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Sony To Close ‘RIGS’ Developer Guerrilla Cambridge

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Guerrilla Cambridge, the UK-based developer behind the high-profile multiplayer FPS, is to close, owner Sony has confirmed to UploadVR today. ” RIGS was one of the biggest games of PlayStation VR’s launch line-up, and one of the few to be developed internally at Sony. .”

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VR: Fad or Fiction?

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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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VR Set To Enter New Phase After A Decade Of Carmack

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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. Carmack seems to have gotten the performance he wanted out of VR hardware, but not from Zuckerberg’s organization. “The issue is our efficiency.”

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‘Twisted Metal’ Developer Eat Sleep Play Joins CastAR To Make AR Games

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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. Heydari, Lead Recruiter for Technical Operations at Google; and Arnie Sen Senior Director of Hardware at Activision.

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Oculus Founder Expects No Next-gen VR Headsets From Market Incumbents Before Mid-2018

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Among a range of topics discussed, Luckey spoke of the timeline of future VR headsets from major hardware players. The hardware will not change. Of course there might be hardware from new companies entering the market, but the hardware of the major players in the market will stay the same.

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

ARPost

VR Hardware of the Year. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. The Sony game was nominated for four DICE Awards this year, but failed to take home any of them. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Samsung’s incubation program, called the C-lab, has backed developer education since 2012, and the C-lab program will be showcasing four of their prime VR/AR projects in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress this week (remember that now-iconic Dystopian photo of Mark Zuckerberg strolling through a crowd of oblivious VR headset-wearing journalists?

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