Road to VR

JUNE 20, 2017

Finland-based Varjo has announced a new display technology for AR and VR which the company is calling “the first human eye-resolution VR/AR/XR immersive display.” We’ve recently seen new VR displays from both Samsung and Kopin with an impressive ~3.25x increase in resolution compared to the Rift and Vive.

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InstaVR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

After a relatively quiet summer — outside of the Oculus Quest release ! First off, some of the early major players like Google, Apple, and Samsung seem to be taking a step back. Speaking of Oculus, a lot of headset news coming from their offices (more on that below). — we have a slew of news to start the Fall.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The idea is that, as soon as we identified VR was coming — this was before the Oculus acquisition by Facebook — it was clear that one part of VR would be computer-generated experiences, games being the major example. We started seeing the first Oculus and HTC headsets this year. Is it Finland? That’s another driving factor.

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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. Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Finland. image courtesy VR First. HTW Berlin, Germany.

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