Cats and VR

DECEMBER 9, 2017

PSVR fans can finally get riggity riggity wrecked when Virtual Rick-Ality finally gets a Playstation VR release sometime in 2018 The game is a great fan service and I consider it a real work of heart. Developers Owlchemy Labs originally began in the mobile and PC game space back in 2010.

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MAY 15, 2023

The pandemic accelerated the adoption of XR in consumer gaming and remote collaboration. Begun in 2010, Augmented World Expo has become the top global conference for everything XR. The press kit for the event can be found here. AWE Asia has been hosted annually since 2015.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

In fact, a criminally underappreciated video game was made that’s loosely based on Sun Wukong and his journey called Enslaved: Odyssey to the West , developed by Ninja Theory and released in 2010 for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Although, this isn’t the first digital adaptation of the story.

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MAY 11, 2017

Combined with the relative low cost in comparison to a high-end gaming PC, Microsoft is aiming to quickly build a large audience of Windows VR headsets, and more importantly, a large userbase. And what that means is a very cheap PC, that may also be ancient by today’s standards.

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APRIL 1, 2020

Brain-computer interface systems like Neurable’s VR game Awakening uses an electrode-laden headband, connected to an HTC Vive HMD, to track brain activity. The software analyzes the data to figure out what should be happening in a game. Brain-Computer Interfaces.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2016

Arrowstorm Entertainment is what you might call ‘serial Kickstarters’, as they’ve successfully completed 13 different campaigns on the crowdfunding site—mostly focusing on small budget sword and sorcery flicks starring the likes of Kevin Sorbo from Hercules (1995) and Kristian Nairn (aka Hodor) from Game of Thrones (2011).

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JUNE 27, 2016

Polynomial 2 , the sequel to the 2010 original, brings its trance inducing, laser fuelled musical charms to virtual reality. The original Polynomial received some reserved critical reaction on its release back in 2010. Polynomial 2 is a 3D space shooter game developed by brothers Dmytry Lavrov and Alexey Lavrov.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Original investors included Comcast Ventures, HTC and Samsung, but now join Horizons Ventures, Twentieth Century Fox, Evolution Media Partners (backed by TPG and CAA), China’s Shanghai Media Group, Youku Global Media Fund and LDV Partners. SEE ALSO Comcast, Samsung, and HTC Join $6 Million Investment in VR Animation Studio 'Baobab'.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Conan O’Brien is a TV host, producer, and infamous comedian who’s been in his current position on TBS’s late-night show Conan since 2010. He covers world and celebrity news with a comedic slant like any other late talk show, but in the last few years he’s begun to feature gaming segments a great deal.

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Cats and VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Owlchemy Labs originally began in the mobile and PC game space back in 2010. The team created the highly entertaining and successful VR game Job Simulator, which launched as a day-one launch title on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR with motion controllers. It was amazing to work on Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality!

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AUGUST 3, 2016

According to Schwartz, the CEO of Owlchemy Labs, that meant one day getting their game displayed inside the goggles followed by 29 days of making themselves sick.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Among other things, these specs imply a PC that could be running with hardware as low as the 2009 AMD Anthlon II series (some have 4 cores) and 2010 Nvidia GT 400 series (some support DX12). It’s already very hard to get VR games and applications to run well with the minimum specs for the Rift and Vive.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

Owlchemy Labs secured a $5 million Series A led by Qualcomm Ventures with participation in the round also coming from HTC, The VR Fund, Colopl VR Fund and Capital Factory. he company recently received quite a few headlines when it announced that it would be bringing the absurdist TV show Rick and Morty into the VR world.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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JUNE 20, 2020

In partnership with HTC Vive Arts, Emissive Studio has created the experience Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass , the first VR experience presented by the Louvre museum, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death. link] Preloaded (UK) The London-based games studio founded in 2000, produces games and immersive experiences.

