Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2021

It ends up feeling like a mini steampunk version of Factorio crossed with an immersive take on the cleaning montage from Howl’s Moving Castle (2004). Image courtesy Pontoco. Image courtesy Pontoco. Image courtesy Pontoco. Image courtesy Pontoco. Image courtesy Pontoco.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Released back in 2004 to positive reviews, Doom 3 represents your classic first-person shooter. Unsurprisingly, the game is even more impressive in VR. The haunting environments and disgusting enemies look fantastic in-headset, immersing you in the blood-soaked halls of the UAC’s Mars-based research facility.

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VRScout

MARCH 29, 2021

Developed in collaboration with Archiact, Doom 3: VR Edition features the same campaign as the original 2004 game with several additional features designed specifically for VR. Set in the year 2145, players step into the role of a battle-hardened space marine assigned to a scientific research facility located on Mars.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2019

Immerse yourself in one of 2004’s most prominent first-person shooters, now available in VR. Originally released on PC back in 2004 , the FPS classic received 15 years of continued support across 100 different countries , generating several spin-offs and sequels as well as a diverse player base in the process.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The long-awaited VR mod for Half-Life 2 (2004) is available for free in beta starting today, bringing to the iconic Valve title a near-native level of VR immersion we’ve been waiting for.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 13, 2021

As you’d imagine, Doom 3 (2004) wasn’t built for VR. But thanks to work by consummate modders Team Beef, the iconic first-person shooter from id Software can finally be played in all its horrific goodness on Oculus Quest, replete with Touch controls.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Half-Life: Alyx is set between the events of the original Half-Life (1998) and Half-Life 2 (2004). . A trailer revealed today gives the first look at what Valve plans to unleash as both the company’s first full-fledged VR game and the first Half-Life game in 12 years. Half-Life: Alyx Trailer.

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Road to VR

APRIL 29, 2024

The long-awaited VR mod for World of Warcraft (2004) is here, bringing full PC VR support to players grinding the vast lands of Azeroth. Created by Flat2VR community members ‘Streetrat’ and ‘Marulu’, the long-time modders have finally brought full 6DOF VR support to World of Warcraft in the aptly named WoVR mod.

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ARPost

MAY 19, 2022

This idea inspired Lee Sentell, Alabama Tourism Department Director, to create the US Civil Rights Trail in 2004. History must be known by everyone, so we do not repeat its mistakes. To accompany the project, there’s also a book, and its latest edition includes a special feature to attract younger generations.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The company announced the game in November 2019 with a trailer (below), promising a “full-length game built from the ground up for virtual reality:” The game is set between the events of the original Half-Life (1998) and Half-Life 2 (2004).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The venture, purportedly based in Singapore, is headed by CEO Or Kuntzman who, according to his LinkedIn profile, has co-founded two companies between 2004 and 2013, and was most recently the Managing Director at a now-defunct studio called Betastamp, which described itself as a sort of startup-idea incubator.

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VRScout

JULY 9, 2019

I competed in two Olympic Games: 2004 and 2012,” added Scott Dickens, Director of Strategic Partnerships at FORM. “At Users will also be able to download the official FORM Swim app on iOS and Android which they can use to track and share their progress, view other swimmers’ metrics, and customize their in-goggle experience.

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2020

Like many of the game’s other levels, ‘Dark Skies’ takes inspiration from a few works of fiction, namely the airship scene in Ninja Gaiden, The Rocketeer (1991), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). Broomhandle Mauser, anyone?

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Upload VR

APRIL 4, 2025

The Scottish artists have been around since 2004 and are known for heavy metal tunes and hard rock shanties. Announced during the latest Ruff Talk VR Showcase , the VR rhythm game is expanding its sizable pool of DLC by adding two new packs, the Alestorm Music Pack and a Pirate Skin Pack.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 29, 2024

Since its founding in 2004, the firm has been consistently recognized as a worldwide leader in providing enterprise XR. This week, longstanding XR solutions provider Virtualware is celebrating 20 years of operation and supporting enterprise end users who are undergoing transformative XR journies.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2020

Although Alyx is set before the events of Half-Life 2 (2004), Valve has said that players will be better off having played the Half-Life 2 series before Alyx , for reasons that will become apparent in the game.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

By 2004, the revolutionary spacecraft was in orbit around Saturn, providing researchers back on Earth with the first comprehensive data of the planet, its rings, and its moons ever collected.

