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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Valve kicked off another edition of Steam Next Fest this week, an indie showcase that offers up free demos of a bunch of upcoming games. There are hundreds of demos on offer during Next Fest, and it’s no surprise that only a smalls slice of those feature VR support. Download ‘Virtuoso’ Demo. Green Hell VR.

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JULY 20, 2021

Well, there’s a free demo is now available on the PlayStation Store. We’ve got an early preview of the Fracked demo , and we were notably impressed with its colorful, well-executed art style and its satisfyingly tactile combat. Fracked is designed exclusively for PSVR and requires PS Move controllers.

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MAY 24, 2023

The company is looking at the emerging AR glasses hardware market, but still needs controllers for the time being. Current hand tracking technology does not meet the needs that 6DoF controllers can provide, which consumer AR glasses don’t,” said McCloskey. Suppose I want to go back and watch our demo again.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta Platforms unveiled last week the latest iteration of its hand-tracking technologies as a demo for developers, allowing users to explore virtual worlds with their hands rather than physical controllers.

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Road to VR

JULY 22, 2022

on PC VR, including an updated demo for anyone to try. “I am immensely proud of what Compound has become and I invite you to try the demo so see what it’s like!” Nearly four years after its early access debut, indie VR gem COMPOUND has launched version 1.0 The game is expected to come to Quest as well later this year.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Niantic and Meta partnered to fund three multiplayer mixed reality demo games that run in the browser and support crossplay between Quest 3 and mobile. The demos were built over a ten week period using Niantic's 8th Wall web-based AR engine, which has a fully in-browser editor and offers cloud hosting for built projects.

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MAY 6, 2022

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off a prototype of the company’s wrist-worn XR controller this week to EssilorLuxottica, the Italian parent company behind the Ray-Ban Stories camera glasses and a host of other conventional luxury eyewear brands.

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MARCH 22, 2024

As an alpha testing demo right now on Quest 3, there's no hidden treasure waiting to be pocketed and no secret intel that could save the world. The key requirement for the demo is that these need to be a minimum of 3 meters apart. With mixed reality, we can bring some of that magic back.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

Also continuing the theme of VR support for Mac, Industrial Light and Magic staffers demonstrated the first-ever native HTC Vive demo on a Mac system. An ILM user in headset dropped TIE Fighters, Imperial Cruisers, and Darth Vader into a Star Wars-themed world, using nothing more than an on-screen GUI controlled with HTC Vive controllers.

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VRScout

JULY 14, 2020

Unlike the VR player, those controlling David do so locally using a standard gamepad, allowing them to run and jump throughout the environment like a standard 2D platformer. You can also try out a free 10-minute demo by subscribing to the official newsletter. Image Credit: Wolfgang Tschauko.

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VRScout

APRIL 28, 2022

To assist him, an observer in the real world uses a Playstation controller to send signals to the four main muscle groups in their neck to turn the user’s head and guide them to the fire extinguisher. The pilot can control the neck movements of the VR user using the drone, allowing them to sync their perspectives.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

Apple Vision Pro in-store demos start on launch day, and Apple will likely seek to make the best possible first impression. That email also revealed that signups for in-store demos will begin at 8am on launch day. Gurman reports that actual demos will start on launch day, not just sign-ups.

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 21, 2018

Magic Leap just did something it didn't do during its recent Twitch hardware demo: actually show us some new demo footage of what augmented reality really looks like through the Magic Leap One.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2018

The next generation of Valve’s knuckle controllers adds a whole new list of new immersive interactions. Valve has begun rolling out the next evolution of their intuitive knuckle controller prototypes to developers which means a whole bunch of exciting upgrades and additions we being to look forward to. Image Credit: Valve, Steam.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A smaller upgrade when compared to the massive changes brought on by the EV2 model, this latest update improves upon the EV2’ already solid design with a variety of improvements to the controllers’ ergonomic design and battery life. Alongside these controller improvements comes an updated SteamVR Knuckles tech demo.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Sony researchers built prototype VR controllers that can adapt to different use cases, and I got to try them. The controllers explore two innovative ideas. Since the researchers are building a haptic system, not a tracking system, the controllers were tracked by strapped-on HTC Vive trackers, with base stations set up in each corner.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

While there are controls that let you adjust how the 3D effect renders, Geod Studios has created a few presets and tips in its 3DN Repository. You can try it our for free now, as the demo on Steam supports a limited number of titles including: Super Mario Bros. Created by Geod Studios and first launched on itch.io Circus Charlie.

