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Facebook’s Customer Base Spells Success For The Oculus Quest

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Though I would love to let my birthday piggyback on that accomplishment, credit actually goes to Facebook-owned Oculus, which launched its Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S headsets on that day. Having participated in a VR tournament using this cutting-edge headset, I can honestly say that Oculus’ hard work is apparent.

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Anime VR: present and future of a new medium

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But it wasn’t until Sony announced PSVR that things started to change. Project Morpheus, as it was called originally, was announced at the 2014 Tokyo Game Show and subsequently officially released as PSVR on October 13, 2016. Project Morpheus or Sony PSVR. various high-quality VR games on Oculus or SteamVR.

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Road to VR’s 2019 Game of the Year Awards

Road to VR

Available On : Oculus (Rift). Sanzaru Games and Oculus Studios brought Asgard’s Wrath to life as a part of the Oculus initiative to fund less, but bigger titles for the Rift platform. Available On: Steam (Index, Vive, Rift, WMR), Viveport , Oculus ( Rift , Quest ). Available On : Oculus ( Quest , Rift ).

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A Brief History of VR

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In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications. Being that it was the first HMD both quality of the interfac e and realism of the simulation were rather low, and it weighed so much that it had to be suspended from the ceiling by metal cables. .

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How To Make The Best Games In VR With Co-founder And CEO Of Survios Nate Burba

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video game industry when the Oculus Kickstarter campaign began? NB: The biggest win for Oculus was being able to get John Carmack and Gabe Newell in the Kickstarter video. With Oculus, VR had a tremendous amount of buzz. Then in 2014 we raised a series A round, which amounted in about $4.2M. A great example is climbing.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.02): Facebook acquires Beat Games, Valve gets the Index sold-out and is maybe working on Left4Dead VR, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It is also a defensive, move that makes it avoid the loss of its partners, as it has happened with Insomniac Studio that has just been acquired by Sony. More info (Facebook buys Beat Games) More info (Oculus post announcing the news, with some FAQs) More info (Ian Hamilton’s editorial) More info (Damo9000’s irony on the announcement).

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15 VR Games We Can’t Wait to Play in 2019

Road to VR

This year was awesome for VR gaming, but 2019 is looking even brighter with a slew of highly polished titles coming to PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. In this exciting Oculus exclusive, the enemy will stop at nothing to gain an advantage. ” Vacation Simulator. Check out out hands-on with Vacation Simulator to learn more.

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