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

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Those who have been following the modern VR era since the beginning may recall the original HLVR mod launched in 2013 that was well ahead of it’s time, offering motion-controller input via the Razer Hydra, literally years before Oculus or Valve would announce their own VR controllers. ” Sadly, it wouldn’t last.

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‘Half-Life 2: VR’ Mod Gets Green-lit on Steam in 4 Days

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Those who have been following the modern VR era since the beginning may recall the original HLVR mod launched in 2013 that was well ahead of it’s time, offering motion-controller input via the Razer Hydra, literally years before Oculus or Valve would announce their own VR controllers.

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Hands-On With Valve’s Knuckles Prototype Controllers

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User interfaces in virtual reality start with your hands. 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. User interface in virtual reality starts with your hands.

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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 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. tracking basestations.

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Tactical Haptics Raises $2.2 Million to Build Haptic VR Controller Dev Kit

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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). Tactical Haptics is one of the OGs of the of the new VR landscape. The effect is unique and impressively convincing for certain interactions, and in many cases feels more authentic than mere rumble.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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Virtual reality has figured prominently at the event in recent years of course, quickly rising to become one of the shows hottest technologies. CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. CES 2013 however gave us the first glimpse of Oculus VR operating as a company. The OSVR HDK Headset.