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Daft Punk Music Pack for ‘Beat Saber’ Arrives Alongside Haptics Improvements on Quest

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Meta’s Beat Games teased earlier this month that everyone’s favorite block-slicing rhythm game Beat Saber was finally getting the music pack that always needed to happen: Daft Punk. Now that day has come, which arrives with some improved haptics on Quest that promise to be harder, better, faster (and) stronger.

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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. But for Sony, it’s changed with each console generation. Most of those games wouldn’t really be that great of a fit for VR you’d think. They’re all third-person action games. “So this is 2009, 2010,” Marks said.

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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

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A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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Simple PlayStation Move Mod Brings Dual Analog Control To PSVR Games

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Sony’s positiontally-tracked wands bring your hands into VR with relative accuracy, but they pale in comparison to the HTC Vive’s wands or Oculus Touch controllers. That makes movement in the few first-person games that do use two controllers stiff and awkward, as seen in titles like Loading Human [ Review: 4/10 ].

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PSVR’s Batman, Rez And Playroom VR Up For 2017 BAFTA Awards

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The nominations for this year’s BAFTA Game Awards have been announced , and Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) is once again leading the charge for virtual reality. Three PSVR games have been nominated across the event’s traditional categories. It’s up for both Game Innovation and British Game.

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AWE Asia-2023 Conference in Singapore from August 30-31

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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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Former PlayStation VP, Google, And Activision Staffers Join CastAR

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Peter Dille, Former Senior Vice President of Marketing and PlayStation Network at Sony Computer Entertainment (now Sony Interactive Entertainment); Mel M. He also helped launch the PlayStation Move motion controller back in 2010, which is now a key part of the PlayStation VR headset.

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