Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Meta’s App Lab now counts over 500 VR games and experiences , a majority of which still haven’t passed the curation process to make the leap to the Quest Store. As of today, the game has already racked up a near five-star rating among users.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2020

In celebration of the upcoming launch of Half-Life: Alyx , the studio’s first full VR title, Valve is making all games in the Half-Life series free to play until Alyx’s release in March. Half-Life is the cornerstone franchise that established Valve as one of the game industry’s most lauded developers.

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VRScout

MAY 19, 2022

Through Hatch Kids , young learners access a program called HatchXR , a set of awesome tools that will let kids design, code, and play their own games as well as create their own virtual worlds to explore.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

One of my hopes for Crysis: Remastered was that it would be just as punishing on PCs today as it was when originally released in 2007. Now that the game has… Read more. You see if the RTX 3080 can run it, naturally.

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DECEMBER 17, 2016

Seismic Games has acquired Los Angeles game developer Grue Games as a way to expand into augmented reality and virtual reality games. In addition to mobile and VR gaming, Seismic Games will work on a brand new location-based attraction, to be announced at a later date.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

Robo Recall , one of the best looking games available on a VR headset today, actually cost a lot less to produce than the rumored $10 million. It’s certainly a compliment to the small team at Epic Games responsible for the game that the notion of a $10 million production budget was so widely spread and accepted.

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Upload VR

JUNE 14, 2023

Today we got exclusive new footage of the Crossfire: Sierra Squad Realism Mode, one of the included game modes available at launch. Crossfire is a long-running first-person shooter franchise that began with the original Crossfire on Windows in 2007. Sierra Squad will mark the franchise's first foray into VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 20, 2018

Offering a payload-based objective, much like the gametype in Team Fortress 2 (2007) or Overwatch (2016), you push the the cart on a track through the winding maze as an attacker, or defend the advances of the cart by pushing it backwards and running down the three-minute game clock.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 26, 2022

Dr. Richard Bartle, co-author of text-based virtual world MUD1 and professor of game design at the University of Essex, believes that virtual worlds have long been overlooked in the current rush to build metaverse platforms. Lessons Big Tech Companies Can Learn from the Immersive Game of Second Life.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 25, 2021

I n 2010, a night club within the game Entropia Universe was sold for $635,000. The virtual equivalent of Amsterdam was sold in Second Life for $50,000 in 2007. People access markets for virtual gaming goods for many reasons. An elf called Zeuzo was sold in World of Warcraft for $9,500 that same year. Michael Bobroff.

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Road to VR

JULY 19, 2016

Among more than 9,000 games on Steam, Valve’s VR title The Lab is heading the platform’s list of top rated games. For many with the HTC Vive, the game has become a go-to starting point to introduce friends and family to VR thanks to its polish and breadth of experiences.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 25, 2016

With a name that could only have come from the mind of Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, Squanchtendo is a VR game studio founded by Roiland and former Epic Games producer Tanya Watson to “[combine] edgy, mature comedy with refined, high-end gameplay mechanics and stories.” I'm obsessed. I will get funding.

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MAY 21, 2017

Pretty soon, real life will be stranger than fiction when it comes to bringing the great inventions of science fiction and games into technology. From 1998 to 2005, he served as games technical strategist at Intel. Grossman straddles the lines between books and games, as he is both a novelist and game designer.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2019

Ostensibly, ‘m3gagluk’ was the first to hack the Vive controller to do this, making it play ‘Still Alive’ from Portal (2007). Lindenhof is known for his work on Climbey , the VR climbing game that pits you against difficult obstacles courses.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Star Trek: Bridge Crew VR game // Image credit: Ubisoft. When you program [speech] into a game, you may have 10 intents that you will need to handle, but the freedom of being able to use your own voice as the user makes it feel like you’ve got infinite things to ask. IT’S NOT ALL TALK.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Harmonix, the studio behind many rhythm game hits like Guitar Hero (2005) and Rock Band (2007) , today announced what they’re calling a “VR rhythm shooter” that looks—to be frank—pretty freaking awesome. SEE ALSO Valve Updated SteamVR Tracking Because 'Beat Saber' Players Were Too Fast.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To build out the software ecosystem, Qualcomm lined up a wide range of partners, including Epic Games’s Unreal Engine, Niantic’s Lightship platform, Unity, Viacom CBS and others. Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile U.S. are also partnering with Qualcomm to support startups that use Snapdragon Spaces through the hubraum program.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2017

Praised as one of the greatest games ever made, the 13 year old Half-Life 2 is a lauded piece of gaming history. Not only will it allow players to step into the world of Half-Life 2 in VR, it will also add motion controller support to make the game function much like a modern VR title. Watch the trailer above.

