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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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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

White Lotus Interactive have announced that their VR-enabled adventure title XING: The Land beyond is now coming to the HTC Vive with full motion control support. The post ‘XING: The Land Beyond’ is Coming to HTC Vive, New Trailer appeared first on Road to VR.

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Steam vs The Oculus Rift Store Valve worked closely with Oculus in the early stages of research and development of the Rift throughout 2013, after Gabe Newell officially endorsed Palmer Luckey 's Kickstarter campaign in 2012. Together, they beat Oculus to market with tracked controllers.

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Launched initially in 2013, the device was praised for its impressive hand-tracking, but failed to find a killer use-case when used as an accessory for PCs. Future versions of the software will not deliver any performance improvements to the original Leap Motion Controller device,” the company says.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Payday 2 (2013) , the popular FPS with four-player co-op, has now updated to include access to the VR beta for HTC Vive. Although technically running through SteamVR, the game currently only officially supports Vive, and only renders Vive controllers. Some users have reported that Windows VR headsets work fine as well.

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MARCH 3, 2017

Tactical Haptics , developers of the Reactive Grip controller, are showing their latest prototypes now with attachments for the Vive Tracker, Oculus Touch, and a custom-built SteamVR Tracking solution. Though that’s not to say that Vive controller adapter might not be offered when the Reactive Grip controller becomes available.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

There are a lot of upcoming Oculus Rift games with Touch support. We spotlighted over 30 of them last month, but now know that 53 different titles are expected to be available on day one, December 6th, when the motion controllers launch next week. Tagged with: adventure , call of starseed , cloudhead , gallery , oculus touch.

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APRIL 30, 2018

Like its 2D forebears such as GeoGuessr (2013) , Go Guess tasks you with investigating the captures by hunting for clues. Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

In what might be the longest Kickstarter campaign conclusion to date, more than four years following estimated deliveries of the STEM VR controller, Sixense says they will fully refund all backers and pre-orders. Image courtesy Oculus. Sixense was once a name central to the early VR community.

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The game itself isn’t new as it’s been out since August of 2013. The footage shows people playing on an HTC Vive, but it seems reasonable to assume support for the Oculus Rift and Touch will be included as well. By playing you rack up money and gear and unlock skills for various classes and guns as you progress.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Shot in first-person as a continuous take, 360° live-action spy thriller Agent Emerson is slated to arrive on all Oculus headsets as well as PC VR headsets November 22nd, followed later by a release on PSVR. Agent Emerson will arrive for users of all Oculus and HTC headsets on November 22nd. Image courtesy Rogue Initiative.

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MAY 15, 2017

Half-Life 2: VR , a revamped version of an older mod which will adapt the beloved Half-Life 2 for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has been green-lit, signifying Valve’s official acceptance of the mod for distribution on Steam. Here’s some gameplay from the original mod played on the Rift DK1. Sadly, it wouldn’t last.

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MAY 11, 2017

You can watch the new footage below: With this new information we now know for sure that motion-tracked controllers will be fully supported, instead of just keyboard and mouse controls, and both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive will be able to enjoy the mod in perfect platform parity.

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JUNE 17, 2018

Featuring the cute bots first seen in The Playroom (2013) , Sony Japan Studio’s upcoming platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission uses similar controls and gameplay mechanics as any other 3D platformer, but it has been created from the ground up with VR in mind. Hands-on With Astro Bot Rescue Mission. Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio.

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MARCH 8, 2017

The headset can also run with a native 90Hz refresh rate (matching the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive). Hitting such a high framerate, especially on the PS4’s 2013-era hardware, takes careful optimization. According to developer Mark Taylor, Korix will be the first game on PSVR to run natively at 120Hz, on both PS4 and PS4 Pro.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Furthermore, system specifications will be similar to those of Obduction (2016), the studio’s first VR game and first Kickstarter campaign, which reached success back in 2013. Like Obduction , Firmament will equally support VR headsets and motion controllers, as well as traditional monitors. Image courtesy Cyan.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Cloudhead Games CEO Denny Unger recently tweeted what appears to be an unreleased VR headset and motion controllers using SteamVR 2.0 Many key parts of the image have been blurred out, including most of the headset and all of the motion controllers. ” SEE ALSO HTC Confirms Vive Cosmos Will Support OpenVR/SteamVR.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Launched in May 2016, the motion-controlled VR game was developed with the insights gained from using Aldin’s own data visualisation tool Ghostline. Dedicated to VR software development since early 2013, Aldin Dynamics is one of the most experienced studios in the world, launching software on Oculus developer kits and Gear VR.

