VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. The standalone VR headset, developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), was one of, if not the hottest item of the holiday season, with the Oculus companion app becoming the #1 download on the Apple App Store. ″ OLED displays.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Though we will also be looking at one VIVE headset, Oculus rules the road when it comes to standalone VR headsets. They weren’t actually the first to market (here’s lookin’ at you, Pico Goblin ) but they definitely do the best job. Oculus has a number of standalone models. Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest. VIVE Focus.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices. See Also: The Best Virtual Reality Racing Games.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

While it will likely be many years before these types of displays are used in consumer products, the potential to create more comfortable and natural viewing experiences is definitely exciting. I’m definitely looking forward to trying this out. Image courtesy bHaptics?—?flying

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Earlier this month we saw a slew of new Oculus Touch game announcements. Many of these new VR titles, which benefit from funding or publishing (or both) by Oculus, will launch exclusively for the Rift and Touch. Jason Rubin, Head of Content at Oculus. SEE ALSO Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and 'Revive' Dilemma.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

Sony have confirmed 10 PlayStation VR titles to be playable on the show floor at E3 this year including the return of some old favourite franchises, Psychonauts and Rez. To that end, Sony have announced 10 of the titles that you can expect to be playable at their booth. Find more details on that over here.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Meta’s headsets have supported Fixed Foveated Rendering ( FFR ) – rendering the edges of the lens in lower resolution – since Oculus Go six years ago. On Quest 2 FFR Level 1 isn’t noticeable at all, but Level 3 definitely is. Sony claims its FFR saves around 60%, while its ETFR saves around 72%.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Earlier this month Sony launched its PlayStation VR headset into the wild, sporting a large launch lineup of games from the pulse-pounding competitive shooter, Rigs , to the white-knuckle racer, Driveclub VR , and an excellent assortment of smaller games such as Thumper , Bound , and SUPERHYPERCUBE. h/t: Daniel Ahmad and GameSpot.

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VRScout

JUNE 16, 2016

Rogue Initiative isn’t pulling any punches with distribution either, listing a slew of possible partnerships with platforms and outlets including Sony PlayStation, Oculus, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, Netflix, Hulu, feature film, network and cable television. Rogue Initiative VR mobile fortress concept artwork.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 14, 2022

“They have either acquired interesting things like Oculus and Instagram, or they’ve been a fast follower of people’s ideas. I don’t think their current definition will be successful,” he shared. ” As for Meta's foray into VR and the metaverse, Fils-Aimé's thoughts are clear. "I

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony releases some details about PSVR 2 runtime. Sony is slowly releasing details about the PSVR 2 headset to keep the attention (and the hype) high. You can now try games on the Oculus Store. Road To VR) More info (The FTC blocks Meta’s acquisition of Within?—?Upload Upload VR).

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

It was announcements and product launches galore with news coming from key players like Oculus, Sony, Microsoft and Google dominating the headlines almost every week. She then replied, “No dear, we’ll definitely have more. VR will definitely be at the top of those lists for this year and for years to come. I was wrong.

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JUNE 28, 2017

Elite: Dangerous is one of the biggest, most expansive games to support the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive thus far, and it seems like a perfect fit for Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) too. The issue is that the PS4 with which PSVR runs simply isn’t as powerful as the PCs that run both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Sony’s positiontally-tracked wands bring your hands into VR with relative accuracy, but they pale in comparison to the HTC Vive’s wands or Oculus Touch controllers. PlayStation VR is a very capable headset, but it does have one glaring weakness: the PlayStation Move controllers.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Meanwhile, Sony, Oculus , and HTC continue to dominate the VR hardware marketplace, with an 86% combined market share. One driver of headset acquisitions was a temporary-turned-permanent price cut by Oculus in Q3, who matched Playstation’s VR headset price point at $399. Cultural factors also appear to be driving VR demand.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

image courtesy Oculus. While technologies like foveated rendering are set to change this in the near future, giving a more ‘correct’ photon-to-eyeball experience, current gen headsets like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PSVR are staying on the safe side.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Sony renews our faith in PSVR with a slew of new experiences coming soon. Sony’s PlayStation Media Showcase at Paris Games Week has officially come and gone leaving audiences thirsty for a bounty of newly-revealed games. Simply start swinging your arms back and forth in a running motion and you’re off! Ultrawings.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Does Palmer want Oculus back? I tweeted the news saying that “Palmer Luckey is not doing that bad without Oculus…” and Palmer Luckey himself answered to me commenting “Without Oculus for now, anyway”. More info (Anduril getting $1.48B of investments) More info (Palmer Luckey commenting about Oculus). Image by Valve).

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JUNE 16, 2017

Still, Microsoft did later confirm that the box will definitely support VR, and it’s looking likely that we’ll hear more in 2018. It’s even got a sequel to Oculus Rift launch title, Lucky’s Tale , but no word on VR support for that yet. Sony’s headset easily had the best showing at E3.

