Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it’s bringing Spaces , the company’s own social VR app, to HTC Vive. Like YouTube, which Google recently brought to the Vive , Facebook works only when it’s available to as many people as possible. Simply pick your platform, and download the file. Arctic Open.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Available now on PC VR headsets like the Oculus Rift S, HTC Vive, and Valve Index, Portable Emulator is a nifty piece of software that allows you to play a wide range of classic games in VR. Those interested can download the Portable Emulator app 100% free of charge here. from virtualreality.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Google has pushed an update to its VR paint program Tilt Brush (2016) that finally lets you intuitively drag your 3D creations in from Blocks (2017) , the company’s latest 3D modeling app for VR. You can download Blocks now for free for Vive or Rift on their respective stores ( Steam , Oculus Store ).

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MAY 26, 2019

Moon Rider , a new open source VR music visualization and rhythm game, pushes the boundaries of what web-based VR by offering an impressive, Beast Saber-like gaming experience without the need of a download or dedicated app. Google Daydream and Oculus Go users have access to only the Ride and Viewer Modes.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

From monolithic manufacturers such as Facebook’s Oculus, Samsung, HTC, Google, and Sony, to the small, but hard working development teams that filled our platforms with content, the entire industry deserves to take a bow. Tagged with: community download , discussion , virtual reality , won , year of VR.

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Road to VR

MAY 3, 2018

Google is celebrating the life and artistry of French film pioneer Georges Méliès today with a charming VR short that commemorates his iconic silent films including the groundbreaking A Trip to the Moon (1902). The short was produced by Nexus Studios and co-directed by Fx Goby and Google Doodles’ Hélène Leroux.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Wands (2017) , the first-person magic-dueling game, is available today for HTC Vive via Viveport. Already supporting Gear VR, Daydream, and Oculus Rift platforms, developing studio Cortopia confirmed with Road to VR that cross-play with other headsets is coming today, or at very latest “later this week.”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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JULY 29, 2022

It works on the following platforms and devices: Oculus Quest; Oculus Rift S; Valve Index’. Designed for Oculus Quest and Oculus Go, this app aims to create a cozy family corner in the virtual world. It is available for HTC Vive, Oculus, Windows Mixed Reality, and PCs (both Windows and Macs).

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MARCH 14, 2018

Google is working on ways to create the most realistic sense of presence while in VR. To help with that, Google has been experimenting with light fields to show how VR can come as close as possible to what you’d actually see if you were there. Download the demo for free and check it out for yourself. Image Credit: Google VR.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

The Oculus Touch controllers are right around the weekend corner — it’s Friday and they come out on Tuesday. Free Oculus Touch Home Titles Releasing Next Week. Free Steam VR Titles You Should Download Right Now. Google Earth VR [ Steam ]. That’s a lot to digest. First Contact (free for everyone).

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Baobab’s adorable virtual reality animated short Invasion has reportedly been downloaded over 1 million times according to co-founder Maureen Fan. Invasion is available for free on just about every VR platform available to date including Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, PlayStation VR and HTC Vive.

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2016

Google is working add fully immersive browsing capability to Chrome, allowing users to browse any part of the web in VR, not just those sites that are specially built for VR. See Also: Google Shows HTC Vive Running at 90 FPS in Chrome with WebVR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. Oculus Link is here. Google announces The Relightables. If you’re interested, you can check the interview out here.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

Google’s Daydream ecosystem for mobile VR is slowly checking off a list of the various types of experiences we’ve come to expect from headsets so far. vTime celebrated its first birthday on December 22nd 2016, and reached half a million downloads shortly before that milestone.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2020

Developers can now download a beta version that will let them start integrating OpenXR apps into SteamVR. With today’s news we’re hoping Oculus Store game developers will be getting that prototype sooner rather than later. The company has released what it calls “initial support” for the 1.0.9

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Image by Oculus). The Oculus Quest is now one year old.

