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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Small startups can’t compete with big companies, so usually, startups produce expensive headsets at a smaller scale to survive : see VRgineers or Varjo as an example. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Top news of the week.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Oculus has its winter sale , Steam has one too , and Sony isn’t missing out, at least in the EU. Rebellion’s Battlezone [ Review: 8/10 ], for example, has been dropped 30% from £49.99 The PlayStation January sale is now on for European PS4 owners, and it includes the first sale of PlayStation VR games.

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MAY 13, 2017

Position tracked controllers do a great job of simulating certain objects like pistols, swords, and sports rackets, but it only gets you so far. That’s why HTC is rolling out its Vive Tracker to turn real life objects into VR accessories, and Oculus and Harmonix stuck a Touch controller on a plastic guitar for Rock Band VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But it wasn’t until Sony announced PSVR that things started to change. Project Morpheus or Sony PSVR. For example, One Piece Grand Cruise for PSVR. various high-quality VR games on Oculus or SteamVR. You can find it on Oculus Store , as well as recently released SteamVR version. But that’s starting to change.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

“We’ve been compatible with 3D before, in GT6 we’ve been compatible with Oculus, so it’s just a continuation of that.” Driveclub VR is fully playable on Sony’s headset currently, although it is mostly just a ported and slightly expanded version of the previous game.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Available On : Oculus (Rift). Sanzaru Games and Oculus Studios brought Asgard’s Wrath to life as a part of the Oculus initiative to fund less, but bigger titles for the Rift platform. Available On: Steam (Index, Vive, Rift, WMR), Viveport , Oculus ( Rift , Quest ). Available On : Oculus ( Quest , Rift ).

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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. So that’s the #1 thing to simulate in a VR video-game. A great example is climbing.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I started because I actually tested, like everyone, the first generation of Oculus, and then the second, and so on… and I was expecting like better visual quality … [me too!] HTC, Oculus, Sony are not offering headsets with big FOV and resolution… while you, Varjo, Pimax, are. Why have you started this adventure? (

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

The launch on Quest has gone pretty well , and the game has had good feedback from the press (apart from some graphical glitches that can be solved in future updates) and very positive reviews on the Oculus Store. Now there is the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality from Bossa Studios is a VR-based adaptation of the original Surgeon Simulator 2013 , first released for flat monitor displays in 2013. When the Vive launched, we got Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet the Medic , which was a short demo showing off the basic mechanics. We lead very different lives.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2021

Yesterday, Upload hosted its third annual E3 VR Showcase as part of IGN’s Summer of Gaming event, revealing a generous amount of new information for 18 VR games on Oculus Quest, PlayStation VR, and SteamVR headsets. Green Hell VR is scheduled to launch later this year on Oculus Quest and PCVR headsets.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR. For example, Fantastic Contraption includes a helmet which sits on the ground. It was a moment that changed their lives.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Quest is surely the most important headset to launch in 2019. The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. Oculus Rift S. Image courtesy Oculus.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Not that that’s a problem for Sony, with a tidy 50 million units sold in just over three years on the market. But all the shrewdness Sony has displayed in the past few years makes the risk of PlayStation VR all the more baffling. Sony had its work cut out if it was going to get the ball rolling, and E3 was only a few months away.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Sony and Nintendo were all set to release a collaborative game system known as the SNES-CD back in the 90s as an add-on device for the Super Nintendo. It’s been a long time coming and now Sony is finally putting all of its wacky peripherals to use in one immersive experience. Funny how that works out, isn’t it?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2020

They have seen some amazing business post first wave (feeding off the “Stir Crazy” entertainment boom) and have also seen new LBE VR sites opening (see YULLBE as one example). Playing with the Oculus Quest 2 at home (Image by Facebook). Yullbe is one of the new lbvr companies to keep an eye on (Image by Yullbe).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The demo got more than 100k downloads on Steam so we decided to push on and now it’s available on Steam, Oculus, VivePort, WMR, PSVR, Pico Neo2, Nolo X1. Since VRTK was so deeply ingrained in the game, we ended up cloning the VRTK Simulator mode and creating a separate First Person SDK based on it. You mentioned about VRTK.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The age of consumer grade video game console-powered virtual reality arrived early last month with the release of Sony’s PlayStation VR (PS VR) headset. Job Simulator [ Review: 8/10 ]. Despite the title, this is far from an accurate simulation of anything other than being silly. EVE: Valkyrie [ Review: 9/10 ].

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

You could do some sick simulations and distortions of the real world. In front of you will be two 8K Sony chips, I hear. One such example is I saw a volumetric football service that is being prepared for the device next year. But I hear it is years ahead of what Facebook is building in its Oculus Quest standalone VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. Two examples are 0Glasses and Am Glasses : they try offering a similar product at a cheaper price (e.g.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

5 million Gear VRs sold is a major milestone for Facebook and Samsung, as is $3 million in sales for Job Simulator , a best-selling room-scale game. Sony is going to try to put PS VR’s in 53 million homes this year too and the price of PCs capable of running nausea-free room-scale VR will undoubtedly continue to drop.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Collectively, these people have shipped Island 359 , Job Simulator , and Fantastic Contraption , some of the most well-known titles out today. Chris Pruett (Oculus). Room 3022, West Hall.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 8, 2019

2019 has been a big year for virtual reality (VR) hardware, with the launch of Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift S, HTC Vive Cosmos, HP Reverb and Valve Index, giving customers plenty of choices. The haptic feedback will be able to simulate surfaces and textures, from running across a grass field to wading through mud.

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Peter Graham

DECEMBER 24, 2019

With hardware makers pushing out more and more headsets Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has taken a far more relaxed approach by letting PlayStation VR continue to do its thing. Beat Saber is a prime example. Hailing from Sony London Studio, Blood & Truth was the biggest PlayStation VR exclusive of the year by a long shot.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Fund them directly and publish a portfolio of quality content; that was the mission, similar to Oculus Studios. As an example, reloading weapons like your rifle feels great. But then to remove the pin from a grenade you have to hold it up to your mouth (to simulate pulling it out with your teeth I guess?)

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

For example, the calibration data of a single sensor is this one: model Points [ -0.00322245085, -0.0423639342, 0.110276416 ]. cable extender left over from my ownership of an Oculus Rift CV1 with a 3-camera tracking setup. model Normals [ -0.0380270146, -0.700318217, -0.712817252 ]. 3 as the Grip button, Pin.4 6 as the Menu button.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Would you have it if I gave an example of how we’d use it?

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

Then there’s the existing Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets, which each require powerful PCs to operate. Games like Job Simulator, Batman, and The London Heist on PS VR Worlds come to mind immediately. My wife can watch TV while I play PS4 inside the headset, for example. Just be prepared to cry. That just about does it.

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

pixels/° (110°x113° FoV, 1080×1200 pixels per eye), that of the Oculus Rift CV1 as 13.85 Unlike the HTC Vive and Vive Pro and the Oculus Rift CV1 referenced above, PSVR has three sub-pixels (red, green, and blue) for each display pixel, while the others have only two sub-pixels per display pixel. Vive et al. 2 pixels/° = 8.08

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He's worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you're saying is you've created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Would you have it if I gave an example of how we'd use it? Alan: Absolutely.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Would you have it if I gave an example of how we’d use it?

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Would you have it if I gave an example of how we’d use it?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Alan: I mean, something like VRChat, for example, I know– I believe they just raised another round, was it? And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Alan: I mean, something like VRChat, for example, I know– I believe they just raised another round, was it? And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Alan: I mean, something like VRChat, for example, I know– I believe they just raised another round, was it? And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio.

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