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2021

DOOM 3 VR Edition launches today on PlayStation consoles, bringing the 2004 classic horror-shooter to PSVR for the first time.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Blueside announced the game, now developed by Iggymob , as a VR exclusive based on its PS2 predecessor, although is said to go beyond the sequel Gungrave: Overdose (2004). Both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive will eventually see support. It will integrates both third and first-person gameplay. You can check them out over at Gamespot.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 26, 2020

As Microsoft continues to roll out its latest Windows 10 version 2004 update to consumers and businesses, it seems like it’s taking away some key perks of having a non-home version of the OS, mainly the ability to delay major updates. First spotted by WindowsTimes , Microsoft has quietly reduced the amount of time… Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Texas has a utility market unlike any other in the U.S., and in the wake of last week’s grid failure there that left millions of people in the dark, it’s come under scrutiny. Ninety percent of Texas’ electricity is generated on its own grid , and that grid is very lightly regulated. Read more.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2021

Bosworth, a 15-year Facebook veteran, first joined Microsoft in 2004; it wasn’t the same Microsoft we know today, but it was changing to prioritize user security in the face of a long history of ostensibly leaving virus and malware protection for third parties to sort out. Let other companies scramble to keep up with us.”

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2024

Abovitz founded Mako Surgical in 2004, and left the medical robot company when it was acquired by Stryker for $1.65 billion in 2013, or just around three years after Magic Leap was founded by Abovitz in stealth mode.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In 2004, astronomers spotted a unique celestial feature that, when observed in ultraviolet, bore the appearance of a glowing eye staring directly back at Earth. Unbeknownst to them, it would take 16 years to figure out what caused the Blue Ring Nebula to form. Read more.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Founded in 2004 in Bilbao, Spain, the Spanish firm has been a trailblazer in virtual reality solutions across industry verticals and received acclaim for its products and services. Many use the VRaaS platform to build strategic projects for massive projects in defence, key infrastructure, training, and education, among others.

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GizModo VR

JULY 6, 2020

After moving the Fresh Start feature in the latest version, 2004, and reducing the number of days Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education users can manually delay updates, the company is now experimenting with… Read more. Microsoft seems to be getting a kick out seeing users struggle to find Windows 10 features these days.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 11, 2021

It’s been long enough since the 2004 version with Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum that it almost feels overdue. With how popular adaptations of musicals have gotten over the years and Hollywood loving itself some modern reboots that are also fresh retellings , we were bound to get a new take on Phantom of the Opera. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 20, 2021

In USA’s The 4400 , which premiered in 2004, thousands of people from throughout various points in recent history—who were all thought to be abducted—suddenly returned as a group in the present day, with no real recollection of what had happened to them. Initially, there was little rhyme or reason to the 4400's mission… Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

The series got everything from traditional hack-and-slash action games to strategy titles , but one of the weirdest and most interesting of them all was 2004's The Third Age. The Lord of the Rings movies came out at arguably the height of video game movie tie-ins. Part Final Fantasy knock-off, part movie retelling , it… Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 3, 2020

After Microsoft rolled out its Windows 10 version 20H2 and Windows 10 version 2004 updates, some users reported having issues with their PCs crashing—specifically when plugging in an external Thunderbolt NVMe SSD. An incompatibility issue between those types of SSDs and the latest Windows versions was the culprit,… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 11, 2021

The CW’s plan to resurrect USA’s 2004 series The 4400 definitely comes across as the network’s latest go at bringing aliens/futurism/superhero drama to television. Presumably, it will happily exist alongside things like the Arrowverse and the Roswell reboot. But since it’s been so long since the original was on air,… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

In survivors of the original 2002-2004 SARS outbreak who were given a covid-19 vaccine, researchers found potent antibodies capable of neutralizing a variety of… Read more. New research this week offers hope that we may one day be able to create a powerful weapon against coronaviruses like the one that causes covid-19.

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APRIL 10, 2021

From 2004-2010, these films dominated the horror genre. I won’t lie. When I heard the Saw series was being rebooted, I wasn’t excited. James Wan directed the first film and had no clue his small little film would become ionic. Unfortunately, as the movie progressed in number, the story and quality decreased. The last… Read more.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2017

When Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, we didn’t have Android or iOS, but the mobile phone market was well established — think Blackberry, Motorola, and Nokia. Apple and Google beat the billionaire social media magnate to creating the smartphone — the dominant platform underpinning the Facebook network.

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Road to VR

JUNE 19, 2018

This isn’t Garry’s Mod (2004) , after all. Experimentation is encouraged, and the developers seem to have thought about most of the obvious combinations, but the one-handed, one-button controls means you can’t group a ton of objects together. Image courtesy Prologue.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fun Fact: Watson itself was only developed in 2004 as a part of IBMs DeepQA project to compete in Jeopardy, and it eventually appeared on Jeopardy! I expect to see audio-interactive games and enterprise solutions become more popular as these types of interactions are normalized through VR and AR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2019

InXile is the studio behind the The Bard’s Tale (2004), Torment: Tides of Numenera (2017) and a handful of other titles. The VR version of Minecraft also came to the Oculus Rift in 2016. InXile – The Mage’s Tale.

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