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Acer & HP Windows Mixed Reality Headset Dev Kits Now Available for Pre-order Starting at $300

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Today Microsoft announced that developers in the US and Canada can now pre-order the Acer ($299) and HP ($329) Mixed Reality headsets from the Microsoft Store. You can now pre-order Acer ($299) and HP ($329 ) headsets directly from the Microsoft Store. Delivery of the headsets is scheduled for August 2017.

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Halo Studio Head Leaves To Work On Microsoft’s Mixed Reality

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Microsoft is shuffling the Studio Head behind its top gaming franchise, Halo, to come and work on its growing mixed reality team. This week, though, a blog post on the Halo Waypoint portal noted that Ayoub was leaving the studio to go and work on another important area of Microsoft: mixed reality.

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

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The Brazilian-born inventor gets recognition for his groundbreaking work with the Microsoft Hololens. The HoloLens incorporates several patent-protected Microsoft inventions, including Kipman’s motion sensors initially brought to market for the Xbox Kinect video game controller. billion in 2016.

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Sony Santa Monica Studio Prototyped A God of War VR Demo For PSVR

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For Microsoft it’s the Halo and Gears of War games. “So this is 2009, 2010,” Marks said. “We had the PlayStation Move controllers, and a lot of people were just doing different stuff with them. All major console manufacturers have flagship first-party characters that define their systems and audience.

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E3 2018 Roundup ? Sony?s Positioning of VR, New PSVR Titles Hands-on, Ready at Dawn Interview & More

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Featuring the cute bots first seen in The Playroom (2013) , Sony Japan Studio’s upcoming platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission uses similar controls and gameplay mechanics as any other 3D platformer, but it has been created from the ground up with VR in mind. Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio. Photo by Road to VR.

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30 Best VR Games for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive in 2018

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The players no longer watch the VR content passively but actively become a part of the narrative, which grants the players more controls. Minecraft is a 2009 sandbox video game created by Swedish game developer Markus Persson and later developed by Mojang. Developer(s) : Mojang, Microsoft Studios , Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Number of OpenSim grids hits record high

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Mono is the open source alternative to Microsoft’s.Net application platform. You control the service by starting DreamGrid, which will give you control of the regions and access to Robust and region consoles.” ” This release also includes a control panel for load testing up to 100 avatars.