The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. This is of course the base technology needed for foveated rendering. After many promises, we are seeing the first step in this sense.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2018

We’ve rounded up a list of 20-something VR games launching in 2018 that we’re excited about, covering all three major VR systems: PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Platform : PSVR, Oculus, Steam (Spring 2018). Platform : Oculus, Steam (Early 2018). Platform : Oculus (February 28, 2018). Platform : Oculus (2018).

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

While companies like Walmart are preparing for the busiest shopping day of the year with Black Friday VR training simulators , i’m sure all you really care about is how to save some major dough this holiday weekend. Sony announced a $100 discount on all PlayStation VR bundles as well as the PlayStation 4 1TB consoles. Shop on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Of course, like everything regarding Apple, these are just rumors. News worth a mention. Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In two days there will be the Facebook Connect, an Apple event and a Sony event about PS5! If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Top news of the week.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 31, 2017

Sony’s positiontally-tracked wands bring your hands into VR with relative accuracy, but they pale in comparison to the HTC Vive’s wands or Oculus Touch controllers. PlayStation VR is a very capable headset, but it does have one glaring weakness: the PlayStation Move controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week we had two bad news related to the Covid-19: Valve has reassured that the Index will get back in stock before the launch of Alyx, but due to the virus, the amount of devices available will be much less than they hoped for; Sony and Facebook have pulled out from GDC. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But it wasn’t until Sony announced PSVR that things started to change. Project Morpheus or Sony PSVR. At the end of the day, while it gives us a glimpse of what a well-made turn-based RPG in VR could look like, it fell short due to limited game mechanics, linear story and of course lack of multiplayer.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Back at Paris Games Week late last year , Yamauchi stated (via translation) that, “We’re of course planning to be compatible with the PlayStation VR and through various testing that we’ve performed so far it looks like the experience will be something very good that feels very natural.”

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Available On : Oculus (Rift). Sanzaru Games and Oculus Studios brought Asgard’s Wrath to life as a part of the Oculus initiative to fund less, but bigger titles for the Rift platform. Available On: Steam (Index, Vive, Rift, WMR), Viveport , Oculus ( Rift , Quest ). Available On : Oculus ( Quest , Rift ).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

The launch on Quest has gone pretty well , and the game has had good feedback from the press (apart from some graphical glitches that can be solved in future updates) and very positive reviews on the Oculus Store. Of course, they got angry. Now there is the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I started because I actually tested, like everyone, the first generation of Oculus, and then the second, and so on… and I was expecting like better visual quality … [me too!] HTC, Oculus, Sony are not offering headsets with big FOV and resolution… while you, Varjo, Pimax, are. Why have you started this adventure? (

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 5, 2017

video game industry when the Oculus Kickstarter campaign began? NB: The biggest win for Oculus was being able to get John Carmack and Gabe Newell in the Kickstarter video. With Oculus, VR had a tremendous amount of buzz. So that’s the #1 thing to simulate in a VR video-game. What was the environment like in the U.S.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Of course, it would be almost 600 years before the birth of modern VR technology and VR headsets). In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications. In 1994, they released the Sega VR-1 motion simulator arcade attraction which tracked head movement.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2016

If you’re a regular reader here at UploadVR you’ll know that every Friday we give you a quick update on all the games that have launched for the Oculus Rift, Gear VR, and HTC Vive over the past seven days. Now that Sony’s headset is out, we’re going to be doing a list for that too. If you don’t?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 27, 2016

You can just pass the headset around of course, but it would have been great to build a local or online multiplayer mode into the game itself, similar to previous entries. For reference, Job Simulator is one of her only other favorites. When I demoed the game on Oculus Rift with Touch at PAX, the accuracy was satisfactory.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2023

The end of 2022 marks more than a decade since the Oculus Kickstarter sparked the modern era of VR. Although Sony has technically continued selling its original PSVR headset over the years, it’s been on the market for more than six years now—and gained ‘last-gen’ status well before that. The Elephant in the Room.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. I hope you’ll enjoy it…. SSD (8–9 GB/s).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality from Bossa Studios is a VR-based adaptation of the original Surgeon Simulator 2013 , first released for flat monitor displays in 2013. When the Vive launched, we got Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet the Medic , which was a short demo showing off the basic mechanics. We lead very different lives.