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JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. VPN (Image from Know Your Meme) In China, most of the Western websites we use the most, like Google and Facebook, are blocked behind the Great Firewall.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2017

So, you just bought an Oculus Rift and you want to know what to download first (besides the free stuff). In our breakdown of the top 5 games for Oculus Touch and top 5 for the Xbox One gamepad, we take a look at some of the best games currently on the Oculus Store. Top 5 Oculus Touch Games. Robo Recall.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

Available for free on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, NASA’s Exoplanet Excursions VR experience takes users on a jaw-dropping tour across five of the seven planets forming the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system. You can check out these far-away planets now by downloading Exoplanet Excursion over at the Spitzer Mission website.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

There, Google said that the company soon plans to ship a public version of Chrome on Android with support for WebVR 1.1. It was there that Megan Lindsay, WebVR Product Manager at Google, announced that the company is working toward a public release of Chrome on Android that supports the latest WebVR 1.1

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MARCH 7, 2017

We were already having a great time coming across a demo of Duck Hunt for the Oculus Rift, with grenades and all. Now Konami’s run and gun classic, Contra , has popped up on the interwebs — and you can download it right now for the HTC Vive. The short demo transports you into the boss battle of Level 3: Waterfall.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2017

CCP Games (developer of EVE: Valkyrie, EVE: Online , and others) has launched Gunjack 2: End of Shift (2016) , for the Samsung Gear VR on the Oculus Store. Initially Gunjack 2 , launched in 2016, was exclusively available on Google Daydream. The title is the sequel to 2015’s Gunjack which had debuted on Gear VR.

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MAY 10, 2017

What content gets downloaded? Very rarely do we get a completely candid look into the exact sale and download numbers, typically having to collect scatterings of information to create an educated estimate. Google Daydream: 170,000. HTC Vive: 95,000. Oculus Rift: 64,000. And is it worth it for me to buy now?

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2019

3 music pack is now live on all supported platforms, which includes Steam (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve Index, Windows VR headsets), the Oculus Store ( Rift , Quest ), and the PlayStation Store (PSVR). Before jumping in for some block-slashing fun, you can also preview, download or stream OST Vol. The OST Vol.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Google (who else) is working rapidly on transforming the way we experience the everyday stuff – like watching movies or browsing the web. At Google’s I/O developer conference in May, the company announced that it was working on a VR version of Chrome (Chrome 61) that could work in Daydream.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Considering that this number doesn’t count the Quest users connected via Oculus Link, the actual number of VR users on Steam is even higher. Still no news on Oculus For Business program and Multiplayer SDK for Quest.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

The BBC’s 1943 Berlin Blitz experience, first previewed for selected audiences at the Venice Film Festival where it was very well received, is now available for the general public to download. “We The experience is available now on the Oculus and Steam stores for Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive headsets. One can hope.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

.” The show is co-sponsored by Google and includes “some really dope surprises,” which will come along an update pushed shortly before the concert. TheWaveVR supports Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and makes heavy use of tracked motion controllers for the platform’s patently trippy interactive objects.

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JULY 5, 2020

If you already own Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs , the update will show up automatically for free through the Oculus Rift Store , Oculus Quest Store , Steam and Viveport , with the update coming to the PlayStation Store soon. Wonderglade will be available for download on the Oculus Quest Store starting July 9th.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Designer and Creative technologist Dong Yoon Park has painstakingly recreated a Star Wars battle scene inside VR with Google’s Tilt Brush. Virtual reality artistry really has exploded since the HTC Vive gave the world room scale VR and tracked motion controllers, making the VR art application Tilt Brush possible.

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MARCH 24, 2018

You can explore the VR series now through the Inception app, available for download on the Oculus Rift , HTC Vive , Microsoft , Gear VR , Google Daydream , Sony Playstation , iOS and Android. “VR provides a new avenue for Refinery29 to reach their large vast network base of young women,” said Inception CEO Benny Arbel.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

At the same time, anyone around the world with access to a VR headset could also download the Within app and tune in to watch the VR premiere. The VR experience is available for VR headsets like Gear VR, Oculus Rift, or HTC Vive by downloading the Within app.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 30, 2021

After taking over the mantle of most-downloaded social media app in the world with TikTok, ByteDance is coming for Facebook’s moonshot, buying up its own virtual reality headset maker called Pico. Like Oculus, they create both hardware and software for their VR devices. Unlike Oculus, they have a substantial presence in China.

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Cats and VR

JULY 20, 2016

The experience will be free and available on Gear VR, Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on the Within app. Make sure to download the app before hand [link]. The experience will only be available to view at 10:45am PT/1:45pm EST on Thursday, July 21st.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

First, Oculus launched a developer preview of its own VR web browser, Carmel, and now Google is finally bringing beta integration to Chrome on Android. This includes Google’s own offering, Daydream View. Last month, we reported that Google would bring stable WebVR 1.1 Tagged with: Daydream , google , webvr.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2018

For the full effect, you can watch the video in VR on Google Daydream and Google Cardboard by using either the Daydream YouTube app, or by clicking the ‘Cardboard’ button on the YouTube Android app. Gear VR owners can watch it by browsing to YouTube through Samsung Internet.

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