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OCTOBER 23, 2018

in May 2017, 3DNesVR is finally heading to Steam, with support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows VR headsets. 3DNesVR automatically turns NES games into a sort of ‘pop-out’ 3D version of the 2D game (not included), and lets you play it natively via SteamVR and Oculus runtime. Circus Charlie. Elevator Action.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

The Oculus Touch motion controllers arrive December 6th and pre-orders begin October 10th. Oculus’ biggest event of the year, Oculus Connect 3 , kicked off Thursday morning with an opening keynote that revealed what’s next for the Facebook owned Oculus platform, as well as new content playable with Oculus Touch motion controllers.

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MAY 23, 2019

After spending just a few hours with the Oculus Quest hardware, Pavlov VR developer David Villz (davevillz) confirmed yesterday via Twitter that the fast-paced multiplayer shooter will be heading to the standalone headset. As far as cross-platform support goes, don’t expect to be battling alongside your friends on the HTC Vive anytime soon.

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OCTOBER 20, 2018

HTC today announced a 6DOF controller tracking add-on for Vive Focus which brings 6DOF controller tracking to the device. Vive Focus, HTC’s standalone VR headset, had a full blown launch in China at the beginning of 2018, and was released as a development kit in the West in May. Image courtesy HTC.

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JULY 7, 2016

When we first tried Oculus’ new tool Medium at Connect last Fall, we were blown away by how intuitive and natural sculpting in VR could be. Much like Tilt Brush on the HTC Vive, Medium gives you a virtual palette and tool to create in a 3D space. For the most part, everyone demoing Medium would sculpt a 3D face or maybe a potted plant.

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MAY 31, 2018

We had a chance to go hands-on with Gumi and Yomuneco’s Sword of Gargantua at GDC back in March, and while an official write-up never materialized out of the hectic game-filled dev conference, a demo for the studio’s upcoming online action RPG is finally here for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The HTC Vive is a miracle of modern engineering. However, a good majority of that content is unfinished, early access, and lacking the level of polish that its competitors at Oculus and Sony are providing for their respective platforms. You came in here pretty fired up from that headline, huh?

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JUNE 11, 2018

Created by Paw Print Games , the studio known for VR side-scrolling co-op brawler Bloody Zombies (2017), the studio has just released a playable pre-alpha demo. Now available on Steam with support for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, the demo gives an early preview, featuring a single day and giving an introduction to the robotic world.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Available for demo this September at the annual Sonic Amateur Games Expo , Virtua Sonic is a high-speed VR experience inspired by everyone’s favorite fast-footed hedgehog in which players zip across custom Zones as they gather coins and defeat enemies using a variety of special abilities.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Next week, on September 26th-27th, Oculus will perform its annual showcase event: Oculus Connect , that has now arrived at its 5th edition. The latest event, the OC4 has been full of news and interesting information , both on Oculus products and VR in general and I think that this year won’t be different.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Luckily, it’s easy to find yourself a free demo of any VR major system out there. The Vive is the ‘room-scale’ VR system created by HTC and Valve. Find an HTC Vive Demo Location. HTC hosts a list of stores across the US and Europe where you can try the Vive for free.

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JUNE 16, 2021

I’m very happy to announce that HitMotion: Reloaded, the XR fitness game that we of New Technology Walkers are developing, has finally been launched for Oculus Quest! The demo is also an alpha, that is we are releasing it without having polished and optimized it because we want to hear the feedback of the community!

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Two days ago, I’ve been at HTC Vive Chinese headquarters in Beijing. It has been a really amazing day, where I have been able to try some amazing HTC tech demos (more on this later on! I’ve been able to speak with three companies incubated in the Vive-X Beijing and also to know various HTC Vive employees.

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MARCH 7, 2018

He’s ready to answer with his HTC super powers. And I still remember that you have done boxing, so I agree with you in any case… HTC Vive Pro first impressions. Also, the controllers were the ones of Vive 1 and being used to my Oculus Touch , I felt back to the nineties. HTC Vive 1.0 vs HTC Vive Pro.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

First announced a month ago, Van Bouwel has now published a working demo of Cubism , which gives you a quick slice of the sort of difficulty ahead. The demo, which works with SteamVR-compatible headsets, can be downloaded here.

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JUNE 22, 2018

That changed this week as Valve offered up a major information dump, showcasing the latest Knuckles dev kit with a significant design overhaul, alongside a new tech demo designed to demonstrate what the controllers are capable of. ” To demonstrate what the controller can do, Valve created a new tech demo called Moondust.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In the end, the time has come: Oculus has officially revealed the name and the price of the Santa Cruz headset. Its name will be Oculus Quest and will cost $399. I followed today’s OC5 conference via Facebook streaming only for this moment and Oculus has not disappointed my expectations. ” and he has satisfied us.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Thanks to the support of HTC, Rob is experimenting with Vive Trackers , and is very eager to tell you everything about his experiments with them, in a series of two very detailed posts. The post finishes also with the little surprise of an interview with HTC’s Shen Ye. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

TPCAST announced last month plans for an Oculus Rift version of their wireless module. The unit is said to be available by year’s end, and will have the same or similar $300 price as the HTC Vive module. At the SVVR Meetup #46 on Tuesday, TPCast showed the first public demo of their wireless Oculus Rift module.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The Venture Reality Fund and of course HTC. — Alvin Wang Graylin (@AGraylin) October 18, 2018. Really fantastic.

