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Road to VR’s 2019 Game of the Year Awards

Road to VR

In our third annual Game of the Year Awards, we again celebrate those VR games—those stories that can only be told through the act of suspending your disbelief and immersing yourself in another world, head-first. SEE ALSO ‘Blood & Truth’ Behind-the-Scenes – Insights & Artwork from Sony's London Studio. Developer : ILMxLab.

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How Hollywood Has Predicted VR in Movies

VRScout

Foiled time and again, he sneaks into their office and inadvertently becomes immersed in cyberspace. Full immersion: Digitized by a laser, Kevin Flynn is downloaded into cyberspace with full presence due to his absence from the real world. Brainstorm (1983). Did Trickster and his Brainscan make him a murderer? Strange Days (1995).

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The Curious Relationship Between DVDs and VR

VR Playhouse

In 2002 alone, 17.6 And to explain at least a small portion of this sudden success, I’m going to look at another piece of technology at the time, Sony’s Playstation 2. By 2002, the PS2 made up a total of 32% of all DVD players in America. With a hefty price tag of $700 or more, only 349,000 players were sold that first year.