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OCTOBER 12, 2017

The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. Affordable standalone headset ‘Oculus Go’ revealed: Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Home also completely rebuilt: The Rift Core 2.0

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JUNE 27, 2019

Survios, the studio behind a host of VR games such as Raw Data (2017), Sprint Vector (2018) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018) , has been a stalwart pioneer of the medium since the birth of consumer VR. Course Name : Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Plenty of high-profile industry pros will also be available too as mentors.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Announced as “The Official Blancpain GT Series Game” , the sim brings many technology upgrades over Assetto Corsa (2014) , thanks in part to the move to Unreal Engine 4. Unreal Engine’s comprehensive VR support could benefit the new sim in these areas. Assetto Corsa supports Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Ubisoft Montpellier says the full release is slated to happen “soon” on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive for home users. SEE ALSO Preview: 'Space Junkies' Feels Like VR's Spiritual Successor to 'Unreal Tournament'. Its quick, comfortable gameplay seems pretty well-suited for arcades.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The standard has been in development since 2017 and is backed by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players. Earlier this year the standard took a huge step forward by announcing the start of certifications for compliant implementations. Image courtesy Khronos Group.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. There’s a lot going on at GDC every year, but with VR’s first big consumer year in the books last year, 2017 should be bigger than ever for our industry. What to Expect from Oculus.

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JUNE 5, 2017

Apple has finally made a commitment to VR, announcing on stage today at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017 that not only will they offer an external GPU developer kit for MacBooks capable of meeting the graphical demands of VR, but that both the new 27-inch iMac and the iMac Pro will be VR-ready out of the box. image courtesy TIME.

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The store page description reads "Download to test out the latest cloud streamed titles on Avalanche", and its images include screenshots of Lone Echo , a blockbuster Oculus Rift game from 2017 that hasn't been ported to Quest, as well as Beat Saber and the Unreal Engine's City Sample.

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JULY 27, 2018

Skydance Interactive, the studio behind Archangel (2017) and the recent multiplayer expansion Hellfire , today released a video on just how they made their building-sized mechs. ” SEE ALSO Oculus Plans to Let You Bring Your ‘Medium’ Sculptures Into Home. “Part of that is Momo. .

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Last year at Oculus Connect 2015, Epic revealed the Bullet Train tech demo for Oculus Touch. Now at Connect 2016, the company has revealed Robo Recall , an Oculus Touch exclusive arcade FPS and spiritual successor to that tech demo. SEE ALSO 'Bullet Train' on the Latest Oculus Touch Makes You a Bullet-Catching Badass.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Survios’ stunning VR action game Raw Data , currently in Early Access for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, will launch in September on PlayStation VR. Announced at E3 2017, Raw Data will launch out of Early Access simultaneously on Vive, Rift and PSVR in September, bringing a wealth of improvements to its already polished Early Access state.

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APRIL 4, 2017

Now, developer Rocksteady has announced that it will soon launch the game on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Built on Unreal Engine 4 and well optimized for PSVR, it’s also one of the system’s best looking games. One question on our mind is how the new release of a 2016 VR game will fare with 2017 expectations.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Of course, all of the various applications, programs and tools will require a base engine for creation, and that’s where Epic Games – and specifically its Unreal Engine – comes in. Creative applications like Oculus Medium, Tilt Brush and Ghost Paint are exposing artistry to computer users that’s much more visceral than ever before.

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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. — Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) March 15, 2017.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Oculus’ Head of Content, Jason Rubin.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

” In addition, Unreal Engine will premiere The Giant: Michelangelo’s David in VR to the public, which lets audiences get up-close with the iconic statue unlike ever before. — guyal of crypto (@cryptoguyal) August 3, 2017. LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company).

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Space Junkies , the upcoming Unreal Tournament -style VR shooter from Ubisoft Montpellier, is headed to all major VR platforms starting March 26th. If that tickles your latent Unreal itch, check out a full match in closed beta to see just what’s in store.

