Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2020

Spatial , a New York-based startup behind the eponymous real-time AR/VR collaboration platform, has secured $14 million in additional financing, bringing its overall funds to $22 million. Existing Spatial investors also include the likes of Samsung NEXT, Baidu Ventures, and LG Ventures to name a few.

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VRScout

JUNE 22, 2018

Launched on Frank’s 89th birthday, the VR collaborative effort by the Anne Frank House, Force Field VR, and Oculus provides a unique 25-minute immersive tour of Frank’s secret hiding place, known as the Secret Annex. The experience is available for download now on the Oculus Store for Samsung Gear VR— completely free of charge.

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APRIL 4, 2017

Samsung revealed its long-awaited Galaxy S8 smartphone last week but, while it supports the company’s Gear VR headset, there was no mention of another major player in the mobile VR market: Google Daydream. When Daydream was announced last year Google revealed Samsung as one of a number of partners working on the platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

I’ve seen what companies are doing nowadays to use tracked props on the Oculus Quest: they have to add bulky mounts to install the even bulkier Touch controllers on them. Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers. Panasonic AR windshield (Auganix) Samsung vision of futuristic cars (Youtube). Other news.

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

New York Times VR, Time/Life/People, Discovery, etc., We know that the tech companies driving the VR industry (Google, Samsung, Valve, HTC, Oculus, etc.) In summary, we know that the tech companies driving the VR industry (Google, Samsung, Valve, HTC, Oculus, etc.) Facebook was also a client of Milk(vr).

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VRScout

AUGUST 4, 2018

In 2009, two chimpanzees originating from the New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, were ‘leased’ to Stony Brook University in New York. via the Condition One app on the Oculus GO and Samsung Gear VR. Download the Condition One app free on the Oculus Store.

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2017

On stage today at Samsung’s Unpacked Event in New York, the new Gear VR with motion controller finally got a launch date and price. The new 2017 Gear VR and Controller combo, announced alongside the Galaxy S8, will be available starting April 21st for $129. This story is breaking.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. Her first VR creation, Cardboard City , earned an award at the Samsung Gear Indie Milk VR contest in 2016. So when I finally got an Oculus Rift DK2, I jumped in and started going to every meetup that was happening in New York. ”.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

This is a VR installation put on by Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Void in New York City. The recently released jaw-dropper from Oculus Studios won tonight’s Lumiere for Best VR Animated Experience. Dear Angelica was created using the new Oculus art program, Quill and the results are simply astonishing.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2018

Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab by Oculus. A single player mystery adventure set within the Blade Runner 2049 timeline, this Oculus-exclusive detective-style experience was a refreshing change of pace from the multiple wave-based shooters present at the time. Coco VR by Disney Pixar.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

Mario Kart comes to VR, E3’s VR news, Intel’s new VR eSports league AND wireless VR solution, Samsung buys their way into social, the investment & funding wrapup, and more…. Teaming up with Oculus and ESL, Intel declared the world’s first virtual reality eSports league — with a prize pool of $200K.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

In the demo video shared by Netflix, the user selects a Daredevil VHS tape and you find yourself in a New York City setting while a giant projector screen rises up to begin your entertainment experience. Once your done, just toss the tape on the floor and move along.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Madefire, a digital comic book app company, recently announced the launch of a new preview app that brings select issues to Oculus and Samsung’s Gear VR. The company exhibited the app at this year’s New York Comic-Con and Oculus Connect 3.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 19, 2017

You’ll also be able to access all of these 360 videos as well as several others via the Dark Corner app available for Android , iOS , Samsung GearVR , Google Daydream , and Oculus Rift. All the above-mentioned videos are available for viewing now, with many more original pieces of horror content on the way.

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2016

Samsung reportedly confirmed back at the company’s own developer conference that a new, standalone VR headset was on it’s way and new trademark filings may indicate it’s name. The post Samsung’s New Standalone VR Headset May be Called ‘Odyssey’ appeared first on Road to VR.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

PARTY WITH YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS IN VR: OCULUS ROOMS & PARTIES. If you have a Samsung Gear VR, you can now connect with your Facebook friends through Oculus Home. In the official words of the Oculus blog, this is “just the beginning of social VR.”. OCULUS CEO STEPS DOWN, WILL LEAD PC DIVISION.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

20th Century Fox partnered with a production group for VR and 360-degree projects based on their different properties and we previously reported on the New York Times and Milk(Vr) collaboration that yielded a collection of shorts with appearances from major acts like Natalie Portman and Don Cheadle.

