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‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Is Steam’s VR Game Of The Year

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For more information on this year’s selections visit store.steampowered.com/steamawards. Half-Life: Alyx is currently on sale for 25% off ($44.99). Image Credit: Valve. The post ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Is Steam’s VR Game Of The Year appeared first on VRScout.

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Walmart and STRIVR Partner To Train Employees In VR

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Each will have an Oculus Rift and a VR ready PC to run it on. It’s football training simulations are also used by Dallas Cowboys, Arizona Cardinals, Minnesota Vikings, Clemson University, Stanford University, the Washington Wizards, Detroit Pistons, and Washington Capitals.

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Hollywood Embraces its Future in VR at the 2017 Lumiere Awards

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A Sundance favorite from Oculus Story Studio this year, Dear Angelica won for showing how powerful storytelling in VR can be. Best VR Game: Job Simulator. No surprise that Job Simulator from Owlchemy Labs won this category for becoming a go-to game to introduce the power of VR to people. Best Journalism Experience: Take Flight.

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Hands-On: ‘SpaceDragon’ Is A Trippy Touch Title For VR’s Darker Side

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With Oculus Touch in-hand you can turn yourself into amazing things. That’s pretty much the premise behind SpaceDragon , one of the first new Oculus Touch games of the year from Detroit-based 3lb Games. You can download SpaceDragon on Oculus Home now for $14.99 — the Oculus Touch controllers are required.

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First look at HTC Vive Sync

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The headset came out last year , starts at $800, and is hands-down the best VR headset I’ve used to so far, and that includes various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, the Microsoft Hololens, the original HTC Vive, Oculus Go, and dozens of different smartphone-based headsets. VIVE Focus Plus. Image courtesy HTC Vive.).

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Virtual Reality in Retail: Types, Use Cases and Real Business Benefits

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Virtual reality in the retail industry delivers simulations to shoppers and retail workers through special hardware (headsets) and software (3D applications). Because of the nature of the industry, these simulations tend to focus on the products of the company or other business processes. in a simulated environment.

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Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

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A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. It's a fully-interactive, virtual reality motion-based flight simulator, where you fly right down the Las Vegas strip.