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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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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. An open beta is said to arrive “in the near future” in preparation for a launch later this year.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

HTC retains brand but lets part of their smartphone business go. billion cooperation agreement under which certain HTC employees – many of whom are already working with Google to develop Pixel smartphones – will join Google. According to the announcement, HTC will receive $1.1 That comes out to roughly $500,000 per HTC staffer.

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JULY 17, 2018

More than just the latest in a long line of niche gadgets, Oculus Go represents the linchpin of Facebook’s lofty goal of putting one billion people into virtual reality. serves as an Analyst at Greenlight Insights in the Devices Group. SEE ALSO Oculus Go Review: Standalone VR Priced for the Masses. Guest Article by J.C.

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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. HTC – Vive Pro Eye. VR Experience of the Year: ILMxLAB & Oculus Studios – Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series – Episode I.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Oculus has announced the all-new standalone named Oculus Quest at 5th annual Connect developer conference. While Oculus Go is roughly “80 percent media and 20 percent gaming,” said Oculus chief technology officer John Carmack, the Oculus Quest is emphatically gaming-focused. Don’t know which VR headset to buy?

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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Now that turkey day has come and gone, holiday shopping season has arrived and we’re tracking the best Windows Mixed Reality Black Friday 2018 deals on the Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, and Samsung Odyssey headsets. The Best Windows Mixed Reality Black Friday 2018 Deal. Other Windows VR Black Friday 2018 Deals to Consider.

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MAY 10, 2018

60Hz is widely considered the bare minimum for VR headsets, although many PC VR headsets including HTC Vive and Oculus Rift function at 90Hz—a necessity in reducing motion blur and screen flicker. Currently the market leader in pixel density is HTC Vive Pro with ~615 ppi. ms while operating at 120Hz refresh rate.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Project Stardust should work with any SteamVR compatible headset and can be played on the Quest using the Oculus Link cable or Virtual Desktop connected to a VR capable PC. Star Trek: Bridge Crew is available on the Oculus Quest and Rift , Playstation 4 , and on Steam for $24.99. Download Project Stardust for free here. Starblazer.

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JUNE 11, 2018

The show will be available globally for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive users through TheWaveVR app, available on the Oculus Store and Steam , and will be broadcast live on TheWaveVR Facebook page. on a Ready Player One (2018) themed experience that brought the film’s dance club scene to life in VR.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Unfortunately the standard didn’t gain traction and appears to now be abandoned by the group that created it. VirtualLink was announced back in 2018 with the backing of NVIDIA, AMD, Microsoft, Valve, Oculus, and HTC—representing a bulk of the most significant hardware players in the VR industry.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Everyone’s favorite block-slashing rhythm game, Beat Saber (2018), just got a new music pack featuring the tunes of Green Day. Beat Saber’s newest music pack launched last night at The Game Awards, which also just so happened to feature a live performance by the group. Blood & Truth (SIE London Studio/SIE).

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training. The company’s direction is unclear.

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MARCH 19, 2018

HTC today announced that the Vive Pro headset only (without controllers or base stations) will cost $800 and launch on April 5th; the headset is now available for pre-order. After announcing the Vive Pro headset back in January, HTC left the VR sector in suspense as to what the price would be and precisely when it would launch.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

How has VR performed in 2018? Let me do some speculations… Virtual Reality in 2018. Virtual Reality in 2018 has not performed that awesomely good : in my opinion, it has just laid the foundations for the success that will come in the upcoming years. 2018 has been the year of standalone headsets. Standalone headsets.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

VR Education Holdings, the group best known for the Apollo 11 VR and the Titanic VR experiences also released a proprietary virtual reality (VR) education platform at the end of 2018 called ENGAGE. It is fantastic to be chosen by Facebook to help accelerate the wider adoption of VR globally.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Here’s the full press release for VRLA 2018 ( Road to VR readers can save 15% on passes, details here ): Announcing VRLA 2018 Keynotes & Expo Highlights. Passes are available now and start at just $30, and for the first time ever attendees can register in VR via the official Payscout VRLA Registration 2018 app.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

In July 2018, the company raised a seed investment round of $1.1 million , with funding coming from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Boost VC, Anorak Ventures, Candela Partners, Social Starts, M Ventures, Seraph Group, Taimatsu, Outpost VC, Colopl Next, Shrug VC, Andrew Ogawa, and Cantos VC.

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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. The VR technology will be launched in 2018.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

Written and directed by up-and-coming French VR Director Paul Mezier, Overview has been available since March on HTC Vive but now launched on Oculus Rift as well, Available on the Oculus Store, Viveport and Steam for $9,99. VRScout (@VRScout) July 31, 2018. It has since been shown at festivals such as Cannes.

