The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2021

HitMotion is a game that all over the years has always been at the cutting edge of technology: in 2016 it was the tech demo of a full-body VR game using VR headsets and Kinects made for my startup Immotionar. It was born as a summer project made by Massimiliano Ariani and me, helped by the 3D artist Victor Pukhov. Have fun with HitMotion!

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Road to VR

JANUARY 27, 2017

The Official PlayStation Blog has shared Sony’s most downloaded games of last year. PSVR now has more than 50 titles supporting the headset, check out the most downloaded in 2016 below: Job Simulator ($30). SEE ALSO 'EVE: Valkyrie' Now on HTC Vive, Joins Rift and PSVR Players. Virtual reality space dogfighting is here.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

As 2016 started I was in a job I hated but thanks to CatsAndVR.com I was able to get a job in VR that allows me to travel, be plugged in, and also follow my passion. Since the end of 2016 falls on Caturday, I am closing 2016 out with a post. Since the end of 2016 falls on Caturday, I am closing 2016 out with a post.

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Road to VR

JULY 19, 2019

Tyler Hurd, the creator behind patently ridiculous VR experiences Butts (2016) and Old Friend (2017), has just joined the Oculus Medium team. Beach Body Bros is a four-minute room-scale VR experience for the Oculus Rift & HTC Vive. To read more about how Hurd used Medium as a tool, check out the blog post here.

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Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2019

Oculus announced that Thumper (2016), the popular rhythm-action game, is officially coming to Quest at launch. The company released the news via a blog post as a part of their on-going ‘Quest Countdown’; exactly when the clock is supposed to strike zero, we’re not sure.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Aldin details the update in a blog post , where they introduce. Much like the zero-G locomotion scheme seen in games such as a Lone Echo (2017) or Climbey (2016) , tying artificial movement to real-world motion significantly reduces the discomfort associated with VR locomotion.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

To do this, an infrared 3D capture camera hangs on the front of your headset (either the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or other devices) and dangles in front of the lower half of your face, reading your expressions. Shipments begin a little later than the original estimation of October 2016.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2017

New content for the popular VR puzzle game I Expect You To Die (2016) arrived today on all platforms – a free level named ‘First Class’ available to all current and future players. Schell Games has also begun a week-long 20% discount for the title on all platforms. In the end, however, we knew we had to address it.”.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2017

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a famous example of using the technique in Unreal Engine 3 (see The Astronauts’ blog for a detailed explanation), and Realities.io took a photo-realistic approach to create their free SteamVR product Realities using Unreal Engine 4, which launched alongside the HTC Vive in April 2016.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Image courtesy HTC. HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In a brief blog post , the studio says that they’re no longer actively developing for Space Junkies. So while it seems Ubisoft has basically been treating VR as an experiment since the hardware’s general launch in 2016, it’s clear the company hasn’t given up on VR as a whole.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

” said Pete Hines, Bethesda’s VP of Marketing, after revealing that an incarnation of Fallout 4 (2015) and Doom (2016) are in development for virtual reality on the HTC Vive. Pete Hines on stage at E3 2016 | Photo courtesy Bethesda.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Having launched VR support for No Man’s Sky (2016) back in August, Hello Games is nearly ready to launch the latest update to the open-world sandbox game, which is slated to include a mess of community requested features and bug fixes for both VR and non-VR players. ” Just what that will be, we’re not sure.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Hurd, previously a developer at Double Fine Productions, is known for his award-winning VR experiences BUTTS (2015) , Old Friend (2016) , and Chorus (2018). It supports HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve Index, and Windows VR headsets. You can check out Beach Body Bros for free on Steam , the Oculus Store , and Viveport.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2016

DiRT Rally, the racing sim from Codemasters , doesn’t have an official launch date for the Oculus Rift just yet, but in an Nvidia blog post announcing new optimized drivers for the game, we learned that the racer is coming soon to the Oculus Store and updating for VR support on Steam later this month.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

Oculus recently revealed in a blog post that in the past months they’ve been working on bringing native mixed reality capture support to Oculus Rift, and it’s available today for developers to start creating mixed reality videos. The post Oculus Brings Mixed Reality Capture Support to Rift appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

You know that one month ago my blog made its 6th birthday and I promised some special article about it. Well, today I fulfill that promise by interviewing Tommaso Di Bartolo, serial entrepreneur, marketing expert, and mentor , who during the summer of 2016 suggested me to start a blog to promote my startup of that time, Immotionar.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2017

Doom VFR , the VR-compatible game following Id Software’s recent Doom (2016), is now available for pre-order for $29.99 on PSVR and HTC Vive, a far cry from the non-VR game’s original launch price of $59.99 Only in a recent blog post does Bethesda call Doom VFR a “standalone VR game.” just last year.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2019

As an early entrant back in 2016, Konrad the Kitten took some of the much beloved game mechanics from the classic hand-held digital pet Tamagotchi and imbued them into a friendly little kitty named Konrad. After that, the game would ask you to come back the next day, FusionPlay lead game designer Konrad Kunze explains in a PS blog post.

