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VR Social Platform VRChat Adds Face Tracking For Avatars

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Use a drum pad to control your ears, change outfits when you receive a Twitch donation, and more using Avatar OSC. VRChat , widely known as the Wild West of the metaverse, today announced the beta launch of a new feature called Avatar OSC that allows you to control your in-game avatar in unique new ways.

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Star Wars: Jedi Outcast Looks Even More Fun In VR

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A new mod introduces motion-controlled lightsabers and gesture-based Force abilities. The game even features full motion-controlled lightsabers, gesture-based saber throws, collision-based laser deflections, and gestured-based Force abilities. Full motion-controlled lightsaber. Real collision-based laser deflections.

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Balancing Player Control & Authorial Control with “Virtual Virtual Reality”

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Virtual Virtual Reality (aka VVR ) does a great job of balancing your control as a player with the authorial control of the story. They really got the most out of the limited 3-DoF Daydream controller by using interactive leashes for what felt like seamless gameplay and interaction mechanics within Virtual Virtual Reality.

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One Of The Best Star Wars Games Is Getting A VR Mod

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During the roughly 50-second video, we see a combination of first-person gameplay with support for motion controls. Brown said on Twitter that he is working on motion control support for Lightsaber combat in addition to gunplay, though nothing is set in stone at the moment. The plan (atm anyway) is to have both.

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A Group Of Students Are Rebuilding The Original Metroid Prime In VR

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The 2002 Gamecube classic gets the VR treatment as part of an ongoing study into VR game mechanics. Released in 2002 for the Nintendo Gamecube console, Prime marked the beginning of one of the most influential action-adventure trilogies of all-time, as well as a huge stepping-point for the legendary franchise.

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`A Jedi Adventure Awaits: Star Wars: Jedi Outcast Unleashed in Virtual Reality!`

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Intuitive controls combined with gesture-based Force abilities and motion-controlled lightsabers bring LucasArt’s 2002 first-and-third-person adventure game to life in virtual reality. Thrill seekers, dive into the fully immersive Star Wars experience with the new JK XR – Jedi Knight II: Outcast VR Port!

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This Quest Pro Game Recreates Sword Art Online’s Lovably Bad User Interface

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Thankfully, you can control when monsters spawn, otherwise you probably wouldn’t have enough time to muck about. Tom Cruise’s cybergloves in Minority Report (2002) are a shining example. That’s probably why we don’t see these sorts of dense 2D menus in modern VR games.

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