Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Pioneering VR developer Sean Edwards, well known in VR’s early days as the mind behind Lunar Flight (2012) , has announced his second ever VR title. As we can see the game is focused around an action-packed pace with quick ‘aim-and-go’ node-based teleportation and gesture-based reloading.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 21, 2023

The developers quietly posted this message on the game’s Quest page , appended above its original description: “Multiplayer will be unavailable starting on December 1, 2023.” Alas, the game suffered from a host of issues at launch, which ranged from usability to gameplay polish, essentially rendering it a costly flop.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Cloudhead Games is one of the most successful and senior VR studios in the industry. Guest Article by Denny Unger Denny Unger is CEO and CCO at Cloudhead Games. Based in British Columbia and founded in 2012 Cloudhead’s pioneering approach to VR gave rise to broadly adopted movement standards including Snap Turns and Teleportation.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s solidity is surely thanks to the experience of pioneering VR developer Sean Edwards, the mind behind the very early VR game Lunar Flight (2012) , and his studio Spunge Games. Image courtesy Sounge Games. Image courtesy Sounge Games. Image courtesy Sounge Games. Image courtesy Sounge Games.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 9, 2022

Kickstarter has been used as a crowdfunding platform for tabletop role-playing games almost since its inception. In 2012, only three years after Kickstarter first launched, Jamie Chambers successfully ran a crowdfunding campaign in support of a new edition of the classic science fiction RPG, Metamorphosis. Read more.

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VRScout

JANUARY 27, 2022

Ever since Psy graced our ears with his now-iconic song ‘Gangnam Style’ in 2012, the popularity of South Korean music, film, and television has skyrocketed in places like the United States. “The country is home to a huge gaming market, with cloud gaming leaders such as Netmarble.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s flirting with the idea of starting up a new VR game studio to revisit some game development ideas. Across a handful of tweets, he’s called the game “ incredible ” and “ super immersive.” The experience has got Persson once again flirting with the idea of making his own VR games.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Multi-user interactive 3D gaming experiences, no headset required. In recent years, we’ve seen holographic technology begin to make its way into mainstream media, such as the holographic Tupac performance featured during Coachella 2012. When will we be able to send messages like that!?”. “Holochess.” Image Credit: Voxon.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

Gunfire Games’ most recent release, the space adventure game From Other Suns (2017), is playable for free this weekend. The game is exclusive to the Oculus platform and designed “from the ground up” for the Touch controllers, coming from the studio behind Chronos (2016) and Dead & Buried (2017).

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2017

Having recently departed Oculus after founding the company in 2012, Palmer Luckey has assured the world that he’s still very interested in virtual reality and has hinted at some of the things he’s pursuing for future projects. The setting of [Sword Art Online] was ‘If you die in-game you also die in the real world’.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. What you’re seeing right now is a lot of the wave shooter game—‘here’s a wave of robots or zombies.’ That's the quote.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2018

Japanese VR studio MyDearest and Los Angeles-based Sekai Project are launching a Kickstarter campaign today to fund the development of a new VR manga game. Dubbed TOKYO CHRONOS , the VR visual novel game is targeting HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR. MyDearest is a Tokyo-based VR developer specializing in adventure games.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Amongst other things I got to enthuse about the latest iteration of my favourite real guitar teaching and playing app/game Rocksmith, now Rocksmith+ which for me really shows the power of instrumentations of erm… instruments The original was back in 2012 and very quickly broke my guitar I had since 1988.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

Back in 2012, a starry-eyed young entrepreneur called Palmer Luckey announced a new and improved head-mounted display that would be better than pretty much everything on the market at the time, and affordable for gamers to boot. He built the first prototype of his VR headset in 2011 and announced it on Kickstarter in 2012.

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Road to VR

APRIL 8, 2019

The immensely popular block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) reigns supreme once again as the most downloaded PSVR last month. Beat Games’ continued release of free tracks for Beat Saber and its recently released DLC song pack, Monstercat Music Pack Vol. Here’s the list for March 2019: Beat Saber (2018).

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Road to VR

MARCH 14, 2019

Today developer and publisher Rebellion Developments announced that four new Sniper Elite projects are in the works including, for the first time, a made-for-VR game. ” ‘Sniper Elite V2 (2012)’ | Image courtesy Rebellion Developments.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

Ripstone Games , makers of Pure Chess (2012), are bringing their upcoming sequel Chess Ultra to PlayStationVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. That last one sounds way more fun actually, but sadly not a part of the game. ” The game is also coming to PS4, Xbox and PC via Steam.

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ARPost

AUGUST 17, 2021

During the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, Holiday Inn used AR to create immersive experiences for guests around the hotel. Without even setting foot in the bedrooms, guests can inspect them thoroughly. This virtual tour can help them decide which rooms to book. How Are Hotels Using Augmented Reality Technology?

