Schlagwort: Developer Stories
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Viveport Reaches out to Developers at XRDC
Reading Time: 3 minutesViveport headed to XRDC in San Francisco today to talk to the developer community about best practices for deploying and monetizing their VR content. In his speaking session today, Rikard Steiber, president of Viveport, shared with developers how to take advantage of Viveport’s offerings to generate the most revenue and reach the…
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HTC VIVE Proud to Join VirtualLink Consortium to Define Future of VR Connectivity
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday, we are excited to announce that HTC VIVE has officially joined the VirtualLink™ Consortium and is contributing to the development of VirtualLink, a new open industry standard that enables next-generation VR headsets to connect more simply to PCs and other devices. This new specification uses a single, high-bandwidth USB Type-C™ connector…
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All Along The Witching Tower with Daily Magic Productions
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe recently released Witching Tower (also available in Viveport Subscription) puts you inside a fantasy world ravaged by an undead scourge. Wielding a variety of tools and weapons, you’ll have to wade through armies of deadly enemies, solve a bevy of devious puzzles, and ultimately confront the Queen of the Tower in order to…
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A Totally Normal Conversation With The Makers Of Accounting+
Reading Time: 5 minutesAccounting+ might be the weirdest experience ever to grace your eyeballs. What starts out as a simple job at Smith & Smitherson accounting firm becomes a surrealist odyssey that will test your resolve, your stomach, and possibly your very sanity. Interview by a very troubled Nathan Ortega, Vive [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzmmlwGJ50k?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&w=730&h=411] Hello! I’m…
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Evolving the Narrative with Cloudhead Games’ The Gallery
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe critically-acclaimed interactive narrative experience The Gallery has been a must-play since the first episode debuted on Viveport. Using all the immersive tools at their disposal, Cloudhead Games are crafting an engaging story with a rich universe to explore as players search for their missing sibling in a fantastical unknown realm. We…
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VIVE Arts’ ‘Up the River During Qingming VR’ Brings National Treasure to Life
Reading Time: 4 minutesToday HTC VIVE announced a next step in its partnership with Taiwan’s National Palace Museum, one of the major institutions dedicated to preserving human historical artefacts — in bringing the world renowned masterpiece – Up the River During Qingming to life in virtual reality. Starting October 15, A Journey Inside Paintings and…
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Battle X brings authentic military combat to VR
Reading Time: 6 minutesBattle X: Birth of The Alliance brings high fidelity and accurate military combat and tactics to the world of VR. With a cinematic story campaign and a deep and evolving multiplayer component, developer Naviworks utilized their background working in military training software to make the jump into crafting immersive digital entertainment experiences.…
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Playing along with Hotel Transylvania Popstic VR
Reading Time: 7 minutesThere’s something undeniably compelling about mixing music, movement and virtual reality, and Popstic VR – with a little help from Hotel Transylvania – is trying to do something different with the formula. We chatted with Ryan Pulliam and Morris May from Specular Theory about how some pieces of PVC pipe became a…
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Going retro in VR with Trakker
Reading Time: 6 minutesOne part retro-cyberpunk aesthetic, one part old-school gameplay and all brought together with a great soundtrack: this is GalactaVision’s Trakker. We chatted with Nathan Thorin and Greg Corcoran about their latest project. Questions by Nathan Ortega. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBef4EoLBRU] Tell us a bit about yourself and the team at GalactaVision. Nathan Thorin: I founded…
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The Great C breaks the mold for a new kind of VR story
Reading Time: 7 minutesScience fiction legend Philip K. Dick’s work has been adapted many times in many mediums, but none of his original material has appeared in VR form. Considering Dick practically invented the ‘reality is not real’ subgenre of SF, it’s surprising more of his works haven’t debuted in virtual worlds. That might change…
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A Look at Sense Arena, VR’s First Pro-Level Hockey Training Tool
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Bob Tetiva, founder and CEO of Sense Arena, a Czech startup that seeks to bring the ice rink to hockey players’ homes, gyms, and training centers. Catch their virtual-reality-based training platform mid-October 2018. Where did the idea of using VR for athletic training come from? Well, for starters,…
