Road to VR

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Better keep a tight grip on that wallet—the next month and a half will see the launch of a flurry of anticipated games for Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 (and a few which are also coming to PSVR 2 and PC VR). With the power of VR, you will be immersed in a fantasy adventure like no other. Here’s what should be on your radar.

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Steki Amusement

APRIL 16, 2024

Introducing the world’s most popular IP game content developed by the famous Italian studio RED RAION to bring players more immersive enjoyment! VR Space Travel Cinema 3 Seats Introducing the world’s most popular IP game content developed by the famous Italian studio RED RAION to bring players more immersive enjoyment!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 26, 2023

I’m always open to meeting with other people that have a passion for immersive realities! Since I’m making this long trip from Italy, I’m staying some extra days to have the opportunity to do something cool. You can contact me on your favorite channel among the ones listed on this page.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2023

To commemorate the occasion celebrated by sports fans all around the world, Snapchat is introducing brand new ways for you to immerse yourself in the excitement via a handful of new augmented reality (AR) experiences. The first two games alone had an attendance of 117,921 people. To help bring you closer to the game and the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2018

In a week here in Italy will start a very interesting VR-related event called Immersive Architecture. The rooms inside the Im Arch venue where you’ll be able to meet interesting people from the industry and also assist to some cool showcase (Image from Immersive Architecture). Can you introduce yourself to my readers?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Now the VFX mastermind has turned his attention to the immersive storytelling space with his company, Blackthorn Media. The studios latest offering, Caliban Below , is an immersive VR experience that tells a small section of story from a much longer tale, The Abbot’s Book – a gothic novella published by Connely back in 2008.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Such offerings will include a variety of incredible projects by numerous genre-defying creators, a VR Cinema running a selection of groundbreaking immersive films, and a host of informative panel discussions conducted by some of the most influential figures in the industry. Ah, I have your attention now, don’t I?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m back in Italy! But even more, we had some game developers, like the ones of Pavlov and Pistol Whip, that have detailed how the game runs better on this console than on PCVR. Supernatural is so now a game of Meta’s, giving the company an official product in the profitable fitness VR market.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how important immersive and interactive apps and games are in our everyday life. Immersive games and apps and 3D videos have opened a new world for emotionally exhausted people staying at home 24/7. Where: Turin, Italy (and Online). AIXR Insights Live: Marketing in VR Games.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This includes Liz Rosenthal, Programmer of Immersive Content for Venice International Film Festival; and Loren Hammonds, VP of Immersive Programming at Tribeca Film Festival, among several others. This year FIVARS will include films by artists from France, Romania, Netherlands, Italy, Thailand, the US, and many more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2023

Because what matters is not the present, but the future: Apple’s commitment to XR is a long-term game, and while this headset will never become mainstream, probably the Apple Vision 3 (or 4) will. But unluckily, we haven’t got many details about the game. This doesn’t pose very well for the interest that Ubisoft has in this game.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

This will be a newsletter written on the road: I’ve prepared the material in Italy, I’m currently writing these words from the Frankfurt airport (Germany), I will keep writing on the plane across the ocean and I will finalize everything in Sunnyvale (California, USA). For once, my prediction was correct, I only imagined the wrong context.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

This is incredibly important because one of the big roadblocks to transforming our 2D internet to a 3D internet (hence the M-word) is the conversion of our enormous databases of 2D content to 3D elements that can be used inside immersive realities. is releasing its first game, Galactic Catch, on June, 29th.

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Road to VR

MARCH 17, 2021

A message uncovered by IGN Italy when plugging in a pair of wireless headphones into an Xbox Series X/S caused a stir in the VR community, as it seemingly alluded to some level of VR support baked into Xbox consoles. I have some issues with VR — it’s isolating and I think of games as a communal, kind of together experience.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Our members are always looking to immerse themselves in new experiences and continue to learn,” Regional Director at Craven-Pamlico Regional Library, Katherine Clowers, said in a Rendever blog post detailing the deployment. Virtual reality opens up a world of immersive possibilities for our members.”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

Meta announced interesting games at its Quest Gaming Showcase. On April, 20th, Meta had its Quest Gaming Showcase , an online event where it announced the most important upcoming games for Quest for the next 12 months. Half-Life 3 for Quest) and not even updates on the most awaited games for Quest (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This Saturday I have been to the Milano Games Week. If you don’t know what it is, I can describe it as the little Italian brother of the Gamescom: it is much smaller, but it features anyway a lot of games , both from popular major players and from indies. Anyway, I had a pleasant day in Milan. AnotheReality.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2022

Poised to arrive around January 2023, it is considered by many the savior of XR, the hardware that will show the real possibilities of immersive realities and make finally VR mainstream. The use cases are not clear, apart from gaming. Will this use case be gaming? (I I don’t think so, Apple is not much into games).

