Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 5, 2017

As someone that has a PS VR, Gear VR, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift all in the same apartment, cables, controllers, and headsets are often scattered everywhere. At CES 2017 this week in Las Vegas, NV, the tech company is debuting a variety of accessories for both the PS VR and HTC Vive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

The Chinese company revealed its first VR headset shortly ahead of CES 2017 in Las Vegas this week. Lenovo also has a new VR ready laptop, though the video below only shows the Oculus Rift, and not its own headset. Lenovo’s offering sounds like it might sit somewhere in the middle.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

And subscribe to my newsletter to not miss my upcoming CES roundup, which will contain all the news I’ve read about XR from Las Vegas! My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The slashed projections’ biggest loser is Sony’s PlayStation VR, with unit sales predictions downgraded from 2.6M As the PSVR requires a PS4 or the PS Pro (and plays better on the Pro, which runs 4K), Sony is choosing to push consumers towards buying their recently-released Pro console. You’re welcome.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

More than 70 virtual and argumented reality companies will showcase their products, innovations and demos at CES 2017, starting this Thursday in Las Vegas.

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ARVR

APRIL 5, 2021

And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 launched. Oculus’s Android App?—?an Oculus Quest 2 is now the most-used VR headset on Steam. - General/Industry Milestones - Oculus Quest App Lab reached 100 apps in less than two months. That decline was Covid-inflected, given supply-chain impediments.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 14, 2023

In Las Vegas last week Jeri Ellsworth carried the consumer packaging for Tilt Five’s AR glasses. ” Sometime I wonder what the path to consumer VR would have looked like if Palmer Luckey & Brendan Iribe hadn’t sold Oculus to Facebook. What if Oculus hadn’t hired researchers like Abrash from Valve? ” Yup.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 6, 2020

The PlayStation VR has proved to be a success for Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) since its launch in 2016, so much so that the company releases sales figures from time to time. During Sony’s press conference at CES 2020 in Las Vegas today it was revealed that 5 million PlayStation VR’s have now been sold.

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VRWorld

JULY 14, 2016

With the introduction of Google Cardboard and the Daydream VR platform, Oculus and HTC discrete VR headsets and GearVR headsets for even smartphones like the Samsung’s Galaxy S7, the first tentative steps towards virtual reality gaming are being taken. Virtual Reality Gaming isn’t coming, it’s already here.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 24, 2017

During the 2017 edition of CES in Las Vegas, we’re starting to see an appearance of new Virtual Reality applications, as businesses see VR as a new medium. While the push for VR started in retail model, we’re now seeing that business-to-consumer model is the path forward. This is where things start to get slightly worrying.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

In front of you will be two 8K Sony chips, I hear. So, if you want to build a Las Vegas Sports Book, or a room that has dozens of TVs, you will be able to do so. But I hear it is years ahead of what Facebook is building in its Oculus Quest standalone VR headsets. RealityOS, Apple has called it so far.

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Headjack

JANUARY 12, 2015

The recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas made it clear: virtual reality is taking on serious forms ! All the big names in tech are working on their own devices, including Apple, Sony, Samsung, and Google. This is a massive overkill, since the latest Oculus Rift Crescent Bay edition contains a 1440p display.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

Or better, maybe it’s not totally merit of HTC, it is mostly the fact that everyone is hoping for a good headset that can compete somehow with the Oculus Quest , even just in the prosumer segment. The Oculus Quest 2 keeps its march towards 10M users. The Oculus Quest 2 keeps selling incredibly well. This is amazing.

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