VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2016

See Also: Unreal Engine and Unity to get NVIDIA’s New VR Rendering Tech. This correlates with mobile VR too; back in February, Oculus CEO Palmer Luckey said some 90% of the content available for Samsung’s Gear VR headset is built with Unity. Unity is also one of the leading engines used for desktop VR development today.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

He has been working with Unreal for 20 years and was part of the Paragon and Fortnite development teams. He was part of the design process for several of Unreal’s core features. I own an IT solutions and project staffing firm I started in New York City back in 1996. We reached out to Max and the timing was just right.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” Based in New York, and built on two former college roommates winning the 2014 TechCrunch Disrupt Hackthon, InsiteVR’s $1.5M FROM DESTINY AND HALO TO POLYARC – $3.5M FOR VR GAME IN 2017.

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Los Angeles AR Real Estate Virtual Reality 150

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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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Rob: Carillon was built within the Unreal Engine and uses the Open Sound Control protocol to connect motion and actions in the game environment with a music engine built within the Pure Data computer music system. Carillon was really built for VR: the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller are key components in the work.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. We have been working in Unreal for a long time, and we’ve certainly built a team around that. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. We have been working in Unreal for a long time, and we’ve certainly built a team around that. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And they've just done really, really well with creating this new experience of moving around socially in a 3D space. And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Alex: Huge news. So they went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker U. Alan: Huge.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And they've just done really, really well with creating this new experience of moving around socially in a 3D space. And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Alex: Huge news. So they went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker U. Alan: Huge.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And they've just done really, really well with creating this new experience of moving around socially in a 3D space. And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Alex: Huge news. So they went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker U. Alan: Huge.

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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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North America Software 360 Video Video 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. I’ve got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program — so, you program in Unity or Unreal. Oculus has sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. I’ve got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program — so, you program in Unity or Unreal. Oculus has sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian.

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Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises 78

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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. I've got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program -- so, you program in Unity or Unreal. Oculus has sold a couple million. there's just all these tools.

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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

JULY 4, 2019

Some months ago, it has been showcased in an exclusive location in New York and people even paid $50 to be able to try this 3-episodes content set in space. This experience created some buzz because it has been the first virtual reality storytelling experience that has been acquired for a seven-figure amount.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

While we would have preferred to bring you first-hand impressions directly from UploadVR, and we’ve been told by Meta they may do future demos in New York, until that happens we’ve asked Coulombe to write for us from his expert perspective about his time in the glasses. No SteamVR, no Oculus runtime, no complicated driver updates.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they're pivoting to enterprise. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson. So it's just grown a lot.

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