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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

GDC has historically been a key event for both Facebook/Oculus and Sony, with major announcements and previews of what would come from each company’s VR ventures throughout the rest of the year. In years past, GDC was used by both Oculus and Sony to reveal the latest versions of new VR headsets and content.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Holiday shopping season is here and we’re tracking the best Oculus Go Black Friday 2018 deals. Oculus Go Deal Baseline. It’s important to understand the nominal price point for the Oculus Go so that you know what kind of deal you’re getting when you see a sale. Oculus Go (64GB) – $250.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Valve dropped some interesting VR user data onto its community pages during GDC, providing an easily missed but important update about how people are using the Steam platform for virtual reality in the wake of Oculus Touch. This is despite the fact that new sales for the DK2 ceased in late 2015. The data suggests 6.5

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APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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MAY 17, 2020

Epic Games continues its streak of killer freebies with Rockstar’s best-selling action-adventure game. Every Thursday at 8am PT, video game and software developer and publisher Epic Games offers players a new free game available via the Epic Games Store. More information available here.*.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

VR/AR development company Schell Games today revealed the highly-anticipated sequel to its multiple award-winning spy-themed VR puzzle game I Expect You To Die. Zor has in store,” said Jesse Schell, CEO of Schell Games in an official release. “We Image Credit: Schell Games. “In Image Credit: Schell Games.

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JULY 10, 2018

Japanese VR studio MyDearest and Los Angeles-based Sekai Project are launching a Kickstarter campaign today to fund the development of a new VR manga game. Dubbed TOKYO CHRONOS , the VR visual novel game is targeting HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR. We’ll update with relevant links when it does.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Bethesda recently announced that Fallout 4 (2015) is coming to HTC Vive this October, and Skyrim (2011) is soon to follow sometime in late 2017 on PlayStation VR. On top of that, the company has made no official mention of Oculus Rift support for any of their upcoming VR titles. E32017 pic.twitter.com/xA5kNgV9hR.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The most anticipated VR game to date is now just one month and ten days away, and Valve has released some new screenshots to whet your appetite. Half-Life: Alyx will launch the week after GDC, an annual game developers event which Valve has regularly attended, and where the company first debuted its VR initiatives way back in 2015.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

We’ve rounded up a list of 20-something VR games launching in 2018 that we’re excited about, covering all three major VR systems: PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Platform : PSVR, Oculus, Steam (Spring 2018). ARK Park is a multiplayer adventure game based on the world of ARK:Survival Evolved (2017).

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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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JUNE 19, 2020

Kat VR, the China-based company behind the original Kat Walk VR treadmill Kickstarter in 2015, is bringing its new consumer-focused VR treadmill ‘Kat Walk C’ to the crowdfunding platform on June 21st. The device is also said to be compatible with Oculus Quest via Link, and with PSVR via an additional adapter.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

2019) today has finally brought VR support to the game. Now available for $60 on Oculus and Steam, the game offers support for Rift, Index, and HTC Vive, though developer Codemasters also confirmed that PSVR support won’t come to the PS4 version of the game. The game’s 1.7

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JULY 16, 2016

The SteamVR powered HTC Vive virtual reality system may see an updated “HTC Vive 2.0″ The HTC Vive, powered with technology developed by gaming giant Valve, had an impressively short gestation period. See Also: HTC Vive Review: A Mesmerising VR Experience, if You Have the Space.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Skybound Entertainment in partnership with Skydance Interactive have confirmed that multiple interactive VR games based on the hugely popular The Walking Dead franchise are in the works. I think that’s what people who either read the comic, watch the show, play the games,” says Murray in the IGN interview.

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JUNE 7, 2020

Kat VR, the China-based company known for kickstarting its original Kat Walk VR treadmill in 2015, is once again returning to the crowdfunding platform to launch a new product later this month, this time serving up a VR treadmill called ‘Kat Walk C’ that promises to appeal to at-home consumers.

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JULY 20, 2018

Now’s your time to pick up some great deals on top VR games, some discounted at more than 50% off. Your wallet may have just recovered, but some deep discounts are now available on Green Man Gaming , an authorized reseller of Steam codes. DiRt Rally (2015) – $50 $40 (-20%).

