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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Now available on Steam , Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE is a fast-paced shooter serving as a prequel to the original Serious Sam: The First Encounter (2001). Also included are Croteam’s ‘advanced VR controls’, something the company says is “meant for the hardcore VR gamer.”

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APRIL 8, 2025

The most hardcore simulator fans will recreate the driver's seat of trains or invest in lavish setups and controls to recreate the experience of driving a train. When Microsoft released Microsoft Train Simulator back in 2001, that was a gateway to a whole new world, and Im still wondering where the exit is!

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Developer Tha LTD is working with creative studio Enhance —founded by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, known as the mind behind Rez (2001) — which is aiding in both publishing “as well as contribut[ing] to level design and general gameplay consulting.”

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Launching October 2020 for under $200, the Intellivision Amico includes two touchscreen controllers and will launch with around five games. Intellivision pioneered many “firsts” in the game industry, including the first directional pad on a controller (d-pad).

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

Around the year 2001, so at the beginning of high school, the Internet entered my life, and I discovered the Indymedia project, which was one of the most important independent media outlets in the world. Their thoughts on surveillance, control, and responsible innovation deeply marked my path. Still, I’m a bit of an old nerd.

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MAY 13, 2017

Underkoffler has been trying to make the vision of the 2002 film Minority Report , where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gestures to control a transparent computer, into a reality. Hollywood gave us Hal (the talking computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey ), and we got the TRS-80 (the ancient text-based computer system),” Hanke said.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Since its formation in 2001, London Studio is responsible for a long string of PlayStation titles, including the SingStar franchise, several titles for 2003’s PlayStation EyeToy camera, the ahead-of-its-time PlayStation Home (2008) , the augmented reality Wonderbook peripheral, and plenty more.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2018

We were able to get 6k /60fps very quickly, and it really feels like a threshold moment, where suddenly high quality VR is now achievable beyond the most controlled of conditions.”. Additionally, both of these cameras have an app that provides control of settings and live preview over WiFi?—?a Recommended 360° Cameras: Inst360 Pro?

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JUNE 20, 2017

That adoration moved on to other series as time went on, but one game in particular that stood out to me in my youth was Wizardry 8 , released in 2001 when I was just 11 years old. Or how about a big sparkling pink ice spike that you can control in the air by waving your hand like a magical conductor? You can do that too.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

A lot of the groundwork had already been laid in previous versions of Google Earth, which originally went live in 2001. You can always plot a point on the small globe above your left controller. They talked about the challenges in adapting such a massive project for VR. The most obvious challenge was performance.

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Cats and VR

APRIL 9, 2018

A sci-fi adventure in the mold of classics 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris , Downward Spiral: Horus Station is the mysterious and atmospheric sci-fi thriller 3rd Eye Studios teased in last year’s Downward Spiral: Prologue. Unlike most narrative-heavy games, Downward Spiral: Horus Station doesn’t use any cinematics or dialogue.

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Road to VR

MARCH 2, 2017

As we wrote then, Swedish company Tobii , who has specialised in eye tracking since its inception in 2001, have produced hardware for gaze detection hardware in various guises for some time now, and has recently announced plans to bring its tech to virtual reality, via a $50M funding round.

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MAY 1, 2017

. “FORM has similar themes to Obduction, but I like to call it 2001: A Space Odyssey meets The Room in VR,” writes a representative from the company in an email to UploadVR. My demo began in a research facility as I stood behind a control panel full of buttons, screens, and objects to interact with.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Developed alongside The Last Worker by Jörg Tittel and Wolf & Wood, C-Smash VRS is a passion project 22 years in the making, and 2001’s Cosmic Smash is arguably one of Sega’s most obscure games. Solo or not, your goal involves hitting colored pads across this room.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Price remains as Insomiac’s head but Rubin is currently serving as the head of content for Oculus after selling Naughty Dog to Sony in 2001. Rubin was most recently responsible for orchestrating the 50+ title launch library for the Rift’s new controller platform: Oculus Touch.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Kevin Mack is a digital fine artist and prolific visual effects designer known for his work across films such as Fight Club (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001) , The Fifth Element (1997), and What Dreams May Come (1998) for which he won an Oscar.

