Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Today at the Steam Dev Days conference in Seattle, Valve is showing off brand new prototypes of its Steam VR controllers. Today’s HTC Vive controllers are bulky compared to what’s coming. The controllers can be seen dotted in uncovered SteamVR Tracking sensors, just like prototypes of the original controller.

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MAY 10, 2017

Through a partnership with Seattle-based startup Pixvana, Valve is also launching a VR video section aimed at bringing many of the benefits of distributing a 360-degree video on Facebook or Google’s YouTube to PC users consuming content through Steam. Tracked Input and Keyboard control of video playback.

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VRScout

AUGUST 16, 2019

I’m in Seattle. Black Box VR in San Francisco, for example, uses a device referred to as the Dynamic Resistance Machine and hands-free controllers to deliver a blended gym experience featuring VR headsets and resistance training. Great 60 min. workout today w/ @IamDanielGonz in @rumiiVR ! Super cool dude & founder of SoundBite Inc.

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JUNE 3, 2017

Detroit Tigers vs. Seattle Mariners on June 20 at 10:10 p.m. The addition of live stats to the Intel True VR weekly games is another example of how we’re giving fans more control to personalize their baseball experience.”. ET / 5:40 p.m. Kansas City Royals vs. San Francisco Giants on June 13 at 10:15 p.m. ET / 7:15 p.m. ET / 7:10 p.m.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Games are about interactivity, dictated by input and for VR, that input is the 1:1 motion controls that allow for complex gesture based interaction. Beat Saber from the Czech Republic, Arizona Sunshine from the UK, Job Simulator from Austin, Texas, Super Hot from Poland, Moss from Seattle, Washington.

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JULY 16, 2017

Dance Reality, as the app is called, was concieved by two Seattle-based salsa dancers following the debut of Apple’s new augmented reality platform earlier this year. There’s even a counting voice over to help you stay on the beat, though you can control the speed so that you can slow things down to help fine tune your moves.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

Live from Seattle, Tech Trends scoops up all the tastiest bites from the #MSBuild2018 developer’s conference. “We With customers in control, privacy is preserved Click To Tweet. We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what they should do,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his opening keynote at Build.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2016

What this means is that when you place a virtual object on your hand, you would feel pressure at many points of contact instead of just a general vibration from a controller. Using a Vive controller in my other hand, I was able to place a variety of objects on my virtual hand and feel the corresponding pressure response from the HaptX skin.

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MARCH 6, 2017

The glowing orb could be recalled by pressing a button on the controller too, so I could throw the ball and the instant it collided with a bottle I could recall it back to my hand like Thor’s hammer. Initially, I couldn’t understand why I’d want the computer to help me so much.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for A developer had the great idea to tie an Oculus Touch controller to a cardboard box so that the box can be ported into VR and be used as a magical box with which the user can interact. This is the reason why I think this announcement is so important.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year’s Seattle based IMMERSE Summit ( previously Sea VR ) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. SEE ALSO Madrona Venture Group on Why Seattle is a Hotbed for VR and AR.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 20, 2016

How Virtual Reality Worlds Can Help Reduce Pain This fantastical landscape is a game developed by DeepStream VR , a virtual reality software company based in Seattle. is built to address anxiety, pain and the helplessness or loss of control that people feel during painful experiences. The otter game, called Cool!, That’s why Cool!

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Cats and VR

JULY 2, 2018

High Fidelity will use the funds to expand R&D, accelerate hiring and open a new office in Seattle. The registry allows users to control which elements of their identity to reveal to third parties, and its decentralized nature puts it outside the control of a single organization and back into the user's hands.

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

Three veterans of first-person shooter games have formed Drifter Entertainment , a Seattle-based virtual reality game studio. Drifter plans to make action games for VR headsets; in particular, it will focus on the headsets that support good motion controls such as the HTC Vive, the Oculus Touch and Oculus Rift, and the PlayStation VR.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Cygnus had a booth at last weekend’s PAX West expo in Seattle, where attendees could play a healthy chunk of Colossal Cave 3D’s pre-alpha, either in VR on Quest 2 or in “pancake mode” on the Switch. Before I sat down with their headset, Mera was careful to focus on one word: “reimagined.”

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Facebook paid between $500 million and $1 billion for the early-stage company, CNBC reported, acquiring technology that could potentially control computer glasses without a touchscreen, keyboard, or mouse.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I took a short break during my time at PAX West this year to checkout VREAL’s new streaming platform at their office in downtown Seattle. At the office, I strapped on a Vive and jumped into VREAL’s virtual lobby with a couple of others to try things out.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Amazon’s first act was its Amazon Go store, which opened in Seattle in early 2018. Perhaps Amazon’s confidence in its ability to scale its Go stores comes from vertical integration that enables it to optimize customer experiences through control over store format, product selection and placement.

