Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2020

When looking at the top rated PC titles of all time on Metacritic , Alyx holds the 31st position in the list, surrounded by PC gaming classics like The Sims (2000) , Warcraft III (2002), Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007), and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2005) , while far exceeding Half-Life 2: Episode One & Two.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Valve hasn’t released a full-length single player game since 2011’s Portal 2 ; the game will also be the first entry in the Half-Life series in 12 years, with the last being Half-Life 2: Episode 2 released in 2007.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Bradley may principally be a stage and screen actor, but he’s been interested in “new media” since 2007 when he started exploring YouTube. Brendan Bradley can and does with his Future Stages project. Meet Brendan Bradley. See Also: VR Artist Rosie Summers on Art and Virtual Reality. “I

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Robert Rodriguez, the director of films such as Sin City (2005) , Planet Terror (2007), and the Spy Kids franchise, just wrapped production on a newly announced VR action series with The Fast and the Furious franchise actress Michelle Rodriguez. Called The Limit, the VR series is set to premiere this summer.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

More info Is Apple working on the Vision Pro since 2007? A fascinating report by 9to5Mac shows that Apple filed a patent defining an XR headset already in 2007, when the first iPhone was launched. Of course, we expect much more for when the app will be released to production , but in the meantime, 10K is a good start.

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Slashgear

JUNE 7, 2022

Google Street View has captured the world since 2007 -- and a fair amount of hardy shenanigans have taken place along the way. Here are the 10 best.

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Road to VR

JUNE 20, 2018

Offering a payload-based objective, much like the gametype in Team Fortress 2 (2007) or Overwatch (2016), you push the the cart on a track through the winding maze as an attacker, or defend the advances of the cart by pushing it backwards and running down the three-minute game clock.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“I humbly accept the award on behalf of women in tech and the leaders in VR/AR whose unwavering dedication towards positively impacting the creative ways we experience and see the world continue to inspire me.”.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2020

From the first Half-Life in 1998, the series has spanned seven titles, leaving the world with a doozy of a cliff hanger in 2007 with the release Half-Life 2: Episode 2. Half-Life is the cornerstone franchise that established Valve as one of the game industry’s most lauded developers.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2019

Founded in 2007 to take over the Halo franchise on Microsoft’s behalf from its progenitor studio, Bungie, 343 Industries is responsible for every Halo game since Halo Reach (2010) , including the upcoming Halo Infinite which is due to launch with the next Xbox console. 343 Industries – Halo: Recruit.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2020

Come March 23rd, Valve’s continuation of the Half-Life series is set to launch on all SteamVR-compatible headsets, breaking a 13-year gap between Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (2007) and the upcoming HL2 prequel Half-Life: Alyx.

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Slashgear

JUNE 6, 2022

Alfa 8C Competizione entered the market in 2007, and the automaker only built 500 units for the world. Why was this beautiful machine banned from U.S.

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JANUARY 6, 2017

Pitch FX was installed in major league stadiums in about 2007, it’s collected 100s of 1000s of data points for every pitch thrown for the past 7 years and we’re able to take those data points and reverse engineer those pitches.” .” How is this done? Years of statistics it turns out.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

One of my hopes for Crysis: Remastered was that it would be just as punishing on PCs today as it was when originally released in 2007. You see if the RTX 3080 can run it, naturally. Now that the game has… Read more.

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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2017

Shari Frilot started the New Frontier program at Sundance in 2007, and produced the festival’s first VR experience in 2012 with Nonny de la Peña’s Hunger in LA using an early Rift prototype made by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2019

Ostensibly, ‘m3gagluk’ was the first to hack the Vive controller to do this, making it play ‘Still Alive’ from Portal (2007). If you’ve ever seen the Imperial March played on floppy disk drives , you get the basic idea.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Cingular merged with AT&T in 2007. The company struck up an exclusive distribution partnership with US cellular carrier Cingular, promising that the two companies would work together to push the network infrastructure forward to enable new applications and uses for the iPhone.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 21, 2023

EA deprecated online support for a number of MoH titles in February 2023, including Medal of Honor (2010) , Medal of Honor: Warfighter (2012) and Medal of Honor: Airborne (2007)— all of which benefitted from wide support across PC, Xbox and PS consoles throughout their tenure.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 10, 2022

Steve Jobs unveiled the very first iPhone at a special event in San Francisco on January 9, 2007. Relive the historic moment exactly 15 years on.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

At the time, Apple had real business to attend to with the launch of its first iPhone in 2007, which was beating out its button-laden competitors, chief of which was BlackBerry. A History of Neglect Angry Birds released on iPhone back in 2009, a game that practically defined the earliest age of mobile gaming.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

