Slashgear

MARCH 18, 2021

This wearable head-mounted display (HMD) included an array of features, including but not limited to wireless functionality, antenna, optical subsystem, IMU sensors, a dedicated processor (or processors), onboard memory, functioning operating system, applications, games, a head tracking module, and an eye … Continue reading.

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VR Bites

JUNE 28, 2016

3 D VIRTUAL REALITY Space FPS games. “1 IN SPACE FREE Cardboard VR” Galaxy VR Cardboard games. Google Cardboard powered stereoscopic rendering and head tracking for mobile VR. 3D VR Space FPS games Cardboard. 3D game for android. WP-Appbox: 3D VR Space FPS game Cardboard (Free, Google Play) →.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2017

We pick 3 of the most promising PSVR games to either recently surface or on their way imminently. As the title is made for VR, as a player you can stoop in and peer at the track as close as you’d like and it’s a viewpoint that was supremely (if somewhat surprisingly) demonstrated with the excellent Blaze Rush.

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Steki Amusement

MAY 17, 2021

360° VR Motorcycle Ride, 3D VR High Speed Motorcycle Ride Virtual Reality Competitive Game. Super Cool Appearance Design, High Immersion Effects, Accurate motion simulation With High Quality Magnetic suspension motorcycle racing games (8 different scenes) & V-Racer games(16 racing tracks). 2021 Newest Design!

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

In addition to offering $100 in Oculus Store credit for every new Rift purchase from Best Buy, Amazon, and Microsoft (US), GAME (UK), Saturn (Germany), and FNAC (France), Oculus have provided some significant software discounts on the store, highlighted below: Dirt Rally – $40 (33% off) – a superb rally sim from Codemasters.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

CCP may have shuttered their VR game-producing branches , but EVE: Valkyrie (2016), the studio’s multiplayer arcade dogfighter set in the EVE universe, lives on with the addition of support for traditional monitors. Make every ship ridiculously overpowered, underpowered, use only certain weapons—it’s up to you.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2020

Perhaps it wanders to highly visible applications in gaming, film, art, and retail. High-resolution imagery and low-latency head-tracking brought people into a virtual environment. What comes to mind when you think of virtual reality ? But with VR poised to be disruptive, most, if not all, industries will be reshaped by it.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2017

We pick 3 of the most promising PSVR games to either recently surface or on their way imminently. As the title is made for VR, as a player you can stoop in and peer at the track as close as you’d like and it’s a viewpoint that was supremely (if somewhat surprisingly) demonstrated with the excellent Blaze Rush.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Tracking & Input. The headset supports 6DOF head-tracking and users can pair an Android phone to be used as a 3DOF controller (head-based pointing can be used as a fallback). Hand-tracking won’t be supported at launch, though it may come in a future update. Image courtesy HTC.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The rumor is still unconfirmed, but when the world’s oldest extant gaming company finally thinks it’s time to make a dedicated XR device, you know it’s going to be something special. That’s basically been the case from Game & Watch all the way to Switch and Switch Lite.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Google Daydream has only been out a few weeks, but it’s already built up a pretty respectable line-up of mobile VR games, both new and old. We’re hoping that Google offers better options in the near future but, until then, we’ve come up with the six best games on the platform you can download right now.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Voice commands through PSVR 2 can be used to easily launch games and apps (instead of digging through the game library) or to open certain settings pages (instead of digging through the settings menu). Luckily PSVR 2 has a built-in lens calibration that’s easy to run at any time, even in the middle of a game.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The 2002 Gamecube classic gets the VR treatment as part of an ongoing study into VR game mechanics. The ambitious title replaced Metroid’s standard 2D, side-scrolling game play in favor of a refreshing first-person perspective, making it the first Metroid game in history to feature 3D computer graphics. .

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Still one of the better games for Sony’s PlayStation VR headset, Secret Sorcery’s Tethered [ Review: 7/10 ] will soon be landing on other platforms. A full release date hasn’t been confirmed, but the new versions of the game will support the Oculus Touch and Vive wand controllers respectively.

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Upload VR

MARCH 16, 2023

More also needs to be learned PlayStation VR2’s tracking system before we can say more about the potential of using PSVR 2 for PC VR gaming. Open source efforts like Monado are working on computer vision-based hand and head tracking for VR headsets.

