The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human! More info.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Appearing this week on the stage of Oculus competitor HTC at the Tokyo Game Show , Oculus founder emeritus Palmer Luckey affirmed that he’s continuing to work on projects within the VR industry. ” SEE ALSO Oculus Founder Backs 'Revive'—a Hack for Vive to Play Rift-exclusive Games—With $2K in Monthly Funding.

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VRScout

JULY 22, 2021

The Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) has announced the finalists for the fifth International VR Awards , an international ceremony honoring incredible milestones made within the VR industry in categories such as hardware, gaming, film, social VR, marketing, and more. VR GAME OF THE YEAR. Think of it as the Oscars of VR!

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The Vive is the ‘room-scale’ VR system created by HTC and Valve. Find an HTC Vive Demo Location. HTC hosts a list of stores across the US and Europe where you can try the Vive for free. HTC hosts a list of stores across the US and Europe where you can try the Vive for free.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

HTC’s Vive X $100 million virtual reality accelerator isn’t slowing down; the company has this week launched the second wave of applications for the program. HTC announced the first class of 33 companies to join Vive X back in July. The list includes game creators like Glowstick Games and social VR platforms like Surreal.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

Time to applaud for a sweet deal on the HTC Vive, Clash of Clans partners w/ Facebook to bring AR to fans, control VR with your mind, new predictions for spending & investment are out, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. CLASH OF CLANS PARTNERS WITH FACEBOOK TO BRINGS AR TO FANS. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Borderlands 2 VR is headed to PSVR next month, but PC VR headset owners are undoubtedly curious to know if Gearbox’s massive hit shooter will eventually make it to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive too. SEE ALSO The 5 Best Games for PlayStation VR. ” Image courtesy Sony.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

And both the journalists of Road To VR and Upload VR agree on the fact tha t it doesn’t represent an improvement for VR gaming yet. The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

Rumors that Halfbrick’s likable VR debut, Fruit Ninja VR [ Review: 8/10 ], would be coming to PlayStation VR soon sprung up in the past few days as, tellingly, the game’s trophy list went live out of the blue. Today, the game itself has gone live too, as least in the EU.

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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

The organization is partnered with giants in the XR industry including Magic Leap, Oculus, and HTC. Pico Interactive doesn’t register in the US with names like Oculus and VIVE. We believe it will be a game-changer.”. “We launched Clinic two weeks after COVID hit,” CEO Eran Orr said in a phone interview. You Remember Pico.

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2020

With just four months to go in 2020, we still have plenty of VR gaming to look forward to. In January we received The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners , a thrilling and quite realistic zombie survival game. As gaming becomes ever more sophisticated, more and more VR innovations are branching out of it, too. FACEBOOK HORIZON.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Many gaming pundits have been saying the PSVR has been missing from Sony's long term battle strategy due to a lackluster presence at both E3 and Tokyo Game Show. Despite the over 1 million PSVR units sold and the acclaim of content like Resident Evil 7 it does not seem to get the credit that the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift get.

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2019

Bigscreen , the social VR platform that lets you stream your computer’s screen to others, just got a substantial update that brings with it 50+ streaming TV channels, including sports, gaming, movies, anime, news, and more. Factory, and more.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

Untold Games for “Daily – act software,” a “gaming” application for evaluating and rehabilitating neuropsychological patients. Haggai Goldfarb Consulting for “ Project Origami: The Magic of Flight ,” a panoramic video experience coming to the Oculus browser. The studio’s “Demeo” is nominated for VR Game of the Year.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC launches Vive Flow headset for relaxation, priced at $499. After endless teasings and leaks, in the end, HTC has finally unveiled its headset: called Vive Flow, it is a lightweight device for media consumption. I send you good vibes so things go well for you too! Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Tiny Bull Studios and Fellow Traveller (ex-Surprise Attack Games), today announced that Blind, the long-awaited psychological thriller, is slated to launch globally on September 18th for PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and OSVR. SEE ALSO New PlayStation VR Bundles Include a Hit and a Brand New Game in Each.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. The main trigger can give adaptive force-feedback, applying a different force on the index finger depending on what is happening in the game. Nreal Light is on sale in Germany.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 12, 2020

