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JANUARY 17, 2025

The original Assetto Corsa was an early champion of VR, having previously included experimental support for Rift headsets starting back to 2013, and later gaining support for additional headsets in 2017 with the adoption of OpenVR. And while VR hasn’t always been a day-one feature, it has been an integral part of the series.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Airbus, a Microsoft HoloLens partner, developed the software for its A350 XWB line of planes, which first took to the skies in 2013. The Japanese airliner purchased 31 A350s in 2013 and will be the first to take advantage of the software. Microsoft demonstrated JAL’s app last year.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Despite having originally released all the way back in 2013, Rockstar’s fifth entry in their beloved Grand Theft Auto video game series is more popular than ever. The free “R.E.A.L” PC mod adds full VR compatibility to Rockstar’s beloved franchise.

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MAY 17, 2020

Originally released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 back in 2013 followed by the PC in 2015, GTA V has since gone on to become one of the highest-grossing video game titles of all-time, due in no small part to Rockstar’s GTA Online service and lucrative microtransactions, referred to in-game as “Shark Cards.”

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Originally released in 2013 on the original Oculus Rift DK1, the HL2VR mod allowed early adopters to play through the entirety of Half-Life 2’s single-player campaign in VR with support for the Razer Hydra motion controllers.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Slender: The Arrival (2013), the hit flatscreen game that pits you against the legendary Slender Man, is releasing on all major VR platforms this spring, coming alongside a fresh (and spine-tingling) new gameplay video.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

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MARCH 2, 2021

Star Wars Pinball (2013) has been available on console, mobile, and PC for a while now. Developers Zen Studios recently announced the game is being adapted to VR for all major headsets, and it’s landing next month. Star Wars Pinball VR not only includes eight pinball tables, but also mini-games and plenty of familiar faces.

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MAY 9, 2023

Released exclusively in Japan back in 2013, “Horizons” will be available to the rest of the world for the first time. The first AR experience, available tomorrow, offers fans the chance to discover a track “hidden in plain sight” for 10 years.

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JULY 6, 2020

Noire (2011) to the medium, so it’s also possible we could be seeing a VR-adapted re-release of an extant Rockstar title such as GTA V (2013) or Red Dead Redemption. The dedicated VR studio cut its virtual teeth on adapting the non-VR version of L.A.

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MAY 4, 2021

ElementalVR – E3 2013. This collaboration between Weta Digital, the VFX studio behind Lord of the Rings , and Epic adapted assets from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) to transport you players deep into the halls of Erebor to face the mighty dragon himself. A Brief History of Epic's VR Tech Demos.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Originally aired in 2013, the story follows a close group of childhood friends as they struggle to survive a nightmarish world inhabited by man-eating giants referred to as “Titans.” ” The show touches a variety of genres, from action-adventure to political thriller.

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JULY 29, 2021

Founded in 2006, nDreams first transitioned to its role as VR developer with the release of a demo called SkyDIEving for the Oculus Rift development kits back in 2013. The studio has since released a host of VR titles targeting all major platforms including Bloody Zombies, Shooty Fruity , The Assembly , and meditation app Perfect.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

” Founded on the back of a successful Kickstarter campaign in late 2013, OpenBCI creates consumer-grade biosensing systems built with open-source software and hardware. We are providing the world with a playground for experimentation and development using multi-modal biometric data in tandem with next generation wearable displays.”

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JULY 9, 2021

VorpX has been available in active development since at least 2013 and has seen regular updates adding new features and growing the list of supported games. It supports all Oculus, SteamVR, and WMR headsets.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Developed by the core team behind SOUL SACRIFICE (2013), players are thrust into a post-apocalyptic Tokyo in the franchise’s first VR expansion. Thirdverse , the Japan-based VR studio behind Swords of Gargantua , Altair Breaker, and X8 , announced that its VR multiplayer JRPG SOUL COVENANT is coming to all major headsets next month.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

And in 2013, while CTO of Oculus, Carmack even described this ideal headset as running a version of Android. In 2012, before he even formally joined Oculus, Carmack described his goal of a headset that would use "mobile phone hardware" and cameras for positional tracking with no wires.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Horsthuis published his first fractal video back in December 2013, however we’re more familiar with Foreign Nature from 2015, which was his first 360 fractal video made especially for VR headsets. Horsthuis says Recombination explores “various themes in Physics, Math and Biology.”

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APRIL 30, 2020

Quake has been playable in VR at home since at least 2013 , but never like this. Quake (1996) from id Software defined the real-time 3D shooter genre, and now you can dive back into the ’90s head-first with this fan-built Quake VR mod. Yes, we know what you’re thinking.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

Alongside gaining the attention and favor of key companies like Valve and veteran engineers like John Carmack and Michael Abrash, the company managed to rapidly raise a string of investments from high profile VC firms; a Series A round of $16 million in early 2013 followed by a Series B round of $75 million in late 2013.

