Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

However, the VR experience is probably the most compelling, thanks to the depth sensation, more intuitive controls, and the ability to easily manipulate objects and even juggle two objects at once with motion controllers. Is it a great VR showcase? For those of a certain mindset, it’ll push the right buttons.

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MAY 19, 2017

“So this is 2009, 2010,” Marks said. “We had the PlayStation Move controllers, and a lot of people were just doing different stuff with them. ” You can see some of the prototype running on an old experimental headset with a Move controller strapped to it. We put them on our head and did this with the TV.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2018

Featuring the cute bots first seen in The Playroom (2013) , Sony Japan Studio’s upcoming platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission uses similar controls and gameplay mechanics as any other 3D platformer, but it has been created from the ground up with VR in mind. Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio. The game is due to arrive some time in 2018.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2024

Still, many of the existing games on other VR platforms need to be tailored to work with the headset’s eye and hand-tracking only approach to input, which leads me to my next point… Motion Controllers What : Some games simply don’t work without motion controllers—at least not in the way they were initially designed to.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 25, 2021

A 21-year-old earned $125 for controlling someone’s identity for an hour, and a 16-year-old won $3 million in prize money in the Fortnite World Cup. Some ingenious players created a bank in EVE Online back in 2009 called the E-Bank. An elf called Zeuzo was sold in World of Warcraft for $9,500 that same year. Want another example?

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2021

STRIDE has been in early access for SteamVR headsets for nearly a year, but now Oculus Quest owners can take a crack at the free running action, which effectively replicates a few ideas from the parkour-style platformer Mirror’s Edge (2009) and translates them pretty well into VR. Controller-based. Adjustable speed. Head-based.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

In addition to designing a number of iconic products with Logitech, their most recognizable single product design might be the original Nest in 2009. Unlike the standard VR controllers, the VR Stylus uses familiar paradigms of design – essentially pen and paper – and translates them into the virtual world,” said Ó Conaire.

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MAY 12, 2017

“In 2009, we performed a 392-subject study with the Fisher Wallace Stimulator at Phoenix House, the nation’s largest non-profit drug rehab center,” Roman says. This all sounds wonderful in theory, but what do the studies say?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Much like the first Angry Birds , which came out for iOS back in 2009, Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs is a game of surprising simplicity—surprising in the sense that it only gives you four types of birds to fire at the topsy-turvy 3D structures laden with enemy pigs, of course doled out in specific order to fit the level at hand. Comfort.

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MAY 12, 2017

“Today we’re sad to be saying bon voyage to one of our own, as Dan Ayoub – who’s worked on Halo games since Halo: Reach all the way back in 2009, bids us, and the gaming industry, a fond adieu,” the post reads. ” From the looks of it, he’ll be working closely with Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda.

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2017

After ZeniMax was awarded $500M from their suit against Oculus in January (which Oculus is appealing), now Oculus CTO John Carmack is personally suing ZeniMax for $22.5M — what he claims is still owed him from 2009 when ZeniMax bought his game studio id Software (which birthed classics like Doom, for Pete’s sake).

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

The HoloLens incorporates several patent-protected Microsoft inventions, including Kipman’s motion sensors initially brought to market for the Xbox Kinect video game controller. The software for the HoloLens is developed in the Windows 10 operating system in the Windows Mixed Reality software environment.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

A new press shot conforms that the new Star Trek: Bridge Crew title from Ubisoft has been built for the Oculus Rift headset and forthcoming Oculus Touch controllers. Not only that, but this new press shot shows 3 well known cast members from the cast of various Star Trek entities playing the new game with Oculus Touch controllers.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

The First Encounter and The Second Encounter each got remastered in HD in 2009 and 2010, respectively, before the release of Serious Sam 3: BFE in 2011. But today, Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter has launched in Steam Early Access as a full VR port of the 2009 HD remaster of the very first game.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

The new title features four player online multiplayer co-op and so, appropriately, Ubisoft had 3 members of different Trek franchises play the role of one four playable positions on the bridge of a new starship which exists within a post JJ Abrams, 2009 reboot universe. The fourth position was filled by Red Storm’s David Votypka.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 21, 2016

His latest technique makes a real virtual camera out of an extra Vive controller and a smartphone. Gartner has been emulating that handheld camera look by smartly using a third Vive controller to manipulate a virtual camera inside the virtual world. The next step is to affix a smartphone to the Vive controller.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Just as Angry Birds was applauded for its intuitive controls and gameplay on mobile, we feel Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs will continue that legacy for VR.” “Angry Birds lends itself perfectly to VR, where players can experience the already highly engaging characters and gameplay mechanics in a much more tangible and immersive way than ever.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 15, 2022

First, the original novel by Audrey Niffenegger, followed by the 2009 movie starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana. Worse, he can't control his abilities, meaning that he'll go back in time at the most unexpected moments. There have been several iterations of The Time Traveler's Wife.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Second Life median daily concurrency, 2009-2023. What I suspect is happening is that people who don’t need Second Life’s large communities are coming over to OpenSim to get better deals on land and more control over their virtual environments. Second Life’s concurrency statistics have mirrored general interest.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Carmack is the co-founder of id Software, a company acquired by ZeniMax Media in 2009. The Rift released last year in March at a price point of $599, with the $199 Touch controllers releasing last month in December. You might remember that, quite famously, John Carmack joined the Oculus team as CTO in 2013.

