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Ancient Amuletor Is An Action Tower Defense Game For PSVR

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This is one of the first VR games that we’ve seen come to Sony’s headset first and other platforms later; perhaps a sign that developers are starting to take note of PSVR’s near-one million install base? Look for Ancient Amuletor later this year, though PAX East attendees will be able to play it in Boston this weekend.

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Long-delayed PSVR Game ‘Golem’ to Reemerge at PAX East Next Week

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Sony today announced via its PS blog that seven PSVR titles are heading to PAX East in Boston next week, one of which is the long-overdue adventure game Golem from Highwire Games , an indie studio consisting of former Bungie veterans Marty O’Donnell and Jaime Griesemer, and a team of established industry devs. Falcon Age.

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‘Headmaster’ & Why the Physics of Stuff Flying at Your Face is so Compelling in VR

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When Ben Throop went to the Boston VR hackathon in June 2014, he didn’t know that Valve was going to be showing off some prototype VR hardware that had positional tracking. At this point the Oculus DK2 had not shipped yet, and so he was able to build a VR game using his soccer experience to head soccer balls into a goal.

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Meta, IBM Rally XR Community for Global AI Alliance

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Also, institutions like Cornell University, Imperial College London, Boston University and Harvard University’s MOC Alliance, University of California Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois, University of Tokyo, Yale University and many more have joined the alliance.

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Coronavirus Fears See Facebook and PlayStation Cancel GDC 2020 Attendance

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This year is going to be very different, however, with Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) and Facebook/Oculus having now cancelled their appearances due to the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. . ” In addition to GDC 2020, SIE said last week that it wouldn’t be attending PAX East in Boston because of the coronavirus.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.27): Samsung may be working on a new headset, Half-Life: Alyx will ship on time and much more!

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This week, a rumor spread among XR communities: next-gen PSVR will be announced at a press conference to be held by Sony on February, 5th. The reason is that Sony has already announced that it will launch PSVR 2 only after the PS5 , to not confuse its buyers by selling too many things together. PSVR 2 could be revealed next month.

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50 Days Of PS VR #6: A Q&A With The Creator of ‘Headmaster’

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So despite the great early response in which time we partnered with Sony, many early testers came away saying “man, I loved it but I really suck” So we had to figure out how to make it controllable and as intuitive as it could be. Digging into why they felt that way was tricky, because nobody could really articulate it.

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