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Amazon to Begin Selling VR Apps Through New HTC Partnership

Road to VR

Amazon will soon begin selling VR apps on its massive digital marketplace through a new partnership with HTC. While Steam generally functions as the Vive’s defacto app store, HTC runs its own VR app store called Viveport. But the partnership with HTC affirms the company’s growing interest in VR.

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HTC Invests $5 Million in VR Studio From Pixar and Lucasfilm Veterans

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HTC is continuing their commitment to invest heavily in the VR ecosystem and have their eye on one Oakland-based independent VR development studio. HTC is the company behind the Vive VR headset and have in past six months been investing heavily in initiatives to help grow the virtual reality space. Image Credit: Steel Wool Studios.

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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

Road to VR

It had a compelling reason to exist, which is why Microsoft directly competed against iPod Touch over the course of three device generations before eventually giving up the goat in 2011 and discontinuing the third-gen Zune. Even with viable hardware on your side, it’s not an easy thing to do.

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Despite Parent Company’s Legal Trouble with Oculus, Bethesda says: “We plan on supporting as many platforms as we can”

Road to VR

Bethesda recently announced that Fallout 4 (2015) is coming to HTC Vive this October, and Skyrim (2011) is soon to follow sometime in late 2017 on PlayStation VR. After all, SteamVR supports HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and OSVR natively. A win-win (sort of) for Rift owners and Bethesda.

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‘L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files’ Now Available, Rockstar’s Debut VR Game

Road to VR

Noire (2011), which has had a number of its missions reworked specifically for VR. Rift Support, Minimum Specifications, and Hardware Incompatibility. Rockstar Games, the mega studio behind Grand Theft Auto , Red Dead Redemption , and plenty more, has launched its debut VR title, L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files.

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VR: Fad or Fiction?

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He built the first prototype of his VR headset in 2011 and announced it on Kickstarter in 2012. The sales of the other players on the VR market were pretty much flat across the year – the Oculus Rift (the PC tethered version), the Samsung Gear VR, the HTC Vive, and the Vive Focus showed limited sales growth.

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

Road to VR

.” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. But it’s reasonable to say that the high cost of VR headsets and the gaming hardware needed to support them, is keeping high-end VR accessibility low right now.

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