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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Half-Life: Alyx (2020) is one of the most moddable VR games out there, which has spawned high-quality DLC and some impressively detailed levels. Now, the developer behind the ‘Gunman Contracts’ —one of the best HLA mods out there—says we’re getting a full, standalone title next year.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In comparison to the previous bhaptics TactSuit X40, which launched at $499 in 2020, the new TactSuit Pro technically features fewer haptic motors, reducing the count from 40 motors to 32, as the name implies. Like TactSuit X16, bHaptics is offering two colorways: Onyx and Ash, both of which carry the same $249 price tag.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

First released in Alpha on Steam in late 2020, and one year later on Quest, Iron Rebellion lets you build and customize your mechs for immersive squad-based battles, including the ability to control your mech by physically reaching out to grab sticks and flip switches, making for some pretty handy in-cockpit controls.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Sony released its PlayStation Camera Adapter for free in 2020 to help bridge the gap for PSVR users looking for a console upgrade to PS5, which notably didn’t offer full PSVR support out of the box.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While Magic Leap pivoted to enterprise in 2020, ostensibly forcing Metanaut to shelve its AR edition, it was clear Gadgeteer would translated well to mixed reality. Gadgeteer is the ideal game for mixed reality,” says Creative Director, Peter Kao.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2025

Rockstar never publicly announced Video Games Deluxe was involved , likely owing to the fact the port was cancelled shortly thereafter, however in a 2020 job listing the studio tipped its hand by announcing it was creating aAAA open world title in VR for Rockstar. ” The post Rockstar Games Acquires Studio Behind ‘L.A.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Since when I started this blog, I have had the tradition of wishing people the best for the Winter Holidays and for the new year, but this time it is a very difficult task because of the damn 2020. Anyway, let me try to do it the same.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2025

” Established in 2020 under the name YVR, Play For Dream has already launched two generations of standalone VR headsets, its YVR 1 and YVR 2, both of which were released in China in 2022. Play For Dream MR doesn’t have a firm release date or pricing yet, however the company has said it will come in under $2,000.

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2025

In August 2020, London-based virtual concert company MelodyVR acquired Napster for $70 million, which hoped to bring immersive video concerts toVR headset users. Interestingly, Immersive Reality also isn’t the first XR-focused company to purchase Napster either.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In contrast to Thief Simulator VR (2020) , which was developed by GameBoom VR and released only on PC VR headsets, Greenview Street focuses solely onthe titular neighborhood. Since the release of Greenview Street , 3R Games has however released a series of paid DLCs, including expansions Richie R.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Onward (2020) , the tactical mil-sim shooter from Meta-owned Downpour Interactive , is getting a big 2.0 Initially released onSteam in Early Access in 2016, and later released in early access on the original Oculus Quest in 2020, Onward focuses on realistic squad-based gameplay and unrelentingly faithful reproduction of real-world weaponry.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2024

As a subscription app similar to Supernatural (2020) , Alo Moves XR features top instructors, including Ashley Galvin, Annie Landa, Bianca Wise, Kirat Randhawa, and Susy Markoe Schieffelin, who lead sessions across immersive destinations such as Spain, Norway, and Thailand.

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VRScout

JULY 24, 2021

The 2020 Olympics are finally here after being delayed due to the global pandemic. ” You can see Reynolds, Raboutou, and Marks each compete in their sport during the 2020 Summer Olympics. The Washington Post uses AR and interactive video to showcase three new Olympic sports debuting in Tokyo.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2025

Image courtesy Immersion Games As a new entrant in the VR fitness subgenre, it all sounds like a pretty attractive package for anyone who doesn’t gravitate towards rhythm-based games, such as Beat Saber (2018) or Synth Riders (2019), or guided workout games, like Supernatural (2020) or Les Mills Bodycombat (2022).

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2025

So much has happened in VR in last five years that if you had told me back in early 2020, I’m not sure I would have believed you. The XR landscape has changed significantly over the last five years with the flourishing of standalone headsets and new entrants like Apple and (soon) Google.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In 2020, DSR said its then-latest varifocal prototype, which featured static varifocal displays and folded optics, was “almost ready for primetime.” ” The prototype was developed by the company’s Display Systems Research (DSR) team led by Doug Lanman, who is also known for his work on varifocal prototypes.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 30, 2020

So what could be the best way of celebrating the end of this 2020 if not with a fantastic virtual reality concert happening at midnight of the 31st , available on all platforms, all for free, and with a legend of electronic music like Jean-Michel Jarre? Well, tune on VRChat on December, 31st 2020 at 11.25 Header image by VRrOOm).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2025

The chart below, courtesy of Omdia and Sensor Tower , also tracks some of the biggest moments in Meta’s successive Quest releases, including the launch of Quest 2 in October 2020 and its record-setting sales the following year, the release of Quest 3 in October 2023, and release Quest 3S in October 2024.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

update to MYST (2020), the VR-supported remake of the classic ’90s point-and-click adventure game, which includes performance boosts and improvements to stability for PC VR users. Cyan Worlds has released its big 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2021

