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Hack Makes ‘Google Earth VR’ Compatible With Rift and Touch

Road to VR

Google Earth VR was launched this week to great excitement, except to Rift users who found out that the game wouldn’t work with their headset. Little more than a day later, a hack surfaced that adds compatibility for the Rift, Touch, and even Razer Hydra to Google Earth VR.

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Unreal Engine 4.12 is Out Now, Gets ‘VR Editor’, OSVR and Google VR Support

Road to VR

now sporting Google VR ‘Daydream’ and OSVR native support. Clearly in the above demo, Donaldson is immersed with the Oculus Rift and using Oculus Touch controllers, but the original unveiling was done on the SteamVR powered HTC Vive. Epic Games’ popular Unreal Engine has just received a major update with version 4.12

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HTC's New VR Headset Leaked, and It's the Weirdest-Looking One Yet

GizModo VR

Even if you put aside its decidedly bug-eyed appearance, the leaked HTC Vive Flow is a baffling headset. By all accounts, it’s supposed to be a standalone consumer VR device that’s made for activities like meditating and streaming media. It also will allegedly come with its own take on the metaverse. In a somewhat… Read more.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.06): Upload VR Showcase, Apple headset rumors, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by HTC). This week there have been some interesting announcements of products: Razer and Qualcomm have announced Razer Snapdragon G3x, the devkit of a handheld console designed to run both Android apps and stream games from consoles and PC. Google details Project Starline. News worth a mention.

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Cloudhead Games Teases Mystery VR Headset in Censored Image

Road to VR

Cloudhead Games have been at the forefront of VR development ever since the studio brought a 2013-era prototype of The Gallery: Call of the Starseed (2016) to the Oculus Rift DK1 and Razer Hydra motion controllers. Unger deleted the tweet shortly after posting it on Friday, although it can still be found in Google’s webcache.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

HTC – Vive. Razer – OSVR. Google – Daydream View. Google – Tilt Brush. GoogleGoogle Earth VR. Google – Tabel. Something to note, all nominees had to be centered on a virtual reality experience, and not an augmented reality experience. Oculus – Rift.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.12): HTC and Pico are ready to launch new VR headsets, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. HTC loves playing with the words, so “get down to business” can be a reference to the fact that it is a “business headset”. Is Google collecting the pieces for an XR headset?

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