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The Oculus Quest 2 has finally arrived and so far we’re loving Facebook’s new-and-improved standalone headset. Cybershoes work much like the Oculus Quest 2 Touch controllers. By placing them on your feet, your headset is able to track motion much like the hand controllers. Image Credit: Cybershoes.
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Game developers are also preparing for it: popular games like SuperHot, Red Matter , and Arizona Sunshine will publish new updates to take in count the new horsepower of the Quest 2. Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. Image by NVIDIA).
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The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift ’s are often pretty extensive with games spread across genres and plenty of non-gaming experiences like short films and experimental forms of education. HTC Vive’s blog reveals that their partners have collaborated to do just that and Amazon has also put together an Oculus Rift deal.
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Supported Headsets: Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, HTC Vive. Supported Headsets: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR. Metro developer 4A Games makes its VR debut with this Oculus Studios shooter that doesn’t look a whole lot different from its last post-apocalyptic shooter. Supported Headsets: Oculus Rift.
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Skyworld , a turn-based strategy game from Arizona Sunshine (2016) developers Vertigo Games, was initially introduced to the world as a demo during HTC Vive’s first public showing back in GDC 2015. You can also count on plenty of satisfying levers and steampunk-ish machines abound.
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He shows a smartphone camera the first ever Oculus Rift to reach the hands of a consumer, and then he opens the door and steps out into the Alaskan chill to deliver it by hand. “I had time to play a little Lucky’s Tale and try the Oculus Dreamdeck experiences, which blew me away,” he explains.
as a free-to-play title for Oculus and Samsung’s Gear VR. It’s not the only VR game with success to celebrate this week; VR zombie shooter Arizona Sunshine also announced it had amassed $1.4 Resolution Games, however, has. million in sales. Now that Bait! Interestingly, the developer is charging $7.99 ” Bait!
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