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JUNE 23, 2017

Welcome to another week chronicling the latest releases for HTC Vive. And don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group , complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good in the world of VR. New HTC Vive Releases on Steam. Xion, from Zenz VR.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Robo Recall was easily one of the most exciting games we got our hands on at Oculus Connect 3 earlier this month. “When making Robo Recall, we started with the base of Bullet Train as it stood,” said Nick Whiting, Technical Director at Epic Games during a phone interview. We wanted to make the ultimate tech demo.”

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

This week’s weekly roundup of HTC Vive titles contains a handful of virtual ‘escape the room’ experiences, some wacky mini-games, and even an education lab with a growing list of attractions. Pen Island VR, from ReaVR Games. More of a wave defense game versus a wave shooter. Ship It, from Think On Labs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Leveraging Gamification for Increasing Patient Outcome s Emerging Metaverse services and integrated, immersive technologies grew alongside RT3D engines such as Unreal and Unity, two SDKs that developers commonly leverage for creating gaming content. Chen remarked: This is one of my favourite examples of real-life value-add today.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Pimax Focused on the gaming and enterprise landscape, Pimax delivers futuristic VR headsets built with high-fidelity screens and enhanced optical capabilities. The most recent addition to the Pro Collection is the HTC VIVE Pro 2, which includes precision room-scale tracking, 5K visual fidelity, and a 120-degree field of view.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Developer Fusion Media Group this week announced that Mars 2030 will be landing on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR (PSVR) in July, with non-VR versions also available on both PC and PS4 too. The game uses position-tracked controllers like Oculus Touch, the Vive wands, and PlayStation Move.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Zuck has also had a chat with Jesse Schell, the CEO of Schell Games, and has provided an exclusive interview to Protocol. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games. A VR developer (Valem VR) has made a crazy experiment by mapping an entire athletics track in VR and creating a game for it. Some news on content.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

They may want to drive vehicles that they own in real life in the latest racing game”. ” Explaining further, he said, “[That’s] what made us the first automaker to look into the gaming industry – the experts of virtual worlds – back in 2016. The vehicle will merge with the physical and virtual world of the users.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. Carmack is a computer programmer best known for his work on the Quake , Doom , and Wolfenstein video games. VR Game of the Year. VR Lifetime Achievement.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. The Osterhout Design Group is an integrated hardware company with a deep background in advanced augmented reality innovation with the US military, and have their principal outsider investor in 21st Century FOX.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Currently available for free on the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift (sorry, mobile VR users), Blocks is a new app from Google that lets anyone create 3D objects without training. These 3D objects can be exported as an OBJ file and easily be plugged into VR or AR projects. …and just a few more… FUNDING IN Q2 RESULTS ARE IN.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

An environmental artist with a passion for Star Wars has realised the iconic location of Star Wars’ Mos Eisley space port in jaw-dropping detail via Unreal Engine 4. John Lewis is an Environmental Artist for Obsidian Entertainment , developers behind games such as Neverwinter Nights 2 and Fallout: New Vegas.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. These may be upcoming features or possible features Oculus is experimenting with a selected group of beta testers.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2017

The education-focused Mars 2030 launches today on SteamVR for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, soon to come to PSVR. As described in our first experience of Mars 2030 at GTC 2016 , the team went to great lengths to represent the martian terrain in the most realistic manner, using Unreal Engine 4’s physically-based rendering.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

Fantastic Contraption’s developers are part of an exclusive group of VR creators who have successfully generated in excess of $1 million. The creative puzzler is made by Canada-based game-making couple Sarah and Colin Northway teaming with Radial Games’ Andy Moore, Kimberly Voll and Lindsay Jorgensen with sound by Gord McGladdery.

