

It’s surprising to learn, then, Sony Music Entertainment is working with a rival headset, the HTC Vive. Tagged with: htc vive , PlayStation VR , PSVR , sony music , SXSW. You’d think if a division of Sony was making a VR experience they’d be using the company’s own headset, PlayStation VR (PSVR).

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

Located in a massive building in Austin, Texas, Warner Bros. HTC Vive helped bring many of the virtual activations to life with the HTC Vive Pro and Vive Wireless adapter. HTC Vive showcased eight film inspired VR experiences as part of this Ready Player One experience. Welcome to the OASIS.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The game will be available for purchase on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows VR headsets on November 21st, priced at $30. Labrodex Studios , a Long Island-based VR/AR studio, today announced the first episode of their upcoming VR shooter, Scraper: First Strike, now has official launch dates for all major VR headsets.

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2019

While Williams is still working with Nye at Potato Face Games over 3 years later, his attention is focused on running the Austin Virtual League , a local LAN-party organizer that hosts VR events and tournaments in and around Austin, TX. ‘In

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Road to VR

JULY 19, 2018

Reaching out to Aspyr Media, the studio confirmed that the dark sci-fi mystery puzzle is indeed launching on PSVR on August 28th, along with versions for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Aspyr Media is the Austin-based studio known for their work on its many PC-to-Mac ports including Call of Duty , Sid Meier’s Civilization and Star Wars.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2019

Based on the original IP by Jim Ivon and the novel by Ryder Windham ( Scraper: The Rise of Cifer ), the game takes place in the future megacity of New Austin, Texas and centers around a war against renegade robots that have taken over the city’s high-rise skyscraper complexes.

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VRScout

APRIL 25, 2018

Austin, Texas-based video game developer Owlchemy Labs struck gold with their 2016 smash hit, Job Simulator. Vacation Simulator is available for demo at the Tribeca Virtual Arcade now until Saturday, April 28th and is set to release sometime later this year on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Play musical flora and fauna to reveal Austin Wintory’s enchanting score. Re-awaken the shadowy forest, discover its hidden creatures, and reunite the fragmented Moon so Bird can find its way home. Place, customize and interact with miniature, living terrariums. Solve celestial puzzles to unlock their plants and animals.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Obduction PC and Oculus Rift Touch will be playable in the Indie Corner of the SXSW Gaming show floor, Thursday, March 16-Saturday, March 18, 12-8pm at the Austin Convention Center, Exhibit Hall 2.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

NEW CONTROLLERS & NEW GAMES ON HORIZON FOR HTC VIVE AND VALVE. Will we be seeing some games developed specifically for the upcoming HTC Vive “knuckle controllers” ? INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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VRScout

MARCH 16, 2017

While you can hear every genre of music performed on almost every instrument you can think of throughout Austin during SXSW, being able to step inside a music-based experience is something that VR has been paving the way for. Associative music” is what Nick Koenig–better known by his stage name, Hot Sugar –believes in.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

Hello everyone from Austin, Texas, where I am attending the SXSW! I’m having fun, listening to interesting talks, meeting new people… basically everything I always do at these events! You can discover more on the dedicated Linkedin post that I’m sharing below.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Zaxby’s is taking an interactive HTC VIVE experience on tour to tailgaters across the country. The “Zaxby’s Fanz of Flavor” tour is hitting the road with a full-sized wooden barn where you can get your hands on the HTC VIVE and a few custom interactive VR experiences. The activation opens four hours before kickoff.

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MAY 21, 2017

Kim Pallister, the director of Intel’s virtual reality center of excellence, moderated a fireside chat about that topic with science fiction writer Austin Grossman at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. Image Credit: Michael O’Donnell/VentureBeat.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

Alvin Graylin, HTC China President, presented the Auggie for Best Head-Worn Device. USA Today Senior Designer of Emerging Tech, Will Austin, presented the Auggie for Best Interaction Product, saying that “the fusion between human and digital is the cornerstone” of XR. It’s been a long journey for this technology to take shape.”.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Job Simulator is a bundled launch title for HTC Vive and one of the most played VR games to date. With several great moves Owlchemy is doing a great job and that has turned that into a $5 million series A investment from Qualcomm Ventures, HTC, The VR Fund, Colopl Next, Capital Factory, and several Austin area investors.

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 7, 2024

VenusSX, one of the participants, sent me a press release about this series showcasing the state of the art in VR, taking place on the sidelines of the actual SXSW 2024 conference taking place in Austin, Texas this week and weekend (I will assume that this series is not part of the official SXSW event). Registration is available at [link].

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VR Bites

AUGUST 30, 2016

All within the HTC Vive using the Vivecraft mod! My name is Austin Hooper, and I make virtual reality gaming videos! The very first episode of Vivecraft, our new Minecraft VR series! Join us as we attempt to survive in a perilous world, fighting monsters, hunger, and not trying to kill ourselves!

