Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

Bethesda surprised everyone at this year’s pre-E3 press conference when they announced to the crowd that VR demos of Fallout 4 (coming to HTC Vive in 2017), and what’s shaping up to be a VR tech demo of Doom, would be available afterwards for press to try out. We tend to agree.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Available On: Steam (Oculus Rift & HTC Vive). Reviewed On: HTC Vive & Oculus Rift. Release Date: June 7th, 2016. Although technically not finished, this VR experience for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive offers a lot more than you might expect and leaves a lasting impression of its strange, alien world.

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HTC Controllers Gaming Simulation 100

Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The Snacker isn’t meant for the sort of games you might normally think of when VR comes to mind like Beat Saber (2018) or Job Simulator (2016).

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The user is seated in a stool in front of the machine, their head obscured by a hood. Here the applications began to once again focus on simulation for the workplace — the “workplace” in this instance being, of course, space. It managed to outlive the Daydream platform the company introduced at its I/O 2016.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

During the beautifully choreographed introduction to Marvel’s Deadpool (2016) , every object in the scene is rendered by a computer instead of filmed. The renderer uses an algorithm called ‘path tracing’ that photo-realistically simulates light in the virtual scene.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You look back when commercial VR launched in 2016, and you needed a $1,500 graphics card… combine that with a computer… then the headset; you’re at three grand before you even start. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking.

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Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You look back when commercial VR launched in 2016, and you needed a $1,500 graphics card… combine that with a computer… then the headset; you’re at three grand before you even start. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking.

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