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MARCH 29, 2024

In a recent report from the New York Times, Meta revealed new AI features for its smart glasses product – that Meta developed using Ray Ban frames – following the firm’s promise of broader virtual assistant tools for the product range at last year’s Connect event.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Stuart Ewen, Product Manager ESL, said: "SLIVER.tv's VR Live Cast technology helped us introduce live VR spectator experiences in eSports at ESL One New York and Intel Extreme Masters Oakland in impressive fashion. Samsung GearVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive apps to watch in full VR. website or download the SLIVER.tv

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 2, 2016

Guide to Using VR for Storytelling via Stanford Journalism Program During the 10-week course, 12 undergraduate and graduate students evaluated a range of virtual reality experiences published by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ABC News and others.

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AllThingsVR

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

VR Sales Analysis: Rift and Vive to Sell Under 500,000 in 2016, PS VR to Top 2 Million SuperData Research is a New York based research firm that has been creating detailed reports on the immersive industry for months. Its most recent study centers around likely sales figures for the major VR headsets.

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JUNE 17, 2024

AirPlay Mirroring to Apple Vision Pro with visionOS 2 dramatically expands the headset's capabilities, and new features better integrate your iPad, Mac, keyboard and controllers too. In the case of Gear VR and the cardboard boxes shipped by the likes of Nintendo , Google , and the New York Times , you could (and still can!)

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

Over the years, millions of people have read about the project in news outlets such as Newsweek, the New York Times, Scientific American or seen short video fly-throughs of the various versions of the Rome Reborn® model. The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. Oculus Go headset (Image by Oculus).

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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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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 18, 2016

The Khronos Group is an open consortium of hardware and software companies, including Epic Games, Google, Immersive Technology Alliance , Oculus, Intel, NVIDIA, Open Gaming Alliance , and Valve. Microsoft has also announced that it has started to work on supporting WebVR for Edge , the new browser for Windows 10. ” WebVR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2020

the Hermit mailed a number of samples they’d 3D printed from their base in New York,USA; as seen in the image above. Its certainly something I noticed when moving from a HTC Vive to an Oculus Rift CV1, which had a clearer display with less screen door effect but seemed to be quite dim with muted colours.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

The 360-degree experience was filmed by Practical Magic in cooperation with 20th Century Fox and New Regency. The theatrical activation will feature kiosks with Oculus Rift headsets powered by Alienware Aurora PCs using AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics cards. Here’s how they made it happen. 2 and Jan.

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Headjack

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Chris Milk’s video The Displaced, a powerful story about refugees, is also used in the New York Times VR app for Cardboard. 265 videos, but fortunately the Samsung Gear VR phones are! (up Oculus Rift. If you would wish to play your videos at 60fps, Samsung recommends 2048×2048. Funny sidenote. Cardboard iOS.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 9, 2017

According to Rolling Stone, the news sort of snuck out during a Friday night New York Comic-Con panel with a deliberately vague name: “The Future of Comics in New Realities.”

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

The likes of Audi, Coca-Cola and even The New York Times are all using VR for visual marketing, but what about matching Virtual Reality and the reality itself? This experience brings people, via an Oculus Rift headset, to the birthplace of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc in New Zealand.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

For instance, the old Siri understands me just fine when I ask it “how many people are checked in on Foursquare at the New York City Ritz?” The UWB network builds a “fingerprint” of your home, so that new devices that arrive know EXACTLY where they are, and even where they are aiming.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Get Barreled in Tahiti with Samsung Gear VR. Connections – New York. Science 360 Oculus Build. BMX Olympic Gold Medal Virtual Reality Experience™ Starring Connor Fields. Circle Rules Football. Follow My Lead: The Story of the 2016 NBA Finals. FPV : 360 Drone Racing. Lamborghini Huracán LP 580-2 Experience.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Above: The Oculus Touch controls let you navigate independently with each hand in VR. Image Credit: Oculus. But recently both Google and Oculus have gotten behind it, and as a result we’re seeing accelerated adoption of web VR. Above: Oculus Rift is just the start of the VR marketplace. Image Credit: Oculus VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So, a lot of people don’t actually know this — I think the international community knows this little bit more — Madison Square Garden, I think, is in the top five or top 10 most-visited, most iconic places in New York City. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? So it makes it a very seamless experience.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. On my flight home from New York I was in an economy seat, yet I had a better movie watching setup than anyone in first class. This is a watershed moment for VR-style headsets.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

INTRO: A little over a hundred years ago, the light switch was invented in the sleepy suburb of Lynbrook, New York. Companies such as Oculus and HTC came out with their own headsets in 2016 – the Rift and the Vive – and the difference between these and their predecessors is immense. As I said, terrifying.

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JULY 31, 2019

So, a lot of people don't actually know this -- I think the international community knows this little bit more -- Madison Square Garden, I think, is in the top five or top 10 most-visited, most iconic places in New York City. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? This is where the Knicks played, and so on and so forth.

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