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Five Classic Video Games That Deserve A VR Remake

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Earlier this month, Resident Evil 4 VR launched on the Oculus Quest 2 and so far players are absolutely loving this expertly-crafted VR remake of the original 2005 horror-action video game. You can’t talk about the best horror games without mentioning 2001’s Silent Hill 2. SILENT HILL 2.

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Watch: Tobii Tease Unnervingly Effective Vive Eye-Tracked VR Demo Ahead of GDC

Road to VR

However, despite the clever approximations of avatar mouth movement and hand gestures captured with Oculus Touch motion controllers, the dead eyes of the participants digital doppelgangers left something to be desired.

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Baobab Studios Raises $25 Million in New Funding Round

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series, was first revealed at the Oculus Connect 3 developer conference earlier this month. Original investors included Comcast Ventures, HTC and Samsung, but now join Horizons Ventures, Twentieth Century Fox, Evolution Media Partners (backed by TPG and CAA), China’s Shanghai Media Group, Youku Global Media Fund and LDV Partners.

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A Brief History of VR

VeeR VR

In 2001, SAS Cube created the first PC based cubic room that then led to the development of Virtools VR pack, a library pack add-on. It was also in 2010 that 18-year-old Palmer Luckey created the first prototype of Oculus Rift, the famous VR headset. Two years later, in 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR company for 2 billion USD.

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On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Oculus’ Head of Content, Jason Rubin

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Oculus’ Jason Rubin weighs in on how we might come to find it. Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. Today we hear from Jason Rubin, Head of Content at Oculus. Jason Rubin.

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Jason Rubin: ‘The Next 12 to 24 Months Are Where the Real Creativity is Going to Happen’ for VR Content

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And it happened for nerds at this year’s VRX conference in San Francisco when Ted Price and Jason Rubin interviewed one another during a fireside chat. Oculus’ head of content, Jason Rubin. For his part, Rubin took the opportunity to speak to the future of Oculus content.

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PokerStars VR is Something New

Tech Trends VR

Initially offering the No-Limit Hold’em version of poker, the multiplayer game currently runs on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Steam. Initially offering the No-Limit Hold’em version of poker, PokerStars VR currently runs on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Steam Click To Tweet. Poker is about interaction. Explained Severin.

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