Oculus Link official cable now available worldwide (but Quest is still soldout). Good news for all the Quest fans: the official Oculus Link cable is now available worldwide in 22 countries. Anyway, with future software updates of the Oculus runtime, the official cable will be able to exploit all the maximum speed possible.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. base stations and a 20m fiber cable.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Pinball FX2 VR’s timed exclusivity with Oculus shortly comes to an end, with the game due to arrive on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR on November 29th. At the same time, the popular Walking Dead-themed table shuffles its way onto all VR versions of the game.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2017

And even the ones still in the game—including AlfaReal, Miido, and Storm Magic Mirror—have begun downsizing and delaying salary payments to employees. In October, we wrote about how HTC took the lead in opening the first Vive-branded cafe in Shenzhen. In many ways it’s still doing a whole lot better than America and Europe.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

WarDucks, a virtual reality game studio founded by a former Facebook employee, announces the launch of its game Sneaky Bears for PSVR and will soon release on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive platforms. Sneaky Bears is out now for PSVR in the US and will launch in Europe on August 31st at a 19.99 price point.

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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. Oculus Quest is sold out, and Coronavirus may make the situation even worse.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

PlayStation VR is launching tomorrow with a huge line-up of games, but one of its most promising is still about a month out. Crytek today announced that its upcoming Robinson: The Journey will be arriving on November 8th in North America and November 9th in Europe. Get ready for adventure! pic.twitter.com/ceWkkYrHZi.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I just hope for peace to come to Europe again soon : I have friends on both sides of the conflict, and no one of them wants this war, but all of them have to stand the consequences. Unluckily my referral gives you a chance of winning only if you are in the EMEA area (Europe, Middle-East, Africa). That’s it, easy peasy.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Even though they’re not the only VR headsets on the market, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift attract the most attention and command the mainstream media presence. When announced, Oculus Rift launch price of $599 presented a main advantage over HTC Vive’s $799. The word started breaking about two weeks ago in Europe.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Available On: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift (Touch not required). Reviewed On: Oculus Rift. The developers told us initially that ProjectM: Daydream is merely “a preview of one of the digital characters that will appear in [their] main VR adventure game that’s slated for a launch next year.”

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Wireless solutions such as TPCast are already available for the Vive and Rift, and the announcement of an official Vive Wireless Adaptor from HTC at CES 2018 indicates further momentum in this area , but the backpack PC still has valid use cases. Here we take a look at a range of VR backpack computers and what they offer. Storage: 1TB M.2

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Euro Truck Simulator 2 has been around for several years now, providing players the ability to simply drive a few of trucks around stunning vistas in a specific depiction of Europe. SCS started porting Euro Truck over to the Oculus Rift back in 2013. The studio is one of the earliest supporters of VR, and understandably so.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 9, 2019

No Man’s Sky: Beyond – Hello Games. This is the most high profile launch of next week, with Hello Games updating this sci-fi epic to version 1.7, Supported platforms: PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Valve Index. Supported platforms: Oculus Quest. Supported platforms: Oculus Quest.

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VRScout

AUGUST 30, 2018

Is there anything worse than patiently waiting for your turn on a VR game like Beat Saber or Sprint Vector, only to have the person before you hand over a sweat-soaked headset so damp you might actually drown if you tried to wear it? It’s fairly obvious Acer is targeting the business sector with the OJO 500. Other specs include two 2.89-inch

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It has been interesting to watch the reportages of Alex VR and Skeeva from the show floor , where they met many game studios and had meaningful interviews with them.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 28, 2017

Independent Canadian developer Frima announced today that its Norse-themed storytelling experience and movie-length narrative adventure, FATED: The Silent Oath, is now available on PlayStation®VR (PS VR) across North America and Europe. We are delighted to bring FATED to PS VR,” says Antoinette Thibeault, Marketing Director at Frima.

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