Virtual reality

CRV’s Saar Gur wants to invest in a new wave of games built for VR, Twitch and Zoom

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Saar Gur is adept at identifying the next big consumer trends earlier than most: The San Francisco-based general partner at CRV has led investments into leading consumer internet companies like Niantic, DoorDash, Bird, Dropbox, Patreon, Kapwing and ClassPass. His own experience stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic spurred his interest in three new investment themes focused on the next generation of games: those built for VR, those built on top of Twitch and those built for video chat environments as a socializing tool. TechCrunch: We’ve been in a “VR

Tetris Effect coming to Oculus Quest VR HMD

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Time Stamp: May 5, 2020 7:16 PM - Modified On: May 5, 2020 - Published By:
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There's another new way to enjoy Tetris Effect in virtual reality coming soon, and you'll want to add it to your collection. It looks like Tetris Effect is coming to the Oculus Quest, if a screenshot grabbed by a fan is any indication. The excellent puzzle game (which is more than a game, it's an experience) showed up on the Oculus store and was summarily yanked down, apparently, after Redditor u/sos49er snagged a screenshot of it on their app switcher cache and store list. While it's been removed from the

Are We Being Conditioned for Virtual Reality?

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Time Stamp: April 28, 2020 10:50 AM - Modified On: April 28, 2020 - Published By:
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Virtual Reality Couple in Second LifeThere will be a day when everyone will gladly accept their government-funded virtual reality gear and enter into a brand new, safer world where the streets are safer from accidents, skies stay clear of smog, and we can meet together without fear of infecting one another in a fun, spectacular environment full of possibilities. — Anne CookIt was years ago I sat in front of a computer and played Second Life. At any time from anywhere, I could sit down and enter another realm from

Half-Life: Alyx mod lets you play without a VR headset

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Time Stamp: April 13, 2020 8:30 PM - Modified On: April 13, 2020 - Published By:
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If you've been wanting to play Half-Life: Alyx but don't have a VR headset to enjoy it, now's your chance to try it outside of the confines virtual reality requires. Wish you could play Half-Life: Alyx, but don't have any sort of VR headset? An ambitious modder has ensured that you can do just that, thanks to a new release that lets you run the game without the need for any sort of virtual reality control. What does the mod do? Basically exactly what you think it does. It turns

Top New Video Game Releases On Switch, PS4, Xbox One, And PC This Week — April 5-11, 2020

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New Releases takes a look at the top new games launching each week, and yes, there's more than just Final Fantasy 7 Remake on the horizon. You can revisit some other beloved games with Slime Rancher: Deluxe Edition and Galaxy of Pen & Paper +1 Edition. Meanwhile, Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories is finally arriving after a long, tough development cycle, and Convoy: A Tactical Roguelike gets its console release.Slime Rancher: Deluxe Edition -- April 7Available on: PS4, Xbox OneLike the name states, this first-person game is all about raising

Virtual Reality is Missing Its Moments :

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SourceThey were meeting in a small wardrobe in one of the hundreds of worlds held on the platform. To my knowledge, this particular land had a single cupboard surrounded by a flat, low-lying area with a border and water. As I scanned the virtual space, I heard the voices of the people in the wardrobe stopping their conversations and looking out my window. I’ve been pretty visible since I was in Kiddy Kong and I was about the same size as their small building; I heard them talking about me

Top New Games Releasing On Switch, PS4, Xbox One, And PC This Week — April 5-11, 2020

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New Releases takes a look at the top new games launching each week, and yes, there's more than just Final Fantasy 7 Remake on the horizon. You can revisit some other beloved games with Slime Rancher: Deluxe Edition and Galaxy of Pen & Paper +1 Edition. Meanwhile, Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories is finally arriving after a long, tough development cycle, and Convoy: A Tactical Roguelike gets its console release.Slime Rancher: Deluxe Edition -- April 7Available on: PS4, Xbox OneLike the name states, this first-person game is all about raising

We Make Half-Life: Alyx’s Beautiful World A VR Nightmare Hellscape | Potato Mode

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Time Stamp: April 4, 2020 12:00 PM - Modified On: April 4, 2020 - Published By:
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Here on Potato Mode, we take our favorite games and turn their graphics into absolute mush for your enjoyment. This week, we kick it up a notch by stepping into the world of VR with Half-Life: Alyx.Alyx is without a doubt one of the most impressive-looking VR games to date, and returning to City 17 after all these years is a real treat, which makes it all the more hilarious when we completely ruin its graphics. It's a real trip in particular for Jean-Luc who is experiencing the whole thing

Evening Reading – March 27, 2020

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Time Stamp: March 28, 2020 11:01 AM - Modified On: March 28, 2020 - Published By:
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Hey Shacknews, it's time for Evening Reading. Let's officially close out our day of posting. Please take a look. Reflog does it again Nice weather has brought people out at the March to End COVID-19 in Cleveland today. #EndCOVID pic.twitter.com/Qf07BMnTJJ — McNeil (@Reflog_18) March 26, 2020 This man is an S-Tier troll. Not with that attitude there wasn’t. https://t.co/rhuUu4BqaG — McNeil (@Reflog_18) March 28, 2020 Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a great game pic.twitter.com/ipt2B4l7Od — abby russell (@ybbaaabby) March 27, 2020 Pretty funny. meleeなマイデザイン#どうぶつの森 #AnimalCrossing #ACNH #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/os2Ug2aUJX — ちばん

Shack Chat: What Valve franchise would you like to see come back?

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Time Stamp: March 28, 2020 1:06 AM - Modified On: March 28, 2020 - Published By:
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As a video game company, Valve means so much for the industry at large, particularly the PC gaming world. As the owners and operators of Steam, Valve is directly responsible for pulling PC gaming back from the brink of irrelevance in the mid-2000s and helping to foster the golden age of indie games. It can be easy to forget that they also occasionally make games. The world got a big reminder this week with the release of Half-Life: Alyx, the most-impressive VR game to date. Hot on the heels of