VRLab, Inc. has developed virtual-reality systems and shown them in public: multi-user VR on consumer headsets with IHMC researchers, an underwater telepresence prototype and a line of portable VR stations. It also ran San Francisco VR meetups and demo nights from 2014.
Several people in one room and one virtual world, on consumer headsets: calibration, networking and avatars.
Arena put several players in one virtual space on standalone Oculus Quest headsets, aligned with the room they shared; it was demonstrated at Oculus Connect 6 in 2019, with a public arena outside the convention center.
Developed by IHMC researchers working with VRLab.
Working prototypes: underwater telepresence, demonstrated in public in 2014, and a shared-room mobile VR app (2014 → 2016).
RoVR put an OpenROV underwater drone's live camera and telemetry into an Oculus DK2 headset, and was demonstrated at the SVVR holiday party at the Computer History Museum in December 2014.
VRLab's own project, built on the open-source OpenROV platform.
Demo nights, retail demos and a public arena, 2014 → 2019.
From May 2014 VRLab ran a San Francisco VR meetup group that listed 894 members by October 2014, held demo nights and a lab forum, and set up a retail outlet for mobile VR headsets in a San Francisco store.
Organized by VRLab.
[ 2014-12· Computer History Museum· Mountain View ]
RoVR marine telepresence demonstrated at the SVVR holiday party
[ 2015-12-14· San Francisco ]
A VRLab window display: mannequins in VR headsets
[ 2019-10-28· YouTube· IHMC ]
IHMC publishes a video of Arena: “IHMC's Oculus Quest Shared Space VR environment”
The lab's San Francisco VR meetup held demo nights and ran a lab forum, and from 2014-10-16 West Coast Leather in San Francisco sold mobile VR headsets as a VRLab retail outlet. From 2015 to 2020 ARVR Women, a VRLab DBA, was a community for women and allies in AR and VR.
Developed by IHMC researchers working with VRLab.
Watch IHMC's video (2:08)VRLab, invited by AWE. Published by AWE on 2019-06-20.