Lightining talk presented during SET Expo 2017 - the largest broadcasting and midia event in Latin America. Timeline of video games and input devices, VR gaming experiences and VR Arcades + Location Based Enterteinment venues.

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IN A NUTSHELL
SET EXPO ’17 | 23/08/2017
MARCOS ALVES
Ventures Director

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Complexity of gameplays and graphics improved as the proccessing capacity/ videogame
CPUs evolved.
VIDEO GAMES TIMELINE

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JOYSTICK & INPUTS
DEVICES TIMELINE
Higher CPU’s processing capacity allowed better and multidimensional interfaces +
gameplays – which required improved and multidimensional input/ control devices.

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ENHANCED INPUT
DEVICES TRIALS
Expensive and
few titles
available –
never became
mass adopted

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Ended up
being the
option for
immersive
experiences (if
we could call it
like that back
then in the 80s
– 2000’s)

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Then Virtual Reality became available… not a new tech
or concept, but reached consumer market around 2014.

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First mass experiences available were “scary” and frankly poor
(video of lady screaming at shopping-center VR roller-coaster hide)

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SAMSUNG GEAR VR
8.000.858
SONY PLAYSTATION VR
1.805.089
HTC VIVE
666.957
OCULUS RIFT
383.031
SOLD UNITS SINCE PRODUCT LAUNCH UP TO Q2-2017 | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
VR CONSUMER HMD LANDSCAPE – Aug’2017
Good options available at
decreasing prices for
consumers – from a entry-
level experience with
mobile devices to tethered.

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(video with a show-case of immersive VR experiences
with consumer products)

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As in the 80s-2000s, you can – and will for
a long time – find a richer, more immersive
VR experience at VR Arcades or Location
Based Enterteinment venues.
(video with show-case of ZeroLatency and
The Void Experiences – easily located at
YouTube))

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ECOSSISTEMA DA REALIDADE VIRTUAL
OPORTUNIDADES
Then the evolution of the VR Arcade model emerged, with a highly immersive,
social and thrilling experience – Arkave VR.
(video that can be found at www.arkavevr.com)

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ECOSSISTEMA DA REALIDADE VIRTUAL
OPORTUNIDADESTHE FUTURE OF IMMERSIVE
EXPERIENCES AND GAMES?

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