Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Now, a little under four years since the big names in hardware released their first generation consumer headsets, we live in a time when a number of VR games have actually approached the best that any gaming platform has to offer. Without further ado, Road to VR’s 2019 Game of the Year Award winners: Asgard’s Wrath.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2019

Gaming’s most frightening hallway is even creepier in VR. In August of 2014, Konami Productions published a short-form first-person psychological horror game entitled P.T. Despite this initial interest, the much-anticipated Silent Hills sequel was unceremoniously cancelled, with P.T. Image Credit: Radius Gordello.

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VRScout

MARCH 27, 2019

Much like the haunted animatronics lurking throughout the halls of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, 2014’s Five Nights at Freddy’s is a seemingly unkillable entity. Since its launch, the point-and-click survival horror game has spawned five major sequels, two spin-off titles, and three novel adaptations. It’s a beloved franchise.”.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 14, 2018

Although there exists a multitude of ways to get your video game fix in today, often we reminisce over the "good ole days". Hell part of the charm in the novel and upcoming film Ready Player One is its super call back to retro gaming. The player embarks on a journey into the screen of a classic video game and beyond.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Researchers have been struggling to find a cure or treatment for decades, and with the number of Alzheimer’s-related deaths nearly doubling from 2000 to 2014, the need for a treatment is greater now than ever. . While the concept sounds almost too good to be to be true, UEA researcher Michael Hornberger, Ph.D.,

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 1, 2015

We learned so much on the ground with our developer community in 2014. And now, for a bit of inspiration, behold – our 2014 Shortlist of Virtual Superlatives: Most Uncanny Robert Downey Jr. Most Game-Changing Tool for Self-Expression. The post 2014: A Year in Virtual Superlatives appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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JULY 16, 2020

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted VR is now available on Quest headsets, bringing with it all the nerve-wracking animatronic horror made famous by the ridiculously popular survival horror game. ’ This game mode has you slipping into the air vents for some claustrophobic puzzle-solving.

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Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2018

Serenity, the firefly-class spaceship from cult TV show Firefly (2002) and film Serenity (2005), is now full explorable in VR. Starting out in 2014, Tabar originally designed Serenity for the Oculus Rift DK2.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Twentieth Century Fox’s Fox Innovation Lab is working on a new VR experience to tie into the upcoming Alien: Covenant with the help of RSA Films and MPC VR. While the film itself is directed by series creator Ridley Scott, the icon is executive producing this piece while short film maker David Karlak is taking up directing duties.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Neo-noir action-thriller John Wick (2014) has come to the Vive in its new VR wave-based arcade shooter John Wick Chronicles. Developers: Grab Games , GamecoStudios , Big Red Button . I don’t remember him from the first film, and while I haven’t seen the second one yet, a cursory Google search reveals nothing.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

20th Century Fox’s VR game division FoxNext VR Studio today announced that their Planet of the Apes- themed game for PSVR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift is coming in April. The studio’s second VR game based on the Alien franchise is also currently in production.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The annual spectacle is packed with everything a growing nerd needs to get his/her fill of the latest sci-fi, video games, comics, anime, etc. Lionsgate and Starbreeze’s John Wick Chronicles game. John Wick was released in 2014 and has been running through my head ever since. Amazon Studios The Man In The High Castle.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Ever since Epic Games opened its Unreal Engine 4 technology to the world, new use cases have been coming in fast and furious. The latest example of just how far real-time video game engine technology has come will be on display at GDC 2017 this week. Those cars are built like we would do a video game asset,” Libreri said.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2017

The Transformers franchise, which began with a toy line more than 30 years ago, has expanded to include comic books, animated series, films, video games and consumer products. The most recent Transformers film, 2014’s TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, earned more than $850 million internationally.

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JUNE 7, 2022

His directing credits include Elf (2003), Iron Man (2008), Chef (2014) and The Jungle Book (2016), as well as most recently working on popular Star Wars series The Mandalorian for Disney+. He also been heavily involved in various capacities with Marvel Cinematic Universe films. However, Favreau is no stranger to virtual reality either.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Originally started in 2015 as a traveling VR film festival spanning 10 cities in North America, Kaleidoscope has really come into its own this year. Arnaud Colinart is a Producer at AGAT Films & Cie / EX NIHILO. In 2014, he founded Innerspace VR with Hayoun Kwon. Arnaud Colinart. Eliza Mcnitt. Julio Medem. Milica Zec.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2016

There isn’t a studio that can claim to be ‘The Pixar of VR’ just yet, but many heavy hitters in traditional media and tech are taking notice of the growth potential of animated films in VR, and specifically in Baobab Studios , the VR film studio known for animated shorts INVASION! and sequel ASTEROIDS!

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JANUARY 25, 2017

A new entry in Google’s now Academy Award-nominated Spotlight Stories series of 360-degree films will boast some serious directing talent behind it. Reel FX was also behi nd the Power Rangers VR ex perience that debuted at CES earlier this month, and a Hunger Games experience among other 360-degree movies.

