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Valve Index launches in Canada and Japan
Those who own or purchase the headset by the end of 2019 to gain access to Steam VR Destinations for Half-Life: Alyx
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Half-Life: Alyx was conceived as a VR title first, and a Half-Life game second
Team members say upcoming VR entry is being built by team members from across Valve, including former Campo Santo devs
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Valve reveals Half-Life: Alyx for PC VR in March 2020
New, full-length game will be free for owners of the Valve Index
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VR would be "a really dark space right now" without Facebook's money
At Reboot Develop Red, Chet Faliszek reflected on progress in the VR industry since he departed Valve
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Viveport president Rikard Steiber steps down
After fours years at the company, Steiber leaves to "take on a new challenge"
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LIV streaming VR platform raises $2.6m from Hiro Capital
Prague-based firm is Hiro's second deal as lead Series A investor
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John Carmack moves to "consulting CTO" role at Oculus
Industry veteran will focus on AI, with Oculus now taking a "modest slice" of his time
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Oculus, Unity partner on free VR development course
20+ hour course will teach VR build and launch best practices
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John Carmack wins Lifetime Achievement prize at VR Awards 2019
Oculus Quest crowned best hardware, while A Fisherman's Tale is declared best game
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Enterprise revenue expected to jump 69% this year as VR takes hold in business
PlayStation VR continues as market leading headset, breaching 4.7 million units sold
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Google ending Daydream
Company will stop selling View VR headset holder, citing decreasing usage and lack of adoption by developers and consumers
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Oculus to be "more Microsoft than Apple" on VR software preservation
Oculus CTO John Carmack lamented that "every program I ever wrote for iOS is lost to the ages now"
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Facebook's new VR chat app will feature paid in-game hosts to model community behaviour
Facebook Horizon Guides will act more like hosts in a physical space, than moderators in a digital one
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Oculus' John Carmack calls Gear VR "a missed opportunity"
CTO offered a "eulogy" for the mobile VR headset, saying its "days are numbered"
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Oculus adding hand-tracking to Quest
Oculus Connect 6 also sees VR-exclusive Medal of Honor, Facebook Horizon social VR, and Oculus Link for playing Rift games on Quest
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Absurd:joy aims to "invent a genre of content no one has ever seen before"
Ex-Owlchemy Labs devs Alex Schwartz and Cy Wise launching new VR/AR company making things that may or may not be games
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HTC appoints Yves Maitre as new CEO
Vive firm restates commitment to XR as Cher Wang steps down
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Vive Cosmos arrives on October 3 for £699
New virtual reality headset from HTC will cost roughly the same as predecessor
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VR firm MWM Immersive expands into games publishing
Rebrands as MWM Interactive, debut title is Creature In The Well
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Beat Games Studio is now funding new VR games
Beat Saber dev will back up belief that VR "desperately needs new directions" with investment funds
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Oculus VR loses its head of mobile
Max Cohen left this month, after leading Gear VR, Oculus Go, and starting push toward Oculus Quest
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Nate Mitchell leaves Oculus
Mitchell becomes the last of the VR outfit's original co-founders to leave Facebook
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VR streaming platform Vreal shuts down and lays off staff
"We were definitely ahead of our time," says virtual reality startup
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XRDC: 59% of AR/VR developers are working on games
Oculus Rift surpassed HTC Vive this year as the top AR/VR/MR development platform
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Cloudhead Games' VR sleight of hand
Designer Antony Stevens and senior programmer Cameron Oltman talk Aperture Hand Labs, and where hand tech is headed now