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MARCH 13, 2017

The cost of virtual reality headsets created using Intel’s Project Alloy reference design is going to be “closer to $1000” according to Achin Bhowmik, the head of the company’s perceptual computing group. What makes Alloy products special is that they are self-contained machines. Tagged with: Intel , project alloy.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. VR Lifetime Achievement.

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JUNE 26, 2018

To complement the theatrical film release of Distorted on June 22nd, Minds Eye Entertainment and SkyVR have partnered to produce “Distorted Reality,” a scripted, live-action cinematic VR distributed through OneTouchVR on Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and iOs. VRScout (@VRScout) June 19, 2018.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

The trading update says: “2020 will see Sony release the PlayStation 5 and a new version of the PlayStation VR headset (PSVR), which will further expand the high-end VR user base; the Group intends to support this device with its current suite of showcase software.” As further updates are released, VRFocus will let you know.

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DECEMBER 8, 2018

Altspace, the popular social VR app that is most notably compatible with both 3DOF and 6DOF VR headsets, is becoming efficient for users looking to get groups of people to connect and organize within VR. By the time Vivian runs her 2018 year end event on December 27th, she will have completed an impressive 47 episodes of The Hive.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

We’d just seen the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive get wide releases, and Gear VR was seeing strong usage thanks in part to Samsung bundling the headset with new phones. 2018 was a transition to more and more groups within companies using the technology. This year, we’ll see Oculus launch the Quest.

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JULY 2, 2018

The VR tour shows you Queen Nefertari’s tomb in a way no other person has seen it in a century, lit by oil lamps and devoid of artificial lighting—except for your hand-held flashlights, giving you the sense that you’re truly discovering the 520 square meter tomb far away from modern-day tourist groups. Image courtesy Experius VR.

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JUNE 11, 2018

Electronic music group The Glitch Mob and TheWaveVR , the creator of the world’s first social virtual reality (VR) music platform, today announced an upcoming show featuring music from the band’s third studio album, 'See Without Eyes'. The free experience launches Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

ALIEN: ISOLATION VR [SteamVR & Oculus]. The Forest VR brings survival crafting horror to the next level, letting players experience the terror of being surrounded by a group of flesh-hungry tribesmen. Below is just a small selection of the many horror-based VR games currently in circulation. 3BLACKDOT / The Munky.

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JULY 5, 2017

Developer Slightly Mad Studios has sparred no detail in bringing a realistic driving experience to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and that includes an exhaustive list of drivable cars, revealed today. M3 Group A (E30). R18 e-tron quattro. R8 (LMP900). R8 LMS Endurance. R8 V10 Plus. Continental GT3 (2015). Continental GT3 (2016).

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

The song comes from Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends , who created the virtual K-pop group K/DA which consists of four characters from their massively popular game. K/DA is a virtual K-pop group, created by Riot Games, which features four champions from League of Legends : Ahri, Akali, Evelynn and Kai’Sa.

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JULY 26, 2019

The app which once allowed PC users to see their monitor in VR has grown enormously, supporting HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Samsung GearVR. When it comes to cross-platform, social virtual reality (VR) interaction Bigscreen Beta has got most platforms covered.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? Augmented Reality in 2018. More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Yes, there have been some nice AR apps launched in 2018 (like Ikea Place), but mobile AR usage is really lagging. Leap Motion.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Google expects YouTube VR to remain in Early Access through 2018 as they continue to develop it based on feedback. The app is now available on Steam, officially for the Vive (but also functional with Rift and Windows VR headsets). It took a while, but YouTube VR on PC was largely inevitable.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

There’s been plenty to talk about in VR gaming over the course of 2018, with even more ambitious indie studios and AAA game companies getting into the medium for the first time. That said, 2018 has been a year of cross-platform pollination, so deliberation has been even more difficult this time around. Beat Saber.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

This column previously covered the 2018 BETT show and how VR was immerging as a possible EdTech trend – but with BETT 2020 the event cemented this movement, with a vast array of new developments and applications for this technology, and growth of previous early adopters. Another exhibitor using Beat Saber and the Oculus Rift S was Nutanix.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Available On: Oculus Store (Rift), SteamVR (Vive, Rift), PlayStation VR. Reviewed On: HTC Vive. Release Date: August 7th, 2018. Electronauts offers cross-play between the Oculus platform and SteamVR. Electronauts Review Details: Official Site. Developer: Survios. Experience. Image courtesy Survios.

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