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Revamped Meta App Reintroduces Quest Users to Some of the Best Immersive Art Out There

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Fujita, a DreamWorks Animation veteran, is also known for his work at the now defunct Oculus Story Studios on VR animated short films Henry (2015) and chapter 1 of Wolves in the Walls (2018), as well as a massive slate of VR animations , some of which you can see in the Theater Elsewhere app right now.

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This Modder Hopes to Bring VR Support to Massive ‘Fallout: London’ DLC

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Fallout: London is a total conversion mod based on Bethesda’s popular Fallout 4 (2015) for PC. While the team behind the mod hasn’t mentioned whether potential VR support is in the works, an intrepid modder is taking things into their own hands.

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Meta is Experimenting with a Home Theater Environment for Quest’s Horizon OS

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.” This wouldn’t be the first time Meta developed its own theater environment.In

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New Report Says Chewing Gum Reduces VR Motion Sickness

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The research group cites a study conducted back in 2015 which showed how head vibrations can reduce the amount of motion sickness by 25% and mental distraction by another 19%, resulting in a combined sickness reduction of 39%. So, how exactly does chewing gum combat VR motion sickness? 2018 ), pleasant odors (Keshavarz et al.

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Mil-Sim Shooter ‘Onward’ Announces First Major Update After a Year-long Wait

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.” This follows turmoil in the wider gaming industry, which included wide-ranging layoffs at Downpour Inteactive in 2023; founder and CEO Dante Buckley, who started the studio in 2015, departed the company a month prior to layoffs.

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Quest 2 Drops Backwards Compatibility with Oculus Go Apps & Games

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If you haven’t followed the growth of Oculus over the years, among other things, Carmack was an instrumental force in both driving the company to build the smartphone-based Gear VR headset in 2015 and eventually crystalize that into the 3DOF standalone Oculus Go in 2018. If you’re feeling nostalgic, you can give it a watch here.

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Hideo Kojima Is Rumored To Be Working On A VR Game

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Citing “unconfirmed” sources, OopsLeaks claims that the game could be a “smaller” project developed by Kojima Productions, an original game studio founded by Kojima back in 2015 after a very public falling-out with Konami.

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