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VeeR VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Publisher : SUPERHOT Team Developer : SUPERHOT Team Platforms : Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PSVR Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes From the game title, it is self-explanatory to understand what this game is about, but the whole idea is to “communicate effectively and you don’t get blown to bits.” If you do, this is the must play game for you.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Quest is surely the most important headset to launch in 2019. The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. Oculus Rift S. Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. It seems that Sony is hoping for a Q4 release in time for the holidays, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that delays will bring the release to Q1 2023. We don’t know much about this upcoming content, though. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This acquisition signs a new course for Facebook strategy in XR: after having just partnered with external studios for the development of its top-notch exclusive titles (e.g. It is also a defensive, move that makes it avoid the loss of its partners, as it has happened with Insomniac Studio that has just been acquired by Sony.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

In his video, it seems that the Pico Neo 3 is exactly what we would expect, that is a good clone of the Oculus Quest 2. There is also a companion app (another thing copied from Oculus), through which you can buy the games (of course connected with Alipay and WeChat pay). He’s most probably talking about the Oculus Quest 2 Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

This is of course an application I’m doing myself very soon because I want to create content for this device. Of course, Meta has plenty of stock of these components, but this means that it has already started the process to sunset the headset. This Apple-owned development device needs to be returned upon request.

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VeeR VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Publisher : SUPERHOT Team Developer : SUPERHOT Team Platforms : Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PSVR. Publisher : Steel Crate Games Developer : Steel Crate Games Platforms : Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PSVR. Publisher : CCP Games Developer : CCP Games, Oculus VR Platforms : PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift. Star Trek: Bridge Crew.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). This money includes all the revenues not related to the main business of Facebook (advertisement), but Facebook has clearly specified that this big increment is mostly related to Oculus hardware and software.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Of course, you’ll need a reasonably powerful gaming PC to plug your headset into. If you’re looking to play content that’s exclusive to the Oculus PC library (like Asgard’s Wrath ) you can use the free but unofficial Revive mod to play Oculus PC content on Valve Index. Oculus Quest 2 Specs.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The demo got more than 100k downloads on Steam so we decided to push on and now it’s available on Steam, Oculus, VivePort, WMR, PSVR, Pico Neo2, Nolo X1. Git is of course a god-send. Of course, we needed to add some basic FPS mechanics like running, jumping, and crouching. We released the demo on Steam in May 2018.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Sony and Nintendo were all set to release a collaborative game system known as the SNES-CD back in the 90s as an add-on device for the Super Nintendo. It’s been a long time coming and now Sony is finally putting all of its wacky peripherals to use in one immersive experience. Funny how that works out, isn’t it?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Luckily, Sony included a demo disc with PSVR that includes over two dozen demos, a huge variety to give you an idea of what is possible. Sony has also worked with partners and its own developers on casual experiences for the PlayStation VR platform. Oculus Rift costs $599 and the HTC Vive costs $799. Point, Sony.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

This week Sony has showcased the new DualShock controller for the PS5, dubbed DualSens. PSVR2 will surely have its dedicated controllers, but since Sony is trying to guarantee retro-compatibility of games (especially gems like AstroBot), this headset should also be able to work with the DualSens controller.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

People started screaming at the “Oculus Quest competitor”, but I wonder why Apple should release a VR headset with just limited AR features after it has repeated for years that it doesn’t care about VR. Virtuactions proposes LBEVR with Oculus Quest 2. For us XR fans, there has been some interesting information too.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Sure, there had to be a good reason why, they didn’t have infinite money, but as the head professor of the games courses had just purchased a $50k simulator chair basically on a whim, I figured I might just ask. And then the Oculus Kickstarter happened. And Oculus did hold on to that exclusivity for quite a while.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. Nothing that will shake the ecosystem. Someone wonders if this may be the Quest killer, and my answer is no.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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