Many people who attended the Virtual Burn in 2020 said they found community and a sense of belonging. Thousands of people who had never participated in an in-person Burning Man event dove into the Virtual Worlds in 2020. What were your stats for 2020? Here are some numbers from the 2020 Virtual Burn.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2025

Launched in 2020, Supernatural gamifies fitness with some very Beat Saber- inspired orb-smashing mechanics, which is set to the beat of a poppy soundtrack led by personal coaches in a variety of picturesque locales. Now, Meta has released its first user figures for Supernatural, saying in a blog post it now counts 110,000 users of the app.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Originally announced back in November 2020, Finger Gun is a wave-based first-person shooter coming soon to Meta Quest headsets. Use your bare hands to battle waves of “robot-like extraterrestrial creatures” in this western-themed VR game. Yes, I know what you’re thinking: “Ugh, another wave-based shooter?” finger-gun.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The company revealed its first iteration of Project Aria back in 2020, showing off a sensor-rich pair of glasses which the company used internally to train its machine perception systems, ultimately tackling some of the most complex issues in creating practical, all-day augmented reality glasses of the future.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

In late 2020, a crowd-funded group, which even attracted cash from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey , spurred on the race to jailbreak Quest 2, which, at the time, led an apparently successful method. At the time of this writing, there is no widely publicized, confirmed jailbreak for Quest 3, although there have been attempts in the past.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Announced in 2020, Aria doesn’t include AR displays of any type. Now, Meta revealed it’s released Project Aria to a number of third-party research teams aiming to tackle some of the most complex challenges in creating practical, all-day AR glasses of the future.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2025

Valve’s Next VR Headset Based on images courtesy Valve After the 2019 launch of Index, the first serious hints that Valve was working on a new VR headset came in the form of patents that filed in 2020. ” Valve’s Next VR Game Image courtesy Valve Half-Life: Alyx launched back in early 2020 to near universal acclaim.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

” Founded in 2013, nDreams has released a host of VR games over the years as both developer and publisher, including Phantom: Covert Ops (2020) , Fracked (2021), Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord (2023), Frenzies (2024) and Vendetta Forever (2024).

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ARPost

AUGUST 6, 2021

Countries in the European Union bloc have indicated a decrease in AR/VR spending in 2020. In a survey conducted by Perkins Coie in 2020 , before the pandemic, the biggest trend noted among decision-makers in the business sector was the diversification of monetization strategies in the future. billion in 2021, an 88.6%

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2025

Meta announced in 2020 it was working with UK-based AR display maker Plessey , which was tapped to provide Meta with AR displays over the course of multiple years. Now the companies have announced they’ve developed what they’re deeming “the worlds brightest” red microLED display for AR glasses.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2025

.” In 2022, Soul Assembly spun out of the XR division of developer Pixel Toys , the original developer behind Drop Dead (2017),Drop Dead: Dual Strike Edition (2019) and Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sister (2020).

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2025

Fireproof Games, the studio behind The Room VR: A Dark Matter (2020) , is sharing more info on Ghost Town, its upcoming VR puzzle-adventure for Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets Trebuchet is tossing out more info on Prison Boss: Prohibition , its sequel to the 2017 prison-based VR crafting and trading game.

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JANUARY 17, 2021

In June of 2020, Wave announced it had raised $30 million in series B funding. Towards the end of 2020, Rolling Stone wrote a story stating that Justin Bieber, The Weekend, and J Balvin were in talks to potentially invest in the company.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

” To boot, the studio says all PSVR 2 hand-tracking features are available in Quest version now, which got its own hand-tracking update in 2020. The new hand-tracking guidebook, Handbook, will be added in a separate Quest update in “the near future” however.

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Upload VR

MARCH 3, 2025

While July 2020 saw Video Games Deluxe reveal it was working on an ' AAA open world ' VR game, news emerged shortly after San Andreas VR's reveal that the studio was behind the adaptation.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

When Half-Life: Alyx was released in 2020, the groundbreaking VR adventure exceeded all expectations with gamers thanks to the roughly 15 hours of mind-blowing gameplay and amazing characters. Since its launch, the game has been downloaded by 2 million people and won numerous awards, including VR Game of the Year at the 2020 Steam Awards.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2024

Echoing a previous rumor first reported in 2020 , McVicker renews speculation that two Half-Life games could be in development, making for what could be an asymmetric co-op game across PC and Deckard.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2024

DC Acquired by Meta in 2022, Camouflaj is most recently known for having developed Marvel’s Iron Man VR (2020). When it launched on PSVR in July 2020, Road to VR gave Iron Man VR a rating of ‘Great’ in our full review , calling it VR’s “first great superhero game,” later awarding it our PSVR Game of the Year in 2020.

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