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Cats and VR

JULY 10, 2018

ARVORE, the immersive storytelling VR/AR company today announced the final launch date and 20% pre-order discount for the long-awaited virtual reality game Pixel Ripped 1989. The game, which will be available on PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, will arrive for download on July 31st, 2018. USD off the $24.99 USD off the $24.99

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 15, 2019

John Canning: Chief Advisor John Canning is an Executive Producer for VR, AR, and Interactive at Digital Domain, which creates visual effects for feature films including most recently Avengers: Infinity War. They also create visuals for advertising, games, training, and immersive content, including their own original content.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Lionsgate have announced that the VR experience based on the Keanu Reeves film John Wick is to be previewed next week at NYC’s Comic Con, where attendees will be treated to a 7 minute sneak peek of the Starbreeze developed title.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

BIO: Anton Zaitsev started in 2014 with writing real-life escape room scenarios and launching real-life ERs as a creative director. In 2015 he launched the first VR escape game in the world. He started selling VR escape games and now he is CEO at Avatarico. Since 2015 there are 200 000 customers played these games. .

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

Bennett was an entertainment industry veteran with 27 years of experience in film, television, and music. The Big Top is a big warehouse full of parts, toys, games, experiments, designers, engineers and professional jugglers. But in 2014, Bennett was named Chief Content Officer and began building out a dedicated virtual reality team.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The project just premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and Tricart has big plans for it starting with an initial release of the 40-minute experience first for Quest headsets. In the virtual reality space, I have directed and created VR films and VR experiences for the past eight years. So this time it’s a real game.

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VRScout

AUGUST 10, 2018

By 2014, Nonny de la Pe ñ a had premiered Project Syria at the World Economic Forum and Palmer Luckey was a household name. What began as a couple of experiences at SXSW gaming, has no expanded into a VR takeover spanning several floors at the JW Marriott. The VR community in Austin was a bit of a late bloomer compared to other cities.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

He’s best known for his Directorial duties on films like Iron Man (2008) and The Jungle Book (2016) , but you may have encountered his front-of-camera skills in many films from Hoffa (1992) to Chef (2014 – a movie he also wrote, directed and produced).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A quick glance over the most popular anime series and films, from older entries like Ghost in The Shell or Digimon to the latest boom of so-called Isekai series, such as Overlord or Sword Art Online , shows well much Japanese audience get excited about being transported into a virtual world.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 15, 2022

We’ve spent hours wading through every movie category on Amazon Prime Video, past rows of films everyone’s already seen, to build a list of the best and most underseen movies buried within the depths of Amazon Originals and the dozens of bad-action–thrillers-that-look-fake (please, stop making these!). Honeymoon (2014).

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VRScout

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Set the mood this Halloween season with the following VR horror games on Oculus Quest 2. So what better time to break down our favorite VR horror games on Facebook’s killer standalone headset. The following are five VR games guaranteed to leave even the bravest, most fool-hearty players shaking in their virtual boots: .

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Mashable VR

JUNE 25, 2022

So, we've made things simple by highlighting ten excellent films that'll delight children — or those who are still a child at heart. It might be a Christmas movie , but Netflix's own original about a spoiled postman-in-training Jesper (Jason Schwartzman) who happens upon an old toymaker is a lovely and rewatchable film year-round.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Where the first Connect back in 2014 was about introducing creators to early VR design and development concepts and pre-release hardware, this year’s conference looks to have gone and grown up, indicating the move from enthusiasts nice to a rapidly evolving industry. There’s also a student/academic pass available at $99.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 31, 2016

Steel Wool Studios – an independent VR development studio formed by creative veterans of Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm, and Telltale Games – today announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding from HTC Corporation. Huang is a board member at Steel Wool Studios.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The movie director discarded the original voice actor in the title role of his 2013 film “Her” and substituted Scarlett Johansson’s sultry timbres. As The Washington Post noted, many keystones of the Meta vision of the metaverse already exist in video gaming — only in disconnected gaming worlds. Sometimes, it’s everything.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Back in 2014, the company had raised a $4.2 The interesting investment by MGM, whom most will recognize for their movie production and publishing work—including major films like The Hobbit trilogy—is described as “strategic” and aims to make use of MGM’s iconic IP. Survios CEO, Nathan Burba.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Gnomes & Goblins is a real-time interactive experience currently in development by VR production company Wevr and created by film director Jon Favreau, an industry professional known for his work on films such as the Iron Man franchise, Chef (2014) and The Jungle Book (2016).

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VRScout

JANUARY 9, 2017

The 2014 acquisition of DIRECTV was a recent big move, and the company is currently in process of purchasing Time Warner (which would bring AT&T’s telecommunication holdings under the same umbrella as the Warner Bros. AT&T has come a long way since Alexander Graham Bell. studio, Turner Broadcasting System, and HBO). The mission?

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Peter Pashley – Head of Development, Ustwo Games. Peter is Head of Development at Ustwo Games. With a background in AAA console development, he has spent the last five years at Ustwo Games learning to make successful mobile games. Daniel Efergan – Group Creative Director of Digital, Aardman Animations.

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