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MARCH 4, 2025

If you see the classification, you notice that there are some issues, like the mention of the Oculus website, that is no more. Gabe Follower also maintains Valve is also set to ship games or demos that are already done specifically for Deckard. Im just behind the sacred websites Road To VR and Upload VR. MIXED) that are not mentioned.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Eye of the Temple impressed us with its unique room-scale gameplay and inventive locomotion style back in its free demo last year. Fans of the surprisingly full-featured demo on Steam will be happy to hear that Indiana Jones-style adventure Eye of the Temple will be releasing on SteamVR headsets on October 14th, 2021.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

million to their name, the company has reached arguably a more important milestone: they’ve surpassed the original Oculus Rift Kickstarter, becoming the top funded VR headset campaign in existence. Even though Pimax technically surpassed Oculus’ Kickstarter, historical context matters. image courtesy Pimax.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve tested it with my Leap Motion Controller, the Oculus Quest, and a lot of scotch tape and I was very satisfied by the results.

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

This isn’t some 20-minute tech demo; it’s a fully playable Ocarina of Time VR game. Earlier this week Oculus Studios launched Resident Evil 4 VR on Oculus Quest 2 headsets, offering players a fast-paced horror-action experience expertly ported to VR. Image Credit: Nintendo.

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JULY 15, 2019

At San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) this year, Oculus and BBC Studios are giving US crowds their first chance to demo the upcoming VR game Doctor Who: The Edge of Time. The demo will be available at the BBC AMERICA Booth (#4129), which also includes a sneak peek of the show’s beloved space-time travel device, the TARDIS.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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JULY 4, 2019

As one of the pioneering demos to heavily feature object interaction back at the birth of consumer VR, it always felt like the curiously magical prologue to something much larger. The post Pioneering VR Demo ‘Waltz of the Wizard’ to Live on in New ‘Extended Edition’ appeared first on Road to VR.

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MAY 26, 2017

Videogame publisher and developer Square Enix, famous for its Final Fantasy franchise, among others, has launched its first game for the HTC Vive, Kai-ri-Sei Million Arthur VR in Japan. The game’s Steam page officially lists support for the HTC Vive and Seated and Standing play areas. Photo courtesy Square Enix.

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MARCH 18, 2018

When it comes to HTC, most everyone’s mind is on the Vive Pro. With GDC being the last major event in Q1, hosted just a week before the end of the quarter, and given the presence of HTC at GDC in years past, it certainly seems like the appropriate place and time to reveal the price and release date of the Vive Pro, if not a delay.

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JULY 15, 2019

Doctor Who: The Edge of Time , an upcoming interactive VR experience from Oculus and BBC Studios, is set to launch September 29th on PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift/ Rift S, HTC Vive, and Vive Cosmos. Image Credit: Oculus. Featured Image Credit: Oculus. We know they’re going to love it.”.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Meta has been far more open about showing off its long-term hardware research than other big tech companies, a tradition carried over from Oculus, the startup it acquired and turned into its Reality Labs division. Hands-on time with Meta’s latest demo and an interview with the head of display systems research suggests it’ll be pretty key.

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OCTOBER 5, 2019

The Vive Cosmos signals a bright future for HTC, but at $699, will people buy it? HTC’s latest VR headset, the Cosmos is officially available for purchase and at $699 the headset doesn’t come cheap, but it does come with some much-needed improvements. Design was a priority for HTC when it came to the Cosmos. Calling it now.

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MARCH 16, 2020

Platforms: SteamVR , Oculus Rift/Rift S , Viveport. Platforms: SteamVR , Oculus Rift/Rift S , Oculus Quest. Platform: SteamVR , Oculus Rift/Rift S , Oculus Quest , PlayStation VR. Platform: SteamVR , Oculus Rift/Rift S , Oculus Quest , Viveport. Play against your friends or people you’ve never met.

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MARCH 7, 2017

We were already having a great time coming across a demo of Duck Hunt for the Oculus Rift, with grenades and all. Now Konami’s run and gun classic, Contra , has popped up on the interwebs — and you can download it right now for the HTC Vive. The short demo transports you into the boss battle of Level 3: Waterfall.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This past September VR developer Stress Level Zero ( Boneworks, Hover Junkers, Duck Season ) announced it was working on a brand new VR game for the Oculus Quest. mechanics and core systems to Oculus Quest in an all-new project that we will have more to show from as the year goes on.”. We’re working on bringing ?Boneworks?’

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JANUARY 21, 2019

Delays are a train driver’s worst nightmare, and while it’s true upcoming VR train simulator Derail Valley has seen a modest setback after its planned January 18th launch, the game is now full steam ahead as it makes its Early Access debut on the Oculus Store and Steam this week.

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