Road to VR

Early VR Pioneer CCP Games Acquired by ‘Black Desert Online’ MMO Developer for $425M

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Sep 6, 2018

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CCP Games, an Icelandic game studio known for the long running EVE: Online MMO and their eager jump into and eventual backpedaling in the VR space, has been acquired by Korea-based developer Pearl Abyss, the studio behind the MMO Black Desert Online. The surprise acquisition, which cost Pearl Abyss $425 million, according to VentureBeat, combines two prominent MMO developers from two different sides of the globe.

Andy Serkis to Star as “orc-like” Motion Capture Character for Magic Leap One

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Sep 5, 2018

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Andy Serkis, the actor-director you may recognize for his award-winning performances as Gollum in the Lord of The Rings film franchise, is lending his likeness to a new AR creation for Magic Leap One headset in what The Hollywood Reporter describes as an “orc-like creature.”

Sword & Sorcery VR Adventure ‘Witching Tower’ Gets October Launch Date, Trailer Here

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Sep 5, 2018

Witching Tower, an upcoming action-adventure game that promises to be heavy on sword and sorcery, is headed to HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets next month.

Orpheus Technodelics is Publishing Consciousness-hacking VR Experiences

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Sep 4, 2018

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Sound Self developer Robin Arnott is starting a publishing label named Orpheus Technodelics to curate and distribute consciousness-hacking VR experiences. ‘Technodelics’, according to Arnott, are digital psychedelics that provide peak experiences aimed at opening someone’s mind to commit to deeper contemplative practices. He sees that spiritual traditions are steeped in level of tradition and seriousness that is a turn-off for a lot of people, and that he hopes to use the insights of game design in order to make transcendent experiences more readily available through virtual reality.

HTC Opens Its Viveport VR App Store to Oculus Rift Users

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Sep 4, 2018

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Last month HTC announced that the company’s Viveport VR app store would allow developers to sell titles supporting the Oculus Rift. Today the company has official opened Viveport to Rift, which is now supported by nearly 200 games and apps at the time of this writing.

New ‘Trover Saves the Universe’ Gameplay Video Reveals the Weird & Wild World of Trover

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Sep 4, 2018

Upcoming action-platformer Trover Saves the Universe is the bizarre and hilarious brain child of Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland. Now you can see for yourself what PS4 and PSVR users will experience in a new demo presented at PAX West this past weekend.

‘Beat Saber’ Developers Working “full-time” on PSVR Version, Slated for Late 2018

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Sep 4, 2018

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Beat Games announced that PlayStation VR users should expect the PSVR version of the hit indie VR rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) to arrive sometime later this year.

‘Dynamic Spanish’ Aims to Teach You Spanish in VR, Kickstarter Now Live

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Sep 4, 2018

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Learning a new language can be intimidating, and while there are plenty of resources out there to help you get a good foundation, there’s nothing quite like touching down in foreign lands and using what you know in front of native speakers. That’s why the creators behind Dynamic Spanish, an immersive Spanish learning video course, decided to appeal to prospective crowdfunders in their new Kickstarter campaign.

Everything We Know About Oculus Santa Cruz (so far)

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Sep 3, 2018

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Oculus Santa Cruz is a VR prototype that brings many high-end features of the Oculus Rift and Touch, most notably positional (6DOF) tracking on both headset and controllers, into a self-contained, standalone design. What follows is a brief overview of everything we know about the headset so far.

Original ‘Wolfenstein 3D’ Comes to VR in Fan Recreation

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Sep 3, 2018

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Wolfenstein 3D (1992), the first-person shooter developed by id Software, kickstarted an entire genre, and now you can play the generational icon in VR.

Jaunt Reveals Livestreamed Volumetric Video Solution for AR

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Sep 3, 2018

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Jaunt first cut their teeth on cinematic VR when they came out of stealth in 2014, not only producing some pretty high-quality 360 video throughout the years, but also a professional-grade 360 camera dubbed NEO. Now under new management, the company is striking out in a new direction, and revealing a new AR project for its Jaunt XR Platform that makes volumetric video capture a relatively cheap and easy process.

Watch 20 Minutes of ‘Stormland’ Gameplay

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Sep 3, 2018

Stormland, the upcoming single player adventure from Insomniac Games and Oculus, came to PAX West this past weekend where the public got a chance to go hands-on with the open world game for the first time.

Rift and Windows VR Squeeze Marketshare from Vive in Latest Steam Survey

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Sep 2, 2018

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In the latest set of data from Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software survey, the Oculus Rift and Windows VR headsets posted gains in marketshare at the expense of the HTC Vive.

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX Cards Bring New VR Rendering Features and Enhancements

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Sep 1, 2018

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NVIDIA’s latest ‘RTX’ cards are not just an incremental step in performance, but represent significant new direction for NVIDIA’s approach to real-time rendering. Built on the company’s ‘Turing’ architecture, the RTX cards pave the way for graphics infused with accelerated ray-tracing and artificial intelligence, and also bring VR-specific enhancements over NVIDIA’s prior 10-series GPUs which are based on the ‘Pascal’ architecture.

Watch the ‘Real’ Magic Leap Whale Take Flight in ‘Helio’ Web Experiment

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Aug 31, 2018

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Back in 2016, Magic Leap released a video clip of a breaching augmented reality whale as a backdrop to their freshly redesigned website, something meant to grab the attention of prospective investors, developers, and consumers alike. Now, through Magic Leap’s Helio browser, we can finally see what an augmented reality whale actually looks like running on Magic Leap One.

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