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MAY 12, 2017

There are several interesting projects for Samsung’s headset that have appeared from out of nowhere, many of which use the new motion controller. Currently, you get soccer, dance, and an inside look into a Seattle artist studio. If you missed last week, you can see those new releases here. Recommendation: Give it a go.

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HaptX

JANUARY 19, 2021

Companies use them to control robots intuitively from a distance. A venture-backed startup, HaptX is headquartered in San Luis Obispo, CA, with offices in Seattle and San Francisco. “Fortune 500 companies and governments around the world use HaptX Gloves to train their workforces. Automakers design and test new vehicles with them.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Amazon, hoping to replicate the success of its Echo device , is poised to extend its eyes and ears into every part of your life with the launch of new voice-controlled and camera-equipped Alexa devices designed for bedrooms, living rooms and even your car.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

I already had my travel plans figured out for Unreal Fest Seattle, where my company was giving several talks , followed by a Star Wars convention in Orlando, where we’d be exhibiting our open source recreation of the Galactic Starcruiser. We didn’t set up eye tracking again so I now controlled my cursor entirely via hand tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Microsoft Ignite 2023: An Industrial Metaverse Showcase Ignite 2023 took place online this week via an official digital portal, and at its Seattle location, Microsoft invited the general computing industry to participate and see the firm’s innovative workplace solutions from Copilot, Hololens, Teams, Mesh to Dynamics 365 Guides.

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

Right from the off when Valve introduced the headset for the first time at a special press event in Seattle the company made it quite clear its intentions for Valve Index. Discounting things like the buttons and triggers, controllers such as the Oculus Touch or the ones for HTC Vive only have a single wrist strap to deal with.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

And now also companies are affected directly : after a worker has been found positive to the virus in the Seattle venue, now a group of Facebook employees has been left working from home. That’s a disaster. Now the tech giant is exploring its motto “Defy distance” with its own employees. Donate for Nashville.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

With included motion controllers and SteamVR support, the VR One headset can use your pre-existing smartphone and integrate it into a PC VR experience. Vreal is a Seattle-based startup with one goal: to create Twitch for VR. Plus, if you have a 1440p display on your phone…you’ll have an even better VR experience than PSVR!

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Robert Scoble

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

They could use these systems to both drive the truck and have a robot figure out where each can is to pick it up (already our garbage trucks only have one person controlling such a robot). I grabbed the steering wheel and took control, also swerving around the bucket. It will soon go way further than that. Doing very advanced braking.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Zoë Kravitz stars as Angela, a Seattle tech worker tasked with resolving confusion around requests that the app didn't understand. Koepp agilely establishes this in the opening, with visual cues of rituals of control, prescription medication, and a notable dependency on having hand sanitizer handy.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

To take control of your own hardware integrations, check out Cylon.js to hack an Arduino. Frustrated by how he never has enough time, James Miller took matters into his own hands – creating a time control fantasy with Arduino and Processing. Seattle, WA. Here’s how you can make your own. Read more ». Developer Events.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 5, 2023

Although unexpected, it’s a claim that makes sense, given that the Seattle tech giant recently became the OpenAI’s largest single shareholder, with a $10 billion investment. But some have speculated that this is the version powering the newly-launched ChatGPT functionality within Microsoft’s Bing search engine.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

This brings with it security and access control concerns. A robust access control and management framework is required to organize and manage the digital twin assets. Access control mechanisms are put in place to safeguard sensitive information and restrict unauthorized access. Canada, and Mexico.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Travis was out in Seattle managing this, and having anybody from a 13-year-old to a 90-year-old trying VR for the first time — or even maybe a second or third time, it doesn’t really matter — getting them settled in and bringing that experience to them in a seamless way is actually very challenging. Alex: Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

But what we have starting to see, interestingly, is people are thinking about investing and hiring people with 3D technology experiences, so that they can take more control over the content and how this progresses through their enterprises. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. Everybody can do it. Alan: Amazing.

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APRIL 7, 2020

But what we have starting to see, interestingly, is people are thinking about investing and hiring people with 3D technology experiences, so that they can take more control over the content and how this progresses through their enterprises. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. Everybody can do it. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Travis was out in Seattle managing this, and having anybody from a 13-year-old to a 90-year-old trying VR for the first time -- or even maybe a second or third time, it doesn't really matter -- getting them settled in and bringing that experience to them in a seamless way is actually very challenging. Alex: Right. And it's just your hands.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

My favorite thing to do was work with all the other hardworking folks in our Seattle office and New York office, who were running around doing demos at conferences and events. “What do you mean you didn’t grow up with your own Finch controller? So I love that you bring that up, because the VR part is an anomaly.

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