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Whether or not you’re in the narrow band of ‘solar eclipse totality’ that’s making its way across the continental United States on Monday, August 21st, Google Earth VR has seen a recent update that will let you experience the rare event from the comfort of your own HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. image courtesy NASA.
Multiplayer first-person shooter Hover Junkers from developer StressLevelZero was a popular launch game for the HTC Vive, built from the ground up for VR and motion controllers, using hovercrafts as moving platforms on which to shoot, an innovative way of traversing large maps while reducing the chances of nausea.
Stress Level Zero’s Hover Junkers (2016) was one of the first room-scale multiplayer shooters to land on the HTC Vive. Now the game boasts a single player campaign, dubbed ‘Junk Road’, which departs from the multiplayer action by taking its cues from the classic game Oregon Trail, but set it in the Hover Junkers world.
Reggie Watts was supposed to come on, and he had somebody opening for him,” said Joshua Young, founder and CEO of Design Reality PDX , a monthly Portland, Oregon networking event that regularly hosts panelists from the VR community. Anybody with any form of VR can do Altspace; owners of Oculus Go, or Oculus Gear, or Daydream even.
HTC has kicked off 2017 by showcasing new Vive accessories and services at CES that will lay the foundation for VR in 2017 and beyond. The company showed off a video featuring Portland, Oregon VR design studio dotdotdash, one of the first developers to use the Vive Tracker. HTC has finally addresses it with the Vive Deluxe Audio Strap.
FlyInside Flight Simulator isn’t hitting Steam or the Oculus Store yet though, as the company is launching beta access for both their free trial version and a paid ‘pro version’ first through their website starting today to get the valuable feedback and start building a community around the fledgling flight sim.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t really translate into a ton of amazing new content this week for Oculus Rift or Gear VR, rather a ton of great content on sale instead — mostly on Steam. Plus — check out our list of the best Oculus Rift games and best Gear VR games for more suggestions! Price: $7.99 (Oculus Rift).
Pallister leads Intel’s virtual reality (VR) project lab in Hillsboro, Oregon. Assisting Intel’s original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, from Microsoft to HTC and Oculus, Pallister works closely with the underlying solutions making VR possible. Image Credit: Michael O’Donnell/VentureBeat.
So, I opened a chain of retail computer stores in the 90s, I ran a fairly large chain in Oregon with five computer stores and then in 2000 I started working in Silicon Valley doing electronics and engineering… and eventually, I got into doing consumer products. Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). The Vive Wands.
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