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Virtuix Omni VR Treadmill to Get ‘Arizona Sunshine’ Support, Partners with HTC

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Popular VR title Arizona Sunshine and two others are soon to get native support for the Virtuix Omni VR treadmill. Virtuix has also announced that the company has become a “formal hardware partner of HTC.” The games add to several first-party titles that Virtuix has created for the Omni.

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Could Origami Be The Future Of VR Haptics?

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A group of researchers based out of Westlake University in China has developed a device that can improve the realism and fidelity of objects in VR using an approach inspired by origami, the art of paper folding to create 3D figures and shapes.

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VR & AR 2018: A Year In Review

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Major hardware releases, vast improvements to software, and various other integral advancements have quietly solidified VR & AR as viable, long-term technological platforms for years to come. 2018 also saw the release of Arizona Sunshine LB VR Edition , a location-based version of Vertigo Games’ 2016 VR smash-hit, Arizona Sunshine.

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ICYMI This Week: Smalland, Arizona Sunshine 2, MADiSON VR & More

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Missed this week's biggest VR games and hardware stories? With VR hardware, Meta confirmed Quest 3 has higher retention than previous headsets and is reportedly still planning to bring a cheaper Quest 3 to China via Tencent. Here's our latest news roundup.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.07): Meta roadmap unveiled, Xiaomi shows its AR glasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This doesn’t surprise me because in China many people told me that they were waiting for Oppo to make a move with a VR headset. But on the other side, while the Xbox is considered mainstream hardware, the Quest is not, yet. It was visible in Qualcomm’s presentation that also Oppo is going to launch an XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.26.11): Half-Life: Alyx revealed, Oculus Link out, XBox not considering VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It has been made together with the development of the VR hardware, it can’t translate to mouse and keyboard. For now let just me say that Arizona Sunshine is coming to Quest on December, 5th. Most probably it won’t have a desktop-PC porting because the team has conceived it from the ground-up specifically for VR. Some XR fun.

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Gamescom 2018 Day 3: Icaros made me exercise with fun in VR, Cybershoes made me walk in VR while seated and much more

The Ghost Howls

It has been a long and interesting ride, where I tried cool innovative virtual reality hardware and I met awesome people. It reminded me of the VR experiences that I had in China with the Potato 9000 headset. Today has been my last day at Gamescom. It has been really tiresome, but I loved it. It was an anarchic chair.

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