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Cats and VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

One of the big issues with working for a VR startup in Biz Dev while also running a VR blog is that your bandwidth ends up at some pre cable modem levels. www.catsandvr.com/blog/palmer Ironically Oculus does not make any best of TechCrunch Disrupt SF list cause the only presence was a giveaway.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 31, 2017

Featuring a soundtrack by lead singer and composer Ville Valo, of gothic rock band HIM, 3rd Eye Studios Downward Spiral : Prologue launches on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive is now available on the Oculus store for Oculus Rift and Steam for HTC Vive. CatsAndVR.com/blog. The VR technology will be launched in 2018.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2019

Vacation Simulator (2019) , Owlchemy Labs ‘ recently released sequel to their smash hit VR parody game Job Simulator (2016) , seems to be garnering its fair share of kudos; Valve today announced that Vacation Simulator was one of the top 20 earners for all games released on Steam in April.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 12, 2016

We previously hoped the game would be ready for launch but, as with a handful of other titles like Windlands , it’s instead being spread out across the Q4 2016 launch window. Robinson The Journey (@RobinsonJourney) October 12, 2016. Get ready for adventure! pic.twitter.com/ceWkkYrHZi.

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Road to VR

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. Originally teased at PSX 2015 with a slated release for an October 2016, High Wire Games’ Golem is finally coming to PSVR. Ace Combat 7. The Inpatient.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2017

Fantastic Contraption (2016) is a physics-based puzzle game made from the ground up for VR that will challenge your creativity by tasking you with a simple task: build a machine to deliver a purple orb into the goal zone. Launching July 11th for $20.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

No Man’s Sky (2016) has been on a roll lately with its continuous updates ever since its big ‘Beyond’ refresh in Summer 2019, which brought along with it VR support for PS4 and PC versions of the game. update released in 2017. update released in 2017.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

April 2016. March 2016. October 2016. November 2016. April 2016. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. In 2018, all-new stand-alone devices are coming, and upgrades to the current generation will be released.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

According to the official NVIDIA Blog , ILMxLAB Principal Engineer and Technology Development Lead Lutz Latta will be speaking at SIGGRAPH 2016 this week to explore how pre-rendered “movie-quality” assets can be re-used in real-time virtual reality experiences.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

With the unique ability to control time with your movements, the embodied gameplay of SUPERHOT VR (2016) can make you feel like you’re in The Matrix. Available on all major VR platforms, the game has come to be known as a top VR title. ” A VR version of Mind Control Delete might not be completely off the table however.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 27, 2020

Originally released back in 2016 for HTC Vive, the app has made it to most VR headsets including Oculus Quest in 2019 but PlayStation VR was always notably left out. When you think of creativity in virtual reality (VR) one app that’s surely going to come to mind is Google’s Tilt Brush.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Star Trek: Bridge Crew was originally slated for a November 29th, 2016 launch date, and then later pushed back to March 14th, 2017, with Ubisoft studio Red Storm Entertainment citing that the delay was necessary to bring “the best game experience possible at launch.” No reason was given for the delay.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

Bethesda has confirmed that Fallout 4 VR for the HTC Vive will be the entire game and not just a demo or vertical slice. While yesterday’s surprise announcement that Fallout 4 and Doom would be playable in VR on the HTC Vive was exciting , details were incredibly thin. .”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

” Explaining further, he said, “[That’s] what made us the first automaker to look into the gaming industry – the experts of virtual worlds – back in 2016. With Epic, we have found the best possible partner. Over the last couple years, we have gained a lot of experience with them and their Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate for my blog, but to the poor people that are facing the consequences of the war. Thanks to the leak reported by around ten insiders, the online magazine has been able to cast a light on some unknown details about the headset. Donate for good.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 13, 2019

This isn’t the first time Valve has streamed this competition in virtual reality (VR), originally experimenting with the feature in 2016 for HTC Vive owners. CEO and founder Darshan Shankar in a blog post. At the end of the week Bigscreen Beta will be launching a new environment to enjoy, a new modern-themed cinema.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 11, 2020

For those that love realistic racing videogames and virtual reality (VR), Codemasters’ DiRT Rally franchise has been one of the go-to series for several years with DiRT Rally VR arriving in 2016 and then DiRT Rally 2.0 In a blog posting , Codemasters confirmed that: “ DiRT Rally 2.0 adding VR support last summer.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2019

It has been developed by us of New Technology Walkers , together with Whitelabel Foundation (that is, Enea Le Fons ) that has contributed to the art and audio design and with HTC Vive, that has given us support, development hardware and also a little funding. After HTC approved the game, we gave ourselves some months to develop the game.

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