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MAY 3, 2017

From mid-2014 until early 2016, when the Rift DK2 development was essentially the only hardware option, software support in racing simulators was frankly a bit of a nightmare. The HTC Vive launched on April 5th 2016, a week after the consumer Oculus Rift. Assetto Corsa.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Claude Zellweger, HTC’s VP of Design, is making the switch from PC VR to mobile VR. HTC itself confirmed to UploadVR that Zellweger had parted ways with the company, stating: “HTC can confirm that Claude Zellweger has left the Company. Tagged with: Claude Zellweger , Daydream , google , htc.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Steel Wool Studios has picked up a $5 million investment from HTC. Steel Wool Studios , which today announced a $5 million Series A investment from HTC, was founded in 2011 and shifted their focus to VR in 2014, eventually launching Quar: Battle for Gate 18 , a virtual reality RTS for the HTC Vive.

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JULY 7, 2016

When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. “HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015.

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JUNE 28, 2016

New Retro Arcade has finally got the roomscale treatment with newly released support for the HTC Vive (and Oculus Rift CV1) through Steam. Even back in 2014 , long before HTC or Oculus announced their intention to create VR controllers, it was clear New Retro Arcade was destined for motion input.

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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. The sale is already in effect, and lasts until January 5th, 2020 at 10 AM PT ( local time here ).

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JUNE 20, 2020

Back in 2014, Miku made her U.S. network television debut on the David Letterman and opened up for pop icon Lady Gaga during a 2014 tour, with Gaga herself tweeting , “My favorite digital pop star Hatsune Miku is opening The ARTPOP Ball from May 6-June 3!

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JULY 8, 2016

Searches for “HTC Vive” Have Caught up with “Oculus Rift” and May Be Accelerating When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015.

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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. In April, the studio launched Quar: Battle for Gate 18, an action strategy title, on Steam for the HTC Vive.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Starting out in 2014, Tabar originally designed Serenity for the Oculus Rift DK2. The fully-explorable Serenity supports SteamVR headsets including Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets.

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APRIL 24, 2021

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

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

That’s what’s so unique about Tiny Bull Studios Blind , an upcoming VR puzzle game for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, and Open Source VR that pulls a switcheroo of sorts, using VR technology to actually limit the visual senses of the player for a unique gameplay experience unlike any other. Image Credit: Tiny Bull Studios.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

What it Means for 2024 The first article about Apple that I ever wrote on Road to VR was this one in 2014 about the company filing a job posting seeking someone with experience in AR and VR. That leaves HTC to fall back to the enterprise sector, the one place where it has long had a strong reputation.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Leading the design of these ambitious locations is Napoleon Smith III, the producer behind the 2014 film reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ; he’ll be working alongside Arizona-based real estate developer True North Studio to bring his vision to life in Phoenix later this year.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

While the HTC Vive continues to hold the majority share, the Rift is approaching striking distance. Steam is the de facto content platform for the HTC Vive though it technically supports the Rift too ; plenty of Rifters use both the official Oculus Home platform and Steam to play content which may not be available on the opposing platform.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

From 2014 it partnered with Facebook on the phone-based Gear VR, effectively the first widely shipped consumer VR product. Both used the same OLED displays as the original Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro, with lens separation adjustment and built-in headphones. In 2020, updates formally ceased for the platform.

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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. Now, Scottgames is bringing its critically-acclaimed franchise to VR with Five Nights at Freddy’s VR: Help Wanted for the Playstation VR, Oculus, SteamVR, and HTC Vive.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

After generating over $20k in a successful Indiegogo campaign in fall of 2014 and subsequently being Greenlit on Steam, Windlands is out of early access and available on every major headset including Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, OSVR and PSVR.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). I’m Chen, General Manager and Chief Editor of VRTUOLUO , also a senior media expert who has dug and studied deeply the XR industry since 2014.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The HTC Vive maintains a razor thin lead with 48.76% share of headsets in use on Steam. Steam is the de facto content platform for the HTC Vive though it technically supports the Rift too ; plenty of Rifters use both the official Oculus Home platform and Steam to play content which may not be available on the opposing platform.

