VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A Dallas, Texas jury awarded half a billion dollars to ZeniMax Wednesday after finding that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, and by extension Oculus, violated the terms of a non-disclosure agreement in the early days of developing the Rift VR headset. In January, Oculus Luckey took the stand to deny the claim.

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VRScout

JANUARY 17, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg gave testimony during a lawsuit with ZeniMax about the real cost of Oculus. The Facebook CEO knows exactly how much his company paid for Oculus, clarifying the higher purchase price at a Texas courthouse. ZeniMax alleges that Oculus created their Rift VR headset from misappropriated trade secrets.

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Road to VR

JULY 21, 2017

Casino VR Poker (2016), online multiplayer casino hosting live Texas hold’em, is offering real prizes in their ‘High Rollers’ poker tournament taking place on 20th August including multiple Oculus Rift + Touch bundles, hundred of dollars worth of gift cards, and Casino VR swag like t-shirts and playing cards.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

SEE ALSO Walmart to Launch Nation-wide VR Training Program with Over 17,000 Oculus Headsets. San Antonio, Texas (8923 W Military Drive) – March 15-16. New Braunfels, Texas (1209 S Interstate 35) – March 17-19. Grand Prairie, Texas (2225 I-20) – March 22-23.

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MARCH 9, 2017

The ongoing legal drama between Oculus chief technology officer John Carmack and his former employer ZeniMax continues today with Carmack suing the company. Carmack’s lawsuit alleges he’s owed $22.5 We note that this is Mr. Carmack’s second complaint against ZeniMax. In the recently completed trial of ZeniMax Media Inc.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The legal battle between ZeniMax Media v Oculus VR has a verdict from the jury. In the first of many questions put to the jury, they decided Oculus did not misappropriate trade secrets. The help Carmack offered Oculus during this time and the dispute of what code was made available to Oculus made up much of the trial.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Oculus VR is one of the first major legal disputes to happen in our young new industry. You might remember that, quite famously, John Carmack joined the Oculus team as CTO in 2013. His relationship with the VR company (namely Palmer Luckey) and the creation of the Oculus Rift is at the heart of the allegations. Oculus VR Inc.,

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Thankfully there’s a good amount of free VR content already on the Oculus Store to keep you playing before you’re paying. If you’re good at Texas Hold’em, you may not need to buy any at all by working up from your starting chips. Developer : Oculus. Developer : Fun Bits Interactive / Oculus.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Last week a lawsuit filed against Oculus and its management started its trial in Dallas, Texas. The plaintiff alleges Oculus CTO John Carmack abused his former position at ZeniMax to give intellectual property to Oculus when it was just a fledgling startup. Stay tuned. Tagged with: 2.3

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The two-year long court battle between Oculus VR and ZeniMax Media has come to an end today. This includes Facebook founder (and now Oculus owner) Mark Zuckerberg, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, and id Software founder John Carmack. The Texas jury deciding the case has determined … Continue reading.

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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. Michael Catalano. Nick Pittom.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Casino VR Poker , the online free-to-play casino hosting live Texas hold’em, has today launched on Oculus Home, now allowing users to play in a cross-platform space with either Gear VR or Oculus Rift. After all, it’s just Texas hold’em, right? inverse kinematics in the Oculus Rift.

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JUNE 25, 2019

Based on the original IP by Jim Ivon and the novel by Ryder Windham ( Scraper: The Rise of Cifer ), the game takes place in the future megacity of New Austin, Texas and centers around a war against renegade robots that have taken over the city’s high-rise skyscraper complexes. 5] on the Oculus Store.

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InstaVR

AUGUST 13, 2019

As mentioned in last week’s blog , the Oculus Ques t has blown away sales expectations since launching three months ago. The Oculus Quest, in particular, is a great vehicle for delivering VR experiences. So what use cases do Enterprise clients have for InstaVR + Oculus Quest? VR for Training Using Oculus Quest.

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VRScout

AUGUST 21, 2019

Earlier this month, a deadly mass shooting took place at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, claiming the lives of 22 individuals and injuring 24 others. Last year the company distributed 17,000 Oculus Go headsets across its 4,700 U.S. Employees claim active shooter training helped them respond faster to the situation.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. Because even if Oculus sold 100 million VR headsets, but no third-party developer could make $1 million in revenue, then it wouldn’t be a platform; it would be a successful product for Oculus, but it wouldn’t be a viable platform to create an ecosystem of successful developers.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2017

The legendary annual QuakeCon is held in Dallas, Texas hosted by parent company ZeniMax Media is home to publisher Bethesda Softworks’ world-famous IP, with this year’s focus on the Quake World Championships esport competition. Skyrim VR remains a PSVR-only title for now, but is likely to find its way to PC.

