Everything VR & AR

MAY 25, 2023

This week we are joined by Dr. Tony Liao, director of the new CougAR lab at the University of Houston ( www.uhcougARlab.com ).

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MARCH 4, 2020

While holographic Whitney Houston is hitting the road, a new mobile app is bringing volumetric captures of up and coming performers directly to the iPhones and iPads of fans.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2023

The structure will now appear first at Millennium Park in Chicago on June 17th followed by Houston, Texas on June 24th. The AR-enabled structure was originally scheduled to debut on June 10th in New York City, but the premiere was delayed due to air pollution caused by the ongoing Canadian wildfires.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 21, 2022

On Wednesday, Houston Public Radio, which encompasses the city’s NPR affiliate as well as its public broadcasting network, unveiled a series it produced with oil giant Chevron on the… Read more. One might not associate “public media” with “carrying water for the oil and gas industry,” but it’s 2022, and anything can happen.

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ARPost

MARCH 10, 2022

Fans in San Francisco (April 21-24), Chicago (May 5-8), Dallas (May 12-15), Houston (May 19-22), Atlanta (May 26-29), Miami (June 2-5), Charlotte (June 16-19), and Washington DC (June 23-26) will also get to enjoy the VR concert in movie theaters near them.

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ARPost

APRIL 17, 2023

Industrial IMMERSIVE Week When: August 28-30 Where: Houston, TX Industrial IMMERSIVE Week is one of the AR/VR events for professionals interested in XR, spatial computing, digital twins, AI, IIoT, 5G, 3D models and simulations, and connected workforce solutions.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

” This is no Sci-fi action extravaganza though, as the most outrageous tasks you’ll get to fulfil on your virtual extra-terrestrial mission is docking cargo capsules and station maintenance.

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VRScout

MAY 11, 2018

Two Overwatch League teams in particular, the Houston Outlaws and San Fransisco Shock, have dove head-first into the exciting new prospect with specialized virtual spaces for dedicated fans who can’t be there to cheer on their favorite team in person. Their investments in Sansar are investments in their communities.”.

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2019

August 16-18 – Houston, Texas. If you’re looking to get your head into the first officially licensed multiplayer Halo VR shooter, Halo: Outpost Discovery will be touring the following cities: July 5-7 – Orlando, Florida. July 19-21 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. August 2-4 – Chicago, Illinois.

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VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2017

Those lucky enough to attend the Super Bowl Live festival in Houston have the chance to travel to Mars in virtual reality. One of the biggest of these events, Super Bowl Live, will take place nine days leading up to the big game February 5th in Houston, Texas at NRG Stadium. 5, 2017 at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Halo Outpost Discovery kicks off July 5th – 7th in Orlando, Florida; followed by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania July 19th – 21nd ; Chicago, Illinois August 2nd – 4th ; Houston, Texas August 16th – 18th ; and Anaheim, California August 30th – September 1st.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Footage from Houston and Poland was edited and produced in a production trailer outside the stadium during the game. The 90-second video ad, created with Agency partner Innocean Worldwide Americas, aired in the so-called “post-gun” slot that airs immediately after the game ends but before the trophy ceremony.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Select Mission Control and you’ll join NASA’s team of engineers and technicians in Houston and check out various Mission Control screens, dials, instructions and schematics, and ashtrays full of cigarette butts that were most likely smoked to help calm nerves.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2017

Based on NASA Space Station models and the input of actual astronauts as well as the VR Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the simulation features an extensive level of detail that undoubtedly pushes the Oculus Rift to its limits.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The VR viewing schedule tips off October 26th with the New Orleans Pelicans vs. the Houston Rockets, and will feature a top game each week throughout the NBA regular season. Starting next month, the NBA and NextVR will be broadcasting 26 basketball games live in VR, some of which are free to watch for US-based users with a VR headsets.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Houston @ Portland , 10:30 p.m. Following the All-Star coverage, one regular season game per week will be streamed: Thursday, Feb. LA Clippers @ Golden State , 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Mar. Philadelphia @ Cleveland , 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Mar. Boston @ Minnesota , 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. Thursday, Mar. Thursday, Apr. Tuesday, Apr.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 18, 2021

Two men died after the Tesla they were riding in, which local authorities believe had no one in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree and burst into flames in the north of Houston on Saturday. Read more.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Last week, I traveled to the Houston Area Safety Council in Pasadena, Texas, to put Industrial Training International VR’s new crane simulator through its paces. While ITI has been training crane operators, riggers, and signallers for 30 years, the inclusion of VR in their training programs is a recent development.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Milwaukee Bucks (5:00 pm PT) October 26: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Chicago Bulls (5:00 pm PT) October 28: Indiana Pacers vs. Orlando Magic (4:00 pm PT) November 2: Golden State Warriors vs. Houston Rockets (5:00 pm PT) November 4: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Detroit Pistons (4:30 pm PT) November 7: Portland Trail Blazers vs. San Antonio Spurs (7:00 pm PT) (..)

