Road to VR

MAY 15, 2017

Half-Life 2: VR , a revamped version of an older mod which will adapt the beloved Half-Life 2 for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has been green-lit, signifying Valve’s official acceptance of the mod for distribution on Steam. Here’s some gameplay from the original mod played on the Rift DK1.

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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

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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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. The original Oculus Rift won the first VR Headset of the Year Award (not its own category this year) in 2017. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. VR Experience of the Year.

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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). VR support is comprehensive, covering all the major PC hardware – the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and OSVR.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Oculus is one of the most prolific stimulators of virtual reality content in the industry today. The Facebook-owned company has been funding VR games and projects for years now through Oculus Studios. These are impressive numbers but it has still never been clear how much Oculus and Facebook are spending on each individual project.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

That statement, taken with another in a 2007 Wired interview with Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein , who said that the original Gears of War had a budget of “somewhere between nine and ten million dollars.” Another cost worth considering is equipment needed during development. Now we’re at $3.8

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Phones have evolved at a blistering pace for the last 15+ years and the phone innovations that excited users in 2007 or 2012 are different from those that excite users in 2017. Oculus’ Head of Content, Jason Rubin. We think VR will follow a similar path. SEE ALSO Samsung Gear VR Install Base Has Passed 5 Million Headsets.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 13, 2021

Synth Riders is available on SteamVR headsets via Steam and Viveport , and cross-buy between Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest. Founded in 2007, Kluge Interactive is a Los Angeles-based creative agency which builds interactive experiences for a number of sectors including healthcare, B2B, and the public sector. More on that below.

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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2018

Ready at Dawn, the studio behind zero-g adventure Lone Echo (2017) and its companion multiplayer sports game Echo Arena (2017) , held a closed beta session with their upcoming Oculus Rift expansion Echo Combat last week.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

These facts have me considering jumping ship from Apple seriously for the first time since 2007. Of course, Facebook and Samsung are also playing this game and we still have yet to see what they will announce at Oculus Connect 3 later this week. The company’s focus on the long game might be running out of time.

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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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MAY 21, 2017

Assisting Intel’s original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, from Microsoft to HTC and Oculus, Pallister works closely with the underlying solutions making VR possible. Soon I Will Be Invincible was nominated for the 2007 John Sargent Sr. Image Credit: Michael O’Donnell/VentureBeat. First Novel Prize.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

SEE ALSO The 5 Best Free Games on Oculus Rift. Developers will be making game balance changes throughout the weekend based on community feedback, and provide these at incremental hotfixes.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 14, 2021

When I put on my Oculus Quest headset and enter the ArtGate VR app , it is incredible how quickly I feel as if I am in person at a gallery, once again looking at art and speaking with visitors. Accustomed to exhibiting in multiple shows a year since 2007, I have been yearning for that pre-pandemic experience.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

This has not worked for AR and VR so far because the entry was too complex, the hardware is still too expensive and individual highlights such as Pokémon Go or the Oculus Quest could not change a complete market – what Apple will do. Apple completely turned the mobile age upside down in 2007, Microsoft shaped the way we work on computers.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A variety of computer mice built from 1985 to 2007 (Image by Sandstein, from Wikipedia) The mouse is one of the most simple controllers and we use it every day when we are at our computer. And it is incredibly reliable, so it is perfect as input. 90% is a very high percentage, but still, for input detection is not enough.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

When Derek Belch was a kicker on Stanford’s football team in 2007, he took a class with the Virtual Human Interaction Lab’s Jeremy Bailenson where he was exposed to virtual reality technologies for the first time.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2018

Available On: Oculus Store (Rift), Steam (Rift, Vive), PSN (PSVR). Reviewed On: Oculus Rift. All of this comes as no surprise though, as the game’s script was written by Neill Glancy of Stranglehold (2007) and Susan O’Connor of Tomb Raider and BioShock. Torn Review Details: Official Site. Developer: Aspyr Studio.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. It bought Oculus for $2 billion in 2014, a move that signaled the start of massive investment in these technologies. The latest Oculus headset includes cameras, costs $300, and sold 1 million units in December, according to an estimate from SuperData. by Kif Leswing, CNBC.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 20, 2016