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This week, Inteleos and Vantari VR, a leading immersive training solutions provider for healthcare end users, are partnering to increase the availability of XR learning opportunities, potentially reaching millions of international clinicians. Immersive XR training applications are notably popular within healthcare.

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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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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

More of a 360° movie than game, this project focuses on Doyle, a self-important gargoyle living on a French cathedral who believes he’s destined for greatness, swapping between MR and VR segments. This makes the VR side feel more like a short movie than a game, which is fine thanks to an entertaining storyline.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

Yes, this one has passthrough, 4K screens, etc… but still, it’s a very old and very not-immersive use case. Even when talking about games, the first mention was to Apple Arcade games you can play on a giant screen. This is something we were expecting from the rumors, but it reminds us a lot of the Gear VR.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Empereur falls somewhere between your typical VR game and a 360° movie. Such moments remind me of Before I Forget , a flatscreen game about dementia. A game can't perfectly recreate these conditions, but mixing speech therapy segments with surrealist dream sequences seems to at least allow Empereur to offer a window into his life.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I remember one day at Immersive Architecture with Enea Le Fons in 2018 when we played around with the Focus, and then at a certain point, he was walking with us in the central plaza of Venice (Italy) with the headset on. Upload VR is hosting a new Showcase of VR games on December, 6th 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Inflation here in Italy is ramping up, and the impression I have is that we are entering into a recession phase. Its new flagship Immortalis-G715 GPU will supercharge the Android gaming experience and among the list of features, it will include hardware-based ray tracing for the first time. Don’t wake me up! News worth a mention.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2019

and Fnac, and the UK’s Currys PC World and Game are all out of stock of the full set as well. If you can’t wait, Italy’s Amazon.it and the UK’s Amazon.co.uk Make cardboard controllers called Toy-Con, and then use your creations to play the software’s variety of fun, immersive games.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I’m back to Italy after my trip to Helsinki! This surprisingly means that Meta has approved on the Quest Store this app that lets people play SteamVR games bypassing the PC Quest runtime. If all the existing flatscreen Unity games could become VR-compatible, that would be huge. Lone Echo).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

I will depart my lovely Italy on Saturday, to attend the Sandbox Immersive Festival (SIF) in Qingdao, China. The Sandbox Immersive Festival is one of the biggest AR/VR events in the whole Asia : it is a big exhibition dedicated to immersive storytelling content and will feature top-notch creations from Chinese and Western people.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 18, 2018

I’m very happy to talk about a very important event that will take place very soon in my city of Turin (Italy): the VIEW Conference. Google Spotlight Stories has always created very interesting immersive content, like the first VR doodle. “Artist-Driven Immersive Work” by Eloi Champagne and Martin Viau.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Some immersive games will be available at launch: Game Room, What the Golf?, Probably What The Golf will become the game of the year 2024… I’m of course super excited for this launch because the hype created by this headset can reinvigorate the whole XR ecosystem. and Super Fruit Ninja.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

I’m back in Italy! The first is that the headset is just at the beginning of its life, some pieces of content like Beat Saber are not available yet, so this initial data is spurious and over time Beat Saber will be the most sold game again. It is the first time I see such a system in a VR game, and I hope it won’t be the last.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

Roblox has 66M users , and the fact that some of them may buy a VR headset to try their worlds in an immersive way can only be positive for the sales of Quest and VR in general. Super Resolution” is an upscaling technique useful to bring the app visuals to the same resolution as the device, built upon Snapdragon Game Super Resolution.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 16, 2016

Resolution Games’ ‘Bait!’ Passes Half a Million Downloads on Gear VR Generally speaking, Oculus and Samsung won’t release official figures for software sales on Gear VR, but Resolution Games today revealed an impressive figure for Bait! That’s not all Resolution Games had to announce, though. is a pretty polished experience.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days! More info Discover the games in the Steam Summer Sale In a very interesting thread on Reddit, people in the VR community discuss what are the best VR games to get discounted during the Steam Summer Sale and why.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This information shows us that Apple is playing a long-term game. As I’ve said, Apple is playing a long-term game and we will see the beneficial results of its entrance into the field in the next few years. Games in AR/MR, being them on mobile or headset, never got very successful. To do exactly what?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2021

My video review of the game, with some footage of the gameplay. Once you open Rezzil, you are shown the main menu that asks you what you want to do, and in particular, it lets you choose if starting a new training session or a new gaming session. It’s a bit a rhythm game like Synth Riders. How is it good?

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2018

So while titles such as Starcraft 2 and Overwatch may be positioned seemingly permanently at the top of the current esports food chain, the popularity of last years VR Challenger League, a VR-dedicated esports competition hosted by Oculus & ESL, has shown that fans may be ready for immersive esports sooner than we thought. .

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