Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The Biggest Immersive Tech Event of the Year Returns May 4-5, Exploring “A New Reality.”.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. “We want you to make all your VR and AR with Unity,” he said, promising renewed investment in the industry. 10, and that native Unity support would arrive in the next iteration of the engine, 5.6.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We’ve seen Unity’s impressive in-VR authoring tool a few times throughout 2016, with no real clue of when it’s coming. Unity (@unity3d) November 1, 2016. This time, West used the HTC Vive, having used the Oculus Rift with Touch controllers in previous demos. That changed today.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Following this 2016 World Tour , Kaleidoscope also organized a Summer Showcase, hitting six cities, one of which we hosted with Kaleidoscope here in Los Angeles. Successfully funded projects will go into production in early 2017 and will be available on the Oculus platform. Kate Parsons. She obtained her M.F.A. Tyler Hurd.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

The world’s largest VR & AR conference is back again May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The two-day conference’s full slate of keynote speakers also include live performances. There’s quite no conference like VRLA. Attendees can sign up for Circuit Stream’s workshops when they register for VRLA.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Tomorrow Unity plans to launch the first experimental build of EditorVR, a component of the Unity game engine which will let developers build games within virtual reality. Timoni West, Principal Designer at Unity Labs, has announced that EditorVR will launch tomorrow, December 15th. of their game development engine.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

My “old” passion rekindled in 2012 with the Oculus Kickstarter campaign and even prompted me to pitch the use of VR technology in sales at Audi for which I was then also fortunate enough to take over the project management. A while ago you announced a partnership with Pico and Unity. Can you tell us more about it?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Los Angeles and Austin, TX-based startup called The Wave VR is building “the world’s first social VR music platform,” according to CEO Adam Arrigo, “[and] it lets anybody from aspiring DJs to Deadmau5 to put on online virtual shows that are fully interactive. THE WAVE DANCES ONTO THE MUSIC SCENE AND RAISES $2.5M.

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JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. LA, GET EXCITED: BJORK’S VR EXHIBITION COMES TO LOS ANGELES. LOTS OF BIG UNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS AT GDC. …and more.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

The event is organized by The Virtual Reality Foundation, which is composed of many of the same people behind the Virtual Reality Los Angeles conference and startup Mindshow. In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content.

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APRIL 21, 2017

These are realistic places you can explore in your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world. Ignatius church in Los Angeles, the grandeur of the space is felt, enhancing the religious overtones of the tune.

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JULY 7, 2017

10:15 am – 10:45 am | Keynote: The World’s Most Compelling New Experiences (Unity). Tony Parisi | Head of VR/AR Strategy, Unity. Tony Parisi is a virtual reality pioneer, serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Julie Shumaker | Vice President, Business Development, Unity.

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

As an industry, we need immersive experiences that will show what VR brings to the table and so far, there are two experiences one should go through: WeVR’s “theBlu” for HTC Vive and Crytek’s “The Climb” for Oculus Rift. Can you tell me how did you got involved in Virtual Reality and how did you end up in Los Angeles?

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

WWDC by Apple Date: June 5-9, 2017 Venue: McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA Download the WWDC app from the App Store Oculus Connect Date: October 11-12, 2017 Venue: McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA Oculus Connect is an annual virtual reality developer conference hosted by Oculus from Facebook.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Hmmmm… The story, score, and foundation of Miranda is driven by the groundbreaking work of award-winning composer Kamala Sankaram , who has created musical theatrical works produced by the Washington National Opera , the Los Angeles Opera , and the Houston Grand Opera , and also has numerous vocal and instrumental chamber works on her resume.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Instead, you can do so much of it in VR.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Instead, you can do so much of it in VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. They're not getting good enough for the consumer price points to get traction.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Instead, you can do so much of it in VR.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA. Recent Matrix investments include Oculus VR, Zendesk, Hubspot, Acacia Communications, Polyvore, Lever, Poynt and Namely. 43- Dillon Seo - Co-Founder #Oculus.

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MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. This is a nice feather in the cap of a game that VR users have come to adore since its release on Oculus Rift with Touch late last year. The show also includes an awards portion and this year one of the top honors is going to a familiar face. Baobab Studios).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Anne: Yeah, it’s really– Alan: Stack of phones charging while you’re swapping it out, whereas if you’re using something like an Oculus Go, you’ve got to take the whole machine away. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Anne: Yeah, it’s really– Alan: Stack of phones charging while you’re swapping it out, whereas if you’re using something like an Oculus Go, you’ve got to take the whole machine away. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Alan: Stack of phones charging while you're swapping it out, whereas if you're using something like an Oculus Go, you've got to take the whole machine away. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. Is there any way that they can download the app on the Oculus store and enjoy one of these concerts at home? We're extending it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for It is a terrible moment for tech companies: after Meta and Unity, also Snap stock has lost -30% of its value after the CEO has announced that the company won’t be able to reach its estimated earnings goals. Snap shares lose -30% of its stock value.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. Kent: The focus of Oculus has been much more on gaming rather than productivity applications, but they still have a number different productivity applications that are coming out. [laughs] Kent: Yeah, there’s all sorts of thresholds. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me. Kent: The focus of Oculus has been much more on gaming rather than productivity applications, but they still have a number different productivity applications that are coming out. Kent: Yeah, there's all sorts of thresholds. I've had early access to the Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. Kent: The focus of Oculus has been much more on gaming rather than productivity applications, but they still have a number different productivity applications that are coming out. Kent: Yeah, there’s all sorts of thresholds. Alan: Oh, I can’t wait.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. Meta updates the SDK for Quest.

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