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MAY 1, 2017

That’s why Mozilla, the makers of the popular FireFox web browser, are advocating their open source JavaScript API WebVR platform and HTML framework A-Frame to make it easier to design internet-based VR apps that run within cheap smartphone headsets or the more powerful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. festival in Berlin.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. The original Oculus Rift won the first VR Headset of the Year Award (not its own category this year) in 2017. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. VR Film of the Year.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Epic Games is using the Game Developers Conference (GDC) to give an advanced preview of the latest additions to its Unreal Engine VR Editor, which allows creatives to build worlds in a virtual reality environment using the full capabilities of the editor toolset combined with interaction models designed specifically for VR world building.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

With CES 2017 kicking off next week, here we take a look back at the highlights (and lowlights) from 4 years of VR at CES to gauge how far the industry has come and look for clues as to where it goes from here. CES 2013 however gave us the first glimpse of Oculus VR operating as a company. CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years.

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MARCH 3, 2017

My adventure started as I entered a large green-lit cube where a lone Oculus Rift hung from the center on a rusty construction hook tied to some shanty rope. I donned the headset, took control of an Oculus Remote and was transported forward in time to a futuristic Borabora island resort that had long since been abandoned.

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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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MARCH 2, 2017

Oculus and Epic Games share a strong and fascinating partnership that’s grown over the past few years. Handing him the prize was none other than John Carmack, another videogame industry legend and current CTO of Oculus. Brendan Iribe (@brendaniribe) March 2, 2017. Last night’s Game Developer Choice Awards showed why.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Representatives for Google VR, Intel, and others already voiced their support of Khronos’ work by that point, but Epic’s Unreal Engine allowed Khronos to focus on a potential wider adoption of the standard. A couple months later, that standard now has a name as Khronos unveils the OpenXR working group at GDC 2017.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Today at the Game Developers Conference, Epic Games announced its VR shooter Robo Recall is available now for free on Oculus Rift with Touch. In addition, Robo Recall comes with full mod support at launch.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

One of the flagship announcements at last week’s Oculus Connect developer conference, Epic Games’ Robo Recall is a slick, polished first person shooter built for Oculus’ forthcoming VR motion controllers Touch. The title will appear some time in Q1 2017.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. The Holodeck Year 2: Growing the VR Ecosystem in 2017. Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.),

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In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??” You can clearly see from the videos that we did our first demos inside the Oculus samples scenes. A random tutorial found on Youtube.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus. LET’S SPECULATE ON Q1 HEADSET SALES.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Raiders is likely still some ways off from release (no official release date has been given), but Coop Innovations was recently awarded grant money from Epic Games for its work using the company’s Unreal Engine 4. Erda is coming to both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Simon Barratt (@barog) June 9, 2017.

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MARCH 10, 2018

Attendees could jump into one of six networked Oculus Rift headsets and enter the world of SlimeZone, letting you play games, watch cartoons, create art, and of course slime others. SlimeZone was built using Epic’s Unreal Engine and Nvidia FleX particle system for slime simulation.

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APRIL 21, 2017

These are realistic places you can explore in your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world. But the tracking volume is still limited compared to other VR experiences made using graphic engines like Unity or Unreal.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Yesterday, Oculus announced the release date for what will be one of its first big Studios games this year, Rock Band VR. Starting Months of high profile rollouts with #Rockband from @Harmonix for @Oculus Rift: — Jason Rubin (@Jason_Rubin) February 6, 2017. Tagged with: oculus , Oculus Studios , robo recall , wilson's heart.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal Engine, has a unique position in the virtual reality industry. He says that out of the approximately half-a-million PC VR headsets sold to date, HTC Vive “is outselling Oculus 2-to-1 worldwide.” Oculus Home. HTC Vive is outselling Oculus 2-to-1 worldwide.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Robo Recall is easily one of the most exciting VR experience coming in 2017, but its roots actually trace back to a relatively simple tech demo from 2015. There’s no two ways about it; Robo Recall is looking gorgeous, no doubt thanks to the intimate knowledge the developer has with its popular development toolkit, Unreal Engine.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Robo Recall was easily one of the most exciting games we got our hands on at Oculus Connect 3 earlier this month. “After Bullet Train , Oculus basically asked us if we wanted to turn that into a full game. So, right now it’s an Oculus exclusive piece of content because they funded it,” explained Whiting.

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