Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

A sneak peek of the technologies is being shown to media at CES 2018. ” In addition, NextVR plans to “broadly support” AR devices in mid-2018. The post NextVR Plans 6DOF, Increased Quality, and AR Support for Live VR Video in 2018 appeared first on Road to VR.

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APRIL 9, 2019

Drifter Entertainment, the studio behind Gunheart (2017) and Ready Player One: Rise of the Gunters (2018) , is taking the reigns of porting Epic’s impressive arcade shooter Robo Recall (2017) to Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Drifter Entertainment. Image courtesy Drifter Entertainment.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This week, we look at Apple’s moves across the spatial spectrum, Magic Leap 2, And Oculus Quest game sales among other items. We predicted in 2018 that the Apple XR device would probably be focused on media consumption – at first. It is coming soon to the Oculus store. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

Perfectly located at the intersection of tech and entertainment, there’s no better place like LA, which has rapidly become the center of the VR content industry. The Mezo interactive art installation that will be the centerpiece of the show floor at VRLA 2018. On Thursday, VRLA revealed their full line-up of keynote speakers.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2018

Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls: Blades mobile experience will support everything from iPhone to Oculus. Bethesda pulled zero punches at this years annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California. The post E3 2018: ‘Elder Scrolls: Blades’ Heading To VR With Cross-Platform Play appeared first on VRScout.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

NextVR , the live event VR broadcasting company, today announced a partnership with Oculus to bring live VR events to Oculus Venues , the company’s upcoming social viewing app that will allow mass viewing of events such as sports, concerts and comedy. NextVR has built a passionate fan base around leading VR content experiences.

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2020

First Contact Entertainment, the studio behind the PSVR exclusive multiplayer shooter Firewall: Zero Hour (2018) , today revealed the first gameplay footage of its upcoming VR arena shooter, Solaris Offworld Combat. Image courtesy First Contact Entertainment. Image courtesy First Contact Entertainment.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Here’s a roundup of news from ‘day one’ of our GDC 2018 coverage. The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Photo: Remedy Entertainment. Vive Pro headset launches April 5th for $800, original Vive drops to $500.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2023

Citing people familiar with the matter, the report maintains that Meta has held discussions with several Chinese tech companies, making the most progress with massive entertainment conglomerate Tencent. In 2018, Meta (then Facebook) penned a deal with Xiaomi to release a Chinese variant of Oculus Go , sold by Xiaomi as the ‘Mi VR Standalone’.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Facebook today announced that Adobe—the company behind industry-leading creative tools like Photoshop, Premiere, and Substance—has acquired Oculus Medium , the company’s VR sculpting tool. Oculus continued to expand the app as VR’s potential for this sort of modeling work became increasingly clear. A Medium ‘2.0’

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The VR Awards is a London-based ceremony and dinner that saw some 300 delegates attend last year from industry players such as Google, Epic Games, Oculus, HTC, AMD, Universal and Framestore. VR Awards GOTY 2018 Nominees. Hidden Path Entertainment – Brass Tactics. inXile Entertainment – The Mage’s Tale.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Oculus Go, the upcoming standalone VR headset from the makers of Rift, is now arriving to developers looking to get a jump start on creating apps for what promises to be an affordable VR solution at just $200. Applications for Oculus Go dev kits first opened up back in October. image courtesy VRScout. image courtesy VRScout.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2020

InXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Mage’s Tale (2018) and The Bard’s Tale series, today announced Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds , a team-based shooter for PC VR which takes place in a mysterious frozen wasteland. Image courtesy inXile Entertainment. Image courtesy inXile Entertainment.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2018

Following the wave of pre-show announcements and conferences , here’s a final roundup of all our E3 2018 coverage. Our hands-on time at E3 2018 left us impressed and wanting more; the title launches exclusively on PSVR in the Fall. The game is one of many PSVR titles shown at Sony’s E3 booth. Photo by Road to VR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The latest iteration of its one-size-fits-all Forte Data Glove can now be combined with the Oculus Quest controllers, integrating BeBop’s hand tracking technology with the Quest’s 3D tracking. The post Smart Fabric Technology Brings Touch Haptics To The Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout. Feature Image Credit: BeBop Sensors.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

We launched Oculus Venues in 2018, and it’s been amazing to see people come together to watch concerts, comedy shows, sporting events, and more.

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JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest.

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Road to VR

APRIL 15, 2020

Lies Beneath (2020), the Oculus-exclusive survival horror VR game from Gunheart (2018) creators Drifter Entertainment , launched late last month on Oculus Quest. You can find Lies Beneath on the Oculus Store for Rift now, priced at $30.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2018

RPG dungeon crawler The Mage’s Tale , a former Oculus exclusive, is set to launch on Steam for the HTC Vive on March 23rd. Developer inXile Entertainment has also confirmed that the title is in development for PSVR. . Image courtesy inXile Entertainment.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

They aim to bring the awards back in 2018, skipping the 2017 season “in order to assess the changing landscape of immersive technology and entertainment,” according to a prepared statement. The move to 2018 by the Proto Awards comes when the emerging mixed reality industry is in a transitional period.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In 2019, the demand growth for augmented reality and virtual reality engineers skyrocketed 1400% from the previous year, surpassing the demand for blockchain engineers (the most in-demand skill in 2018). After emerging from stealth in 2018, Spatial has been making news for its holographic enabled meeting platform.