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MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

VR investments have broken into the billions of dollars with reports showing as high as $4-5 billion since 2010 and $2 billion in the last 12 months alone. Starbreeze Games – NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: STAR – VR headset & VR games. Sony – NYSE: SNE – VR Console, VR Games & VR Headset.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Though you might think that porting SteamVR and OpenVR to MacOS would be relatively straightforward—given that Steam for regular desktop gaming has been on the OS since 2010. During a session at WWDC , Apple and Valve confirmed they’ve been working together for nearly a year to bring SteamVR and OpenVR to MacOS.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Originally a launch title for the Oculus Rift, the game will now be available on all three major VR platforms. We take a look at Pinball FX2 VR on the HTC Vive. Reviewed On: HTC Vive. You get three balls, plus the chance to earn more during the game. Pinball FX2 VR Details: Official Site. Developer: Zen Studios.

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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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DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Atari founded a lab for virtual reality research in 1982, but it closed down two short years later due to the North American video game crash of 1983. In 1991, Sega released Sega VR headsets for arcade games and the Mega Drive console. In 2016, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Playstation VR were all released.

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MAY 20, 2021

Enjoy Rockstar’s groundbreaking action-western game in VR thanks to a new mod by Luke Ross. Despite having been released all the way back in 2018, Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 remains one of the most popular video games currently available on consoles and PC. Feature Image Credit: Rockstar Games.

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JUNE 6, 2023

The Auggie Awards have been recognizing XR since 2010.” The interactive game for a New Zealand Supermarket included social lenses, games, and recipes. “We However, the prize went home with the team of Innersloth , Schell Games , and Robot Teddy for Among Us VR. The award went to Zappar for Countdown: Bricks Farm.

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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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MAY 16, 2018

“We make games, Steam, and hardware. While HTC makes and markets the Vive, many of the headset’s foundational technologies were created at Valve. Beyond hardware, there’s also those three VR games the company has said they’re building , but has remained extremely tight-lipped on since.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Now Gartner has solved that problem by using a smartphone to act as the viewfinder for the virtual camera, allowing him to see exactly what the virtual camera sees as he films: VR in-game Virtual Cinematography just got a whole lot easier!! Check this out #thefuture :D pic.twitter.com/dJKL6jMRIM.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

We originally focused on making educational videogames but quickly found that our more casual educational games like Ultimate Hangman and Fantastic 4 In A Row did much better. In 2010 we made Mahjong Deluxe which really took off and we did more mobile videogames for quite some time. We just celebrated our 10 year anniversary!

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

It works for most people without making them sick in games like Onward or DOOM 3: BFG Edition , so why not all games!?” There is zero locomotion in that game — not even teleportation — and the entire experience can be played within your 180-degree front-facing view. ” comment sections cry out.

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JUNE 23, 2020

It's funny, because Helen Papagiannis -- author of Augmented Human -- she's got this game, "Augmented Reality Or Real?" Martin: And I would guess that more than half of them -- or even 80 percent of them -- are based on one or two of the game engines that are out there. Martin: I think it only works for the HTC Vive, but it's still OK.

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JUNE 23, 2020

It's funny, because Helen Papagiannis -- author of Augmented Human -- she's got this game, "Augmented Reality Or Real?" Martin: And I would guess that more than half of them -- or even 80 percent of them -- are based on one or two of the game engines that are out there. Martin: I think it only works for the HTC Vive, but it's still OK.

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JUNE 23, 2020

It's funny, because Helen Papagiannis -- author of Augmented Human -- she's got this game, "Augmented Reality Or Real?" Martin: And I would guess that more than half of them -- or even 80 percent of them -- are based on one or two of the game engines that are out there. Martin: I think it only works for the HTC Vive, but it's still OK.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Check out a few of the VR experiences below making waves in this immersive space: AltspaceVR ( Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Gear VR, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, Windows Mixed Reality). Argotian (Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, HTC Vive). Could language-learning in VR be the game-changer the EdTech industry has been waiting for?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2017

In the meantime, it seems quite tragic that Carmack, the winner of the lifetime achievement award from the peer-based Game Developers Choice Awards in 2010, was caught up in such a legal nightmare. ZeniMax called Carmack’s use of Rage source code — a game that he helped create — a “theft.”

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Series A was led by Qualcomm Ventures, and also involved The VR Fund (contributors to The Wave’s round as well), Colopl Next, Capital Factory, HTC, and more. HTC FUNDS STEEL WOOL, SOLO. FOR VR GAME IN 2017. Sierra Ventures, DCM Ventures, COLOPL, and Japanese mobile gaming company GREE. MOVIN’ $10.3M SEED TO INSITE VR.

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JULY 18, 2021

Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments). The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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