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APRIL 27, 2020

Alien: Isolation (2014) was one of the first truly good games to get support for PC VR headsets. Thanks to Steam’s one-day ‘Alien Day’ sale, the landmark survival horror game Alien: Isolation is on sale for $2 , making for a 95% discount off the original $40 price tag.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Stay active under lockdown with these fitness-focused games & apps. Sports undeniably took a big hit and though some professional leagues are still running, it doesn’t beat those amateur games with friends. . Bowling hasn’t had a particularly successful history of video game adaptations. Bowling – Premium Bowling.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Earlier today legendary video game company Atari announced that it is partnering with innovation and strategic agency GSD Group to develop a new chain of hotels centered entirely around both classic and modern gaming. The post Gaming-Themed Atari Hotels Will Include VR And AR Entertainment appeared first on VRScout.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

million in its latest funding round, something it says will help further improve its cross-game avatar platform. Called Ready Player Me , the company’s software is said to allow anyone to create “a personal full-body avatar from a selfie,” which critically aims to be platform and game agnostic.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Originally released in 2018, Vox Machinae is a gem of a VR mech game that’s well loved by those that have played it. Even in 2022, the game stands as one of the best VR mech sims available today. However, from the outset the game has been (understandably) limited to a multiplayer in scope. Or so it seemed.

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MARCH 10, 2020

The studios say Panzer Dragoon VR will be a “completely new work to play the episodes of the series trilogy,” and it will be a first-person, VR-only game. There’s no clear release date yet, or list of targeted platforms, although we’ll be following the game’s fairly active Twitter profile for more.

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APRIL 24, 2021

Experience one of the scariest VR games currently available 100% free-of-charge courtesy of the Epic Games Store. Despite having released back in 2014, Creative Assembly’s Alien: Isolation remains one of the most unsettling survival horror games currently available. Image Credit: Creative Assembly.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This week Facebook announced the launch of cloud-streamed games from Facebook Gaming. These are games which are rendered in the cloud and then streamed to your computer. Cloud-based gaming has been seen by the industry at large as a way to make games more widely accessible by making them playable on less powerful hardware.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

The game now ranks among PS4’s top titles—VR or otherwise. In both categories that marks the game as being ‘Universally Acclaimed’ by Metacritic’s standards. In both categories that marks the game as being ‘Universally Acclaimed’ by Metacritic’s standards.

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MARCH 17, 2021

While Jason Rubin now focuses primarily on Facebook’s cloud-gaming gaming ecosystem , he originally joined Facebook as an employee of Oculus when it was acquired by the company in 2014. So maybe they can jump into a game on the same team, or share time together in an app like Rec Room.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Windlands (2016), one of the founding pioneers of modern VR gaming, has made the quiet leap to Oculus Quest this past week where it lives on to finally serve up its dizzying heights and grappling hook-based movement scheme to the standalone headset.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

It’s the time of the season again for reflection, when we look back at this year’s greatest achievements in VR gaming and remind ourselves just how far we’ve come in the four years since consumers first delved head-first into truly immersive worlds. Now, our games of the year: Half-Life: Alyx. Developer: Valve.

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APRIL 22, 2022

Electronic Arts and Codemasters just unveiled F1 22 , and although it wasn’t front and center in the announce trailer, the Formula One racing game is getting VR support on PC. F1 22 is slated to launch on July 1st across P4, P5, Xbox, and PC via the EA App, Origin, Steam, and Epic Store.

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JULY 25, 2019

Dubbed LOW-Fi , the game is described as the spiritual successor to Technolust, as it clearly taps into the same gritty cyberpunk feel that fans of the iconic film and literary genre know so well. .” We’ll keep you posted on all things Low-fi leading up to the campaign.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

See Also: Geenee AR Launches Web3 AR Game ‘NFT All Stars’ Playable With Select NFT Avatar Collections. With a recent acquisition, they also have plans to help onboard users to Web3 technologies through games that “bridge” Web2 and Web3. Then, “In 2014, I put on an Oculus for the first time and I saw the future.”.

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APRIL 13, 2022

Niantic has announced a new AR pet simulation game called Peridot. It's the company's first original game since 2014's Ingress.

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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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SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

IRIS VR today launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for LOW-FI , an atmospheric cyberpunk virtual reality game and so-called spiritual successor to TECHNOLUST (2016). Arcade Mini-games. Though not a direct continuation, Renaud says that Low-Fi is a spiritual successor to the game. Playable on min-spec VR capable PCs.

