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JUNE 22, 2017

The year started out with ZeniMax Media taking Facebook-owned Oculus to court over an alleged theft of technology. A jury eventually ruled that Oculus must pay ZeniMax $500,000,000, but that wasn’t the end of things — ZeniMax wants more. One of the biggest stories of 2017 for the VR industry is also one of its longest.

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JULY 10, 2018

Dubbed TOKYO CHRONOS , the VR visual novel game is targeting HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR. Lead by Kazuma Miki, a producer behind VR-centric anime series Sword Art Online (2012), TOKYO CHRONOS is said to offer users a VR visual novel mystery adventure that blends visual animation with a comic book-style UI.

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APRIL 25, 2017

But now that the landlady has sold the house where it all started, CLR has turned to VR, or specifically, AltspaceVR, a social VR platform which established itself on early Samsung, Oculus, and HTC headsets back in 2015, and now supports all major VR hardware including Daydream.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. CES 2013 however gave us the first glimpse of Oculus VR operating as a company.

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APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. Bleszinski in the Oculus Rift Kickstarter video | Photo courtesy Oculus. Bleszinski indeed believes in the technology.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

Back in 2012, a starry-eyed young entrepreneur called Palmer Luckey announced a new and improved head-mounted display that would be better than pretty much everything on the market at the time, and affordable for gamers to boot. He built the first prototype of his VR headset in 2011 and announced it on Kickstarter in 2012.

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MAY 21, 2020

Spaceteam VR is now available on Oculus and SteamVR headsets, offering players a colorfully chaotic cooperative experience that takes heavy inspiration from Sleeping Beast Games’ original 2012 mobile game of the same name. Spaceteam VR is available now on Oculus Quest , Oculus Rift/Rift S , and SteamVR for $19.99.

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MAY 22, 2018

A new role, Operations, is also a part of the expansion, which essentially works like a miniature version of FTL (2012) by letting you allocate crew members to 10 different stations: thruster control, main engineering, torpedoes, shield generator, transporter room, astrophysics lab, computer core, phaser control, scanners, and sickbay.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. The growth in the volume of investments in VR is more than $2.5

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JULY 24, 2019

Bigscreen supports HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows VR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Samsung Gear VR. Oculus Store ( Rift , Go , Quest , Gear VR ). Most recently, the platform hosted a free viewing of Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical film The Dictator (2012).

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JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve tested it with my Leap Motion Controller, the Oculus Quest, and a lot of scotch tape and I was very satisfied by the results.

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MARCH 2, 2017

A sequel to 2012’s Pure Chess, Chess Ultra has been built from the ground up using Unreal Engine 4 and has some pretty incredible visuals if the trailer is a true testament to the final product. The team is crafting a 4k build for PS4, Xbox One, and Steam but the game will also be coming to PSVR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive.

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VRScout

MAY 26, 2016

In 2012, RYOT was founded as a small news desk with a mission to connect every news story with an action. There, he and David Darg teamed up on a pair of documentary shorts before co-founding RYOT in 2012. It’s because they know who they are and they give a s**t. This is their story, with pictures.

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MAY 6, 2019

Since 2012, organizers of the festival have included VR and AR projects as part of their Virtual Arcade, a section of the festival where storytelling and VR/AR technology intersect. Mr. Buddha ( Project Creator : HTC Corporation, Lee Chung). Image Credit: Bobby Carlton. Accused No. Mercy ( Project Creator : Armando Kirwin).

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MAY 14, 2018

In its first week, Beat Saber has sold 50,000 copies across Steam and Oculus, generating $1 million in revenue—a clear milestone of success for a game still in early access and made by a three-person indie studio. At $20 a pop, the game has generated around $1 million in revenue, before the 30% cut taken out by the storefronts.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Oculus Touch motion-tracked controllers have launched today after 8 months of the Rift solely supporting gamepad experiences. Oculus’ tracking system is mainly optimized for “standing” VR experiences that are specifically designed for their front-facing cameras. SEE ALSO Oculus Touch Review: Reach into Rift.

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APRIL 5, 2017

One year ago HTC Vive started arriving for buyers. It was $200 more expensive than its chief competition, the Oculus Rift , but the headset also did a lot more than the initial PC-powered headset from Facebook when it first released. “That removed the guesswork for them.”. . “That removed the guesswork for them.”.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a VR pioneer, Olivier JT has been working on Synthesis Universe as far back as 2012. Shortly after the success of the Oculus Kickstarter later that year, he decided that the only sensible development platform for the futuristic VR experience was the Oculus DK1. And so Synthesis Universe was born.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Flagship products such as the Meta Quest Pro, Pico 4 and Pico 4 Enterprise, and HTC VIVE Focus 3 and Flow devices have recently hit shelves, sparking interest in the emerging technology. In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. Enhanced Headsets.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Time to applaud for a sweet deal on the HTC Vive, Clash of Clans partners w/ Facebook to bring AR to fans, control VR with your mind, new predictions for spending & investment are out, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. … well, sort of. You still have to set it up). in funding. Alejandro G.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Some of the leading companies like Meta Platforms, Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Lenovo, and Varjo Technologies, among others, have been leading global markets with their devices. Meta, Pico, HTC VIVE, and Varjo headsets all incorporate this new technology. The History of VR.

