Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2022

Pico, a subsidiary of TikTok parent ByteDance, is assembling a team on the US West Coast, which Protocol says has “a major focus on content licensing as well as marketing its hardware to U.S. Technical roles related to VR hardware and software development and R&D are also on offer. Image courtesy Pico Interactive.

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2017

At that time, Valve partnered with Synapse , a Seattle-area product development firm, to provide a mandatory training program for all SteamVR licensees. Road to VR: Getting to Seattle is a difficulty for some VR startups. If they want to buy hardware off-the-shelf, that reference design has been picked up by Triad Semiconductor.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2020

COFFEE labs created the experience, the Holiday Hunt, which is made available through 8th Wall’s hardware agnostic and easy to use WebAR infrastructure. “ “We are excited to partner with Westfield to help drive shoppers to their centers for a fun, interactive augmented reality experience with special offers during this holiday season.”.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

The benefits of using immersive technologies as teaching tools have been widely documented and extensively discussed, specially in recent years with the rapid development of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed reality hardware and applications. And that, in fact, is the ultimate goal of any transformative technology.

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HaptX

JULY 18, 2021

REDMOND, WA, – HaptX, the leading provider of realistic haptic technology, today announced a Series A-1 financing round of $12 million along with new headquarters in the Seattle area. We can’t wait to bring HaptX customers to the hardware showroom in our new headquarters,” said Joe Michaels, Chief Revenue Officer of HaptX.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Foundry10 , a Seattle based philanthropic educational research organization, wanted to explore what happens when you bring VR into the classroom. Students also had comments on the hardware, in particular the cables being troublesome, so a wireless version would be preferred or less cumbersome experience could be beneficial.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

While some people would prefer to stay at home and use their own hardware, VR arcades – and the arcade VR experience – are an important social aspect of VR culture. Once a phenomenon limited to major population centers, these businesses are becoming increasingly common. See Also: VR Artist Rosie Summers on Art and Virtual Reality.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The HaptX Gloves Development Kit made its worldwide debut today at the Future of Storytelling Summit in New York City and the GeekWire Summit in Seattle. HaptX has reportedly taken on $5.8 million in seed funding in its opening financing round in late 2016.

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VRScout

MAY 11, 2017

Microsoft brought their latest mixed reality efforts front and center Thursday at its Build conference in Seattle. These controllers look familiar. On top of partner device and price announcements that challenge the likes of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Microsoft also unveiled new controllers as part of mixed reality headset bundles.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

Where it gets more interesting is panning back to a longer time period in which R&D efforts had time to gear up, including Oculus Reality Labs in Seattle, led by Michael Abrash. It’s also worth noting that hardware companies generally rank higher on this list, such IBM — basically the Duke University of the list.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 3, 2017

The NBA, NFL, and NCAA have all been tapped for virtual content on a regular basis and will likely continue to forge relationships with immersive content producers as the quality of the hardware and streams continue to increase. Detroit Tigers vs. Seattle Mariners on June 20 at 10:10 p.m. ET / 5:40 p.m. ET / 7:15 p.m. ET / 7:10 p.m.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We believe this is thanks to the introduction of new hardware—Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S—as well as the launch of several exclusive hit games like Asgard’s Wrath and the continued success of Beat Saber. From our estimates, there is relatively small software sales for the first couple of years, and then a major inflection point in 2019.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 9, 2024

Last month, the Seattle Department of Labor & Industries issued a citation against Meta’s Reality Labs’ division to highlight health and safety hazards at its Matrix testing facility, potentially closing the space until Meta meets its working standards or if the Menlo Park-based firm can combat the decision.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

During a press conference that took place at Valve’s HQ in Seattle yesterday, company founder Gabe Newell elaborated on the many goals of the company in terms of virtual reality, highlighting some significantly exciting projects in the process. ’ So right now, we’re building three VR games.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Many of the other listings are in ‘Software Engineering’ and ‘Hardware Engineering’, which are largely split between its headquarters in Menlo Park and offices in Seattle. On top of the hires, Oculus recently put out a call for research in several fields with a $250,000 grant on offer.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

That future is not yet set in stone, and while AR tools are accessible via most smartphones today, increased adoption of immersive hardware and software may be years away for consumers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2016

New VR peripherals will be shown off at Steam Dev Days this week as developers gather in Seattle, Washington for two days of meetings and sessions covering the latest “tools, services, and hardware in production for 2017 and beyond.” Summit for Desktop, Living Room, and VR Content Creation.

