Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2018

Serenity, the firefly-class spaceship from cult TV show Firefly (2002) and film Serenity (2005), is now full explorable in VR. ” The experience contains a number of items strewn about that you can pick up using your VR system’s motion controllers. According to Tabar, “any HMD with SteamVR support should work.”

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OCTOBER 30, 2021

Earlier this month, Resident Evil 4 VR launched on the Oculus Quest 2 and so far players are absolutely loving this expertly-crafted VR remake of the original 2005 horror-action video game. The game features improved controls over its predecessor as well as some of the most unsettling imagery featured throughout the series.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This is no ordinary village though, as the inhabitants are under the influence of a mysterious cult and have become infected with mind-controlling parasites. The game was originally released in January of 2005 as a non-VR title and received rave reviews. Pistol Whip. Genre: Music & Rhythm, Shooting Price: $29.99.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 14, 2022

It’s still no easy feat, but creating a realistic 3D render of a miniaturized console is nowhere near as difficult as building the real thing, but that didn’t stop YouTuber GingerOfOz from building a handheld portable GameCube based on nothing but a concept pic that’s been floating around the internet since 2005. Read more.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The story is said to take place between Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) and Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977). The story, the company says, follows The Secrets of the Empire VR experience which launched at The VOID earlier this year. Image courtesy ILMxLAB.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

CIA Operative David Emerson awakens to find himself the subject of an experimental program with his body under complete remote control of the imperious General (Tony Denison),” states a story summary on the film’s official website. Image courtesy Rogue Initiative.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2022

You go in front of them, press the A button on your controller, and you read Leon’s thoughts about it. At every time during the game, you can press the Menu button on your left controller to open your inventory and choose which is your main pistol, rifle, grenade, and health element from the ones in your inventory.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Wannabe DJs learn controls and techniques from virtual DJ mentors and mix sets. Tribe’s VR DJ school —now available on Oculus—does this by allowing anyone to learn to DJ and mix music using a virtual deck that mimics the setup used in nightclubs around the world. It’s such a natural fit for VR,” says Impallomeni. “A

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JUNE 3, 2022

The game will be a reimagining of the 2005 original with updated controls and new story elements. A trailer showed the game being played with PSVR 2, including full motion controls with new elements like manual reloading and dual wielding weapons. Sony kicked off the show with a bang.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 1, 2018

Wannabe DJs learn controls and techniques from virtual DJ mentors, and mix sets. Tribe’s VR DJ school – now available on Oculus – does this by allowing anyone to learn to DJ and mix music using a virtual deck which mimics the setup used in nightclubs around the world. It’s such a natural fit for VR,” says Impallomeni. “A

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This isn’t the long-awaited sequel to the 2005 game (though that is on the way), but instead a VR-exclusive story set right after those events. It’s played with a DualShock 4 controller. The game will lead directly into Psychonauts 2, which returns to classic platforming gameplay and will not require a VR headset.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

“In 2005, Google shifted and set out to map the world […] And with the idea of searching what you see, we’ve already started to make some inroads with Google Lens and Live View and other products to use the camera as an input source and a search modality. This bodes well for first-party app dominance in AR.

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JANUARY 21, 2017

I got that same inkling in 2005 as Leon Kennedy. From 1996 through to 2002 we saw no less than five games in the series that utilized the classic fixed camera view point and tank control scheme. The long-anticipated Resident Evil 4 , released in 2005, was something of a miracle drug.

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VRScout

AUGUST 18, 2017

Virtual Iraq VRET was developed from 2005-2007 as an answer to the military’s problem at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. In VR, the patient is fully emotionally immersed in the traumatic situation while physically remaining in a safe, controlled setting.

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OCTOBER 22, 2016

We looked on in with inevitable dread as Batman relived the horror of his parent’s loss in his mind, and would do so again in Batman Begins 16 years later in 2005 with a decidedly grittier rendition. Martha Wayne’s screams echoed hauntingly through movie theaters before a shocking silence fell on the scene.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It was late 2005, AMD and Intel started to ship their first dual-core processors and the CPU frequency battle was officially over. Just for comparison, the former Panasonic fab in Uozo (now controlled by Tower Semiconductor and Nuvoton) has a capacity of around 8,000 WSPM. The Most Advanced Logic Fab in Japan.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 8, 2022

Based on the 2005 Danish film Ambulancen , Ambulance follows two brothers whose bank heist goes awry, forcing them to take hostages in an — you guessed it! The movie star who's made his name with charged performances delivers one of his all-time best as a control freak out of control. — emergency vehicle.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

I have played through FEAR (2005) , FEAR 2 (2009) , Dead Space 1 (2008), 2 (2011) and 3 (2013) , Outlast (2013) , Slender: The Arrival (2013) and many more. 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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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2018

