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HTC Vive Funded Project Takes You Into The World of Honey Bees

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Häagen-Dazs ice cream and HTC Vive are giving you a chance to fly like a bee in VR. In response, Taiwanese VR company HTC Vive provided $10 million to kick start a VR for Impact initiative that funds VR projects and solutions to help the UN reach its goals by the 2030 deadline. It consists of 6.5

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Creator of Indie Breakout ‘Braid’ Building Roomscale VR Game With ‘no concessions for stationary play’

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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. We had The Witnes s running on Valve’s pre-production hardware [prior to HTC Vive]. “I have been interested in VR for a long time.

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Inspired by ‘Mirror’s Edge’, ‘Stride’ Looks to Bring Smooth Parkour Action to VR

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With inspiration from Mirror’s Edge (2008) , Stride is an intriguing indie project due to launch this Summer. In development by studio Joy Way, Stride is a VR parkour action game built atop an impressively smooth and immersive locomotion system. Locomotion in VR games is still in a state of rapid development and exploration.

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‘Assetto Corsa Competizione’ Announced With VR Support, Coming This Summer

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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. Assetto Corsa supports Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Image courtesy Kunos Simulazioni.

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Audeze and JBL Unveil Headphone Solutions Specifically Developed for VR

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Audeze was started in 2008 and is considered a leader in premium audio that’s responsible for a couple award winning headsets. The headset was tested and built using the HTC Vive, but will come with connectors for Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, and StarVR headsets and will be available later this month for $399.

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‘Iron Man’ Director Jon Favreau’s First VR Project ‘Gnomes & Goblins’ Looks Delightful

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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). “I went over to Wevr and tried out theBlu on the Vive.

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HTC’s VP of Design Leaving to Join Google’s VR Team

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According to a report by The Verge , HTC’s VP of Design is leaving the company to join up with Google’s Daydream VR team. Having joined the company in 2008, in recent year’s HTC’s VP of Design, Claude Zellweger, played a key role in the design of the Vive headset, The Verge reports.

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