Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Anyone who has experienced the bewitching, desolate charms of Ico, a 2002 platform-puzzler for PlayStation 2 following a boy’s quest to escape captivity alongside his female companion, you’ll likely draw some similarities with a new title being developed for Oculus platforms called MARE.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Now, a little under four years since the big names in hardware released their first generation consumer headsets, we live in a time when a number of VR games have actually approached the best that any gaming platform has to offer. no wildly waggling your controller). Like any good arcade game, cognitive load is high in Pistol Whip.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

It was a game controller called the Kilowatt Pro for the PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and PC. This was back in 2002. The Kilowatt Pro was an exercise controller. You stood on a metal platform and pushed and pulled on the controller to simulate the thumbstick on the gamepad. I was enthralled.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

It is like a combination of The Thing (2002) and Dead Space (2008) , and if this sounds like it would be fantastic you would be correct. The camera, which is fairly far away from the character, is controlled by your head movements and the actual character movement (even at full sprint) is relatively slow.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

If you take a look at programs that truly utilize graphics processing, they are really decades-old apps: Photoshop( 1987 ), Unreal Engine (1999), 3Dmax ( 1988 ), Blender ( 2002 ) and others. Also, Apple already has M3 processors with hardware-level ray tracing. Vision OS itself is very young too.

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Doc-Ok

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

For the curious, 3D Visualizer’s architecture is described in detail in this old paper from 2002 (it’s quite amazing how the description of VR methods and interaction techniques from back then matches what’s commercially available today).

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VR Geeks

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Software support in racing simulations was a headache from mid-2014 to early 2016, when the Rift DK2 was effectively the sole hardware choice. Live for the thrill of it is by far the oldest product on the list (first appearing in 2002), and its development has been frustratingly slow at times. Pursue Speed.

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