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MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Major immersive firms like Meta and HTC provide unique funding opportunities for various use cases. Moreover, in May, T-Mobile added more international companies, including Beem, Krikey, Mawari, Mohx-Games, Pluto, and VictoryXR. Additionally, Unity recently joined the XR Association, a group dedicated to developing immersive content.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the company’s own blog post , Senior Vice President of New Technologies Group, Josh Walden, stated the acquisition granted Intel with “low-power, high-performance SoC [System on Chip] platforms” that would help to accelerate its computer vision services. He previously worked at Rockstar Games and Midway.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Portal Stories: VR is a free Portal 2 (2011) “mini story” recently released for the HTC Vive. It was developed by an independent group ( Prism Studios ) and brings with it 10 brand new puzzles, specifically designed for room scale VR. See Also: Valve’s ‘The Lab’ is a Wondrous Playground Full of VR Toys on HTC Vive.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year. Vandonkelaar said it takes between seven and nine months to create a game.

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MAY 28, 2018

I spent 80% of my time on a slightly customized version of Unreal Engine for Developers in-VR Editor (by Epic Games). It enables sophisticated in-VR level design and a good part of Unreal’s interface is exposed within it. Enea Le Fons speaking on how VR can help us escape our sedentary jobs (Image by HTC Vive).

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

It’s the prequel novel to not one, but rather an entire series of upcoming Scraper VR games, headed by the budding Labrodex Studios out of Jericho, NY. As Labrodex’s founder, Jim Ivon, initially told me over the phone, Labrodex intends to release three Scraper games with five episodes of content per game.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

It’s been said it only takes one visionary to champion VR within an organization; that one passionate (and sometimes crazy) person who “gets it” early and then slowly but surely gets others in the group on board. I oversee all things VR and AR for Epic Games. Games are a big challenge in VR and AR.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

You probably have heard of well-known models such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, and HTC VIVE?—?these Another industry standard is Unreal Engine, however, it is widely considered to have a steeper learning curve than Unity. Not all members have VR headsets in your group? Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet. ” Google Earth turns all of this data into completely explorable, scalable 3D immersive worlds for the HTC Vive VR headset. The app is available now for free on the HTC Vive.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

The tech industry responded by rallying as a community and a group. VR has gone through a rapid transition from a primarily consumer-focused, tethered device for gaming and entertainment, to standalone headsets in similar verticals. Brian Vogelsang : My biggest takeaway has been the excitement across the industry.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In the meantime, Valve has given a complete overhaul to the UI of SteamVR , changing the interface both of the desktop menus and the VR menu, that is now curved and more suitable to select games in an easier way with VR controllers. The good news for Valve don’t end here. monthly connected VR headsets on Steam.

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JUNE 13, 2023

The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. I think this will help accelerate the development of new applications and games and accelerate the port of existing applications and games to Vision Pro. I also commended the focus on gaming and entertainment for the device.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Image by Epic Games). Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. And it feels weird that HTC hasn’t fixed such a cheap little component that was already faulty on the original Vive. Top news of the week.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Osterhaut Design Group sells their R-7 glasses for $2799.99. Most importantly, the SDK comes with support for Unity Engine and Unreal Engine – you can build and test your own application almost immediately. Case in point is Microsoft’s HoloLens, where a development kit will set you back for $3000.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

This is a free association headed by Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, which aims at creating standards for the future metaverse. The Khronos Group already succeeded with OpenXR, so it has a good track in helping in creating standards. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2023

The year before that, he opened the conference with a joke game show called “ Metaverse, Shmetaverse.” According to a release shared with ARPost, the name change had to do with “disputes regarding the Nreal mark” (probably how similar it was to “Unreal”). XREAL In case you blinked and missed it, Nreal is now XREAL.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR. HOLLYWOOD LOVES HENRY.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

While we wait for the OpenXR initiative by Khronos Group (working together with some of the biggest companies in the VR scene) to be released, we developers have very few options to develop multi-platform VR applications on PC. You may be saying “Come on! And the same happens with OpenVR!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). Image by HTC). HTC has not confirmed nor denied the price, but 90% of cases when this happens, the rumored price is true. Other relevant news. Vive Cosmos release is close and it may cost £700. The page has now been removed.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. A new, strategic partnership between Warner Bros.

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