Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Via a free update to PS4’s WipEout: Omega Collection (which includes WipEout HD {2008}, WipEout HD Fury {2009} and WipEout 2048 {2012}) , PSVR owners will finally be able to step into the cockpit for a level of immersion that only VR can provide. And now its finally coming to PSVR. The update is due in “early 2018.”

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Before VR, Sanzaru has worked on a handful of non-VR games dating back to 2008. Going forward, the plan is to be fully focused on VR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Before Fez (2012) , before Limbo (2010) , and before Minecraft (2009) , Braid (2008) was one of the breakout successes in the formative years of indie game development and distribution. Jonathan Blow, the creator of one of indie gaming’s fomative successes, Braid , has begun hiring a team to develop his first VR game.

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ARPost

JANUARY 31, 2022

Finally, TV Free Burning Man presents the story of how TV executive producer and long-time burner, Justin Gunn, painstakingly covered the festival in groundbreaking ways between 2006 and 2008.

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AR Insider

JULY 22, 2021

In fact, historical evidence tells us that in a similar time frame, we went from 2G brick phones circa 2000 to the iPhone 3G in 2008. Overestimating has certainly been the case in XR, but greater outcomes could materialize — alongside 5G — in the longer term. And that changed everything. More from AR Insider….

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2024

Imagine building the first iPhone apps in 2008. Previously, Scharf created MovieBot, an AI-powered 3D animation app, and Mindshow, a VR platform for animated content creation. His also started VRLA, one of the world’s largest immersive technology expos. That’s where we are with visionOS today.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 30, 2021

John Paulson, the billionaire investor who accurately predicted (and bet against) the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007, has some kind words for cryptocurrency: mainly, that it is a vacuous financial bubble bound to eventually collapse. Read more.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 18, 2017

The years of experience as a 3D artist in the games industry, creating high quality assets for games like The Order: 1886 (2015) , along with various work for vehicle simulators like iRacing (2008) and Game Stock Car (2012) is clearly apparent in the stunning models featured in Wrench.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Media Molecule, the creators of LittleBigPlanet (2008) and Tearaway (2013) , have been working on their upcoming game/game-creation tool Dreams for PS4 for the past few years, and although we knew PSVR support was destined to come someday, as first announced at Paris Games Week 2015 , we weren’t sure if PSVR users would get the chance to play (..)

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

While Pistol Whip’s prior ‘dual-wielding’ mode made me feel like the bad-ass hero of Equilibrium (2002) , ‘2089’ brings Wanted (2008) vibes, thanks to the way you swing your gun across enemies. View post on imgur.com.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 3, 2021

Even if you’ve been using Google Chrome since it first rolled out back in 2008, the browser is capable of some tricks you may have not discovered yet. Google adds new features on a regular basis, while older features get lost and forgotten about if you’re not using them every day. Here are 12 things you might not… Read more.

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Slashgear

JUNE 12, 2022

Ferrari made a flying start to the 2022 season, but to have even a slight hope, the automaker will have to drop a strategy error that has haunted it since 2008.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This follows a recent trend towards higher quality online racing competition, with GT Sport (2017) and Project CARS 2 (2017) taking inspiration from iRacing’s (2008) class-leading matchmaking technology. Image courtesy Kunos Simulazioni. In the description on the game’s Steam page , VR support is also confirmed.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 17, 2025

In 2000 he became a Vice President of the company's Worldwide Studios (today PlayStation Studios) division, and in 2008 was promoted to President, where he stayed until 2019, leading the division through most of the PS3 and PS4 eras. He led the third party licensing program for the original PlayStation from just before its launch in 1993.

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Slashgear

JUNE 13, 2022

Ferrari's hopes of picking up its first world title since 2008 have taken a blow, as the team suffered the worst possible outcome at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

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AR Insider

APRIL 8, 2020

Think of it like primitive iPhone apps circa 2008, before we got Waze, Foursquare and Uber. Headspace does similar, building on an already-popular meditation app. These early apps (and others we’ve profiled ) are just a glimpse of what we’ll end up with.