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APRIL 25, 2017

Having initially taken pre-orders for the $3,000 Meta Pro glasses back in 2013, the company rebooted the headset and revealed it in early 2016 as the Meta 2, this time poised as a more affordable (at $949) development kit with a much wider and more immersive field of view at 90 degrees (compared to 36 degrees on the original).

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APRIL 22, 2020

The psychedelic-inspired experience was originally an installation at Burning Man in 2013 and has transformed into a more accessible immersion with play-through lasting between 15 – 60 minutes for most users; stay in for at least 10 to experience a captivating pseudo-trip. have to evolve.”.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

In 2017, Gemba grew out of executive training company The Leadership Network, which was founded in 2013 by CEO Nathan Robinson and Chairman Victor Lewis. The latest funding round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, now valuing the UK-based company at $60 million.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the meantime, here’s a look back at a very old version of our site from 2013! Road to VR circa 2013 The post Pardon Our Dust: We’re Investigating a Layout Issue on Road to VR appeared first on Road to VR. Today you might be seeing an odd looking version of our site with some layout issues.

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The original Trivia Crack app launched in 2013 on iOS and Android devices, garnering an impressive 600 million downloads worldwide and more than 150 million active users annually. Since then Etermax has released a number of spin-off games, including Trivia Crack Adventure and Trivia Cars.

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APRIL 2, 2017

.” Arizona Sunshine [ our review ] is one of SteamVR’s top rated games, and soon it’ll be compatible with the Virtuix Omni , a VR treadmill which got its start after a successful 2013 Kickstarter. Virtuix got its start in 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign that raised $1.1 Photo by Road to VR.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Founded in 2013, Survios is one of the most senior VR development studios out there, now with seven full-realized VR titles to its name. That’s been happening while we kept hearing about the trough of disillusionment. You don’t have to be an economics major to know that demand is outstripping supply.”.

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MAY 17, 2018

Since 2013, independent global VR community SVVR has worked tirelessly to develop a thriving global community for VR enthusiasts, developers, professionals, and entrepreneur looking to sink their teeth into immersive technology.

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JULY 14, 2022

Founded in 2010, The Game Kitchen are known for their point-and-click adventure The Last Door (2013) and critically-acclaimed indie title Blasphemous (2019), both of which were successfully funded through Kickstarter campaigns. is said to arrive this Holiday season, available exclusively for Kickstarter backers.

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MARCH 5, 2018

In 2013, Volkswagen demonstrated a new process by which service workers could use augmented reality to service a vehicle. The Volkswagen Group will use an augmented reality hub to train employees across the globe. ????????????In

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

Google founder Sergey Brin wearing Google Glass (2013) | Image courtesy Google One such prototype, which The Information reports is code-named ‘Betty’, had a monocular display—conceptually similar to the now discontinued Google Glass.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

” Founded in 2013, the Vancouver-based studio has developed a number of recognizable VR games, including the VR port of ID Software’s DOOM 3, Journey to Foundation, Freediver Triton Down, Evasion, and early AR game Marvel Dimension of Heroes, which released on the smartphone-based Lenovo Mirage AR headset.

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MARCH 31, 2021

released with VR support, battle simulator War Thunder (2013) announced it had enabled DLSS as well, however users found mixed results when playing the game in VR. Granted, Into The Radius isn’t the absolute first VR game (or rather, VR- supported game) to adopt DLSS. Only two months after DLSS 2.1 What does DLSS do exactly?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It’s been nearly five years since we played the Border Bots VR demo, then called ‘Border Patrol’ , which first introduced the game’s undoubtedly Papers, Please (2013)- inspired border guard simulation. Now the full VR game has an official launch date on PSVR 2 and SteamVR headsets.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Here’s how Bye says it all started in 2014: The first Oculus Developer Kits (the Oculus DK1) were shipped in March of 2013, and I bought my DK1 on January 1, 2014.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

First introduced in its Explorer Edition in 2013, it now appears a second gen Enterprise Edition has passed FCC certification. The first Google Glass Enterprise Edition included a well-deserved spec overhaul since the 2013 Explorer Edition, featuring an Intel Atom CPU, 32GB of storage, and a 780 mAh battery.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Having taken up VR game development full-time in 2013, the studio went on to release a slew of VR titles complimenting nearly every major headset release, including games such as The Assembly (2016) , Phantom: Covert Ops (2020) , Fracked (2021), and Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord (2023).

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