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Remastered ‘Half-Life 2’ Coming to Vive & Rift with VR Controller Support via Revamped Mod

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But soon you’ll be able to revisit the perils of City 17 using the latest and greatest VR hardware around. 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.

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Cloudhead Games Teases Mystery VR Headset in Censored Image

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Cloudhead Games have been at the forefront of VR development ever since the studio brought a 2013-era prototype of The Gallery: Call of the Starseed (2016) to the Oculus Rift DK1 and Razer Hydra motion controllers. Furthermore, Unger said that plenty of the VR hardware in the studio “is not fit for public consumption.

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Hands-On With Valve’s Knuckles Prototype Controllers

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We began to develop The Gallery on the first Oculus devkit with the Razer Hydra (a Sixense technology) to deliver surrogate hand tracking and body presence back in 2013. As developers, when we receive prototype hardware like the SteamVR Knuckles, it makes us want to push the capabilities. It’s second nature.

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Sixense to Refund STEM Kickstarter Backers After More Than 4 Years of Delays

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The company built the technology behind the magnetically tracked Razer Hydra controller which was one of the only consumer-available 6DOF controllers available when the first Oculus Rift development kit (DK1) started shipping. Sixense was once a name central to the early VR community.

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Cloudhead Games – Lessons Learned From Five Years of VR Locomotion Experiments

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Fall 2013, Oculus DK1 + Razer Hydra. My journey into VR locomotion began with the sunsetting Razer Hydra in late 2013. Spring 2014, Oculus DKHD + Razer Hydra. The First Climb. The Bigger Picture. The Oculus Rift, for all intents and purposes, was a seated experience. Image courtesy Cloudhead Games.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years.