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End of the World Simulator in VR

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million people living in Hawaii on January 13, 2018. This isn’t a game, it’s an experience. The three-part story experience takes about 38 minutes, the same amount of time it took for Hawaii citizens to find out that the alert was a false alarm. With your life flashing before your eyes, realistically, what would you do?

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Get $150 off HP Reverb G2, Offering Class-leading Resolution & Acceptable Tracking

Road to VR

The deal automatically knocks off $150 off the regular retail price, and includes free shipping (3-7 business days) within the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The newly redesigned controllers offer acceptable—but not exceptional—latency and jitter. Controllers. Reverb G2 controllers. Connectors.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 to Improve AR/VR Rendering & Reduce Power Consumption “by 30%”

Road to VR

Qualcomm introduced it’s new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company’s tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as ‘XR’, or ‘eXtended reality’) performance up to 30 percent in comparison to its predecessor, Snapdragon 835. image courtesy Qualcomm.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.21): Qualcomm launches AR2 chip, HTC headset gets leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The biggest news of the week took place in the Hawaii islands, where Qualcomm had its Snapdragon Summit event. The device should have a similar design to the Vive Flow but also use the Vive Focus 3 controllers (hence the nickname “Flowcus”). There should be one or two more games in the pipeline, and Manhunt VR should be one of them.

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NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling

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As a quick refresher, DirectX 12 Ultimate is Microsoft’s latest iteration of the DirectX 12 graphics API , with Microsoft using it to synchronize the state of the API between current-generation PCs and the forthcoming Xbox Series X console, as well as to set a well-defined feature baseline for future game development. AMD: Hawaii.

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Jake Rowell: How The best VR Experience Came to Life

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Coming from Hawaii, Jake brings a laid back, creative spirit but hardworking ethics which brought a lot of success. Prior to engaging with WeVR, HTC and Valve, Jake worked on game franchises such as Call of Duty and Final Fantasy. VR is a memory – you play a game you talk about the game. Same is with movies.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

The Ghost Howls

” , that are all the member states of the USA, excluded Alaska and Hawaii. Some of the most notable points are: 2 Controllers support. This means that before (or during) the launch of the Oculus Quest, it will be possible to have a similar control scheme on the Magic Leap One, too. MagicScript. Grordbort’s Invaders.