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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The game was revealed today and announced to be headed to PS4 in 2020 with optional PSVR support. ” With an original style and hordes of simulated crowds, the game looks like it’ll involve elements of physics-based puzzling and maybe even some RTS-like combat.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2017

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. The post Watch: Tobii Tease Unnervingly Effective Vive Eye-Tracked VR Demo Ahead of GDC appeared first on Road to VR.

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MAY 1, 2017

Puzzle games are a strange genre in video games. When most people think of a puzzle game they conjure up images of blocks falling like in Tetris or adding up numbers in grid arrangements such as with Sudoku. But now the term “puzzle game” is much more fluid. A sarcastic male-voiced A.I.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Croteam, the minds behind the Serious Sam franchise, has released its fourth Serious Sam -themed VR game: Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE (2017) for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Now available on Steam , Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE is a fast-paced shooter serving as a prequel to the original Serious Sam: The First Encounter (2001).

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Tech Trends flew over to sunny Barcelona last month to get a sneak peek at this new game and stood in a room full of journalists watching them all disappear into one of the most immersive and engaging social VR experiences yet. I have stood in many rooms like this but have never seen an experience suck in so many people so fast.

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JUNE 20, 2017

By the time I was old enough to really appreciate video games (born in 1990) I was diving headfirst into sprawling epic adventures from the Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior franchises on consoles and learning how to fight my way through the unrelenting difficulty of the original EverQuest. In this way the games are almost turn-based.

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MAY 13, 2017

Augmented reality may be the future of games, but there are some huge problems that stand in its way. Underkoffler has been trying to make the vision of the 2002 film Minority Report , where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gestures to control a transparent computer, into a reality.

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Cats and VR

APRIL 9, 2018

A sci-fi adventure in the mold of classics 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris , Downward Spiral: Horus Station is the mysterious and atmospheric sci-fi thriller 3rd Eye Studios teased in last year’s Downward Spiral: Prologue. Unlike most narrative-heavy games, Downward Spiral: Horus Station doesn’t use any cinematics or dialogue.

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Road to VR

MARCH 2, 2017

As we wrote then, Swedish company Tobii , who has specialised in eye tracking since its inception in 2001, have produced hardware for gaze detection hardware in various guises for some time now, and has recently announced plans to bring its tech to virtual reality, via a $50M funding round.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Since its formation in 2001, London Studio is responsible for a long string of PlayStation titles, including the SingStar franchise, several titles for 2003’s PlayStation EyeToy camera, the ahead-of-its-time PlayStation Home (2008) , the augmented reality Wonderbook peripheral, and plenty more. Image courtesy Sony London Studio.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Price and Rubin are two giants of the video game industry that founded Insomniac ( Ratchet and Clank , Sunset Overdrive ) and Naughty Dog ( Crash Bandicoot , Jak and Daxter ) respectively. Price remains as Insomiac’s head but Rubin is currently serving as the head of content for Oculus after selling Naughty Dog to Sony in 2001.

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VRScout

APRIL 5, 2020

“We founded the Tribeca Film Festival as a way to heal our community after the devastation of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Linus is on a journey to find painless ways to die inside a video game simulation that emulates sensory experiences. We were determined to overcome our fear and anxiety by joining together.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

Kipman started his professional career at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, right after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2001. In a career spanning more than 15 years as a developer for the company, he has been named as the primary inventor on more than 150 U.S.

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MARCH 19, 2017

Daqri is working with Blackley, who was originally a theoretical physicist before he started making games, and his team of physicists at Heat Engine in Southern California to explore applications of optics and holography in something that Daqri calls Software Defined Light. I wrote a book about the making of the Xbox).

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

It works for most people without making them sick in games like Onward or DOOM 3: BFG Edition , so why not all games!?” There is zero locomotion in that game — not even teleportation — and the entire experience can be played within your 180-degree front-facing view. ” comment sections cry out.

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JULY 13, 2021

This is a VR theater consisting of VR 360° panoramic glasses, interactive seats, VR movies or game resource libraries. It can make players feel like they are in a game, like the virtual world of the number one player, with a 360-degree viewing angle experience, which is better than that of IMAX. VR WOW (Hand Interactive Game).

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2018

Downward Spiral is an atmospheric adventure built around the very Kubrick-esque Horus Space Station, a staggeringly large multi-sectioned craft replete with flickering CRTs and an environment clearly inspired by 2001 Space Odyssey (1968). As a shooter-meets-adventure game hybrid, Downward Spiral’s default campaign features guns.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

So when I find myself playing a game in virtual reality that takes place in virtual reality I expect some clever or amusing moments. It was made by a London-based developer named Untold Games, published by Maximum Games. The point-and-click adventure is a niche genre that was once a mainstay of computer games.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2017

Kevin Mack is a digital fine artist and prolific visual effects designer known for his work across films such as Fight Club (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001) , The Fifth Element (1997), and What Dreams May Come (1998) for which he won an Oscar.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It functions reliably and the Google Jump stitching platform is truly game-changing. We were able to get 6k /60fps very quickly, and it really feels like a threshold moment, where suddenly high quality VR is now achievable beyond the most controlled of conditions.”. It’s reliable, and easy to use in fast-paced live settings.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A great example of this is AlphaGo , a machine intelligence that became the first computer to beat a human champion at the game of Go. Go is a game in which there are more possible moves than there are atoms in the universe. This is how conventional, programmatic games-playing computers, such as chess computers, work.

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MAY 6, 2017

It was a beautiful place and a great backdrop for our talks about the inspiration cycle between science fiction, real-world technology, and games. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, wants the Metaverse to happen. We kicked off the conference with Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games. Making the Metaverse. It’s going to get better.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I remember, back in 2001, how amazed I was to see Google Earth for the first time. Using the Vive’s controllers, you can hold the top half of the right trackpad to zoom in toward the planet. Today Google launches Earth VR for the HTC Vive for free, giving us a whole new perspective on the world. ” “Go to Hawaii!”

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Atari founded a lab for virtual reality research in 1982, but it closed down two short years later due to the North American video game crash of 1983. In 1991, Sega released Sega VR headsets for arcade games and the Mega Drive console. In 1994, they released the Sega VR-1 motion simulator arcade attraction which tracked head movement.

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