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2020

Star Citizen , the space adventure game seemingly in perpetual Early Access, has been committed to adding VR support since well before consumer headsets existed. As time passes though and the game grows evermore ambitious in scope and scale, the possibility of VR support seems to have been indefinitely back-burnered.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

So it appears that the long-running Fire Pro Wrestling franchise will be getting its first installment since 2012. This matches up with the petition that they put out 10 months ago to gauge interest in a new game. Spike Chunsoft has launched a teaser site and video titled "Pro Wrestling. They also added 3/2(GDC?)

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Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

GAMDIAS, a substantial player in the realm of PC power and cooling components, has consistently garnered attention for its innovative approach to crafting gaming hardware solutions. The company emerged on the scene in 2012.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

But what they thought was just a fun game turns out to be a life or death struggle when they learn they have no way to log and if they die in the game then they will also die in real life. First aired in 2012, the fictional events of the show were set in the year 2022.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 22, 2017

Del Cerro describes the main character as “an indestructible superbeing” in a recent entry on the PlayStation Blog , who gains abilities as the game progresses. The player can only roam the entire Earth at the beginning of the game, but your powers will increase, letting you “fly to the Moon or walk across the surface of the Sun.”

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As the story goes, unbeknownst to those who joined the game, the NerveGear VR headset they are wearing will kill them in real life if they die in the virtual world. When an appropriate game-over screen is displayed, the charges fire, instantly destroying the brain of the user. This setting became obvious right after the launch of SAO.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Taking that and the talents of well-seasoned industry vets, Schulz created a new venture with Playsnak, a company focused on mobile and VR game development and publishing. million seed investment from K Cube Venturesl, a firm that has allocated $100 million in assets from 2012 until now. “We With the $1.3

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Road to VR

MAY 14, 2018

In its first week, Beat Saber has sold 50,000 copies across Steam and Oculus, generating $1 million in revenue—a clear milestone of success for a game still in early access and made by a three-person indie studio. At $20 a pop, the game has generated around $1 million in revenue, before the 30% cut taken out by the storefronts.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The company announced that Eat Sleep Play, the developer of 2012’s Twisted Metal reboot on PlayStation 3, joined its new office in Salt Lake City, where the team was already based. Augmented reality glasses group CastAR is looking to build up its profile ahead of launch next year, and today it’s got another big hire to share.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2019

It’s been a year since Japanese studio MyDearest and LA-based studio Sekai Project successfully concluded their Kickstarter for Tokyo Chronos (2019), the VR mystery game told through the lens of a visual novel. Now, the studios are getting ready to launch the game on PSVR.

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ARVR

MAY 28, 2021

He has been working in VR development since 2012, prior to the release of the first modern VR consumer headset, the Oculus Rift. I was very lucky to be at the right place at the right time when I met Nathan Burba and James Iliff who were pitching Project Holodeck as an Advanced Games project at USC in spring 2012.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 25, 2022

inch Apple iMac from 2012 is available at Woot for only $174.99. inch iMac from 2012 that's technically " obsolete " (meaning Apple has discontinued hardware service and third-party providers can't order parts for repairs). 2012 Apple iMac (21.5-inch, TL;DR: As of March 25, a refurbished 21.5-inch A $175 Apple iMac?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 18, 2016

2012’s Dishonored was a stealth tour-de-force, enveloping players in an intriguing sandbox that they could manipulate and explore to their heart’s content. The upcoming sequel Dishonored 2 is aiming to add upon the original game’s success, but Gamesradar reports they may take the stealth game’s immersion to another level.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

With 10 games since 1995, the legendary franchise is known for its high speed, adrenaline pumping gameplay, and for its curated selection of cult electronica. ” Sony XDev Senior Producer John McLaughlin notes on the official PlayStation Blog that players can “race in every track, across every game mode, off or online.”

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Respawn has been know to be working on a ‘AAA VR shooter’ for two years, but today finally revealed the game. Medal of Honor is a storied franchise spanning more than 15 games, with the first title launching in 1999. Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond brings the iconic franchise back to life, now realized for virtual reality.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It lets you wirelessly play SteamVR games like Half-Life: Alyx and Boneworks or your traditional non-VR Steam games on a giant virtual screen. In a post on X , Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth described Valve's app as the "easiest way by far to stream your PC games to Quest headsets". This is so exciting!

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The filing also appears to indicate that ZeniMax wants the original campaign video for the 2012 Oculus Kickstarter to be barred from use, which includes footage of John Carmack, a key figure in the lawsuit, demonstrating a very early Rift prototype at E3 2012.

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VRScout

JULY 9, 2019

I competed in two Olympic Games: 2004 and 2012,” added Scott Dickens, Director of Strategic Partnerships at FORM. “At Having access to real-time metrics in your goggles is an absolute game-changer. Image Credit: FORM. “I At the elite level, everything is measured down to the hundredth of a second.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe looking at a Rift prototype in 2012. “The issue is our efficiency.” “Right now this is a 60 hertz screen, that’s what cell phones are, 60 hertz screen,” Iribe told me.

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