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Masterworks: Journey Through History Provides A Transformative Educational VR Experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesMasterworks: Journey Through History is an educational VR museum where users can explore four culturally significant sites in full roomscale aided by the power of photogrammetry. Developed by FarBridge and published by CyArk, MasterWorks authentically transports users to places not easily accessible, and leverages actual archaeologists and historians to discuss the significance and meaning of these…
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Playing virtual hide and seek with The Take
Reading Time: 8 minutesWant to make a game? Think it takes an army of programmers, designers and artists? Well, it doesn’t have to – not even in VR. When a couple of guys studying Unity met in class, their interests eventually led to their own studio and their own game – The Take – published…
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3D animation goes virtual with Tvori
Reading Time: 7 minutesVirtual reality has allowed creative professionals to do incredible things, but as VR matures, so do the tools available to help people achieve their best results. With new updates just launched, we reached out to the team behind 3D animation tool Tvori to get an update. The answers below were provided by Viktor Komarovskikh, Dmitry Kurilchenko…
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Bell Brings the Revolutionary FCX-001 to Market 10 Times Faster With HTC VIVE
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUltimately, the team decided to build their mock-ups in VR, and it had a profound effect on their entire design process. Bell worked with Sector 5 Digital (S5D), an innovative 3D design and production agency, to help design and sketch the initial model, then create the aircraft in 3D using Computer…
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Devs get 100% revenue share in Viveport Subscription until end of 2018
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday we’re announcing that for the second year in a row, and in conjunction with the second anniversary of Viveport, we are giving developers with a title in Viveport Subscription 100% of their subscription revenue until the end of 2018. Viveport Subscription allows every subscriber to pick up to 5 titles a…
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With The Help of VIVE, Janimation Proves Mixed Reality Entertainment Isn’t All Hot Air
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by Dave Tomlinson The other morning, I climbed into a real, live, hot air balloon basket, slid a VIVE Pro headset over my face, and took a ride over the Grand Canyon. When I pulled down on the gas handle, the tanks burned and the basket creaked, lifting me quickly from…
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SUPER. HOT. Losing our virtual minds in SUPERHOT VR
Reading Time: 8 minutesOne of the most visually arresting and innovative shooters of the past decade, SUPERHOT was a sensation from the moment it appeared on a web browser near you. Since those early days the team behind this ‘real time strategy puzzle shooter’ has found even more success with SUPERHOT VR, debuting today on…
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Expanding the world of A-Tech Cybernetic
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe high-octane shooter A-Tech Cybernetic is a popular choice in Viveport Subscription and it’s easy to see why. Built from the ground up for VR, the effort that XREAL Games has put into making their virtual world feel real is obvious from the start. With the latest update to the game – Chapter…
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Sound Alerts: A Bits-in-Extensions success story
Reading Time: 4 minutesNot every Twitch Extension is made by a whole team of people. Sometimes, like in the case of Sounds Alerts, all it takes is one person looking to improve the Twitch experience. James (aka Altoar) is a video producer, hobbyist programmer, and longtime esports fan from Germany. With the announcement of Extensions,…
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HTC VIVE & Immersive Factory Provide World Infrastructure Leader with Innovative Safety Solutions
Reading Time: 3 minutesLike most infrastructure companies, Colas Group is not necessarily a household name—though they should be. With 55,000 employees on five continents and an average of 80,000 road construction and maintenance projects every year, Colas’ work and presence are felt the world over. In 2017, their consolidated revenue totaled 11.7 billion euros—with international…
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Viveport and Viveport Subscription Add Oculus Rift Support – Consumer launch set for September 4
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs part of Viveport’s commitment to connect content creators to global audiences, we’re excited to announce that Viveport now supports Oculus Rift compatible titles. Developers can opt-in their titles to display as Oculus Rift compatible from today, with the full consumer launch on September 4th. Adding support for Oculus Rift doubles the…
