Peter Graham

MARCH 11, 2020

For those that love realistic racing videogames and virtual reality (VR), Codemasters’ DiRT Rally franchise has been one of the go-to series for several years with DiRT Rally VR arriving in 2016 and then DiRT Rally 2.0 adding VR support last summer. Today, the studio has announced DiRT Rally 2.0 DiRT Rally 2.0

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Sinespace , a virtual world platform from OpenSim co-founder Adam Frisby, launched its virtual reality beta last week and reports 20 percent weekly user growth. Previously, the Unity-based social virtual world was only available for desktop clients. 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). TREAT LAZY EYE WITH VIRTUAL REALITY.

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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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AllThingsVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Led by Samsung NEXT (the VC arm of the South Korean giant) and Two Sigma Ventures (a division of the investment manager of the same name), the round also includes Indicator Ventures, KBS Ventures, Galvanize Ventures, Social Starts, Female Founders Fund and Virtual Reality Investments. Read more on Fortune. Read more on Haptical.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2016

Most interestingly however are the trail of patent applications made by Apple, the latest of which has just been granted and describes a high FOV augmented reality headset display.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Arriving the week after the Game Developers Conference (GDC), is on course to be the standout virtual reality (VR) title of 2020, and there’s a lot riding on it, both in terms of the franchise and the technology. Now you don’t actually need a Valve Index to play Half-Life: Alyx.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 6, 2016

Most interestingly however are the trail of patent applications made by Apple, the latest of which has just been granted and describes a high FOV augmented reality headset display.

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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. In reality of course, you were just seeing the paddle on your TV, and there was plenty of assistance with each hit, even on the hardest difficulty.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 19, 2020

This type of content really hasn’t been seen before in virtual reality (VR) due to the complexities of making it successfully work yet that hasn’t stopped the creators of Once Upon a Time in Peekskill, a rather unique piece of immersive storytelling.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

As virtual reality continues to rise in popularity, more film festivals, both up-and-coming ones and established ones, are opening up virtual reality competitions. Here we selected 37 film festivals dedicated to virtual reality or with VR programs for your reference. Check them out and visit some in 2018!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Grab’s new VR game, Knockout League, is coming to Steam, Oculus, and Viveport in January. Here’s a first look at the trailer, filmed at the VRScout Mixed Reality Studio in LA. Knockout League is a single player, arcade-style boxing game built from the ground up for virtual reality by Grab Games.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Microsoft Research has devised two novel methods for more realistic haptic feedback on virtual reality controllers. Linear actuators tend to offer more haptic ‘detail’ and responsiveness, as can be found in Apple’s ‘Taptic Engine’, the HTC Vive controllers, an the Oculus Touch controllers.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). 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.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In 2006, he created Blue Tea Games , an international development studio known for its Hidden Object Adventure titles, the most famous being the Dark Parables series which is distributed by Big Fish Games. Unearthed is the first VR game from Glo , a new game development studio founded by Steve Zhao.

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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. Don’t forget to give us your ?? ! link] Metaverse!

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. Mr. Previously she was one of the first employees at NextVR ( acquired by Apple ), a virtual reality company focused on live entertainment across music and sports. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 20- Renji Bijoy. 23- Kathryn Yu.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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