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MARCH 19, 2017

A recent scientific breakthrough from Daqri, SDL uses software and phase modulator to control the speed of light and re-create 3D point-cloud imagery. Blackley was one of the renegades at Microsoft who created the original Xbox game console, launched in 2001. (I Daqri was founded by Mullins in 2010.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

The original Serious Sam game, known as Serious Sam: The First Encounter , released back in 2001. That means all of the single player campaign, the cooperative multiplayer, and the competitive multiplayer is fully playable in VR, with motion controllers, and fully functioning locomotion or teleportation movement.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I remember, back in 2001, how amazed I was to see Google Earth for the first time. Using the Vive’s controllers, you can hold the top half of the right trackpad to zoom in toward the planet. Today Google launches Earth VR for the HTC Vive for free, giving us a whole new perspective on the world. ” “Go to Hawaii!”

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Steki Amusement

JULY 13, 2021

Sit in the machine and lie down, put on the VR headset, you can fly freely in the sky like a bird, thinking that the joystick controls the direction to shoot at the target, it’s very cool! In any case, you can have a great time with it! A 100% High-profit VR Business!!! Big Promotion of 9D VR Cinema. Promotion Price. 9D VR Chair-3rd.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But it wasn’t the first – IBM released the WatchPad , which ran on a cut-down version of the Linux operating system way back in 2001. As well as parental controls, it features a kid-friendly design, a high level of customization, and kid-friendly versions of Fitbit apps with a focus on fun and gamification of fitness activities.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Until a decade or so ago, most people’s understanding of AI came from science fiction, and specifically robots as seen in TV shows and movies like 2001, The Matrix, or Star Trek.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2001, SAS Cube created the first PC based cubic room that then led to the development of Virtools VR pack, a library pack add-on. VR Development 2000- Present. . Since the year 2000, there has been continued growth in VR technology and is arguably the period with the most tremendous innovation since VR’s inception.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2017

However, despite the clever approximations of avatar mouth movement and hand gestures captured with Oculus Touch motion controllers, the dead eyes of the participants digital doppelgangers left something to be desired. The post Watch: Tobii Tease Unnervingly Effective Vive Eye-Tracked VR Demo Ahead of GDC appeared first on Road to VR.

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OCTOBER 30, 2021

You can’t talk about the best horror games without mentioning 2001’s Silent Hill 2. The game features improved controls over its predecessor as well as some of the most unsettling imagery featured throughout the series.

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APRIL 5, 2020

“We founded the Tribeca Film Festival as a way to heal our community after the devastation of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Embarking on a quest to find her, he’s led into a life he never dreamed of—one that soon slips beyond his control. We were determined to overcome our fear and anxiety by joining together.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

Kipman started his professional career at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, right after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2001. In a career spanning more than 15 years as a developer for the company, he has been named as the primary inventor on more than 150 U.S.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2018

Downward Spiral is an atmospheric adventure built around the very Kubrick-esque Horus Space Station, a staggeringly large multi-sectioned craft replete with flickering CRTs and an environment clearly inspired by 2001 Space Odyssey (1968). This has proven time and time again to be an extremely comfortable way of moving around.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

The game’s control schemes work well, fortunately making the slow travel around the game’s antarctic setting somewhat more tolerable. With the Move controllers acting as your hands, you can point one forward and hold the top button to walk. Those issues are fewer when you play with the standard DualShock controller.

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MAY 6, 2017

It’s the opposite of Twitter and Facebook, which are locked down proprietary APIs and services controlled by companies. If we build the Metaverse based on top of protocols and all the major players in the industry are committed, we can avoid any one company taking control and having a monopoly over not just commerce.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

If you have transported around the Cliff House and played with the objects and wall interfaces you will know that it is laggy and the controls are not instinctive to use, every action is preceded by a pause as you think about what you need to do. It’s a free game so it’s not so serious, it’s more about the community and social interaction.

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