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Civilization Creator Sid Meier: VR’s Killer App Is ‘Around the Corner’

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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. But the real hidden gems of VR gaming are strategy titles. Let us know in the comments below!

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Hands-On: ‘Landfall’ Mixes A Twin-Stick Shooter With Top-Down Tactics

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Landfall is a top-down action game that uses a mixture of tactical real-time strategy game mechanics and twin-stick shooter gameplay. The entire experience is played with a gamepad and requires a high degree of dexterity between operating both thumb sticks, face buttons, triggers, and head-tracked movement all at the same time.

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Tethered Is Coming To Vive, Rift and PS4 Pro With Motion Controller Support

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New features are being piled into the strategy game, such as allowing players to scale the camera from the standard god mode view either down to the size of one of the tiny ‘Peeps’ that they command, or bigger than the entire islands featured in each level. Tagged with: Secret Sorcery , Tethered.

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Why Nintendo Hasn’t Made a Real VR Headset Yet

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Lateral Thinking with ‘Withered’ Technology Much of Nintendo’s market strategy can be attributed to Gunpei Yokoi, the prolific Nintendo designer best known for pioneering the company’s handheld segment. That’s basically been the case from Game & Watch all the way to Switch and Switch Lite.

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Top AR Smart Glasses Providers for 2024

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The Air headset, introduced at CES , offers 3 degrees of head tracking, and echo cancellation technology, while the Light glasses provide 6DoF head, hand, image, and plane tracking. Currently, Iristick is investing in a global distribution strategy to expand its reach in the market.

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What VR Activities Are Consumers Most Interested in?

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And how can VR players optimize product strategies accordingly? Though Oculus Go has a more basic user interface and less sophisticated positional tracking (rotational head tracking versus full-6D spatial movement), it will be a strategic point of entry to a large addressable market. What devices and apps do they use?

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XR Smart Glasses Market Map: The Top Providers for 2023

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The Air headset, introduced at CES , offers 3 degrees of head tracking, and echo cancellation technology, while the Light glasses provide 6DoF head, hand, image, and plane tracking. Currently, Iristick is investing in a global distribution strategy to expand its reach in the market.