It’s a question that STRIVR Labs CEO Derek Belch has been asking himself since 2007 when the former Stanford Cardinal kicker took a class about virtual reality from Jeremy Bailenson, the head of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL). STRIVR has used HTC Vive, Samsung Gear, the Oculus CV1 and Oculus DK2 headsets.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

As the first company to offer such information, it means that Sony is not only happy with the figure, but likely confident that they’re well ahead of the competing Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. As the New York Times cites as a point of reference, the original iPhone launched in 2007 saw about 1.4

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In fact, Apple’s patents in this field tell us that the company has been thinking about immersive wearables for a long time; patents filed at least as far back as 2007 show a device that looks much like the VR headsets we see today. See Also: 3 Moves Oculus is Borrowing from Apple’s Marketing Playbook. Acquisitions.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Chen, Yang, Shjen, and Jeng (2007) examined how desktop virtual environments provided opportunities for students to interact with and manipulate objects while learning about orbital patterns of the planets. EXPERIENCED-BASED LEARNING In 2019, a major breakthrough product was released by Oculus. The findings produced by Chen et al.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. In 2007, the original Fantastic Contraption was built for traditional screens with Adobe’s Flash tools. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR. Learning New Skills.

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ARVR

JULY 12, 2021

Until 2007, when Telltale finally broke the curse and brought the two investigators back into the spotlight with two consecutive games (Sam & Max: Save the World and Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space). This was unfortunately followed by years of failures.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Layden has worked at Sony across various departments since 1987, becoming VP of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) in 1999 and then in 2007 President of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan (SCEJ). .” He hasn’t given any details as to the reason for the departure and as yet, there’s been no mention of his replacement.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. So this was before Oculus. They see the value.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. So this was before Oculus. They see the value.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Back in 2020, a lot of people declared Into the Radius as a weirder, VR version of the 2007 PC shooter STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. Working alone, you’re given odd jobs via computer by the United Nations task force, who are studying the Radius, to trade artifacts and objects from the Zone for the cash you need to stay alive.

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Ryan Schultz

JANUARY 19, 2023

But my abiding passion for all things metaverse was born on March 20th, 2007, when I set up my first Second Life avatar, Heath Homewood. And, as the number of virtual worlds and social VR platforms increased, I began to write more about them, too. I often joke that I got my Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

After its 2007 release of google Street View, in 2010, google introduced stereoscopic 3D mode for Street View. It was also in 2010 that 18-year-old Palmer Luckey created the first prototype of Oculus Rift, the famous VR headset. Two years later, in 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR company for 2 billion USD.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. So this was before Oculus. And very much VR has been like AI.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

to AUDICA converter, a free tool that allows fans of the uber popular 2007 rhythm game to easily transport millions of user-created maps to Harmonix Music System’s VR rhythm experience AUDICA. Originally launched on Microsoft Windows back in 2007, Dean Herbert’s osu! on SteamVR , Oculus Rift , and Oculus Quest headsets.

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HaptX

JANUARY 18, 2018

New Frontier started in 2007 with a mission to push the boundaries of entertainment through independent transmedia storytelling, multi-media installations, and performance art. A few years later, New Frontier saw its biggest transformation yet with the debut of the Oculus Rift prototype. What is New Frontier?

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 7, 2023

In February 2021, I blogged : Since I have upgraded my Oculus Rift to a Valve Index, I have been spending more and more time in VRChat lately. Let’s take VRChat as an example.

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JUNE 8, 2016

And that’s why I had to fire up the time machine again, and dust off an even older video of mine: Figure 2 : VR Quake 3 Arena Map Viewer , uploaded to YouTube on February 26th, 2007 (but filmed about a year earlier than that, and showing software developed in mid-2005 — holy cow, I still had some hair back then!).

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