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Remastered ‘Half-Life 2’ Coming to Vive & Rift with VR Controller Support via Revamped Mod

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A reborn mod project is bringing compatibility for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with full motion input support, remastered visuals, a made-for-VR UI, realistic weapon interactions, and more. Luckily you can pick up all three, along with Portal (2007) for the entirely reasonable price of $20 via The Orange Box. A Mod Reborn.

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‘Half-Life 2: VR’ Mod Gets Green-lit on Steam in 4 Days

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Half-Life 2: VR , a revamped version of an older mod which will adapt the beloved Half-Life 2 for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has been green-lit, signifying Valve’s official acceptance of the mod for distribution on Steam. Here’s some gameplay from the original mod played on the Rift DK1. Sadly, it wouldn’t last.

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

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I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. The report says this device could cost thousands of dollars and be available only in low volumes — more typical of a test platform for software developers than the mass-market products Apple usually releases. But Apple has already laid the groundwork for a rich software library.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

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of the Rome Reborn® model was completed in 2007, 2.0 was started in 1997 and completed in 2007. was started in the summer of 2007. We succeeded in recruiting him to apply his software to ancient Rome. The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. Version 1.0 in 2008, 2.1 in 2010, 2.2 in 2012, and 3.0

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The New Age of Learning Science with Virtual Reality: A Literature Review

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Chen, Yang, Shjen, and Jeng (2007) examined how desktop virtual environments provided opportunities for students to interact with and manipulate objects while learning about orbital patterns of the planets. EXPERIENCED-BASED LEARNING In 2019, a major breakthrough product was released by Oculus. The findings produced by Chen et al.

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Keeping VR users from hurting themselves

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At its core, Chaperone is a combination user interface / software / API system that brings relevant parts of users’ physical environments into their virtual environments. Concretely, during environment setup, users can sketch out the horizontal boundaries of their “play space” by tracing them with a tracked controller.

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A Brief History of VR

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After its 2007 release of google Street View, in 2010, google introduced stereoscopic 3D mode for Street View. It was also in 2010 that 18-year-old Palmer Luckey created the first prototype of Oculus Rift, the famous VR headset. Two years later, in 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR company for 2 billion USD.