Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2021

Built by a self-funded Iceland-based startup, Arkio aims to bring intuitive, fully-featured architectural sketching to VR. And with support for Quest, Oculus PC, SteamVR, Windows, and smartphones, almost anyone can jump in to collaborate in real-time.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2021

The Climb 2 has continued to refine what made the first game in the franchise so much fun. The Climb 2 Details: Available On: Oculus Quest. That was before Oculus released Touch to consumers, and they were still bundling original Rifts with an Xbox One controller. Release Date: March 4th, 2021.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

Sólfar Studios , the Iceland-based studio behind roguelike VR archery game In Death , today announced that their ghoulish bowshooter is getting a new chapter. Along with the cherubs, a new weapon is coming to the game too, a crossbow which is said to deal “more short-range damage than the bow.”

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Today there was a significant restructuring to CCP games, known in the VR world for the excellent EVE Valkyrie and Gunjack games. Recently we reported on how EVE Valkyrie was transitioning away from just the VR elements and into cross platform gaming. This transition may have been a look at things to come.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In quite the pivot from virtual tourism experience EVEREST VR (2016) , Iceland-based Sólfar Studios has revealed their next VR project, In Death , a VR roguelike bow-shooter that promises procedurally generated crawling for loot and more. You can sign up on the game’s official page. Image courtesy Sólfar Studios.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

According to a report by Icelandic publication MBL , CCP is shelving virtual reality as it closes its Atlanta location and sells its Newcastle office, two important VR branches that produced Sparc (2017) and EVE: Valkyrie (2016). image courtesy CCP Games. image courtesy CCP Games.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2023

Oculus Connect. Started by Oculus in 2014, Connect was where the earliest of early adopters could meet and learn how to make their games and apps happen for the first consumer VR headsets. Facebook Connect. Meta Connect. Why is that? Starting in 2020, Connect was exclusively livestreamed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ARVR

AUGUST 31, 2021

According to him, it is not just about putting the player “inside” the game but also making the game more like reality. link] Aldin Dynamics is an Icelandic VR software company founded in early 2013, focused on creating believable virtual reality experiences and technologies to sustain presence and immersion.

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Road to VR

MAY 12, 2020

Available On: Oculus Quest. To be frank, I was expecting a lot more variety from the onset, maybe even some muscle specialization, stretching routines, and different style games to chew on. The game’s developer Within is one of the best in the field when it comes to polish, and I expected no less going into Supernatural.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2019

Waltz of the Wizard (2016) is a exceptionally well-built VR experience from Iceland-based studio Aldin Dynamics. As one of the pioneering demos to heavily feature object interaction back at the birth of consumer VR, it always felt like the curiously magical prologue to something much larger.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

THE FAMOUS ICELANDIC ECCENTRIC EMBRACES VR. To announce this European premiere, Björk held a press conference and beamed herself in (from Iceland) via a psychedelic motion-captured avatar churning with colors (because why not?). EVERYONE WANTS IT STANDALONE.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest may have sold only 400,000 units. It seems that according to it, Oculus Quest , considered by many the first VR headset that can become mainstream, has sold only 180,000 units in Q3 of this year, for a total number of 400,000 units sold since launch. I can’t wait to see how this game will perform.

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VRWorld

JULY 20, 2016

to 2 hour experience is coming to HTC Vive through Steam, Valve’s online store and undoubtedly world’s #1 e-tailer for games. Together with The Climb for Oculus Rift, it probably represents the path forward for VRX. The first fully featured, 1.5 As such, targets are different – and Everest VR is no different.

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VR Geeks

OCTOBER 12, 2021

“The Climb 2” is a VR game that lets you explore and conquer beautiful, yet dangerous environments. The game has been designed with the sole purpose of giving players an adrenaline rush. The the climb quest 2 is a game that takes you through an adventure in virtual reality. If I could, I would do all I could to go beyond them.

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VR Geeks

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Supernatural is a virtual reality game that has been released on the Oculus Rift. The game also features an interesting story line that will have players hooked from beginning to end. Supernatural is a game that’s fun to play, but has a hefty entry price. Available On: Oculus Quest. Developer: Within. Related Tags.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

It’s a complex market with winners and losers for a technology that could change the world and many industries beyond gaming. John Riccitiello (left), CEO of Unity Technologies, and Mike Capps, former president of Epic Games. Oculus is searching for an overall leader again, and that comes after a rocky year.

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Upload VR

MARCH 21, 2023

Warehouse work isn’t the most exciting premise for a video game but The Last Worker makes this monotonous surprisingly enjoyable, incentivizing you to do better through a ranking system. But at heart, it’s a narrative game where we weave together different types of gameplay as you’re working through it.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 16, 2017

Still, the fact that this game was VR only was limiting its reach, and given the multiplayer nature of it, CCP expanded the game from Oculus to Vive, added PlayStation VR and now ultimately, is adding a two-dimensional mode, i.e. computer display (PC) or a TV (PS4). and cross-play, cross-reality game is all yours.

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