Peter Graham

MARCH 11, 2020

Game of the Year Edition will be rolled out in a couple of weeks for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. There’s an extra boon for those that own the Oculus Store version, free access to all post-launch content. Today, the studio has announced DiRT Rally 2.0 In a blog posting , Codemasters confirmed that: “ DiRT Rally 2.0

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Publisher nDreams announced today that their gory virtual-reality beat-em-up, Bloody Zombies, will hit Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4/PSVR on September 12th for $14.99. Developed by Paw Print Games and set in the UK (Get it? The release of Bloody Zombies will mark Paw Print Game’s debut. Bloody Zombies?),

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

Microsoft released the first-gen Zune in 2006, an MP3 player that looked to compete with Apple’s largely dominant line of iPods. Microsoft gained a great early start, but now the Redmond-based tech giant is positioned to play catchup, which historically hasn’t worked out that well. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Robo Recall is a very important game. We labelled the robot-fighting title “ very good ” in our review, and with its modification system and pedigree coming from one of the industry’s most influential companies (Epic Games), the game is likely to influence others as they think about VR game design.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

However, technological advancement has generated new opportunities to apply virtual reality to more than just video games. A 2006 study found that the use of educational games in different learning models and mixed realities are more likely to increase a student’s motivation to learn (Pan, Cheok, Yang, Zhu, & Shia, 2006).

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2019

Channeling Journey (2012) and Viva Piñata (2006), albeit at a smaller scale, Fujii is a game about exploration and gardening with a dash of discovery. Available On: Oculus ( Rift , Quest ), Steam. The game is set in a colorful and organic fantasy world that at first is mostly cloaked in darkness. Price: $15.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

Essentially Wii Sports (2006) for PS3 using PlayStation Move, it featured a table tennis mode that remains, to my eyes, the greatest motion-control game ever published. It was the closest anyone had come to the dream of a ‘1-to-1’ sports game. The game pits two players opposing each other in a Tron-like environment.

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AllThingsVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

3) ZeniMax Acquires Oculus Dev Escalation Studios Escalation Studios, the developer behind the VR port of Please, Don’t Touch Anything! Review: 8/10 ] and the Oculus-published Herobound: Gladiators, has been picked up by the publishing company, which owns game publisher Bethesda Softworks. Read more on Haptical.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The gaming giant behind one of the most popular first-person shooters (FPS) for PC has at last publically finalised a date for the launch, Monday 23rd March. The videogame will be fully SteamVR compatible so Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality headsets will work as well.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Now, users who own an Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or a Windows Mixed Reality headset can explore the platform in immersive virtual reality. There is a way to emulate the Oculus Rift with a smartphone, using a program that mirrors the PC screen to the phone. Sean O’Callaghan. There is no mobile support yet.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

We’ll see the FacioMetrics tech make its way into videos and Live broadcasts in the near future – and eventually it is likely that facial image analysis would be useful for the customizable avatars that Oculus is creating, too (as well as create super datasets of human emotional reactions).

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JULY 5, 2017

Developer Slightly Mad Studios has sparred no detail in bringing a realistic driving experience to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and that includes an exhaustive list of drivable cars, revealed today. Below is every car you can expect to get behind the wheel of when the game launches on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in two months’ time.

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Road to VR

JUNE 19, 2018

Launched initially on Daydream in early 2017, and now available on Gear VR, Oculus Go, and Oculus Rift, Virtual Virtual Reality’s smart interaction design gives players freedom and control which—combined with a narrative tying it all together—makes Virtual Virtual Reality one of the most immersive mobile VR games to date.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

Los Angeles game developer Grab Games is coming out of stealth mode. Grab’s new VR game, Knockout League, is coming to Steam, Oculus, and Viveport in January. Knockout League is a single player, arcade-style boxing game built from the ground up for virtual reality by Grab Games. Grab Games Q&A.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

What I realized is that genre has never been that important to me after all in films and games, it’s more so about the characters and the stories that are told. Unearthed is the first VR game from Glo , a new game development studio founded by Steve Zhao.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim. Brand new customers can expect to pay $32 for the full game.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. VR/AR/MR films, games, and interactive projects include a total runtime or viewing time of 40 minutes or less. In 2006 and 2007, the Festival received over 8600 film submissions and held 1,500 screenings.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While on the topic of acquisitions Facebooks takeover of Oculus initially was somewhat hostile with internal disputes between Oculus founders and Zuckerberg and his leadership team. On the surface it would appear that VR / AR adoption is rising steadily.

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APRIL 29, 2017

Excerpt: “Palmer Luckey—founder of Oculus—is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton.”. 6:10 PM @websterandrews2: guess I won’t be buying an oculus rift. The founder of Oculus is funding them. You’re using your @Oculus fortune to back a pro-Trump org w/ [Milo Yiannopoulos]?

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

The Venture Reality Fund has looked at over 5,000 startups in the space and invested in 40, including Beat Games, acquired by Facebook, and Rec Room, the first VR software Unicorn. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Learn more about what it means to be a creative in the VC world.

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