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VRScout

JANUARY 8, 2019

Pimax, the Chinese VR technology company responsible for the first commercially available 4K VR headset, was center-stage at CES this morning presenting the latest production versions of their new Pimax 5K & 8K ultrawide VR headsets alongside their knuckles-style open-palm motion controllers. Image Credit: Pimax VR. to the industry.”. “As

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2018

Since announcing the ‘Knuckles’ controller prototype all the way back in 2016, Valve has been relatively quiet about its progress outside of a select group of developers who have been experimenting with early development kits. If you haven’t been following closely, let’s recap up to this point.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

The headset also has a 6DOF controller, but it isn’t shown in this demo. The blue grid in the demo shows the headset’s perception of the user’s room, and Magic Leap said during the session that this geometry mesh is updated continuously.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Perhaps the biggest surprise this year being Intel’s Lunar Lake platform, which is already up and running to the point where Intel can do demos on it. Intel 18A 2025 In any case, as part of this year’s Innovation keynote, Gelsinger & co ran a pair of AI demos on their Lunar Lake test box.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Tracking has been switched to inside-out , and Varjo now provides a set of controllers, manufactured by Razer, together with the headset. Caveat Eating one of the controllers… still better than pizza with pineapple… Actually, before we start, I have a little boring premise for you.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

While HoloLens 2 purportedly boasts a 2-3 our battery life and a 70 degree field of view —two times larger than the previous HoloLens—Microsoft’s onstage demo revealed a few more improved capabilities attested to the device, namely its hand-tracking, voice input, and eye-tracking.

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JUNE 5, 2022

The project’s Twitter account announced that a free demo for the project will launch on June 10. This isn’t a full and final release for the project but instead the first part of the demo. The demo had previously been available for the project’s Patron supporters. Let us know in the comments below!

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Two open-source demos show WebXR could be used to make full-fledged games. WebXR is an open standard API that enables webpages to display immersive content on headsets that tracked controllers can interact with. Meta’s Project Flowerbed is a WebXR demo game where you use seeds to plant and grow flowers, trees, and other plants.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2017

John Knoll, chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic, presented a mixed reality Star Wars themed live demo of VR content created on Mac and played on the Vive. Lauren Ridge, programmer at Epic Games, was backstage to operate the demo (which you can watch in the video heading this article).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2. One month after the reveal of a “next-gen VR headset for the Playstation” (whose name is not known, but I guess it will be PSVR2), Sony has revealed one important detail of its new VR system: the controllers. The controllers will be given to selected developers very soon.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Interaction SDK is a Unity framework providing high quality common hand interactions for controllers and hand tracking. The next version of Interaction SDK adds gestures and visualization for teleportation and snap turning when using controller-free hand tracking.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Portal is a handheld game system promised as having a pair of Joy-Con-like controllers that detach and slip into sleeves converting them into 6DoF tracked controllers. Portal is a handheld game system promised as having a pair of Joy-Con-like controllers that detach and slip into sleeves converting them into 6DoF tracked controllers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

XR Today interviewed Patrick Wyatt, Chief Product Officer, Varjo, at a product demo on Wednesday in London, United Kingdom. We discussed Varjo’s latest demos in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), aerospace pilot training, healthcare instruction, and automotive design.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2019

One of the accessories might look like a goofy ‘elephant’, but a closer look reveals a genius makeshift 6DOF controller made from some cardboard, stickers, and the Switch’s Joy-Con controllers. SEE ALSO Rube Goldberg-style Puzzler 'Gadgeteer' Gets Free Beta Demo on Steam. Image courtesy Nintendo.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Best Buy is rolling out Touch controller demos in-store. During Oculus Connect 3, Oculus finally revealed a release date and pricing on the long awaited Touch motion controllers. The games include Touch Tutorial , VR Sports Challenge , Unspoken , The Climb (with added Touch controls) and Medium.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Developer Enhance is also offering a limited-time demo on all platforms (Meta Quest headset and controller support only) from now until March 6th, 2023. There’s even a level creator tool, allowing you to design your own courses and share them with the community.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2019

Much like the first Budget Cuts demo, which was released on Steam back in 2016 , I was given a combat-flavored slice of Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency, which revealed a few of the new components that promise to open up the game’s environment and somewhat change the nature of its stealth combat/ninja teleporting madness.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Zuckerberg toured the newest features of the app including more lifelike avatars complete with facial expressions triggered by audio and hand gestures using Touch, Oculus’s soon-to-release hand controllers. Going through a number of 360 photos and 360 video as backdrop to demo, the three played cards, chess, and fought with swords.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2024

I’m seeing many demos for the Vision Pro or the Quest in mixed reality where the passthrough is just a background for a virtual game, but I think that’s not the best way to exploit this technology. So I had to resort to the only tracking options that Meta offers: hand tracking and controller tracking.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

This short but ingenious video snippet from eye-tracking specialists Tobii was built to tease a social VR demo they’ve been working on for GDC next week. This, combined with emulated mouth movements alongside head tracking and hand motions via VR controllers, really will elevate the social VR experience.

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