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MAY 26, 2017

Videogame publisher and developer Square Enix, famous for its Final Fantasy franchise, among others, has launched its first game for the HTC Vive, Kai-ri-Sei Million Arthur VR in Japan. The game’s Steam page officially lists support for the HTC Vive and Seated and Standing play areas. Photo courtesy Square Enix.

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OCTOBER 1, 2017

The HTC Vive maintains the majority with 50.2% Steam is the de facto content platform for the HTC Vive though it technically supports the Rift too ; plenty of Rifters use both the official Oculus Home platform and Steam to play content which may not be available on the opposing platform. SEE ALSO Google Buys HTC Talent & IP for $1.1

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JULY 6, 2023

Samsung's History In VR From 2014 Samsung partnered with Facebook on the phone-based Gear VR headset, effectively the first mass-market VR product. Both used the same OLED displays as the original Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro. It's not yet known what kind of design or what exact specifications Samsung is aiming for.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Things get serious in this week’s roundup for HTC Vive, featuring Serious Sam VR , the virtual release of The Golf Club with over 130,000 courses, and much more. We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. Fine China, from Fine China Games.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Croteam’s The Talos Principle (2014) is making its way to headsets soon in a separate VR version, supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The studio now has a Steam page, including an October 17th launch date. And if you already own the PC version of the game?

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Starting life as a VR/AR sketchpad hardware prototype, a team of Design Engineering Masters students at the Royal College of Art unveiled the ‘Gravity’ project at an RCA Work in Progress Show in February 2014. The HTC Vive hardware arrived soon after, prompting renewed interest in motion-tracked sketching and modelling.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Tiny Bull Studios and Fellow Traveller (ex-Surprise Attack Games), today announced that Blind, the long-awaited psychological thriller, is slated to launch globally on September 18th for PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and OSVR. The concept won ‘Best Game’ of the 2014 Turin Game Jam, owing to its innovative echolocation mechanic.

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MAY 30, 2017

Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus, circa 2014 | Photo courtesy Oculus. Luckey stuck with Oculus under Facebook for several years, but after the reveal of a polarizing political stance and a major lost lawsuit —brought by a company which Oculus was involved with in its early days— news broke that he had left the company in March.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Bigscreen launched back in 2014 and has since amassed over one million users, with some spending an incredible 20 – 30 hours per week inside the social VR platform. Bigscreen is available for free on the Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift S, Oculus Go, HTC Vive, Valve Index, all SteamVR headsets, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.

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APRIL 11, 2019

A Chair in a Room first came to Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift DK1 as a free demo back in 2014. Later arriving on Steam as a full game for HTC Vive and then Oculus Rift, we always wondered when the highly rated horror mystery game would make it over to PSVR.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The game, which recently passed hands to Sumo Digital due to CCP shelving its VR-producing branches back in October last year, has been an early VR stalwart since we first saw it in 2014 when it carried the moniker EVE-VR. SEE ALSO CCP to Shelve VR as It Shutters Atlanta Office, Sells Branch Behind 'EVE: Valkryie' in Newcastle.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

According to a report by The Verge , HTC’s VP of Design is leaving the company to join up with Google’s Daydream VR team. Having joined the company in 2008, in recent year’s HTC’s VP of Design, Claude Zellweger, played a key role in the design of the Vive headset, The Verge reports.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

We don’t have a clear idea on precisely how many units have been sold for the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Daydream View, or any other major headset on the market. According to a Homido representative, the company has collectively sold approximately 557,000 HMDs since 2014.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Despite the new high point, the HTC Vive still holds the majority share. Steam is the defacto content platform for the HTC Vive, though it technically supports the Rift too; plenty of Rifters use both the official Oculus Home platform and Steam to play content which may not be available on the opposing platform.

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JULY 17, 2018

Using an HTC Vive and a specially made controller, the ‘Holoroom Test Drive’ allows anyone timid around power tools to put on a VR headset to learn how to use the tools in a safe virtual space. Innovation Labs has been working with AR and VR platforms since 2014 with the original intent to assist customers with home projects.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

The wildly popular puzzler The Talos Principle (2014) from Croteam is soon to be making its way to VR in a separate version, playable on SteamVR-compatible headsets; i.e. HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The demo took me through the game’s third level (Land C), a verdant, castle-filled world where trees dot a medieval age ruin.

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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.

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