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VRScout

JUNE 6, 2021

Despite having been released back in 2018, Beat Saber remains one of the most popular games available on VR headsets at the moment. In this Oculus launchpad title, humanity has retreated underground and mutated into long-necked creatures in desperate need of a good trim. Here are some of our favorites. And for good reason.

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EON Reality

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s official, training and learning in VR just got better with Oculus Quest. EON Reality is now partnering Oculus Quest to offer quicker and simpler learning and training solutions through the AVR Platform. In fact, it is predicted that wearable VR usage rates in 2021 will reach the same usage rates of smartphones in 2018.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

.” It has taken place in LA in October, 9-10th 2018 and has been attended by various believers, innovators, developers and journalists. — The Digital Acid (@thedigitalacid) October 11, 2018. Location based entertainment. PixelStrikeInc brace yourself…the memes are coming. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2019

VR hardware is front and center at this year’s festivities following the release of Oculus Quest and HP Reverb. VR Hardware of the Year: Oculus – Quest. Oculus – Rift S. First Contact Entertainment – Firewall Zero Hour. Qualcomm Technologies – Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018 Invitations. DIVR – Golem VR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Inaugurating the new Epic Games Store, the company is giving away underwater survival game Subnautica (2018) for free. Subnautica was first developed for PCs, although during its lengthy stint in Early Access on Steam its developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment added preliminary support in 2015 for the Oculus Rift DK2.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 21, 2019

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Monday that the company is acquiring Insomniac Games, a storied game studio and one of the most experienced in VR development anywhere in the world. The studio has developed three Oculus exclusive titles, with its fourth and largest yet, Stormland , still due to launch in 2019.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 6, 2022

Consumers worldwide have downloaded Meta’s Oculus app , the mobile companion for Oculus VR devices including the Quest 2, roughly 2 million times globally since Christmas Day, according to new data from third-party app intelligence firms, Apptopia and Sensor Tower. Launched in April 2018, the Oculus app saw 1.2

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JUNE 12, 2017

Leave it up to Elijah Wood and the folks over at Ubisoft to combine entertainment and gaming into an immersive psychological thriller experience that leaves you more unsettled than when you started. Ubisoft and Elijah Wood are making a VR game about hacking your brain. This is not Wood’s first foray into VR.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

You’ll bargain with entertaining in-game characters who are just as strategic as real-life ones. In 2018, Catan VR was released on SteamVR , Oculus , and PSVR , offering players the chance to go head-to-head with both friends and strangers in classic matches of Catan. Image Credit: Catan GmbH. ‘ Wheat for sheep anyone?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Developed by Entertainment One’s Emmy-award-winning studio, Secret Location , The Great C is a cinematic VR film telling the story of Clare, a young woman from a small village that participates in an annual lottery for an important pilgrimage. “I ” The Great C premiered earlier this year during the 2018 Venice Film Festival.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

between 2018 and 2025, as stated in a Valuation report. Facebook and Rising Metaverse Technology Facebook acquired a virtual reality development company called Oculus, which included the Oculus Rift. If you’re wondering what the Oculus Rift is, it’s a solid step into VR gaming and its immersive nature.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The company was established in 2018. Secondly, cross-play is possible on xambr , including Oculus Quest 1&2. Despite the fact that Oculus Quest (1&2) is a great device that is rapidly gaining popularity, there are few VR events that are fully compatible with it due to the limited specs of the device.

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VRScout

JANUARY 17, 2021

When Wave launched in 2016, it served as this incredible VR platform that brought people together through virtual entertainment. ” Now, 15 days into 2021, Arrigo tweeted out a press release stating that the company will be shutting down Wave on the Steam and the Oculus Store in order to protect the future of the company.

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MARCH 1, 2017

It notes that the company is looking to take its platform beyond “mixed reality-ready” desktops and its own MR headset, HoloLens, stating: “Our plan is to bring mixed reality content to the Xbox One family of devices, including Project Scorpio , in 2018.” Beyond that, we have nothing else to announce today.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

Tactical Haptics is debuting it's newly developed reconfigurable haptic controllers and new game content at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The company will also be working on multiplayer versions of these games, as part of its near term refocusing on location-based entertainment (LBE).

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 9, 2017

PSVR fans can finally get riggity riggity wrecked when Virtual Rick-Ality finally gets a Playstation VR release sometime in 2018 The game is a great fan service and I consider it a real work of heart. Developers Owlchemy Labs originally began in the mobile and PC game space back in 2010.

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