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Los Angeles and Austin, TX-based startup called The Wave VR is building “the world’s first social VR music platform,” according to CEO Adam Arrigo, “[and] it lets anybody from aspiring DJs to Deadmau5 to put on online virtual shows that are fully interactive. HTC FUNDS STEEL WOOL, SOLO. OWLCHEMY LABS LANDS $5M. is excited about VR.

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Cats and VR

MAY 10, 2017

With several great moves Owlchemy did great job establishing themelves as a hit VR developer and right around their recent 6 year anniversary had turned that into a $5 million series A investment from Qualcomm Ventures, HTC, The VR Fund, Colopl Next, Capital Factory, and several Austin area investors.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

Early versions of the Austin, Texas hardware startup’s product were on writer Ernest Cline’s radar well before the film’s pre-production began. Funnily enough, [he] lives in Austin,” says Goetgeluk. “As And then we did a small event in Austin with Cline signing the books. The price, meanwhile, is substantial, at $2,595.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 29, 2016

With over one million active monthly users of the Samsung GearVR, millions of Google Cardboard units and high-end Oculus Rift and HTC Vive pre-orders, Smithson believes that brands that are early to develop unique and engaging content for VR and will have a huge advantage over their competition.

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MARCH 15, 2017

The experience is running on an HTC Vive in roomscale, so you’re able to walk around the platform and get a look at things from a different perspective. It is being hosted at the Marriott in downtown Austin until Thursday March 16. If you’re at SXSW, you owe it to yourself to check out Cycling Pathways To Mars.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Google recently announced that they are partnering with HTC Vive and Lenovo to build new wireless headsets which we can look forward to later this year. The beloved Austin, TX-based virtual reality content studio Owlchemy Labs has been acquired by Google. NO MORE FALLING OVER CORDS WITH UPCOMING WIRELESS HEADSETS.

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Upload VR

MARCH 13, 2023

The game turns the phone itself into a kind of AR putter and features full cross-play against Walkabout players on Quest, Steam VR, PSVR 2, Pico, and HTC Viveport. Walkabout Mini Golf: Pocket Edition is planned for launch in Q2 of 2023 on iPhones first this summer.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The story of the IP centers around a distinctly futuristic version of Austin, TX in the year 2076, after humanity has willingly given itself over to AI entities called the “Humechs”. It’s the prequel novel to not one, but rather an entire series of upcoming Scraper VR games, headed by the budding Labrodex Studios out of Jericho, NY.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Despite founding just five months ago, the Austin, Tex.-based based startup is already working with tech giants like HTC, Samsung, and Google–whose Daydream VR device is expected in the coming weeks–to develop music apps. What inspired us was the idea of interaction,” says the 32-year old entrepreneur.

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AllThingsVR

APRIL 18, 2017

The Austin, Texas-based startup has created a social VR music platform where performers can create music while wearing a HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset and spectators can watch the whole experience. Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto VR raises $13.9M, Avegant Raises $13.7,

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As Casey Maxwell, the protagonist of First Strike , is trying to free New Austin from the evil Cifer’s clutches; Dr. Bhandari, the AI scientist responsible for Cifer’s creation, is trying to salvage any useful weaponry she can without tipping any robots off to the current operative’s location.

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Voices of VR

APRIL 3, 2023

There was a capacity drop from around the 100 GearVR headsets that he had for his MR performance last year down to just 7 HTC Elite headsets where Miro Shot played the same song on repeat for a couple of hours inducing a trance-like vibe where you listen to the same some on repeat.

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HaptX

OCTOBER 20, 2023

ORETTC Instructional Technology Lead Austin Arnwine, with support from ORETTC Senior Manager Mary Lin and ORETTC Director Ashley Stowe, devised an innovative solution: a virtual glovebox simulator. The developers are using HTC Vive headsets and tracking along with Steam VR to visualize the digital content in Unreal Engine.

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HaptX

JUNE 20, 2024

ORETTC Instructional Technology Lead Austin Arnwine, with support from ORETTC Senior Manager Mary Lin and ORETTC Director Ashley Stowe, devised an innovative solution: a virtual glovebox simulator. The developers are using HTC Vive headsets and tracking along with Steam VR to visualize the digital content in Unreal Engine.

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Companies like HTC have employed it in their promotional materials, and from what we’ve seen, this production style is the best way to convey VR from a third-party view. Mounting a HTC Vive Tracker onto our camera allowed us to capture and sync camera movements between physical space and the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

Ten days ago, I revealed to you that I was going to Austin, Texas to attend the SXSW, one of the most important events about creativity and technology in the USA. The event hasn’t been held physically for 2 years because of the coronavirus, and it is finally back in Austin Texas just now. Going SXSW. SXSW Logo (Image by SXSW).

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You can download VeeR VR in your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality , Google Daydream , Steam VR and Lenovo Mirage Solo to watch amazing VR content. Venue: Austin, Texas, United States. To show the high-quality VR content to VR enthusiasts, VeeR hosts Altspace event every month. SXSW-South by Southwest.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development. ” Right?

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