For the first time ever, astronomers have linked an actual object to those mysterious radio bursts they’ve been detecting since 2007. The culprit in this case, as suspected, is a super-dense object known as a magnetar, but the finding has prompted an entirely new set of questions. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 10, 2021

The screenwriter who penned the 2007 zombie movie I Am Legend starring Will Smith has been forced to clarify something on Twitter that’s sure to make us all depressed today. The writer, Akiva Goldsman, had to explain that I Am Legend is, in fact, fiction. It’s not a documentary about zombies or something like that. Read more.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The Cupertino HQ has been acquiring talent in this field for several years , filing patents at least as far back as 2007 for HMDs , and new patents for AR. Having hired top VR/AR researcher Doug Bowman a year ago, many suspect it’s only a matter of time before Apple shows their AR/VR hand. Apple CEO Tim Cook | Photo courtesy Apple.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 4, 2021

surged in 2020 to the highest level since 2007 and experts in the U.S. Traffic deaths in the U.S. government believe they know why. Despite driving fewer miles during the covid-19 pandemic, Americans involved in car crashes were taking more risks, including everything from not wearing their seatbelts to driving drunk. Read more.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2017

Luckily you can pick up all three, along with Portal (2007) for the entirely reasonable price of $20 via The Orange Box. It will be released entirely for free, though it does require a copy of Half-Life 2 and Episode 1 & 2 to work correctly. Read on to learn more about the mod and the team behind it.

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VRScout

APRIL 10, 2018

Perfect examples include everything from an unfiltered fascination in Jerry Seinfeld’s lukewarm 2007 animated film Bee Movie , to a crudely designed model of Knuckles from the Sonic franchise clucking insensately. More often than not the most popular trends in circulation are the most obscure and senseless.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2017

Luckily you can pick up all three, along with Portal (2007) for the entirely reasonable price of $20 via The Orange Box. It will be released entirely for free, though it does require a copy of Half-Life 2 and Episode 1 & 2 to work correctly.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 25, 2021

The virtual equivalent of Amsterdam was sold in Second Life for $50,000 in 2007. I’d recommend checking them out because it’s all still relevant to where we’re heading today – I’m using it purely to frame where things are likely to end up in a metaverse context because it’s a cool word.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

When my mom moved back in 2007, she decided that living in a new house after 30 years in the old one warranted a new TV. Made sense—ours were all from the ‘80s. She bought a fancy (for the time) Sony with 1080p resolution, and 13 years later, I’m still trying to convince her to upgrade. If my mother were a gamer (I… Read more.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Involved with all four iconic X-Wing games, Wessman leads a team of industry veterans at Impeller, alongside Jack Mamais, lead designer on Crysis (2007). Pure, unadulterated tactical simulation combat” is how Starfighter Inc.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 26, 2022

It might be an online environment but its impact expands and stretches into the real world insomuch that it includes a virtual economy that is dependent on actual money – in many ways, providing early inspiration for big tech companies now building out the metaverse. From Second Life then, to the Metaverse Now.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Developed by Crypton Future Media , Miku was originally introduced in 2007 as a Vocaloid software voicebank in Japan. Cut to 2019 and the character has developed into an international idol.

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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2018

Echo Combat’s objective gameplay plays out very similarly to the popular ‘Payload’ gametype seen in games like Overwatch (2016) and Team Fortress 2 (2007). We’ve got footage of a complete match so that you can see how it all goes down.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Long-time AR developer Raven Zachary has been working with others to organize iPhone developer hackathons since 2007. In 2007, we organized iPhoneDevCamp to celebrate the launch of Apple's new platform. "The Hundreds attended the first iPhoneDevCamp in July 2007, just a week after the U.S.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2018

M., & Rutchick, A. The cognitive consequences of formal clothing. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6(6), 661-668. Yee, N., & Bailenson, J. The Proteus effect: The effect of transformed self-representation on behavior. Human communication research, 33(3), 271-290.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The first V/H/S movie came out in 2012, arriving at the tail end of the low-budget found-footage horror craze ( Paranormal Activity and REC came out in 2007; Cloverfield was 2008) and capturing the last moment in culture before VCRs became totally obsolete. Two sequels followed, with 2014's V/H/S: Viral embracing phone… Read more.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Harmonix, the studio behind many rhythm game hits like Guitar Hero (2005) and Rock Band (2007) , today announced what they’re calling a “VR rhythm shooter” that looks—to be frank—pretty freaking awesome.

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