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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

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Unpausing SteamVR will cause the Vive Trackers to disappear from the view inside your headset , and you won’t see them again unless pausing or using an application designed to work with them, usually swapping their render model for an in-game object (for example a gun or tennis bat). Finding some games to play. out of 5 stars.

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Road to VR’s 2023 Game of the Year Awards

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Virtual reality is dead.” Anyone who’s been following the space though knows that more people than ever are playing VR games and opening portals to other dimensions right where their living rooms, home offices, or dorm rooms used to be. We’re there. That’s today.

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One Year In, Has PlayStation VR2 Failed, Or Is Sony Just Getting Started?

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As someone who didn't truly get into VR until 2019, a strong set of exclusives like WipeOut: Omega Collection , Astro Bot: Rescue Mission and Blood & Truth kept me invested in Sony's original PSVR, balancing this alongside my Rift S. Plugging in one USB-C cable is, in my opinion, a reasonable trade-off for high-end VR gaming.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

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Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.11): Meta Quest 3 ships now, a cheaper model may come in 2024… and more!

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But not all the applications work well with hand gestures: for instance, most action games would suck with it. We have a couple of projects underway that are very exciting for us, in terms of creating some sort of game-type metaverse which can have collaboration with other parts of Sony,” Ryan added.

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SteamVR Home Gets Virtual Collectibles, an Intriguing Glimpse at the Future of Achievements & Digital Goods

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It seems likely that Sony are paying close attention to Valve’s progress here, as PSVR would be the logical way to revive some elements of the PS3-based social platform PlayStation Home , which was also stacked full of virtual items and avatar customisation. Arizona Sunshine. Fantastic Contraption. Space Pirate Trainer.

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Deafening Silence: Where Is Valve’s ‘Killer App’ VR Game We’ve All Been Waiting For?

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It’s been about nine months since the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive officially launched the age of consumer-ready virtual reality and there’s no denying we’ve had some great times immersed in our personal holodecks. A game that will make people on the sidelines take notice, and decide that now is the time to join the VR revolution.

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