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Long-delayed PSVR Game ‘Golem’ to Reemerge at PAX East Next Week

Road to VR

Sony today announced via its PS blog that seven PSVR titles are heading to PAX East in Boston next week, one of which is the long-overdue adventure game Golem from Highwire Games , an indie studio consisting of former Bungie veterans Marty O’Donnell and Jaime Griesemer, and a team of established industry devs. Falcon Age.

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Ancient Amuletor Is An Action Tower Defense Game For PSVR

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This is one of the first VR games that we’ve seen come to Sony’s headset first and other platforms later; perhaps a sign that developers are starting to take note of PSVR’s near-one million install base? Look for Ancient Amuletor later this year, though PAX East attendees will be able to play it in Boston this weekend.

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‘Headmaster’ & Why the Physics of Stuff Flying at Your Face is so Compelling in VR

Road to VR

When Ben Throop went to the Boston VR hackathon in June 2014, he didn’t know that Valve was going to be showing off some prototype VR hardware that had positional tracking. At this point the Oculus DK2 had not shipped yet, and so he was able to build a VR game using his soccer experience to head soccer balls into a goal.

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50 Days Of PS VR #6: A Q&A With The Creator of ‘Headmaster’

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

So despite the great early response in which time we partnered with Sony, many early testers came away saying “man, I loved it but I really suck” So we had to figure out how to make it controllable and as intuitive as it could be. Digging into why they felt that way was tricky, because nobody could really articulate it.

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Meta, IBM Rally XR Community for Global AI Alliance

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Also, institutions like Cornell University, Imperial College London, Boston University and Harvard University’s MOC Alliance, University of California Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois, University of Tokyo, Yale University and many more have joined the alliance.

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When will augmented reality glasses be ready for consumers?

Robert Scoble

Also, bleeding edge TVs, like my Sony OLED, have better color and luminance depth. They are using the Boston Dynamics’ robots to map out construction sites in 3D and then using HoloLenses to do a variety of tasks. These are certainly better than my HoloLens’s field of view. What does that mean? The problem?

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11 Pet Replacements for the Lonely People In Your Life

GizModo VR

‘Tis the season for being reminded of how utterly alone we are. Why not fill that gaping hole with a digital pet? Whether it’s a keychain device with a virtual character to take care of or a stuffed animal that mews and purrs like a cat, you’d be surprised at the amount of comfort either of those can bring a person… Read more.

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