Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2017

Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal Engine, has a unique position in the virtual reality industry. He says that out of the approximately half-a-million PC VR headsets sold to date, HTC Vive “is outselling Oculus 2-to-1 worldwide.” HTC Vive is a completely open platform.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2017

Batman: Arkham VR (2016) is one of PlayStation VR’s top games, and an exclusive too. Now, developer Rocksteady has announced that it will soon launch the game on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Batman: Arkham VR has placed consistently in the top 10 most downloaded PSVR titles since the headset’s October 2016 launch.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Space Junkies , the upcoming Unreal Tournament -style VR shooter from Ubisoft Montpellier, is headed to all major VR platforms starting March 26th. If that tickles your latent Unreal itch, check out a full match in closed beta to see just what’s in store.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The experience was built in 1:1 scale within Unreal Engine. Since being originally developed by the BBC and REWIND in 2016, Home – A VR Spacewalk has won multiple awards, including a Cannes Lion, and has been shown at film festivals around the world. The experience is now available for both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2018

In effort to make his life easier in the some 7 to 16-hour sessions split between an HTC Vive, Vive Focus, and the new HTC Vive Pro, Le Fons completely ‘digitized’ his entire apartment using photogrammetry, and even created individual captures of things like chairs, tables and dishware. image courtesy Enea Le Fons.

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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. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

.” Among Oculus’ setup guide, other guides for integrating mixed reality capture support Unity and Unreal apps are also available ( Unity , Unreal , Native ). Valve later incorporated the same green screen setup in their official announcement of the HTC Vive.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 12, 2016

Hackathon events in various forms are now commonplace across different technologies and for virtual reality has proven an important catalyst for innovation and creativity in the past, with both Oculus and HTC embracing the format to encourage content creation. Image courtesy Scapeliving.com.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster. The HTC Vive (DK1), SteamVR Controllers and Laser Basestations. CES 2016: Consumer VR Wars. CES 2015: Consumer VR Takes Shape.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

10] in our review , noting however that the admittedly standard arena shooter experience would need more than smooth visuals and Unreal Tournament -style gameplay to keep users happy in the long run. Released in March 2019 on PC VR headsets and PSVR, we gave Space Junkies a solid [7.7/10]

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The game is due to launch for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in early 2018. Sci-fi shooter Evasion from VR studio Archiact has been revealed, said to feature ‘next generation’ VR locomotion and ‘high intensity’ co-op multiplayer combat for up to 4 players. The game’s ‘Swarm A.I’

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2017

Survios’ stunning VR action game Raw Data , currently in Early Access for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, will launch in September on PlayStation VR. The PC version will soon receive a summer update that introduces a PvP mode, along with a joystick locomotion option, new maps, and a new playable hero. Photo courtesy Survios. Photo courtesy Survios.

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Road to VR

JULY 26, 2017

Built on Unreal Engine 4, the game’s visuals stand out, while the art direction and gameplay revealed thus far remind us heavily of The Unspoken (2016) , a PVP spellcasting combat game from Insomniac Games. Carbon Studio’s previous game, Alice VR (2016) , wasn’t particularly well received.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2017

That’s why Mozilla, the makers of the popular FireFox web browser, are advocating their open source JavaScript API WebVR platform and HTML framework A-Frame to make it easier to design internet-based VR apps that run within cheap smartphone headsets or the more powerful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. festival in Berlin.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2016

Manus VR is one such company who’ve moved from crude looking , Gear VR based early designs through to slick looking functional iterations, as shows at March’s GDC running on desktop PC hardware alongside the HTC Vive. Early Manus Glove Prototypes. Manus VR brought along their latest gloves to the show along with an early.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2017

The education-focused Mars 2030 launches today on SteamVR for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, soon to come to PSVR. As described in our first experience of Mars 2030 at GTC 2016 , the team went to great lengths to represent the martian terrain in the most realistic manner, using Unreal Engine 4’s physically-based rendering.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

