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Editor’s Note: Valve has started shipping the prototype Knuckles controllers to select VR developers in limited quantities. We know that now with the Oculus Touch and the HTC Vive, but even when VR was simply a screen strapped to your head many felt that hands were the future.

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For the new (and awkwardly named) Justice League: An IMAX VR Exclusive experience the Centre is set to debut the ‘Reactive Grip’ haptic controller from Tactical Haptics. Tactical Haptics says they’ll be offering more details on their latest Reactive Grip controller design later this year and at the start of 2018 at CES.

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MAY 11, 2017

A reborn mod project is bringing compatibility for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with full motion input support, remastered visuals, a made-for-VR UI, realistic weapon interactions, and more. Motion Input on Modern VR Controllers. Here’s some gameplay from the original mod played on the Rift DK1. Watch the trailer above.

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VorpX has been available in active development since at least 2013 and has seen regular updates adding new features and growing the list of supported games. It supports all Oculus, SteamVR, and WMR headsets.

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Citra is an open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator for Windows that's development started in 2013. While the Touch Controllers' default mapping "makes most games on the platform playable," CitraVR also supports 3rd party wired USB and wireless Bluetooth controllers for games requiring more inputs. "My UploadVR Harry Baker

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

million to create a development kit of a haptic VR controller as a stepping stone to an eventual consumer product. The company was among just five or so companies exhibiting anything related to VR back at GDC 2013 (the first year Oculus attended the show). million to create a development kit of a Reactive Grip VR controller.

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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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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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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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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. ” The studio has four games currently in the works, one of which is Luna for Oculus Touch.

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JUNE 13, 2016

Oculus today announced a new exclusive, Wilson’s Heart , a first-person psychological thriller slated to arrive on Oculus Home in 2017. The game uses Oculus Touch controller so you can examine clues and manipulate in-game objects naturally. Wilson’s Heart is the studios first foray into VR development.

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MARCH 13, 2018

” Leap Motion controller mounted on an Oculus RIft DK2, image courtesy Leap Motion. Leap Motion’s hand tracker, aka ‘Leap Motion Controller’, is a small USB device capable of being mounted on VR headsets via a plastic mounting kit.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Oculus VR is one of the first major legal disputes to happen in our young new industry. You might remember that, quite famously, John Carmack joined the Oculus team as CTO in 2013. His relationship with the VR company (namely Palmer Luckey) and the creation of the Oculus Rift is at the heart of the allegations.

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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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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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Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye Tribe The direction you look could one day control your VR or mobile experience thanks to Facebook and Oculus’ latest buy, The Eye Tribe. By 2013 the full-fledged startup had shown the ability to build its technology into an Android tablet device.

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Dreadhalls is one of the first VR horror games made for the VR headsets which emerged with the rise of Oculus, and now the game is finally on Steam. Dreadhalls works with hand-tracked motion controls and this release represents the first time Vive owners can try it out officially. ” Tagged with: dreadhalls.

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First of all I want to thank everyone at Oculus and Facebook for allowing me to be part of an amazing opportunity. So many individuals to thank but I will start with Ebony Peay Ramirez-Program Manager, Diversity & Inclusion at Oculus VR. I was a bit down but decided to go to Oculus. wait they can.

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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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AUGUST 27, 2018

While Palmer Luckey provided his own Magic Leap One headset to iFixit for their tear down, the founder of Oculus certainly had his chance for a proper review before the spudgers and screwdrivers came out, and he isn’t pulling any punches either. ” First the good, then the bad (as determined by Luckey). Image courtesy FCC.

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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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Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Investments in AR/VR companies are at 2013 level.

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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth reportedly once argued for cancelling the Oculus "standalone VR project" and keeping Rift PC-based VR. One year later Oculus released its first standalone headset, Go. In fact it was actually John Carmack who was most in favor of mobile standalone VR in the early days of Oculus.

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MARCH 16, 2017

ElementalVR – E3 2013. With no motion controls or positional tracking—and VR locomotion hardly worked out at the time—this was primarily a visual demo. Shown during the debut of the Oculus Rift DK2, Couch Knights put players in the body of an avatar sitting in a contemporary room. Showdown – Oculus Connect 2014 | Read More.

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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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Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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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. Soon, you can rob banks and jewelry stores like never before with the team-based crime-spree game, Payday 2.

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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 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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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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MARCH 30, 2018

Developers can build haptic applications that control the exoskin with JavaScript in High Fidelity, allowing developers to add features such as sensing people at a distance, signaling directions or conveying tension as part of an in-world experience. It was a buzzing sort of feeling.”

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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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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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MARCH 27, 2017

Since a cancelled Kickstarter campaign in early 2014 — which raised $66,294 of its $250,000 goal — Sixense has refined MakeVR, expanding beyond its initial Oculus Rift support and adapting its controller support to include the HTC Vive wands. Tagged with: htc vive , MakeVR , sixense , vive studios.

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Hrafn Thorisson has worked in the field of virtual reality (VR) experiences since 2013. link] Aldin Dynamics is an Icelandic VR software company founded in early 2013, focused on creating believable virtual reality experiences and technologies to sustain presence and immersion. Do you want to listen to the full podcast ?

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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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Microsoft also plans to offer full motion controllers for your hands that will provide accurate tracking whenever they are in sight of the headset’s sensors. For those interested in a deep dive into these technologies, I’d recommend checking out Michael Abrash’s blog from 2013.

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