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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2018

Developer Ready at Dawn recently hosted a closed beta of the upcoming Echo Combat , an expansion to Echo Arena, which brings a brand new objective-based FPS arena game into the mix, complete with various weapons and abilities. We’ve got footage of a complete match so that you can see how it all goes down.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

The renewed appetite for space-based cockpit games over recent years has been partly fuelled by the resurgence of virtual reality technology, demonstrated by the success of Elite Dangerous , Star Citizen, and EVE: Valkyrie (2016). When you finish our playing game, I think you’ll be able to really fly a ship in space, let’s put it that way.”.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Carmack is a computer programmer best known for his work on the Quake , Doom , and Wolfenstein video games. VR Game of the Year. VR Game of the Year went to A Fisherman’s Tale by Innerspace and ARTE France. The Sony game was nominated for four DICE Awards this year, but failed to take home any of them.

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AR Insider

JULY 22, 2019

Think of it like the iPhone 1 in 2007 before the App Store. The wave of apps that follows will include everything from guided navigation and local discovery to gaming and meditation. Bose is already there , given the Bose AR developer platform.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When Apple launched ARkit in 2007, several concept videos emerged on YouTube showing AR’s potential to guide customers through airports and shopping malls. And that brings the metaverse closer to local media & commerce, as we discussed during a panel at Localogy 2020, featuring Epic Games and Foursquare.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2017

Not only will it allow players to step into the world of Half-Life 2 in VR, it will also add motion controller support to make the game function much like a modern VR title. Luckily you can pick up all three, along with Portal (2007) for the entirely reasonable price of $20 via The Orange Box. Watch the trailer above.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

The Facebook-owned company has been funding VR games and projects for years now through Oculus Studios. Tim Sweeney of Epic Games, however, is clearing some of that mystery up in his typical, outspoken fashion. “I n 2006, a world class Triple A game cost 10-20 million to produce now they’ll cost up to 100 million.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Developers will be making game balance changes throughout the weekend based on community feedback, and provide these at incremental hotfixes. SEE ALSO The 5 Best Free Games on Oculus Rift.

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ARVR

JULY 12, 2021

History lesson Sam & Max are already well known in the video game scene. From once a series of short comic book appearances, the creator of Sam & Max got the chance to bring the crazy team to life as a video game. The first Sam & Max game was released in 1993 under LucasArts and was called “Sam & Max?—?Hit

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VRScout

JULY 28, 2017

Founded in 2007 by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, the video comedy site has been responsible for some of the decade’s most memorable sketches and series. Even cooler is an in-experience discovery game that tasks users with recovering hidden objects. With a runtime of 40 minutes, Miyubi is the longest VR film made so far.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A variety of computer mice built from 1985 to 2007 (Image by Sandstein, from Wikipedia) The mouse is one of the most simple controllers and we use it every day when we are at our computer. Like, we return home and we wear some controllers to play for instance action games.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 21, 2022

For those who play video games, 2007 is often considered one of the best years of the medium. It was a year of bangers: Microsoft had Crackdown and Halo 3 , Nintendo took Super Mario to the Galaxy, Call of Duty blew the world open by going modern, and so on. It cannot be understated how much that year just kicked ass … Read more.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

AvatarLife grid plans mobile app AvatarLife is currently developing a mobile-based viewer for the grid which will see AvatarLife members playing all types of games on the mobile devices by next year, AvatarLife co-owner Sushant Chandrasekar said. The rest can win in-game tokens. “By September 2024, we should be on mobile.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2020

Not only is it Valve’s first Half-Life game in more than a decade, it is also the studio’s first full fledged VR title. By the measurable reactions from critics and players alike, the game seems to have delivered against the odds. Not just a great VR game, but a great game among all games.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

All you need to do is get in touch [link] pic.twitter.com/o8VKifqGdl — Igloo Vision (@IglooVision) October 13, 2023 Formed in 2007, the company began building its geodesic domes for projection-mapped immersive spaces. Or, if you’re not near our London office, why not book a virtual demo?

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They are amazing, an absolute game-changer,” said Chris McCormack, Everysight Brand Athlete, Triathlete Hall of Fame inductee, and co-founder of the Super League Triathlon Championship. Macca is a two-time winner of what many consider to be the ultimate test of physical and mental will, the Ironman World Championship (2007 and 2010).

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AR Insider

MARCH 19, 2020

No one was thinking of Uber and Snapchat when the iPhone launched to a desktop-minded world in 2007. Do I want a digital board game on my coffee table, seen through a 5-inch window that I have to hold up? Spatial computing will do the same in shaking up design and mindset. Or do I need AR glasses to display a virtual TV on my wall?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 20, 2016

It’s a question that STRIVR Labs CEO Derek Belch has been asking himself since 2007 when the former Stanford Cardinal kicker took a class about virtual reality from Jeremy Bailenson, the head of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL). It’s just a different type of play with an everyday job versus a game.”. ” says Belch.

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Hypergrid Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

That could cause OpenSim users to jump right back, former Second Life creator since 2007 and Virtual Lisbon owner Carlos Loff told Hypergrid Business. ” Loff has been a creator in Second Life since 2007 before moving to OpenSim but, like many OpenSim users, still has an account in Second Life and visits occasionally. Carlos Loff.

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