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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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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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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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JUNE 22, 2017

The year started out with ZeniMax Media taking Facebook-owned Oculus to court over an alleged theft of technology. A jury eventually ruled that Oculus must pay ZeniMax $500,000,000, but that wasn’t the end of things — ZeniMax wants more. One of the biggest stories of 2017 for the VR industry is also one of its longest.

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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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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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MAY 23, 2017

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just two months ago. Palmer Luckey, circa 2012 | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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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. Bleszinski in the Oculus Rift Kickstarter video | Photo courtesy Oculus. That's the quote.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Robin Hunicke, executive producer on Journey (2012) and now co-founder of game studio Funomena , is creating a visually rich new Oculus Touch title that wants to be played by anyone and everyone. Journey is one of those games that you know you have to play as soon as you see it.

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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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JANUARY 19, 2017

Following Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance earlier this week, Oculus founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe answered questions in the company’s ongoing legal battle with ZeniMax Media over the alleged theft of VR technology. Luckey got into the nitty-gritty details about the origins of the Oculus Rift and more on Wednesday.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

million to their name, the company has reached arguably a more important milestone: they’ve surpassed the original Oculus Rift Kickstarter, becoming the top funded VR headset campaign in existence. Even though Pimax technically surpassed Oculus’ Kickstarter, historical context matters. image courtesy Pimax.

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MAY 30, 2018

Oculus Venues , the social app that allows ‘thousands of users’ to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today. Oculus’ Code of Conduct is also in full force, with community moderators on-hand in Venues. May 30 // Vance Joy // 7:30 pm PT. August 27 // School Night!

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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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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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DECEMBER 1, 2016

There are a lot of upcoming Oculus Rift games with Touch support. One of the games on that list will be the excellent adventure title, The Gallery: Call of the Starseed [ Review: 9/10 ] from Cloudhead Games. Tagged with: adventure , call of starseed , cloudhead , gallery , oculus touch.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. A decade later, Oculus VR is gone “ for now ” and the earliest faces to rally developer and enthusiast support for the imminent consumer revival of virtual reality have moved to other startups.

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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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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The legal battle between ZeniMax Media v Oculus VR has a verdict from the jury. In the first of many questions put to the jury, they decided Oculus did not misappropriate trade secrets. The help Carmack offered Oculus during this time and the dispute of what code was made available to Oculus made up much of the trial.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a VR pioneer, Olivier JT has been working on Synthesis Universe as far back as 2012. Shortly after the success of the Oculus Kickstarter later that year, he decided that the only sensible development platform for the futuristic VR experience was the Oculus DK1. And so Synthesis Universe was born.

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JUNE 30, 2019

If you’re just hearing his name for the first time, Silkin is largely responsible for coming up with much of the technology that lives in games like Sprint Vector and Creed: Rise to Glory. The company wants applicants to have experience in game development, particularly in Unity. This is the first class of its kind.

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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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MARCH 28, 2017

In the middle of August 2012 I wrote my first article about Oculus. There is VR hardware and software available via major retailers capable of making people feel emotions at a level of intensity which cannot be achieved with traditional video games. He joined CCP Games to work on the game after trying a prototype.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute which could cost Facebook $4 billion. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

There’s very, very little to report on this week, as the Oculus and Gear stores have all but closed their doors for Christmas, instead focusing on their ongoing — and nearly over — Winter Sales. Plus — check out our list of the best Oculus Rift games and best Gear VR games for more suggestions!

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Crossout is a online multiplayer game based around building and customizing a host of armored vehicles. Crossout is a online multiplayer game based around building and customizing a host of armored vehicles.

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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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DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Oculus Touch motion-tracked controllers have launched today after 8 months of the Rift solely supporting gamepad experiences. Oculus’ tracking system is mainly optimized for “standing” VR experiences that are specifically designed for their front-facing cameras. SEE ALSO Oculus Touch Review: Reach into Rift.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

We’ve had a writer in a Dallas courtroom following the ZeniMax vs. Oculus court case this week and taking notes. Tagged with: john carmack , oculus , zenimax. I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn’t work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.

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MAY 22, 2018

A new role, Operations, is also a part of the expansion, which essentially works like a miniature version of FTL (2012) by letting you allocate crew members to 10 different stations: thruster control, main engineering, torpedoes, shield generator, transporter room, astrophysics lab, computer core, phaser control, scanners, and sickbay.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Carmack is a computer programmer best known for his work on the Quake , Doom , and Wolfenstein video games. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. VR Game of the Year.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

Gunfire Games’ upcoming FTL -inspired shooter From Other Suns now has an official street date after celebrating a successful open beta last weekend. Pre-orders are already available via the Oculus Store at a $5 pre-discount, bringing it to $35, which includes a pre-order bonus of “the Golden Laser Pistol.”

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AUGUST 18, 2017

If preparing cars for motorsports in VR sounds like your idea of a good time, indie game Wrench is one to keep an eye on. Showcased in this recent ‘prototype trailer’, Wrench features painstakingly detailed car parts which the developer hopes to use in a rewarding, problem-solving car shop game.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

And it is all thanks to Respawn who is working on bringing their own take on the game to Oculus VR headsets. Titled Above and Beyond, it comes from the same people behind Titanfall and Apex Legends and the game promises to recreate intense, up close WWII combat in VR. What about you?

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

And it is all thanks to Respawn who is working on bringing their own take on the game to Oculus VR headsets. Titled Above and Beyond, it comes from the same people behind Titanfall and Apex Legends and the game promises to recreate intense, up close WWII combat in VR. What about you?

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JUNE 27, 2019

Survios, the studio behind a host of VR games such as Raw Data (2017), Sprint Vector (2018) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018) , has been a stalwart pioneer of the medium since the birth of consumer VR. Target Student Demographic : Expert-level Unity (or other game engine) developers who want to master Unreal Engine 4 for VR.

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MARCH 2, 2021

This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. Others believe that virtual reality is a technology exclusively for games.

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