Psychonauts In the Rhombus of Ruin takes place between the events of Psychonauts (2005) and the upcoming Psychonauts 2 due out later this year. Gaze-based controls, while fitting the whole psychic ability motif, can be fiddly at moments.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

So, coming back to your question, I am an associate professor of the Computer and Control Engineering department at the Politecnico di Torino , where I am heading the Computer Graphics and Vision research group. First of all, thank you very much for having me here. It is a real pleasure for me to be interviewed for your blog.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

The details are posted on GitHub , including assembly instructions, control software, and the code that stitches the images into seamless 360-degree content. Ostendo , based in Carlsbad, CA, was founded in 2005 to advance display technology, curved screens, and has been developing VR displays for over a decade for the military.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

What we got was the reveal of Vive Pre, a near-final version of the headset with a hugely refined form factor including updated controllers and a much sleeker design. We wouldn’t see the final device for a few months yet, but this was almost identical to it. The HTC Vive has had a solid 2016.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

There are things to love in this brief spin-off to the 2005 platformer that developer Double Fine made its name with. Back in control of Raz mere minutes after the cliffhanger ending of the first game, the developer has crafted a 2-3 hour adventure in which you’ll attempt to save the father of your maybe-girlfriend, Lili.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

When I graduated college in 2005, the technology was pretty limited and relegated to military and really high-end entertainment; it wasn’t something people could get their hands on. It was the first time we had motion controllers so it was the first time we got to interact in the virtual world in a meaningful way.

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VRPlayin

JANUARY 10, 2019

It was only once the company Harmonix, partnering with RedOctane, in 2005, released their game ‘Guitar Hero’ in the Western market, that the genre exploded once again. The game was based on Konami’s original ‘Guitar Freaks’ arcade game, which RedOctane made the controllers for.

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Mashable VR

MAY 10, 2022

Argo became as much of a character as the rest of the more human characters, and also controls super well for a video game horse. Penny was originally released as the American Girl Horse in 1998, but the real claim to fame for this horse was when my dad cried while watching Felicity: An American Girl Adventure in theaters in 2005.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This includes an official VR port of Capcom’s 2005 hit survival horror game Resident Evil 4. “The company has confirmed that this was due to unauthorized access carried out by a third party, and that it has halted some operations of its internal networks as of November 2.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Resident Evil 4 for Oculus Quest 2 definitely shows its age—it would be impossible not to given its lineage as a groundbreaking survival horror game initially launched on GameCube in 2005. These cutscenes are preserved in the original, however quick time events have been altered for Touch controller input. Controller-based.

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

Nonetheless, Capcom has made an intriguing compromise for interactions that would be difficult to replicate with motion controls. Those sequences – such as melee attacks, pushing open heavy doors, or climbing ladders – are viewed in third person and control is taken away from you.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

You've been in the space since, what, 2005, I believe? One of the best is do ERP integration if it's constantly changing, or we can do one time integrations or get it from your e-commerce system, or we can give you more full control over that if you want to have some way of customizing that and controlling that yourself.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

You've been in the space since, what, 2005, I believe? One of the best is do ERP integration if it's constantly changing, or we can do one time integrations or get it from your e-commerce system, or we can give you more full control over that if you want to have some way of customizing that and controlling that yourself.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

You've been in the space since, what, 2005, I believe? One of the best is do ERP integration if it's constantly changing, or we can do one time integrations or get it from your e-commerce system, or we can give you more full control over that if you want to have some way of customizing that and controlling that yourself.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And to be clear, I used it in a real home, not a carefully controlled demo environment or a well-lit studio. In the Shared Space where rendering is controlled by Apple it mostly just works, though very occasionally you’ll see minor visual artifacts in the periphery. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 2, 2017

ImmersiveTouch of Chicago, Illinois founded in 2005, is surgical simulation company that uses Vive and Rift Head Mounted Displays (HMDs), patient-specific anatomy and haptic (tactile) feedback in order to train surgeons and team members, and educate patients themselves.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

The Second Encounter followed it in 2002, with Serious Sam 2 releasing in 2005. That means all of the single player campaign, the cooperative multiplayer, and the competitive multiplayer is fully playable in VR, with motion controllers, and fully functioning locomotion or teleportation movement.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Increasing VR Presence: From Believable Character Behaviors to Developing with the New PlayStation VR Aim Controller. Impulse Gear is currently working on Farpoint , one of our most anticipated PSVR games and the first to use the PlayStation Aim controller, a gun-shaped peripheral that makes for incredibly immersive experiences.

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JUNE 8, 2016

Concretely, during environment setup, users can sketch out the horizontal boundaries of their “play space” by tracing them with a tracked controller. It shows a green grid popping up as the user (me) moves his hand-held controller too close to one of the CAVE’s rear-projected walls.

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