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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 11, 2021

Facebook has bought several virtual reality game studios over the past couple years, and they added one more to their portfolio Friday with the acquisition of Seattle-based BigBox VR.

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Peter Graham

JULY 7, 2019

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Osterhout Design Group is an integrated hardware company with a deep background in advanced augmented reality innovation with the US military, and have their principal outsider investor in 21st Century FOX. This partnership is sure to make major waves and shake up expectations for mixed reality content as well as hardware.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 12, 2024

Google Axes Hundreds of AR Hardware Jobs Recent reports suggest that Google is downsizing a significant part of its 1P AR hardware team, which raises doubts about the future of its in-house XR product portfolio. The Seattle department filed its most recent citation in mid-December, and Meta plans to fight the filing in June.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 6, 2017

Dinosaur kicking for $300 is certainly funny, but it’s also a great example of a broad effort by developers and hardware manufacturers to make virtual worlds more responsive to human behavior. Social interaction in VR with current consumer technology is fairly awkward.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Subsequent events, featuring different acts in support of separate causes, will be held in New Orleans on December 9 and Seattle on December 12, with two more yet-to-be-announced shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles at the end of the year.

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2016

Remember, HTC Vive is a collaboration between HTC, the Taiwanese hardware manufacturer, and Valve, the American video game developer and publisher. If you’re interested in developing for the system, you’re required to attend an in-person training workshop in Seattle – classes start in September and it’ll cost you $3,000.

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AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Many of the other listings are in ‘Software Engineering’ and ‘Hardware Engineering’, which are largely split between its headquarters in Menlo Park and offices in Seattle. More obviously, the Hardware team works on “successful builds, prototypes, ideation, and final Oculus Hardware products.” Read more here.

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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 A joint effort with Qualcomm to create a vision AI developer kit running Azure IoT Edge which makes available the key hardware and software required to develop camera-based IoT solutions.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The Impact Reality Summit—hosted by Kaleidoscope and Vulcan, and held at Vulcan’s Seattle Headquarters Jan. The VR industry has exploded with groundbreaking storytelling projects, hardware, and platforms that have shone a light on physically disabled individuals worldwide.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2018

Despite supposedly slumpish hardware sales, companies like Facebook are throwing massive amounts of money at the next generation of VR, already having reportedly paid over $88 million in Seattle-area real estate this year alone for their new Oculus hub. million units since December 2017.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 22, 2016

However, most mobile hardware can play only 4K video.” We’ve also now heard from Seattle-based Pixvana , which is developing more efficient streaming techniques too that can be hosted on Amazon’s cloud rather than Facebook’s. A 6K stereo video at 60 fps is roughly 20x larger than a full HD video, with an average bit rate of 245 Mbps.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

All hardware manufacturers are chasing that time when the tech shrinks enough to be able to wear PCs on our faces. Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Find out this week on Developer Labs with a retro art experiment and how hardware hacking can change the world. To take control of your own hardware integrations, check out Cylon.js to hack an Arduino. Let us know your hardware hacking dreams @LeapMotionDev with the hashtag #WWYL. How Hardware Hacking Can Change the World.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The announcement comes ahead of their attendance at the Augmented Enterprise Summit from 24 to 26 October, where the Seattle-based firm will showcase their latest upgrades in Houston at the event. With the new features, firms can enhance how they conduct inspections and locate faults in equipment and processes. With Manifest v2.8,

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

So naturally, Valve doesn’t just let anybody wander in and around its headquarters in Seattle, Washington to see what’s going on. Yang is a user experience designer who: “has worked on virtual reality software and hardware, features for Steam, and game teams.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The initiative was revealed by Valve’s Joe Ludwig during a talk at this year’s developer-focused Steam Dev Days event in Seattle last month. SEE ALSO SteamVR to Get Linux and Mac OSX Support Within "a Few Months" computer””].

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

At a press briefing in Seattle this week, as reported by Gamasutra , company founder Gabe Newell teased what it was working on in VR right now, and shared thoughts about where he thought the tech would go in the near future. The knowledge that Valve was working on a VR game was enough to get any headset fan excited.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

A computer science degree will teach you programming, as well as the fundamentals of data and database management, how hardware works, and networking. at the University of Washington in Seattle, US, for example, you can take advantage of the opportunity to learn at the U.W. If you study a computer science degree (B.S., MS, or Ph.D.)

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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. It is fully extensible, allowing integration of third-party applications and hardware. The latest round brings total investment in High Fidelity to more than $70 million. Virtual reality may be the first killer app for blockchain.

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