The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

And now also companies are affected directly : after a worker has been found positive to the virus in the Seattle venue, now a group of Facebook employees has been left working from home. Oculus rejects Crisis VRigade again, causing backlash from the community. That’s a disaster. So, Start it is not a valid answer.

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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. Vulcan Productions has teamed up with Kaleidoscope to launch the Impact Reality Summit, a two-day event celebrating the very best in “XR for Good” storytelling.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Three veterans of first-person shooter games have formed Drifter Entertainment , a Seattle-based virtual reality game studio. He was also a chief technology officer at Microsoft on the HoloLens project, and he was the lead programmer on Gears of War and Gears of War 2. The founders include Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Seattle-based VR studio Against Gravity has today announced they have received $5M in seed funding to continue to build Rec Room, the studio’s social VR platform. Only launching last summer, the app has quickly become a success story, winning over fans on both Steam and Oculus Home with high marks.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. Their facial tracking modification technology eventually enabled the popular “Lenses” feature.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

In a mission to make 360 video less terrible, the Seattle-based company has developed a number of technologies since they came out of stealth last December. As ‘platform agnostic’ player, we’re sure to see apps available for headsets such as Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, and Oculus Rift.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year’s Seattle based IMMERSE Summit ( previously Sea VR ) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. SEE ALSO Madrona Venture Group on Why Seattle is a Hotbed for VR and AR.

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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 Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and 'Revive' Dilemma.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We started the year strong, receiving the Lumiere Technology Award in January, alongside companies like Disney and Microsoft. We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. The Verge listed HaptX as among the best of the festival.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

of content development and strategic partnerships for the worldwide business development for Microsoft Studios. My favorite thing to do was work with all the other hardworking folks in our Seattle office and New York office, who were running around doing demos at conferences and events. You can do it with an Oculus Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

of content development and strategic partnerships for the worldwide business development for Microsoft Studios. My favorite thing to do was work with all the other hardworking folks in our Seattle office and New York office, who were running around doing demos at conferences and events. You can do it with an Oculus Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

of content development and strategic partnerships for the worldwide business development for Microsoft Studios. My favorite thing to do was work with all the other hardworking folks in our Seattle office and New York office, who were running around doing demos at conferences and events. You can do it with an Oculus Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. Jamie: Right. With Sprint, I'll just give you kind of a quick introduction to how that project came into being, which was was really interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. Jamie: Right. With Sprint, I'll just give you kind of a quick introduction to how that project came into being, which was was really interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. Jamie: Right. With Sprint, I'll just give you kind of a quick introduction to how that project came into being, which was was really interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. It wasn’t even possible to buy another Tundra HDK, and months later they are still showing out of stock. Image provided by Rob Cole). Image by Rob Cole).

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. Now, the day is here, and the wait was… worth it? Want to dive deeper into the details? HTC VIVE LAUNCHES VIVE STUDIOS.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The Oculus Quest was a hit. At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May.

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