FOVE, the company behind the eponymous eye-tracking VR headset, today announced that they will be showing off a new industrial design at both Comic-Con and SIGGRAPH 2016 where attendees will have a chance to demo the new headset design themselves. Previous FOVE design | See Also: FOVE’s Eye-tracking VR Headset Was the Next Best at CES.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers. Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. Bleszinski (middle right) and Boss Key Productions developers present at GDC 2016 | Photo courtesy Official GDC ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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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. Over the last couple years, we have gained a lot of experience with them and their Unreal Engine. With Epic, we have found the best possible partner.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. But if 2016 was VR’s debut year, then 2017 needs to be the year of VR content. What to Expect from HTC. CES was a big show for HTC. What to Expect from Valve.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

The HTC Vive is finally getting integrated headphones later this year, and co-creator Valve’s latest acquisition could help you get the most out of them. It’s available as a plug-in for development engines like Unity and Unreal.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

EditorVR (which the company calls EVR for short) provides a robust virtual reality interface for Unity that’s said to support both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. West and Ebrahami demonstrated EditorVR last month at the company’s Unite 2016 conference in Los Angeles. of their game development engine.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

Originally announced in the spring of 2016, BMW has been using VR to cut costs and expedite development. BMW has also baked in the ability for team members to interact together in the same virtual environment, no matter where they are in the world. A new, strategic partnership between Warner Bros.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 25, 2016

Balancing Roiland’s comedy prowess with some significant experience in the world of game development is co-founder Tanya Watson who spent some 10 years with Epic Games, working across Associate and Executive Producer positions on games like Unreal Tournament 3 (2007) , Gears of War 2 (2008) and 3 (2011) , Bulletstorm (2011) , and Fortnite.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Development — Get hands-on training for how to build the world’s best VR applications, from tutorials covering the latest Oculus Mobile and PC SDKs, to workshops on top game engines including Unity and Unreal. Might we finally learn the precise launch date and price of Oculus’ Touch motion controllers?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

So he proposed to HTC to live 30 days in VR in a way that in these 30 days he could develop very cool things like AI bots and VR locomotion systems while being inside virtual reality with other people helping him remotely… and then share everything developed there to the community as open source software. Isn’t it cool?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And while the easy path would likely have been to take one of the readily available built-for-VR engines—like Unreal Engine or Unity—to develop a one-off Battlefront VR experience, the developers behind the X-Wing VR Mission have confirmed that it is indeed the Frostbite engine powering the experience. pic.twitter.com/zIhEZJD2qC.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2016

We really liked the look of Modbox when we first covered the SteamVR / HTC Vive physics sandbox title last year. See Also: Hands On: Modbox on HTC Vive Indulges Your Creative & Destructive Urges. — Brian Lindenhof (@TheShadowBrain) May 10, 2016. You won’t get that in real life! For when shooting / hitting stuff.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2017

Using the HTC Vive and a wall of silver rectangles, this installation was all about playing with points of reference and altering how your brain processes its surroundings. Using the built-in camera on the HTC Vive headset I was able to view myself back in reality, standing inside the Waterfront Tunnel space. LATTICEDOMAIN_VISUALIZE.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Owlchemy Labs, founded in 2010, has raised $5 million in seed funding from Capital Factory, Qualcomm Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, HTC and The Venture Reality Fund. Dycus was a hardware engineer at Oculus VR, where he worked on early prototypes of the Oculus Rift headset as well as the final consumer model that launched in 2016.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the first half of 2016, the VR/AR industry saw $1.3B The Series A was led by Qualcomm Ventures, and also involved The VR Fund (contributors to The Wave’s round as well), Colopl Next, Capital Factory, HTC, and more. HTC FUNDS STEEL WOOL, SOLO. project worldwide VR/AR industry revenues to be $162B by 2020. is excited about VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

diagonal, which feels so 2016. In an interview with a Chinese magazine, HTC China (Mister) President Alvin Graylin has stated that in his opinion, Facebook may lose at least $100-$200 for each sold Oculus Quest 2 device. HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020. More info (Use Google Translate).

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. During this process of development the Northways learned Unity, a game creation toolset that alongside competitor Unreal Engine has been early to support VR. Learning New Skills.

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