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JUNE 19, 2017

While this was definitely a good show for gamers of all types, it’s hard to argue that it was actually overall better than last year’s show. I was skeptical during the Sony press conference when the trailer played showing the game running on PSVR, but after trying it for myself I’m optimistic about the execution.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 28, 2022

The strangest bit of news was definitely the seemingly unprecedented move for Meta to jack up the prices of the Quest 2 by $100. After the better part of a decade since Facebook’s Oculus acquisition, the VR industry is still as wholly reliant on Meta’s checkbook as ever.

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MARCH 26, 2017

Sony revealed a handful of new PSVR titles this week, all of which look pretty promising. You definitely shouldn’t miss our hands-on with Downward Spiral , though, this is a surprisingly compelling adventure. Tagged with: fallout 4 , Ghostbusters VR Now Hiring , htc vive , oculus rift , PlayStation VR , Rock Band VR.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Sony has been awfully busy so far in 2016. I played Shadows of Mordor and The Last of Us Remastered a bit on the new PS4 Pro that Sony sent me for review because I’m as excited about 4K gaming as the next guy, but that’s not what the bulk of my assessment was focused on. For starters, it features an HDMI 2.0 Console Setup.

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Peter Graham

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The Black Friday sales weekend definitely shook things up as GfK has just released its Ukie Games Charts , with three VR titles making the top 20. Don’t expect any other indicators of VR sales as companies like Facebook/Oculus are renown for staying tight-lipped on units sales.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

It’s similar to the Oculus Rift support, only comes with an extra co-op mode where friends can use the standard screen to read out directions to the VR user as they drive. Joshua Bell VR Experience, from Sony Interactive Entertainment. Recommendation: It’s not an entirely fresh concept, but it’s well-made and polished.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 26, 2017

. “What I would imagine is that the VR headsets are probably somewhere in between, probably tending closer toward the phone cycles than it is to the console cycles, but it’s definitely not as quick [as the early smartphone era] with the major updates.”

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JUNE 24, 2017

Following VR in the early days of Oculus and the Rift was a lot like being a kid. There’s a thriving ecosystem of content on all three major headsets, but arguably none of them yet have that definitive must-play experience. You had all these hopes and dreams for the future, but then the adults would come along and crush them.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Then, PSVR Without Parole has reported that Sony has learned from the errors of the PSVR 1, and so it has made the cable of the PSVR 2 detachable. Now if you use the Oculus Developer Hub on your PC, you can record a video on Quest with the settings you want, including stereoscopic view and 4K resolution. Some news on content.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Later this month we’ll see Double Fine’s Psychonauts franchise debut on the platform with the release of In The Rhombus Of Ruin , and Sony will hopefully have more news to share when GDC kicks off at the very end of February. Don’t worry, more PSVR goodness is on the way. Resident Evil 7’s Banned Footage Vol.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Oculus owner Facebook is going hard into VR online spaces and it is hoping that its new effort in creating a VR world helps bring the space to a whole new audience of people (and probably make a little bit of money in the sum). It reminds this author of Sony’s efforts on the PlayStation 3 with the Home project. What do you think?

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VRGames

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Oculus owner Facebook is going hard into VR online spaces and it is hoping that its new effort in creating a VR world helps bring the space to a whole new audience of people (and probably make a little bit of money in the sum). It reminds this author of Sony’s efforts on the PlayStation 3 with the Home project. What do you think?

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

Those Trek stalwarts were Karl Urban (Dr “Bones” McCoy from the rebooted film series), Jeri Ryan (who played Seven of Nine in Voyager ) and Levar Burton (Geordie LaForge from The Next Generation ) – all wearing Oculus Rifts and wielding Oculus Touch controllers.

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AUGUST 5, 2017

video game industry when the Oculus Kickstarter campaign began? NB: The biggest win for Oculus was being able to get John Carmack and Gabe Newell in the Kickstarter video. With Oculus, VR had a tremendous amount of buzz. NB: Yeah, I think we’re definitely going to have [Sprint Vector] in many of our titles.

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JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. E3 Crystal Ball.

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VRGames

JANUARY 2, 2020

We have to preface all of this with this disclaimer: The PS5 isn’t really definite in a lot of ways and its VR headset is even less defined. The website compares it to the Oculus Quest’s four AR cameras which are used to alert users to when they are about to run into the wall or real-world objects.

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VRGames

JANUARY 2, 2020

We have to preface all of this with this disclaimer: The PS5 isn’t really definite in a lot of ways and its VR headset is even less defined. The website compares it to the Oculus Quest’s four AR cameras which are used to alert users to when they are about to run into the wall or real-world objects.

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JUNE 10, 2017

A year ago when the console was first announced we’d have put money on a partnership with Oculus to bring the Rift to the console. It makes perfect sense for Microsoft to throw down the gauntlet to Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) at this year’s show and exhibit its flashy new VR support for all the world to see.

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