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JUNE 20, 2020

This August, fans of the virtual performer can jump into a virtual theme park where they can attend an opening/closing ceremony, interact and chat with other visitors, and purchase exclusive Hatsune Miku merchandise, including a life-sized Hatsune Miku digital figure as well as virtual clothing for their in-game avatars.

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MARCH 16, 2017

After years of making some of the most impressive VR tech demos of their time, Epic’s Robo Recall is not only the company’s first VR game proper, but a culmination of what the company has learned about VR game and engine design since the beginning. I’d also played the game from start to finish and felt inclined to agree.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The Room: A Dark Matter is an upcoming VR puzzler from Fireproof Games , the same minds behind The Room (2014), its beloved predecessor for PC and mobile, and VR shooter-adventure Omega Agent (2016). The game’s linear story is punctuated with hand-written notes that you find along the way in a each level.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Founded in 2014, Lofelt has garnered around €10 million (~$10 million USD) to develop both haptic software and hardware. In July the FTC alleged Meta was looking to “buy its way to the top” with its most recent acquisition of Supernatural game studio Within.

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JULY 29, 2021

The in-headset fitness tracker is compatible with all Oculus Quest games and apps, allowing you to monitor estimated calories burned and establish daily fitness goals. Introduced back in November of 2020, Oculus Move offers Quest users a variety of fitness-focused features they can use to track their physical performance in VR.

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JUNE 18, 2019

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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JULY 9, 2017

In our breakdown of the top 5 games for Oculus Touch and top 5 for the Xbox One gamepad, we take a look at some of the best games currently on the Oculus Store. Before we start, don’t forget that your Rift also works with compatible games purchased through Steam. Top 5 Oculus Touch Games. Robo Recall.

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JUNE 22, 2016

Criterion Games finally broke a two-year silence at E3 last week, but not in the way we expected. At the 2014 iteration of the industry’s biggest event studio General Manager Matt Webster revealed an early look at an incredibly ambitious multi-vehicle racing game at publisher EA’s press conference.

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JULY 12, 2017

Among the 11 picked for the company’s 2017 Accelerator is location-based VR arcade The Void and Unreal Engine creator Epic Games. Its not certain exactly what Disney’s Accelerator will accomplish for Epic Games at this time however.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Founded in 2014 by media entrepreneur Geoff Keighley, The Game Awards recognizes and upholds creative and technical excellence in the global video game industry.

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MARCH 12, 2021

This would also include projects like Portal, its development into AI, and even first-party VR game studios like Sanzaru, Beat Games, and Ready at Dawn. Facebook has been very forward with its intentions to own the space since acquiring Oculus in 2014 for $2 billions. Supposing its true, none of this really comes as a surprise.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

You’ve just finished installing a new game or app and excitedly dive in only to find yourself feeling nauseous from the experience just moments later. Physically-active VR games can make some players feel uneasy. Feeling queasy while exploring the metaverse? Grab a stick of your favorite gum and start chewing.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

At the end, Rubin said that he constantly gets asked when the world’s leading developers will begin creating VR games. Little more has been revealed about the game, including a name, however, the 2019 release date suggests this will be a full VR title with a lengthy, AAA development period. It’s all kinds of awesome.

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MARCH 29, 2022

nDreams was an early adopter of VR, starting with early VR tech demos in 2014, followed by small titles for headsets like Gear VR by 2015, and a larger title, The Assembly , which launched alongside the original Oculus Rift in 2016. Image courtesy nDreams.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Today developer and publisher Rebellion Developments announced that four new Sniper Elite projects are in the works including, for the first time, a made-for-VR game. Rebellion promises “a full reveal” of the new Sniper Elite VR game later this year, but hasn’t said when the game might launch or what platforms it will be on.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

With VR’s strengths for cockpit-based games, you’d think that there would be more quality mech titles available to today’s headsets. Vox Machinae first appeared on our radar all the way back in 2014 —back in the Rift DK1 and DK2 era, and long before motion input. What’s happened between now and then?

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Steam’s annual winter sale is already in full swing, bringing big savings to top VR games like Half-Life: Alyx (2020) , Star Wars: Squadrons (2020), Elite Dangerous (2014) and more. This is just a taste of the top titles, however you can find the full list of VR games on sale here. Steam Winter Sale Highlights.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

It may be optimized in a game engine for salesmen to present it in virtual showrooms. It may even be used in a video game. Dr. Martine Rothblatt’s 2014 book Virtually Human explores the idea of “mindclones” – AI versions of real people trained from things like the living person’s social media posts.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

Vox Machinae began its development journey as far back as 2014 , and eventually found its way to an early access launch on PC VR in 2018. Nine years later, the team is still honing the game to be the best it can be. The update has three big additions: weather conditions, time of day, and selectable map boundaries.

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