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GizModo VR

JULY 27, 2021

Dropbox debuted in 2008, and the cloud storage and syncing service has added a slew of features since then. But because the app is usually running in the background of your device, you might not have noticed some of the new tools you can use. Here are a few of our favorites. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Scientists have released an analysis of a meteorite fragment gathered after a 2008 asteroid near-collision with Earth. They show the parent asteroid was huge, and the results suggest that special, water-holding type of asteroids can be larger and have different mineral compositions than previously thought. Read more.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

When Charlie Jane Anders was still here at io9—she co-founded the site with Annalee Newitz back in 2008—she wrote several popular posts offering advice and inspiration to both aspiring and veteran authors of sci-fi and fantasy. Those posts gained even more value after she herself became a best-selling fiction author,… Read more.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2018

Wipeout Omega Collection launched back in 2017, and brings remastered versions of WipEout HD (2008) , WipEout HD Fury (2009), and WipEout 2048 (2012) together on PS4. .” Just be sure to get familiar with the game’s various comfort options to find what works for you before you push it to the limit.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

Audeze was started in 2008 and is considered a leader in premium audio that’s responsible for a couple award winning headsets. Announced at CES 2017, we have a couple new headphone solutions on the market that are specifically geared toward VR: iSINE from Audeze and in-ear or on-ear options from JBL.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 29, 2021

The odds are good that you’re reading this right now in Google’s web browser, Chrome, which has become hugely popular since it made its debut in 2008. But Chrome has some issues, and now that Microsoft is back with a rebooted version of its Edge browser—based on the same Chromium code as Chrome—it might just convince… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 16, 2021

Spotify has been streaming music since 2008, and it’s changed a lot in that time. New features are constantly added to its apps and the platform as a whole. Just in case there are still some tricks and tools that you haven’t yet spotted, these are some of our favorites—some recently added, and some that have been… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2019

EN62471-2008). I am a bit scared by AR contact lenses because I am afraid that in case of glitches, they could burn my eyes. Is this risk concrete? All our devices are compliant with ocular safety norms (e.g. Is it true that DARPA wants to use it for military purposes?

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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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Mashable VR

MAY 24, 2022

In 2008, tech entrepreneur Christopher Wilson came across an old cruise ship for sale on Craigslist that would change his life. Now, a decade and countless hours of renovations later, Wilson hopes The Aurora can make its way back to the public.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

This is a video showing Augmented Reality with 2D markers in 2008 using a Nokia N95 phone. They are very useful if your purpose is to augment a specific physical object, but are still pretty cumbersome and sometimes pretty expensive. When I say that markers are an old technology, I really mean it!

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AR Insider

APRIL 21, 2020

If you look at the change from 2008’s 220 million smartphone owners to today’s 2.8 Starting with access, it’s all about mobile. Though Snap is planting seeds for a wearables future with Spectacles camera glasses, the near-term play is all about smartphone ubiquity. “If billion, [that’s] a huge increase,” Arguelles said.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

When Wall-E hit theaters in 2008, the roaming robot’s story was a warning viewers of the societal costs of unchecked waste and environmental degradation. Since then, three billionaires have hurled spacecraft to the edge of space. The United Nations climate reports have only gotten more apocalyptic. E-waste has only… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 6, 2021

In 2008, David DeVore recorded his then-seven-year-old son, David Jr., It seems like every internet meme is getting the NFT treatment these days. The latest is “David After Dentist,” one of YouTube’s earliest viral videos. babbling now-iconic lines like “Is this real life?” in a medication-fueled haze after a tooth… Read more.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 23, 2021

On May 2, 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was born. The release of Jon Favreau’s Iron Man was the first part in a story that’s now sprawled over a decade, almost two dozen movies, and changed film history as we know it. However, all of that might not have played out the same way had it not been for what happened a… Read more.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

He’s best known for his Directorial duties on films like Iron Man (2008) and The Jungle Book (2016) , but you may have encountered his front-of-camera skills in many films from Hoffa (1992) to Chef (2014 – a movie he also wrote, directed and produced).

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Tech Trends VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

By the time David Bowie met Letterman for this interview circa 2008, they were laughing together at the special edition vinyl the singer had just released, and when Bowie avowed that he just downloaded all his music from the Internet, Letterman barely raised an eyebrow.

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ARPost

JUNE 15, 2020

Based in Salzburg, Austria, Wikitude was founded in 2008. You do get SLAM and 3D object-tracking with it, but the cost makes it prohibitive for many devs, especially with what you’re paying for the Pro package. This is AR software that might appeal to only certain app creators.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 24, 2022

It was way, way back in 2008 when he announced his intention to make a movie based on artist Gris Grimly’s illustrations… Read more. Of all the dozens upon dozens of projects that director Guillermo del Toro has signed aboard over the years yet languished in development hell, no film has languished more thoroughly than Pinocchio.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It seems silly now, but when the Peek debuted in 2008, it delivered something smartphones couldn’t. It sounds like a ludicrous idea. A mobile device capable of only email, released just a year after the game-changing first generation iPhone. At 1/6th price of the iPhone, the Peek provided an affordable way to get… Read more.

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EON Reality

JUNE 9, 2020

In 2008, Unesco recognised their importance and gave 46 buildings a World Heritage listing. Each one will usually house around 20 families with about 100 people in total. Communal packed-earth buildings in China date back 6,000 years, but tulou took the style to a whole new level both in scale and sophistication.

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