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ARPost

MAY 19, 2023

The thumbsticks can be used for snap turns, but there’s no movement and head-tracking is sufficient. The selection currently consists of soft-spoken stories and a marble-maze mini-game that plays with some audio effects. The marble game is fun and the soft-spoken stories are great, but I didn’t get big ASMR vibes.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2016

The latest release of Dolphin VR, an impressive Nintendo Gamecube emulator that ads VR functionality to games, adds support for Oculus’ consumer headset the CV1 so now you can play Metroid Prime in VR, with head tracking and have it look better than ever. Then you can choose your game, click play, and put on the HMD.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The exhilarating gameplay, heart-pumping action, and tight controls convinced me that Landfall is a game I didn’t know I wanted in VR. Force Field, an AR and VR company restructured from Vanguard Games, is the team behind Landfall and we had the chance to go hands-on with it at this year’s Oculus Connect conference.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Space Stalker actually fares pretty well overall if you get past the promotional screenshots that seem to accentuate the assets of the extremely fit woman pilot you play in the game as much as the actual game itself. Read our Game Review Guidelines for more information on how we arrived at this score.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

The release of the Lumin SDK confirms that the Magic Leap One will include eye-tracking, as Unreal points out among the various headset capabilities supported by the engine: Head tracking. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Room scanning and meshing.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Mobile game developer Destruction Crew is dipping its toes into virtual reality with its latest title, Demolition Derby VR Racing , currently available for free on the App Store and Google Play. The gameplay is tight, the head-tracking is responsive, and the multiplayer is impressively stable. “We

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2017

It’s been a long time coming for a racing simulator originally released in 2013, but rFactor 2 has just taken an exciting new step for VR fans as the game’s latest beta not only adds DX11 support for enhanced visuals, but OpenVR support, enabling the game to be played on the Rift, Vive, and other headsets supporting OpenVR.

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VRScout

MAY 22, 2017

The VR experience is enhanced by Positron’s Voyager platform, featuring guided 360-degree motion control, head-tracked 3D audio and haptic integration—allowing you to experience the world of The Mummy in an entirely new way. The Mummy arrives in theaters, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D on June 9.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 31, 2023

Immersive developers also consider sickness when creating immersive games, VR training scenarios, and augmented desktop setups. VRCs avoid sickness by reviewing refresh rates, head-tracked graphics, render scaling, headset positional tracking, multiple locomotion styles, and head-tracked user interfaces (UI).

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2023

Image courtesy Sightful Sightful says Spacetop uses a pair of customized Nreal Light AR goggles with 6DOF head-tracking, a 53° field-of-view, and 1,920 × 1,080 resolution per-eye. “Potential customers looking for a hard-core gaming rig or a video-editing monster machine would be better served to wait for a future generation.”

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Road to VR

MAY 12, 2017

In the video above, VR games Holopoint and Job Simulator are played from a wheelchair position. Holopoint is an action-packed archery game where enemies attack from all sides, and players are required to physically dodge projectiles. A secondary use of WalkinVR is to improve the experience for anyone with a compromised tracking setup.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2018

While the Windows VR headsets are often criticized for the precision of their hand-tracking, I was surprised to find how well they hold up in practice even with a fast paced, highly active game like Beat Saber (2018). When it comes to Beat Saber , the game is nearly a worst-case scenario for the Windows VR controllers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 9, 2017

When most people think of VR games they probably think about first-person adventures and shooters. It’s a natural fit to give players a weapon and ask them to explore a world in first-person since that’s the most intuitive application of head tracking and letting a screen surround you as a portal to another world.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to the demo video (linked below), the unnamed “R&D prototype” looks to include both 6DOF head-tracking as well as hand-tracking, and appear to be a standalone unit similar to Microsoft HoloLens.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 22, 2016

“We’re thrilled to introduce our dynamic list of immersive VR experiences to users on a platform that is quickly evolving to be more than a gaming console,” Kliavkoff.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 15, 2023

Hand tracking on Pico is still marked as experimental though, so that may change in future. Pico says the headset's positional tracking has also been improved, "alleviating issues with slight head tracking jitter in dark and spacious scenes or when the head is still".

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Upload VR

MAY 31, 2023

These "disputes" likely refer to the lawsuit Epic Games filed against the company in 2021 , in which Epic alleged that it was “no coincidence” that Nreal’s name “looks and sounds virtually identical” to its Unreal game engine. No price has been announced yet.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

What you see (embedded above) is the company’s brief but intriguing video, built for posting to the HTC Vive subreddit /r/vive , to tease a new demo the company seem to be planning to show at next weeks Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2019

.” How many of those have been built specifically for 6DOF controllers, we’re not sure at this time; all Vive Focus games are said to work on Vive Focus Plus. Head Tracking : Optical inside-Out. Vive Focus Plus Specs. Display : 3K AMOLED (2,880 × 1,600). Processor : Qualcomm Snapdragon 835. Audio : Built-in Speaker.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2016

Developed by Kokoromi , a studio setup by the founder of Polytron Phil Fish, the people who brought you the delightful Fez , SuperHyperCube is difficult to pigeon-hole as a game.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Racket: NX is a VR game powered by Waves NX’s spatial audio software. I’d be in VR and turn my head away from an audio source, the sound would cut out completely from one of my ears ignoring how real acoustics operated. This is why they created the Waves NX head tracker. It disturbed me. It was weird. I kind of liked it.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

So what suddenly changed that now the Oculus Rift doesn’t need such a crazy-powerful gaming rig to run? That kind of frame rate, head tracking, processing power, requires a powerful system to run everything simultaneously. The answer is in a new technology called “asynchronous spacewarp.” What does that mean?

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