Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

When it first appeared, Immersive Tech was thought of as a gaming-centric medium, but ever since its mainstream introduction with the Oculus Rift, creators begged to disagree. The Microsoft HoloLens is a great example of this —now a two year old device, it’s still one of the most impressive pieces of technology existing today.

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VRScout

JULY 15, 2018

The Emmy Awards celebrates its historic 70th anniversary September 17th at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The Rick And Morty episode “Pickle Rick” has also been nominated for Outstanding Animated Program. Image Credit: Adult Swim.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Talking about more reliable leaks, developer Luboš V with the support of Basti564 has found references of a multiplayer Oculus Home in the Quest firmware, so it seems that very soon the home space of the Quest will let everyone invite more people. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. Rachel Franklin, Head of Social VR, came on stage to announced Facebook’s first social VR app, Facebook Spaces , available now in beta on Oculus Rift.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 17, 2017

Developer Honor Code this week announced that Narcosis finally launches on March 28th with support for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. It’s also coming to Microsoft’s Xbox One which doesn’t support VR, at least not yet. Tagged with: honor code , htc vive , Narcosis , oculus rift.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this Episode 30 of the VRScout Report, we talk all things Oculus Connect 3 (OC3), getting insights and takeaways from: Max Cohen, VP of Mobile at Oculus; Raj Rao of uSens; Ela Darling of Cam4; Tahdg Kelly of VReal; and Ashley Pinnick of California Rex.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

At an event in San Jose, California, Facebook introduced its plan for augmented reality glasses, where users will be able to pull up a visual display on top of what’s actually in front of them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems. Apple (ecosystem) 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

So, when I was a kid, I actually was born in California, but my father was going to medical school. I had this fascination with the concept of a Holodeck and as I grew up that never sort of left me and when virtual reality became the thing with Oculus, I just saw this opportunity to actually build my own holodeck.

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VRScout

AUGUST 16, 2016

People from Oculus, Microsoft’s Hololens team, Qualcomm and many other immersive tech companies have already made the transition to Snapchat, which is arguably the hottest company out there. Last month, they paid for a job-fair booth at SIGGRAPH, the annual conference on computer graphics in Southern California.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. He was very impressed and offered us direct access to executives of Oculus, who helped us in various ways to develop our VR applications. By the summer of 2018, we were ready to unveil our work to the general public through the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, and Vive.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. Analog Concerns Oculus Rift prototype demo with Xbox controller, 2012. The first was in Irvine, California in 2012 trying a prototype of the Oculus Rift. This is happening.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Apple was initially slow to provide a path forward for cloud gaming apps from Google and Microsoft, which had previously been outlawed on the App Store. ” Facebook VP of Play Jason Rubin.

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TechPrior

APRIL 10, 2020

As a part of its next promising venture, Apple is in the process of acquiring NextVR; a California based VR company. NextVR is a popular VR company in Orange County, California that has entertained users for a decade with its entertaining VR experiences using headsets from HTC, PlayStation, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Oculus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. In the 1970’s scientists at the University of California popularized the term “brain-computer interface” or BCI , referring to a hardware and software system that uses brainwaves to control devices.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“I can’t imagine any Chinese corporations willing to invest in AR and VR as heavily as Microsoft, Apple or Facebook today,” said the founder, whose company sells headsets both in and outside China. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are used almost exclusively by serious players, from Facebook’s Oculus Quest in the U.S.

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VRWorld

JUNE 19, 2016

With the conclusion of E3 2016 trade show, which took place last week in Los Angeles, California – many international guests went on for the hunt for several hot ticketed items – HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and of course, Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. Kudos to Microsoft for in-store availability.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., left, plays the new video game “Eagle Flight VR” during an Ubisoft news conference before the start of the E3 Gaming Conference on June 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Metastage is the first US partner for the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Software, and their soundstage is located in Culver City, California. Volumetric capture — thanks to the Microsoft system, I think — is finally really ready to be used in a major way in all these projects.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Metastage is the first US partner for the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Software, and their soundstage is located in Culver City, California. Volumetric capture — thanks to the Microsoft system, I think — is finally really ready to be used in a major way in all these projects.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Metastage is the first US partner for the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Software, and their soundstage is located in Culver City, California. Volumetric capture -- thanks to the Microsoft system, I think -- is finally really ready to be used in a major way in all these projects. Alan: Is this an AR app for your phone?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Today's guest is Kevin Kunze , an award-winning interactive filmmaker based out of Berkeley, California. We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. No one knows who Meta was.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 5, 2024

In a message I shared with some of my friends in Second Life, I said: As Ive mentioned before, I got my first virtual reality headset (an Oculus Rift) back in 2017, and Ive tried out numerous VR headsets since then: Valve Index, Vive Pro 2, Meta Quest, Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, etc.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. It will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on September, 25–26th. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. California State University Monterey Bay, USA. University of Southern California (USC), USA.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 12, 2017

This computer vision company, based in Palo Alto, California, is working on its own Vantage Head Tracker system that brings positional tracking to any VR headset without the need for external cameras and sensors monitoring you in a pre-defined environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alan: Just blocked the sale of Oculus, because in German law, you can't have one product that forces you to get another to have it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alan: Just blocked the sale of Oculus, because in German law, you can't have one product that forces you to get another to have it.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Staffed by a team that comes from Industrial Light and Magic, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Apple, Osso VR makes generic educational content for training purposes and then produces company specific virtual reality educational videos for companies like Johnson and Johnson.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA. 25- Pankaj Raut.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alan: Just blocked the sale of Oculus, because in German law, you can't have one product that forces you to get another to have it.

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