VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. Benzing then acted in New York for a year before going off to grad school at LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art), a high-profile drama school that’s notable for its rich history. We’re working with Unity on this project.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Life of Us is a Within Original, produced by Chris Milk, Megan Ellison through her Annapurna pictures and Made with Unity. “We are thrilled to feature new projects from new creators, and to highlight the groundbreaking work of local pioneers in each city.”. The announced Official Selection of projects for Showcase Vol.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2016

Unity Technologies has announced a $181 million Series C investment led by DFJ Growth, a venture capital firm with the likes of Twitter and Tesla in their portfolio, in order to continue their dominance of the game engine market. See Also: Unreal Engine and Unity to get NVIDIA’s New VR Rendering Tech. billion, thanks to over 5.5

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus. Successfully funded projects will go into production in early 2017 and will be available on the Oculus platform. Elliot Cole. Mike Brett. Milica Zec.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Cool gadgets such as the Oculus Quest (due in Spring of 2019), GoPro Hero 7, Beyerdynamic Amiron wireless headphones , and a Litter Robot that helps clean up after you cat does their business, are just a few of the examples found in this year’s gift guide. Immersive media has grown over the last couple of years.

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Cats and VR

MAY 25, 2017

award for Immersive Reality Game of the Year and the fastest-selling game for Oculus Touch, SUPERHOT VR is available today for VIVE. SUPERHOT VR for VIVE comes complete with the recent FOREVER update, expanding the experience even further with new modes, challenges, and endgame content. Winner of the D.I.C.E. regenerating health bars.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. State University of New York at Oswego, USA. image courtesy VR First. Purdue University, USA.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale. Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Facebook—sorry, it’s calling itself Meta now —is planning on dipping consumers’ toes in the so-called metaverse by launching retail stores to showcase AR and VR products, the New York Times reported on Friday. Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Tyler left a comfortable job at renowned video game studio Double Fine Productions to pursue a career making music videos and short films in New York City, but the grim reality of that path became abundantly clear rather quickly. “My Months later, Tyler finally got his hands on an Oculus DK2 and saw his characters in VR.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

Bye will be delivering a keynote at SVVR, as will Nonny de la Peña, CEO of Emblematic Group, Tony Parisi, Head of VR and AR at Unity Technologies, and Rikard Steiber, SVP of VR at HTC. And the timing couldn’t have been more ideal; the Oculus Kickstarter had been gaining steam in the broader community. ’”. . Enter: SVVR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. A New (Virtual) Reality at The New York Times. Move in zero gravity using Oculus Touch controllers. Mission: ISS. Realities Of VR Production.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Series A round led by Atomico, along with Speedinvest, Y Combinator (of which the company is an alumnus), Dawn Capital, and notable individuals such as the founder of Unity and the former VP of engineering at Netflix and YouTube. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M REAL-TIME FACES: PINSCREEN’S STEALTH $1.8M. SEED TO INSITE VR.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. This new industrial-grade system offers the most realistic haptics experience to date. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Alex: Huge news. So they went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker U. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alan: Huge. Are they on AR?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Alex: Huge news. So they went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker U. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alan: Huge. Are they on AR?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Unity is always my top one.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Unity is always my top one.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Unity, we find, is extremely effective for slightly more screen-based experiences. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal? By having training so scalable, you can deploy training to wherever you can put an Oculus Rift and a laptop. Greg: Yeah, sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Alex: Huge news. So they went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker U. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alan: Huge. Are they on AR?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

Gabo Arora — who’s directed stuff for UN and The New York Times — directed the DDI piece. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. So you need to use the controller to start the experience, because that’s a function of Oculus, not anything we have control over.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

Gabo Arora — who’s directed stuff for UN and The New York Times — directed the DDI piece. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. So you need to use the controller to start the experience, because that’s a function of Oculus, not anything we have control over.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

The last time we saw each other was at the Mixed Reality Marketing Summit in New York City, which was a really amazing conference. My favorite thing to do is, if I have to cover Boston and New York, I love taking the train, right? We also had Oculus participate, which was great. Raj: Alan, thanks for having me.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

The last time we saw each other was at the Mixed Reality Marketing Summit in New York City, which was a really amazing conference. My favorite thing to do is, if I have to cover Boston and New York, I love taking the train, right? We also had Oculus participate, which was great. Raj: Alan, thanks for having me.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Unity is always my top one. Oculus has sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

Gabo Arora -- who's directed stuff for UN and The New York Times -- directed the DDI piece. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. Alan: [laughs] We're actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? And the person I've talked to said, "Oh, we don't have an Oculus Go."

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Unity, we find, is extremely effective for slightly more screen-based experiences. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal? By having training so scalable, you can deploy training to wherever you can put an Oculus Rift and a laptop. Greg: Yeah, sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

The last time we saw each other was at the Mixed Reality Marketing Summit in New York City, which was a really amazing conference. My favorite thing to do is, if I have to cover Boston and New York, I love taking the train, right? We also had Oculus participate, which was great. Raj: Alan, thanks for having me.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe. You see Google. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe. You see Google. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and-- including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah. That's one really cool niche, unique way of using a 180 3D camera.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Talking about more reliable leaks, developer Luboš V with the support of Basti564 has found references of a multiplayer Oculus Home in the Quest firmware, so it seems that very soon the home space of the Quest will let everyone invite more people. News worth a mention. Image by Meta). Meta has canceled its XROS operating system.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. I mean, I am in New York, but there’s other cities; Boston, on the West Coast, as well as Chicago, L.A. So I say, first, don’t think uber-complicated; start off more simple. There’s a lot of groups.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. I mean, I am in New York, but there’s other cities; Boston, on the West Coast, as well as Chicago, L.A. So I say, first, don’t think uber-complicated; start off more simple. There’s a lot of groups.

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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. Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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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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