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Skyworld , a turn-based strategy game from Arizona Sunshine (2016) developers Vertigo Games, was initially introduced to the world as a demo during HTC Vive’s first public showing back in GDC 2015. Image courtesy Vertigo Games. Image courtesy Vertigo Games.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

CCP Games (developer of EVE: Valkyrie, EVE: Online , and others) has launched Gunjack 2: End of Shift (2016) , for the Samsung Gear VR on the Oculus Store. The title is the sequel to 2015’s Gunjack which had debuted on Gear VR. As with the Daydream version, the game can be played using the headset’s controller.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Time to applaud for a sweet deal on the HTC Vive, Clash of Clans partners w/ Facebook to bring AR to fans, control VR with your mind, new predictions for spending & investment are out, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. CLASH OF CLANS PARTNERS WITH FACEBOOK TO BRINGS AR TO FANS.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

It feels like we’ve been talking about Oculus Touch for awhile — and that’s probably because we have. We first got our hands on the Rift Touch hand-controllers during Oculus’ developer conference (OC2) in September 2015. The day is finally upon us — the Oculus Touch launches tomorrow. The short length of the USB 3.0

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Embark on an epic pint-sized quest September 23rd on On Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport. After five grueling years of development, critically-acclaimed filmmaker Jon Favreau ( Iron Man, The Mandalorian ) is finally set to launch his long-awaited dream-like VR adventure Gnomes & Goblins later this month on Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The perennially avant-garde singer-songwriter Björk has brought her entire 2015 album, Vulnicura , to virtual reality. The Vulnicura Virtual Reality Album is now available Steam (Oculus Rift, Valve Index, HTC Vive) priced at $30.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Tabletop Simulator (2015) and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015) are the two virtual reality-enabled games nominated for the very first Steam Awards. Neither are VR-only games, but both support the HTC Vive, while Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes also lists Oculus Rift and OSVR support.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Announced back in October 2015, Earthlight, the first-person space simulator from Opaque Space that puts you aboard the International Space Station (ISS), was eventually supposed to come to HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PSVR. Instead, the developers opted to only release the game in arcades, dubbing it Earthlight Arcade.

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JUNE 1, 2018

E McNeill, an indie developer behind strategy games Darknet (2015), Tactera (2016) , and Skylight (2017), announced his real-time strategy game Astraeus , an Oculus Go launch title, is coming to HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PC on June 7th. You can follow along with the game on Steam here.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Starting this month, Bandai Namco is lowering its age restriction for its VR Zone Arcade in Shinjuku to 7 years old on many of its VR games. A total of 9 games are available for kids 7+, including Evangelion VR , Dragon Ball VR , and even the room-scale Ghost in the Shell: Arise Stealth Hounds PvP shooter.

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

Rovio’s Angry Birds defined the early days of mobile games. Called Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, the game is set to debut early next year on “all major VR platforms,” the studio says. Now, the studio has set their sights on consumer VR with their next installment of their incredibly popular pig-smashing title.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

You might have caught a glimpse of the Feelreal mask prototype when it made headlines back at GDC 2015 , the smell-o-vision add-on for VR headsets that promised to bring plenty of scents to your nostrils and haptics to your face. of games and movies. Image courtesy Feelreal Inc. “We’ve chosen distinct scents?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Oculus has officially confirmed that Toybox , the highly anticipated multiplayer sandbox application built from the ground up to show off the Oculus Touch motion controllers, will be made available to every touch owner for free after launch. At the time however, it was early days for software Touch support.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Videogame tie-ins to movies are usually pretty bad, but LA-based VRWERX is hoping the same isn’t true for VR tie-ins; the company has just announced a new VR game based on the Mission: Impossible franchise. Mission: Impossible VR is coming to the HTC Vive, PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Oculus revealed Touch, their VR motion controllers, all the way back in June of 2015, but didn’t commit to shipping the controllers until the second half of 2016. Since the announcement, the controller has seen several design permutations, but Oculus says the controller is nearly complete, and better than ever.

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JULY 28, 2019

There’s a few short VR experiences that just stick with you, and one of my favorites is the 2015-era VR music video Surge. You can download the VR experience for free on Steam , which includes support for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Valve Index.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Paranormal Actvity: The Lost Soul, as the game is called, will be launching in Early Access on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on March 14th 2017, with a PlayStation VR version coming later down the line. That is according to a new trailer for the game, hosted by IGN, that you can see below. more to come.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

Kite & Lightning, the studio behind some of VR’s earliest experiences, is one of 13 developers receiving a portion of over $200,000 in ‘Unreal Dev Grants’, a program set up by Epic Games to showcase and provide financial support to projects using Unreal Engine 4. The game is currently in closed beta.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Secret Location , the studio behind Blasters of the Universe (2016) and Sleepy Hollow: VR Experience (2015) , today announced they’re heading back into VR territory with a new first-person, time-bending puzzle game. Transpose is slated to arrive on PSVR, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift this Fall with a $20 price tag.

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APRIL 11, 2019

Schell Games, makers of I Expect You to Die (2016) , have announced their hit spy-themed puzzle game is going to be a day-one launch title for Quest. Initially debuting as a demo on Oculus Rift developer kits in 2015, I Expect You To Die went on to become one of the industry’s most successful games to date.

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