'''Visuals:''' Same concept as before, but the circle's outline is now blue and has an inner thick white outline. The "tailfins" from before have also been thickened and shortened, and the rest of the circle is colored blue from the inside. The wordmark was also updated, now rendered in all caps, and the words "''GLOBAL VR''" are now italicized and in white, and broken into 2 center-aligned lines, complete with a blue outline around them. This logo has seen different animations over the years. Here are some:
*<u>200?-200?</u>: Over a black background, the GVR logo, rendered in 3D, zooms out from the "V" facing upwards. It then rotates towards the right, facing the screen, and zooms out into the center.
*<u>200?-200?</u>: On a white background, the GVR logo zooms out from the "V" and shifts itself slightly up, casting a drop shadow in the process.
*<u>200?-200?</u>: Over an animated grayscale cloud background, the aforementioned Global VR logo zooms out from the center of the circle, leaving trailing lights in the process. At the same time, the cloud background from inside fades into the blue color. Once the logo settles in place, a blue aurora light flashes behind it. The logo then shines with the light traveling from right to left as the aurora dies down.
*On <u>games based on EA properties</u>, the byline "GLOBAL VR is an authorized Electronic Arts distributor." fades in below or on the right as the logo settles in place.
*On some older games, the still flat logo (albeit smaller, and with a curved line stemming from the bottom-middle-left, and going around the progress bar) is used as a <u>full-fledged bootscreen</u> (dated July 17, 2002),{{efn|The raw bootscreen is titled "global VR xp.bmp"<sup>[sic]</sup>, which is stored at the drive root (dated July 17, 2002), while the rendered one replaces the default Windows XP bootscreen, as stored in NTOSBOOT.EXE (which is a modified version of ntoskrnl.exe; dated July 26, 2002).}} complete with the fade-in animation and progress bar from the Windows XP bootscreen that it replaces. Oddly enough, it uses the green progress bar, implying that it runs off the Home Edition, as opposed to Professional or Embedded.
**On newerlater XPe-based games, it is <u>completely still</u>, due to using boot.bmp to render the screen as opposed to fully replacing the default bootscreen within the kernel.
**On some newer games (including some revisions of ''Aliens: Extermination'' [2006] and ''EA SPORTS NASCAR Racing'' [2007]), the GVR logo is replaced by the Play to Win logo (referring to GVR's Tournament Play program; dated May 24, 2006), with "NOW LOADING_ _ _ _" on the bottom.
*A still version exists, where the logo is completely flat. This is used <u>setup splash screen</u> (setup.bmp; dated August 22, 2002) for the installation of the GVR games.
*A variant exists where the still logo is rendered in 3D and is semi-transparent on a black background. This is used <u>as a wallpaper</u> (Gvr_Desktop.jpg; dated July 8, 2004) on the [[Microsoft Windows (post-merge)#Windows Whistler/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003|Windows XP]] Embedded desktop after restoration, and on some games (other games, such as the aforementioned ''NFSU'' and ''PGATGTC'' have their own temporary "loading" wallpaper).
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*On the <u>arcade version of ''Need for Speed Carbon'' (2006/2008)</u>, the logo is still and appears in a glossy 3D effect (possibly to fit in with the game's atmosphere). A few seconds later, the EA byline from before fades in in small print on the bottom right of the logo.
*On <u>''Aliens: Extermination'' (2006)</u>, the still logo from the wallpaper variant is placed over a space background with green aliens on the bottom of the screen, coupled with the URL.
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