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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

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Colaianni told me, “the outstanding nomination process for the VR Awards 2017 is anything to go by, future years will continue to build upon the astounding work our nominees have been producing.” HTC – Vive. Razer – OSVR. There you go, that’s the VR Bound VR Awards shortlist for 2017. Oculus – Rift.

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Zero Latency Shoots For Multiplayer VR Arcade Network With 24 Locations In 2017

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By this June, Zero Latency will have 10 sites across the globe and 24 by end of 2017, including U.S. After playing a lot of Oculus Touch and HTC Vive games, it is a bit jarring to not see your hands inside of VR. locations in Orlando, Boston, Philadelphia, Wisconsin and the Poconos.

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PSVR Horror Game ‘Stifled’ Coming to Vive, Rift & PC Next Week

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Stifled (2017) originally launched last year as a PSVR exclusive, but now Singaporean studio Gattai Games is bringing the echolocation-based horror game to Rift, Vive, and PC next week. As the protagonist David Ridley, you’re suddenly stricken blind, making the world around you dark—well, not exactly.

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THX Creates Audio Chip Positioned for VR Claimed to “best every other amplifier product in the marketplace”

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The THXAAA chip, as the company calls it, is an ASIC chip that’s being made in conjunction with Triad Semiconductor , a firm who has also worked with Valve to create components of the HTC Vive’s Lighthouse tracking technology. THX and Triad plan to show off the first THXAAA solutions at CES 2017 next week.

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What to Expect in VR This Week at E3 2016

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E3 2016 kicks off this week; it’s the first E3 since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and the last before the launch of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. Also hot off the release of their first consumer-headset, the HTC Vive , HTC and Valve aren’t likely to be sharing anything new on the hardware end at E3.

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Intel Doubles Down on VR and AR, Calls it Merged Reality

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About a year and a half ago, Intel invested in Razer bringing the valuation of the said company to north of $1 billion. Today, Razer is bringing Hacker Development Kit 2.0 Intel claims to bring room scale VR and “global VR” without the need for external sensors such as HTC’s Lighthouse or Oculus Constellation.

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Sixense to Refund STEM Kickstarter Backers After More Than 4 Years of Delays

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The company built the technology behind the magnetically tracked Razer Hydra controller which was one of the only consumer-available 6DOF controllers available when the first Oculus Rift development kit (DK1) started shipping. Sixense was once a name central to the early VR community.