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OCTOBER 23, 2016

SyncThink hopes to innovate with improved ways to control and navigate in VR, using the tracking of eye movements to control actions. Ghajar founded SyncThink in 2009. Boston-based SyncThink said it received patent No. 9,439,592 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2016

.” Griffin comes to the Mythica VR from Pixar Studios, with previous work as a visual effects artist for films such as Brave (2012), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Up (2009). ‘Mythica VR’ Kickstarter.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 Driving Using a virtual reality device to transport participants into a virtual driving world, a study in 2009 found that VR can help people with a phobia of driving face their fear in a more safe, controlled way than driving in real life.

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AllThingsVR

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye Tribe The direction you look could one day control your VR or mobile experience thanks to Facebook and Oculus’ latest buy, The Eye Tribe. The Eye Tribe was developed out of research by the founders at IT University Of Copenhagen back in 2009. Car interfaces could benefit from the technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

It is mostly unknown here in the West because its target market is mostly the one of its home country, but actually, it’s working on eye tracking since 2009 , so it has a deep expertise with this technology. Using eyes to control things for a long time is not natural and comfortable for most of the situations.

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OCTOBER 22, 2016

Then, in 2009, we played Bruce’s story with Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum. Each footstep we took was a heavy burden, the events unfolding entirely out of our control in a world that we otherwise had complete agency in. We’d later pay tribute to their deaths ourselves in sequels to the series.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 22, 2023

Intel first invested in IMS back in 2009 and then acquired the company in 2015. While controlling an important EUV vendor could give a competitive edge, it slowdowns creation of industry standards that are crucial for high-volume chip production. ” Source: Intel

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

I have played through FEAR (2005) , FEAR 2 (2009) , Dead Space 1 (2008), 2 (2011) and 3 (2013) , Outlast (2013) , Slender: The Arrival (2013) and many more. The camera, which is fairly far away from the character, is controlled by your head movements and the actual character movement (even at full sprint) is relatively slow.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Rather than resort to top-down government control or private ownership, in so-called "polycentric governance" various groups come together to manage resources. In 2009, NASA crashed its LCROSS mission into the moon, revealing water in the debris plume.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Releasing a controller trigger while whipping an orb into any given direction isn’t as straight forward as looking down the sights of a pistol and firing, so you’ll definitely need practice to get the sort of results you’d expect to have throwing a real world ball.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 15, 2022

Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said that a North Korean state-backed hacking group known as Lazarus is responsible for the recent theft of $625 million in cryptocurrency from the Ronin Network, an Ethereum-based sidechain made for the popular play-to-earn game Axie Infinity. Image Credits: Alex Trautwig / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 5, 2023

The challenge for Meta is how to balance China’s censorship demands with the expectations of politicians in its home country, especially given that Meta was banned from China back in 2009. Like other American firms operating in China, Meta will get caught up in the escalating tensions between the two superpowers.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 15, 2023

Now, the flag is controlled via script functions, said Sylvester. You can see all the historical OpenSim statistics here , including polls and surveys, dating all the way back to 2009. Previously, the flag was not changed via script functions and so became effective only if and when a user added an entry to the list.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 14, 2023

You control the service by starting DreamGrid, which will give you control of the regions and access to Robust and region consoles.” ” This release also includes a control panel for load testing up to 100 avatars. You can log out and DreamGrid will continue to run. This is very useful if you are creating a hyperport.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

JP: It came from Nonny [de la Peña, Emblematic founder]; she first coined the phrase about VR being the ultimate empathy machine, when she was running the VR lab at USC way back in 2009. So it’s not in our typical social impact field. Interactivity! What has the reception been like from traditional media channels?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Increasing VR Presence: From Believable Character Behaviors to Developing with the New PlayStation VR Aim Controller. Impulse Gear is currently working on Farpoint , one of our most anticipated PSVR games and the first to use the PlayStation Aim controller, a gun-shaped peripheral that makes for incredibly immersive experiences.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

APRIL 29, 2021

Way back in the dim and distant era of 2009 I was exploring a lot of tools to help me build virtual environments with avatars and characters that could be animated, typically in Unity. Then in the Sequence controller, the film events list I swapped the target actor from the original to mine and away we go.

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