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Five VR Games To Hold You Over Until ‘Star Wars: Squadrons’

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Star Wars: Squadrons will have you manning the controls various starfighters from the Rebel Alliances fleet, such as the heavily-armed X-Wing fighter with its distinctive S-foils. 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.

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The Void, Epic Games Join Disney’s Accelerator Initiative

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We recently went hands-on with its latest offering in Utah and came away extremely impressed, but we’ve also seen The Void offer a Ghostbusters experience too. Epic itself has also developed several VR apps including this year’s Robo Recall for the Oculus Rift and is working with augmented reality tech too.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

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Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds. Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Partnering with National Geographic to show off the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in full 360 degree glory, Facebook took its first steps into live spherical video. PARTY WITH YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS IN VR: OCULUS ROOMS & PARTIES. In the official words of the Oculus blog, this is “just the beginning of social VR.”.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.01): Sony confirms PSVR 2, Facebook teases Quest 2 Pro, and more!

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The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR.

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‘FlyInside Flight Simulator’ Preview – A Promising Start in VR-native Flying

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FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim. Image courtesy FlyInside. It’s still early days for FlyInside.

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Digital Frontier: Where Brain-computer Interfaces & AR/VR Could One Day Meet

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In 1997, a bio engineering professor at the University of Utah named Dr. Richard Norman developed the ‘Utah Array’, an implant with 256 electrodes designed to rigidly attach to the brain. SEE ALSO Oculus Chief Scientist Dives Deep Into the Near Future of AR & VR.

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