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VRScout

APRIL 4, 2017

Originally released as part of the Björk Digital exhibition in Houston last December, the online version of Notget VR was released to the public Monday and combines high resolution 3D scans, an on location holostudio, motion capture videogrammetry, and real-time spatial audio design.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Minnesota Timberwolves // 5:00 pm PT March 11 // Phoenix Suns vs. Cleveland Cavaliers // 4:30 pm PT March 15 // Denver Nuggets vs. San Antonio Spurs // 5:30 pm PT March 16 // Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Houston Rockets // 2:00 pm PT March 21 // Utah Jazz vs. Dallas Mavericks // 5:30 pm PT March 24 // Golden State Warriors vs. Minnesota Timberwolves // (..)

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hopping in a wicker basket and floating away like The Wizard of Oz no longer need be an unrealistic dream—Janimation, a Houston-based animation company has created a virtual experience making that dream a reality. Combining the mechanical, physical and virtual, a new VR hot air balloon ride allows for a realistic in-flight experience.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This month, a series of RendeverLive sessions profiled Black musicians including Jimi Hendrix, Ella Fitzgerald, Otis Redding, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Percy Sledge, Nat King Cole, and Whitney Houston. This would have been cool last month, but it’s even cooler in the context of the recent expansion of RendeverLive.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

We’ve certainly had a few events here in Houston focused on the energy space, a few events around digital technology, and the use of not only XR but also AI and digital twins in the energy space. Those have been very well attended and quite a few great conversations coming out of those.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Students are engaging with the technology in meaningful ways,” notes Houston Community College Reality CoLab Director Rubén Durán. The offering seems somewhat similar to the Quest for Business platform Meta launched late last year, which allows mass management, updating, and app management of Quest headsets.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Amazon’s bringing its Just Walk Out cashier-free payment system to parts of the Houston Astros stadium. When the service launches this year, Minute Maid Park’s (formerly Enron Field) 41,000-capacity stadium will stand out as one of the biggest testing grounds yet for Amazon’s quickly growing payment service. It will… Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A federal grand jury indicted Houston-based Amplify Energy Corp. The Texas company allegedly responsible for spilling hundreds of gallons of oil near Huntington Beach, California, in October is facing criminal charges. and two of its subsidiaries this week, charging them with a single misdemeanor count of illegally… Read more.

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VRScout

JULY 27, 2018

Samsung’s rig design team co-operated with the crew responsible for NASA’s Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston in order to provide customers with a realistic sensation of weightlessness.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 16, 2020

The Industrial VR/AR Forum will tackle these matters next month in Houston (see more below). But it isn’t a done deal… question marks still exist for best practices in implementation and execution. This will cut across industrial verticals as well as horizontal XR use cases.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The beta launch introduced Meta’s new educational solution to colleges and universities in the US and UK.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Houston-based Axiom Space has now been brought in to fill this glaring gap. NASA hopes to land a man and a woman on the lunar surface in late 2025, but the space agency currently lacks a functional moonwalking spacesuit. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 22, 2022

Two fathers, one in San Francisco and another in Houston, were separately investigated by the police on suspicion of child abuse and exploitation after using Android phones (owned by Google) to take photos of their sons’ genitals for medical purposes. Though in both cases the police determined that the parents had… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 1, 2022

Three days later Houston, Texas hit a daily record of 102 degrees (39 °C). We’re only two weeks into summer, and heatwaves are already scorching the United States. Memphis, Tennessee hit a daily record high temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 °C) on June 17. Multiple regions of the country have seen dangerous … Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 23, 2021

It’s not just “ Houston, we have a problem ,” there’s always a problem. Most of your favorite space movies feature something going wrong. A malfunction. An invasion. But that’s the movies. It’s fiction. In reality, while space is obviously a deadly place, being there isn’t always overly dramatic and intense. It can be… Read more.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Houston, we’ve got allergies. Or rather my wife has allergies and I’m suffering the consequences secondhand. After introducing her to my good friend Claritin over the weekend—and after she fell asleep due to its famously “non-drowsy” effect—it became abundantly clear we need to finally shell out the money for a decent… Read more.

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VRScout

JUNE 3, 2016

The experience is scheduled to be shown in several other cities in the coming months, including Tokyo, London, Paris and Houston. Now the artist is again teleporting fans to her native Iceland with the Björk Digital exhibition, launching on Friday in Sydney, Australia, with Björk herself expected to DJ at the event.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2018

Houston, The Galleria. Knoxville, West Town Mall. Nashville, Mall at Green Hills. Austin, The Domain. Dallas, NorthPark Center. Friendswood, Baybrook Mall. Frisco, Stonebriar Centre. San Antonio, North Star Mall. San Antonio, The Shops at La Cantera. The Woodlands, The Woodlands Mall. Murray, Fashion Place Mall.

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