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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. SEE ALSO Amazon's VR/AR Creation Tool 'Sumerian' Now Available to General Public.

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Valve Head Affirms Work on First-party VR Games and Interest in Future Technology

Road to VR

Valve and HTC worked closely together to create the HTC Vive VR system. We think VR is pretty important as a tool for interesting games.” ” Valve created The Lab , a package of free VR mini games for the HTC Vive which have been much loved by the VR community. .” Valve’s Gabe Newell.

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‘Portal Stories: VR’ Brings 10 Made-for-VR Puzzles to the World of Aperture Science

Road to VR

Portal Stories: VR is a free Portal 2 (2011) “mini story” recently released for the HTC Vive. After taking in the surroundings, I quickly became acquainted with the two tools I was holding. See Also: Valve’s ‘The Lab’ is a Wondrous Playground Full of VR Toys on HTC Vive.

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Technology Transfer

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I found out today that HTC now ships a tool to measure users’ inter-pupillary distances with new Vive VR headsets. When I say “tool,” I mean a booklet with instructions in many languages, and a ruler printed along one edge of each page: Figure 1: IPD measurement chart shipped by HTC with new Vives.

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Interview: Composing Music For VR With Jeremy Tisser

VRScout

However one of the most powerful tools for capturing a viewer’s attention often goes overlooked by the masses: Music. When I got to graduate school at the University of Southern California in 2011, an opportunity presented itself to score a VR project. How do you captivate an audience? Ever since then I’ve been intrigued.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Although not as robust as the HTC Vive controllers, the wand-like controller is easy to use… and fun. APPLE’S 2011 AUGMENTED REALITY PATENT FINALLY MADE PUBLIC. First filed in 2011, the patent was published by the US Patent and Trademark Office with minimal changes. Not only did Snap, Inc. …and more.

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Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice’s Bob Fine

XR for Business Podcast

In 2011, Bob launched the only printed magazine covering social media, The Social Media Monthly. The upside potential of this technology is so vast and so important, I believe it’s just gonna become one of the other tools that physicians, surgeons, and nurses have in their disposal. Alan: Absolutely. ” LAH-bo?