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Omni One: Virtuix’ Decade of Development Culmonates

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Virtuix, the Austin-based company behind the “Omni” multidirectional VR treadmill, has launched its highly-anticipated Omni One – realization of a decade-long journey that began with a Kickstarter campaign in 2013. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Elijah Wood Revealed as the Voice of Scarecrow in ‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’

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As a canon entry in the Arkham series timeline, set a few months after the events of Arkham Origins (2013), you’ll use your trusty detective vision to see hostile opponents through walls, lob batarangs and smoke bombs, and POW! and THWACK! on everyone from petty gun-toting street thugs to the game’s main villain, Rat King.

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Upcoming VR Flight Combat Sim ‘Aces of Thunder’ Expected to Launch This Year

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Gaijin Entertainment, the studio behind War Thunder (2013) , announced that its upcoming aerial VR combat game Aces of Thunder is headed to PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets sometime this year.

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VR Version of Viral Horror Game ‘Slender: The Arrival’ Delayed to Later This Year

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Blue Isle Studios and Perp Games announced their upcoming VR version of Slender: The Arrival (2013) has officially been delayed until later in 2025. Slender: The Arrival VR was initially slated to arrive on May 13th across all major VR headsets, includingQuest, PSVR 2, and SteamVR headsets.

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John Carmack Pushed Microsoft to Make VR Fan Ports of ‘Quake’ & ‘DOOM’ Official, But Was Denied

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This was one of the pivotal moments in Carmack’s career, prompting him to leave Id in 2013 and join Oculus a few months laternotably a year before Meta (then-Facebook) acquired the VR headset startup for $2 billion.

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VR Games Showcase to Feature 20+ Games Next Week, Including ‘Hitman’, Flat2VR Ports & More

Road to VR

Blue Isle Studios and Perp Games are showing off gameplay of the VR port of Slender: The Arrival (2013), which was initially supposed to launch last year. Patient 8 Games is releasing info on its previously delayed sci-fi survival-horror game Memoreum.

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‘Assetto Corsa EVO’ Launches on PC VR Headsets in Early Access, But You May Want to Wait

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The original Assetto Corsa was an early champion of VR, having previously included experimental support for Rift headsets starting back to 2013, and later gaining support for additional headsets in 2017 with the adoption of OpenVR. And while VR hasn’t always been a day-one feature, it has been an integral part of the series.

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