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Controlling a fleet from outside the cockpit, it arrives on PC VR on January 31. It was around this time he ordered the original HTC Vive for prototyping and it wasn’t long before the pair entered VR development. Orbital Strike VR takes a different approach to space combat. No-one had logged into the servers for months.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

A bundle of nine VR indie games is coming soon to the PlayStation VR which includes Dreadhalls , a popular horror title for Gear VR and Oculus Rift. Otherworld Interactive is due to bring the game to the HTC Vive, and the demo on Steam is a completely different, higher-fidelity experience with the same theme.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

“The starting off point for the microphone input was a bid to do VR cheaply (Oculus DK1s were shipping in 2013 and we couldn’t afford one),” said Ng. “But as a whole, [in 2017] I’m expecting to see more solutions and conventions in regards comfort, movement, controls, etc.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

We’ve rounded up a list of 20-something VR games launching in 2018 that we’re excited about, covering all three major VR systems: PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Platform : PSVR, Oculus, Steam (Spring 2018). Platform : Oculus, Steam (Early 2018). Platform : Oculus (February 28, 2018). Ace Combat 7.

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JUNE 13, 2016

Serious Sam is going virtual in their newly announced VR game, Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope, a gore-filled VR shooter targeting both Steam VR and Oculus Rift. Croteam , the studio behind the Serious Sam franchise, is touting Serious Sam VR as a “full-fledged VR title,” which will use either system’s motion controllers.

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This time we took a trip downtown to get a peek inside Stress Level Zero , developers of the HTC Vive multi-player shooter, Hover Junkers. The two parted ways in 2013 and Freddie bought out Brandon’s half of the channel, rebranding it as RocketJump. Welcome to the Broasis. Dudes might even live here.

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Originally released in 2013 on the original Oculus Rift DK1, the HL2VR mod allowed early adopters to play through the entirety of Half-Life 2’s single-player campaign in VR with support for the Razer Hydra motion controllers. The mod will be available on up-to-date Oculus Rift and SteamVR headsets.

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To help do that, I coordinate engineering efforts internal to Epic as well as well as manage relationships with other companies like Oculus, Valve and Samsung to make sure that UE4 lets people maximize the potential of the engine to the fullest and that it’s easy to use. We don’t really have any software to show on it.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is an authentic depiction of this job, putting you in control of highly detailed vehicles. SCS started porting Euro Truck over to the Oculus Rift back in 2013. Another thing which complicated the development even further was the evolution of the Oculus API, which sometimes changed in radical ways.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

“We conducted many studies where test subjects performed tasks using Vive controller or Dexmo. Ever since Oct 2013 when we initiated Project Dexmo, we haven’t stop improving it: In June 2014 we came up with the design of “switching force feedback”, proved the concept and filed a US patent for it. As expected, no contest!

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Oculus Rift DK1 with Razer Hydra motion controllers | photo by Road to VR. Initially revealed all the way back in 2013 , the game had players facing off against waves of terrifying spiders that reacted in beautifully grotesque ways as they were dispatched with bullets and explosives. r ap Cenydd, was Crashland.

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We’ve compiled a list of our top five favorites for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Sim racing has successfully migrated from the ‘very early adopter’ stage (using Oculus development kits) to the ‘early adopter’ stage as one of the first gaming genres to embrace VR (the first-generation consumer headsets).

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

Supported Headsets: Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, HTC Vive. Supported Headsets: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR. Metro developer 4A Games makes its VR debut with this Oculus Studios shooter that doesn’t look a whole lot different from its last post-apocalyptic shooter. Supported Headsets: Oculus Rift.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Though Halloween has passed, the horror games continue to come and will likely continue for a long while on the HTC Vive. We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. Robosports VR, from Babeltime. Price: Free-to-play. Price: Free-to-play.

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Called Ironlights , the still in-development game is setting itself apart from other physics-based melee titles by offering up a dynamic ‘back-and-forth’ combat scheme, which is designed to further eliminate careless controller waggling by way of a novel turn-based combat system. Image courtesy E McNeill.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality from Bossa Studios is a VR-based adaptation of the original Surgeon Simulator 2013 , first released for flat monitor displays in 2013. Now, Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality , is essentially the original 2013 game adapted to fit the controls and premise of the Meet the Medic demo.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Available On: Steam (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive). Reviewed On: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive. The game was mainly tested using both VR and triple screens, using a dedicated sim rig, but gamepad control was also briefly tested. SEE ALSO Top 5 VR Racing Sims for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Because it doesn’t make the same effort to present the player with realistic driving, like one you might find in Euro Truck Simulator 2 (2013) , it presents a bit of a bad argument if it’s truly trying to prove that games can’t provide you with the skills applicable to the real world. image courtesy Gearbox Software.

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