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MARCH 11, 2024

SXSW is in full swing in Austin, Texas, and yesterday a number of experts took to the stage to discuss the future of fitness and.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2017

This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute which could cost Facebook $4 billion. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

ZeniMax filed for a proposed judgment and final injunction in its $500 million case against Oculus. A Reuters report suggested “the injunction could limit the number of games available for sale for Oculus’ Rift VR headset.” ” ZeniMax declined to comment. ” ZeniMax declined to comment.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

SyncThink , a Boston-based startup, created a portable concussion diagnostic tool that uses a tablet and either a Gear VR or Oculus Rift DK2 fitted with an SMI eye tracker. The system, called Eye Sync, is already in use at the athletic divisions of University of Texas and Iowa State University.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Virtuix has been around for just about as long as Oculus itself, with a 2013 Kickstarter for its landmark VR treadmill Virtuix Omni bringing in over $1 million from backers.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Immersed covered the cost of my flights from the UK to its event in Texas, which made it possible for me to attend. If you've been around in VR since the Oculus Developer Kit days you'll recognize this as extended mode. Still, I didn't fly from the UK to Texas to try a skeleton demo of a display and optics.

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Road to VR

JULY 26, 2016

Casino VR , a free multiplayer poker game for Gear VR and Oculus Rift, now allows you to buy chips to fuel your need for table dominance. See Also : First Look at Casino VR, Where Social VR Meets Texas Hold’em. And no, you can’t spend them (yet).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Oculus recently integrated your Facebook profile with your Oculus profile so that you can meet up with your real world friends and hang out in Oculus Rooms, which look like beautiful floating islands in the virtual sky. HULU WITH YOUR FRIENDS IN VIRTUAL REALITY. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The war of words continues between ZeniMax and Oculus in the wake of a $500 million mixed verdict issued yesterday by a Texas jury. Earlier today Oculus CTO John Carmack noted on Facebook “the internet would have viciously mocked the analysis” of an expert witness ZeniMax called in the case whose testimony is under seal.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2018

Put simply, the “SR pod” is a high-tech booth emitting artificial heat, wind and more while you wear an Oculus Rift headset. Galstaun says since Sensiks’ initial launch at last years annual SXSW in Austin, Texas, the company has shipped 25 of the booths with another 50 currently on back order.

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VRScout

APRIL 25, 2018

Austin, Texas-based video game developer Owlchemy Labs struck gold with their 2016 smash hit, Job Simulator. Vacation Simulator is available for demo at the Tribeca Virtual Arcade now until Saturday, April 28th and is set to release sometime later this year on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 29, 2021

This world also contains the Texas State Capitol building and the river. The worlds are only available to PCVR, Oculus Quest and Windows PC users. I wander to the Texas State Capitol building and see the famous moontower nearby. Kammerdiener explains that they “had to scale it down in some respect.” The XR Experience.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 14, 2022

At this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, Fils-Aimé took the opportunity to completely unload on Mark Zuckerberg's social media conglomerate, now known as Meta, while speaking with Emily Chang of Bloomberg.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

Hello everyone from Austin, Texas! Quest Fitness Tracker “Oculus Move” is Getting Baked into Apple Health & Oculus App. Oculus, this is sexist… Funny link. I will write a little report soon, in the meanwhile, you can enjoy a video of me riding a mechanical bull shot by Charlie Fink: [link]. Other news. Learn more.

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AllThingsVR

APRIL 18, 2017

The Austin, Texas-based startup has created a social VR music platform where performers can create music while wearing a HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset and spectators can watch the whole experience. Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto VR raises $13.9M, Avegant Raises $13.7, Read more on Financial Times. ,

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InstaVR

MARCH 15, 2020

Combined with a 360-degree camera or 3DCG software, faculty or students can create VR apps in minutes that can be distributed via web, mobile app, or head-mounted VR system (Oculus Go, Quest and Rift S). Learn More. This severely limited access to the technology. Others buy a limited number of licenses for students to share.

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APRIL 2, 2020

Publisher: Oculus Studios. Available On: Oculus Quest (Rift coming soon). A few issues keep me from truly loving it, but Lies Beneath still proves to be a super stylish and serviceable shooter. Lies Beneath Details: Developer: Drifter Entertainment. Reviewed On: Quest. Release Date: March 31st, 2020. Price: $30.

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InstaVR

JANUARY 23, 2019

Cameras like the Insta360 One X and headsets like the Oculus Go have made VR affordable/easy to use, while InstaVR has made editing and publishing VR accessible to non-technical people. see the Oculus Go “Release Channels” feature for a great new way to distribute VR apps).

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InstaVR

OCTOBER 25, 2019

With InstaVR — plus ubiqitous 360-degree cameras and affordable mobile standalone headsets like Oculus Go — any student in any department can make and distribute VR apps. STUDENT PRESENTATIONS Prior to InstaVR, virtual reality creation was mainly housed in the computer science or visual arts departments of universities.

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InstaVR

MARCH 15, 2020

Combined with a 360-degree camera or 3DCG software, faculty or students can create VR apps in minutes that can be distributed via web, mobile app, or head-mounted VR system (Oculus Go, Quest and Rift S). Learn More. This severely limited access to the technology. Others buy a limited number of licenses for students to share.

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