VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. As part of that, I got to meet Nate Mitchell and Brendan Iribe who later became two founders of Oculus.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Wires are a VR buzzkill, but the untethered VR headsets are powered by smartphones – which are graphics-processing lightweights compared to the robust PCs behind the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss.

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2019

We first saw the Reactive Grip tech—which uses sliding bars to provide unique ‘shear’ feedback— way back in 2013. Left to right) Core Controller, Controller with Vive Tracker bracket, Controller with Oculus Touch bracket | Image courtesy Tactical Haptics. Tactical Haptics has been part of the modern VR scene since day zero.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2016

Obduction was one of the very first titles we covered back in 2013, and was one of the early success stories for crowd funded projects, having raised some $1.1M The news for us of course was that (as an increasing number of projects were) the title was touting Oculus Rift support. on the then fledgling Kickstarter platform.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Now you can rest easy, because Cyan has just announced on their Kickstarter page that the Oculus Rift version of the game is coming on the 31st of October, the 19th anniversary of the release of Riven. There is still no official word on whether a SteamVR-compatible version or Oculus Touch support are to follow.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). Or Unreal if that’s your language. I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The total number of registered users went up by 12,161, the biggest single-month increase since early 2013, to 511,530, crossing the half-million mark again. For those who are new readers, OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. The game was funded via a Kickstarter campaign in October 2013, and was released in August 2016 for PC, with a macOS version released in March 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

pic.twitter.com/cx93BXKY — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) January 21, 2013. Or because he’s been the first person attaching a Leap Motion to an Oculus DK1 with some duct tape, envisioning how hand tracking could be vital for virtual reality. To develop for the Leap Motion North Star, you can use Unity or Unreal Engine.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” Bitmovin , founded in 2013, is based in Palo Alto, CA, and Klagenfurt, Austria, and provides video infrastructure for the web. FROM DESTINY AND HALO TO POLYARC – $3.5M FOR VR GAME IN 2017.

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