Road to VR

Review: ‘Seeking Dawn’ Is a Beautiful Sci-Fi Shooter Marred by Too Many Dull Chores

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Seeking Dawn (2018) is a sci-fi first-person shooter which puts you in the boots of a space marine who’s assigned to carry out a search and rescue mission on a mysterious alien planet. Including a single player campaign, and online co-op which lets you and your friends or strangers team up, Seeking Dawn promises a full-feature game with multiple hours of gameplay, however this results in only just enough incentive to keep you hunting around for that last uranium rock to spend on that OP rocket launcher you’ve had your eye on.

Amazon to Begin Selling VR Apps Through New HTC Partnership

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Jul 10, 2018

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Amazon will soon begin selling VR apps on its massive digital marketplace through a new partnership with HTC.

‘I Expect You To Die’ Studio Releases Educational VR Chemistry Game ‘HoloLab Champions’

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Jul 10, 2018

Schell Games, the studio behind popular spy-themed VR puzzle I Expect You To Die (2016), today launched a VR chemistry lab practice game that aims to get students excited about chemistry by gamifying an otherwise time intensive (and possibly dangerous) lab learning experience.

‘Crooked Waters’ to Bring Co-op Pirate Ship Battles to VR, Launching in Early Access This Week

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Jul 10, 2018

The Netherlands-based Craft Game Studio is bringing Crooked Waters, a multiplayer pirate ship game for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, to Steam Early access this week.

‘Luna’ is a Beautiful Introduction to VR for Gaming Novices

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Jul 9, 2018

luna vr (1) — Image courtesy Funomena

A little while back, Oculus issued a $15 credit to many Rift users after an issue which prevented the headsets from working for a day or two. Seeking out something worthy to drop this credit on, I scrolled through the store pages I stumbled upon Luna (2017). The game’s unique artwork had me intrigued. After looking further, I realized I had heard of it months prior, but it slipped off my radar. Once I took a look at the preview, the combination of artwork, soundtrack, and relaxing vibe sold me.

‘Super Puzzle Galaxy’ Exits Early Access, 24 Additional Levels Released in ‘Warp Ball’ DLC

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Jul 9, 2018

Image courtesy Vive Studios, 2Bears Studio

Super Puzzle Galaxy (2018), a physics-based puzzle game from Vive Studios and 2Bears Studio, has just existed its seven-month stint in Early Access. To boot, the studios have also launched the game’s second DLC pack today, dubbed ‘Warp Ball’, which adds 24 new levels and two new obstacle types.

Samsung “Anti SDE” Trademark Suggests New VR Display Tech Coming to Market

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Jul 9, 2018

samsung-1200-ppi-oled — A look inside Samsung's 1,200 PPI Vr display, Image courtesy UploadVR

Samsung filed an interesting trademark with the European Union Intellectual Property Office recently which suggests the company is working on a new AMOLED display for VR that specifically addresses the screen door effect (SDE).

The 5 Best Games for HTC Vive

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Jul 9, 2018

htc-vive-scatter — Image courtesy HTC

It was a hard decision, but you’ve decided to go with the HTC Vive as your first ‘serious’ VR headset, a room-scale device that released early 2016 as a result of a decisive collaboration with Valve. Here we take a look at our pick of the best Vive games, and a little more information you might need to get you started.

10 Projects That Have Us Excited About the Next Generation of VR & AR

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Jul 8, 2018

digilens-ar-hud — Image courtesy DigiLens

With leading high-end VR headsets debuting in 2016, we’ve had about two years to see what the first-generation VR experience looks like. While there’s certainly a range of exciting games and other VR software coming soon to first-generation hardware, it feels like the market is steadily turning its attention toward next-generation technologies, and fostering a renewed sense of excitement and momentum. Here’s a smattering of exciting projects that are likely to influence the VR and AR space in the next two years.

Update: ‘The Unspoken’ VR League Final is Back on & Coming to Oculus Connect 5

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Jul 7, 2018

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The Virtual Reality League is an ESL Gaming organization partnered with Oculus that oversees eSports tournaments for online VR multiplayer games including Echo Arena, The Unspoken, and Sprint Vector. While ESL cancelled the competition a few days ago, something that was done after competitors engaged in seven weeks of bracketed 1v1 battles, the company now says it’s reverting back to the original plan to send the top four players to compete at Oculus Connect 5 after all.

PSVR Horror Game ‘Stifled’ Coming to Vive, Rift & PC Next Week

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Jul 6, 2018

Image courtesy Gattai Games

Stifled (2017) originally launched last year as a PSVR exclusive, but now Singaporean studio Gattai Games is bringing the echolocation-based horror game to Rift, Vive, and PC next week.

Play High-flying Ninja Sim ‘Sairento VR’ on Rift for Free This Weekend

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Jul 6, 2018

sairentovr (3) — Image courtesy Mixed Realms

Mixed Realms is bringing its action-packed cyber ninja simulator Sairento VR (2018) to Rift users for free this weekend, which includes a campaign mode and online multiplayer for up to four other players in PvP and PvE modes.

Update: This Homebrewed Mini 3D-Tracked Sensor Module Only Cost $3 in Parts

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Jul 6, 2018

steamvr-mini-tracker — Image courtesy Dr. Masahiko Inami

Dr. Masahiko Inami, a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, recently tweeted a picture of an incredibly small, homebrewed 3D-tracked sensor module that has us reeling at the implications for ever-smaller tracked objects in VR.

Spell-caster ‘The Wizards: Trials of Meliora’ Comes to Oculus Go & Gear VR, Launch Trailer Here

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Jul 6, 2018

Carbon Studio, the Poland-based studio behind PC VR games The Wizards (2018) and Alice VR (2017), just brought a new single-player game to Oculus Go, Gear VR, and Xiaomi Mi VR. Dubbed The Wizards: Trials of Meloria (2018), the game looks to replicate some of the spellcasting fun of its big brother, The Wizards.

The Avengers’ Black Widow & Hawkeye Coming to ‘Marvel Powers United VR’

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Jul 5, 2018

hawkeye+balck-widow-vr — Images courtesy Sanzaru Games, Oculus

Hawkeye and Blackwidow—not the most important, or even most powerful character’s in the Marvel Universe—but the underappreciated Avengers are coming to Sanzaru Games and Oculus Studio’s upcoming co-op game MARVEL Powers United VR just the same.

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