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MAY 23, 2016

In a revealing statement on Reddit, Alan Yates, a Valve employee who works closely on the company’s Lighthouse tracking system, claims that the Oculus Rift headset is largely derived from Valve’s research. Around that same time, several key employees working on VR at Valve joined up with Oculus.

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JULY 10, 2017

To be clear too, there are cheaper GPUs out there capable of rendering an acceptable VR experience but in our opinion, the selection below is where you want to be aiming to ensure you’re getting the most from your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive VR headsets. Mid-range VR Graphics Cards. NVIDIA GTX 1070. NVIDIA GTX 1070 Specs.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Military simulations are one of the fields where virtual reality has always been an important technology , even before that VR had its new renaissance in 2012. It’s important to note that BISim was the first to integrate the Oculus headset into military training. Does the military personnel also use some XR accessories (e.g.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Claude Zellweger, HTC’s VP of Design, is making the switch from PC VR to mobile VR. HTC itself confirmed to UploadVR that Zellweger had parted ways with the company, stating: “HTC can confirm that Claude Zellweger has left the Company. Tagged with: Claude Zellweger , Daydream , google , htc.

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AUGUST 14, 2016

After thrusting a glimpse of a modern VR technology into the public realm 4 years ago at E3 2012 there’s a certain irony in Bethesda’s flurry of VR activity at this year’s show. 4 years ago, John Carmack exhibited a modified Doom 3 BFG running on a prototype headset that would eventually evolve to become the Oculus Rift.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. VR Lifetime Achievement.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

There are a lot of upcoming Oculus Rift games with Touch support. And in 2012, The Gallery was one of the first commercially announced Oculus Rift titles and that was one of the targeted platforms when the game completed its $80,000+ Kickstarter campaign back in 2013. And in a way, it’s a bit of a homecoming.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Tequila Works' first title, the BAFTA-nominated Deadlight, was published in 2012 by Microsoft Studios. Tequila Works, S.L. is an independent boutique studio founded in 2009 by Raúl Rubio Munárriz (founding member of MercurySteam Entertainment, developers of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) and Luz M.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Shot in first-person as a continuous take, 360° live-action spy thriller Agent Emerson is slated to arrive on all Oculus headsets as well as PC VR headsets November 22nd, followed later by a release on PSVR. Agent Emerson will arrive for users of all Oculus and HTC headsets on November 22nd.

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AUGUST 19, 2016

The ability to physically pick out a piece with your own two hands using Touch (Oculus’s yet released VR controllers) was an interesting experience to say the least. See Also: ‘ War Thunder’ Adds HTC Vive Support. Crossout is a online multiplayer game based around building and customizing a host of armored vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Oculus is asking for early adopters to give the company a second chance on delivery expectations with the forthcoming launch of Oculus Touch. See Also: Oculus Explains Why They Didn’t Launch Touch with the Rift (Even Though They “Could Have”). The delay also caused a months long backorder which didn’t clear up until July.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. A decade later, Oculus VR is gone “ for now ” and the earliest faces to rally developer and enthusiast support for the imminent consumer revival of virtual reality have moved to other startups.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Luna is an intriguing looking title coming from indie studio Funomena , and backed by some of the minds behind indie PS3 blockbuster Journey (2012). The studio has announced a launch date for October 17th and that the game will be coming to the Rift, Vive, and Windows VR (and PC).

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AUGUST 26, 2016

Launched back in 2012, Leap Motion first introduced us to their new way of interacting with computers in three dimensions. Connected to the front of a VR headset like the Oculus Rift, the latest version of Leap Motion does a great job of tracking your hand and finger movements so your hands can be represented by virtual ones in front of you.

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JULY 5, 2017

Developer Slightly Mad Studios has sparred no detail in bringing a realistic driving experience to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and that includes an exhaustive list of drivable cars, revealed today. 2002 Stancework Edition. Vintage Touring-GT B. 320 TC (E90). Touring Car. 320 Turbo Gr.5 M1 Procar (E26/1). M3 Group A (E30). G40 Junior.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Audi VR experience will make use of both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headset, depending on where it will be shown, and will render vehicle data in real-time to show you the tiniest of details, such as the polish of the aluminum inlays or the various gloss levels of the paint finish depending on the position of the virtual light source.

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