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Enjoy Massive Saving’s With the Humble Spring Into VR Bundle

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If you time it right then there can be some great savings to be had on high-quality virtual reality (VR) titles and currently Humble Bundle’s latest is difficult to beat. For only the second time the platform is offering a VR-specific deal where you can get up to eight PC VR titles for an incredible discount.

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Called the Humble Spring into VR Bundle, the limited time offer allows gamers to unlock a selection of videogames depending on how much they wish to spend, with proceeds helping to support charitable endeavours. So for a minimum of 71p you can pickup zero-g sci-fi title Detached. Bump that up to at least £10.66 GBP and you’ll unlock Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality, Swords of Gurrah and Espire 1: VR Operative.

Literally for a few pence more – £10.77 to be precise – you can add three more titles to that list, Job Simulator, Sairento VR and Borderlands 2 VR. Of course, if you are feeling charitable because you’re saving so much – total price would be £160 for all of them – you can up the bundle donation as you see fit.

The main charity highlighted for the Humble Spring into VR Bundle is Stop AAPI Hate, an organisation described as “a national coalition addressing anti-Asian racism across the U.S.” It was founded by the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and San Francisco State University’s Asian American Studies Department. But you can select a different charity should you wish to support one more local to you or focused on a field close to your heart.

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In any case, the Humble Spring into VR Bundle is a great deal if you’ve been looking to expand that VR library with a nice mixture of titles, especially as there’s no Steam sale currently. VRFocus will continue its coverage of the latest VR software and hardware deals, reporting back with further updates.

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Firewall Zero Hour is PlayStation VR’s Top Game in August

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has now released the top downloaded videogames for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR, revealing to probably no one’s surprise that First Contact Entertainment’s tactical first-person shooter Firewall Zero Hour  has clinched the top spot.

Firewall Zero Hour - Screenshot (E3 2018)

As usual no figures have been mentioned with the title knocking top ten regular Job Simulator from the number one spot it quite often achieves even after launching almost two years ago.

The rest of the PlayStation VR top ten for August is as follows:

  1. Firewall Zero Hour
  2. Job Simulator
  3. Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
  4. SUPERHOT VR
  5. Killing Floor: Incursion
  6. Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
  7. Arizona Sunshine
  8. Electronauts
  9. Until Dawn: Rush of Blood
  10. PlayStation VR Worlds

Firewall Zero Hour - Screenshot (E3 2018)

It’s easy to understand why Firewall Zero Hour achieved the number one position. The FPS has received rave reviews with even VRFocus giving the PlayStation VR exclusive a full five-stars, saying: “Firewall Zero Hour has managed to avoid many of the common pitfalls of VR online multiplayers and add its own interesting twist to the military FPS genre. The lobby system could use some improvements, but otherwise its a finely crafted title that will be of great interest to FPS fans.”

If you own a PlayStation VR and have so far resisted the temptation to purchase Firewall Zero Hour then you’re missing out on four vs four player action where teamwork and communication is key to winning the multiplayer missions. Players take on the role of a mercenary contractor, charged with protecting sensitive data in a laptop. There are nine map locations spread across Russia, the Middle East and the UK. Players will be able to use in-game currency to upgrade and customise their character.

While the videogame does support PlayStation’s DualShock 4 controller, and PlayStation Move (kind of), First Contact Entertainment has designed the gameplay to ultimately use the PlayStation Aim controller.

For any further updates on Firewall Zero Hour, keep reading VRFocus.

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Eagle Flight, Pinball FX2, Surgeon Simulator: ER and More Added to PlayStation VR Sale

While the Oculus and Steam winter sales have now ended, PlayStation VR owners are getting even more deals with 14 new titles added to the January sale.

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) launched its PlayStation sale just before Christmas, with 13 virtual reality (VR) videogames included. Those discounts end today, but the newly featured titles below are on offer until 20th January 2017. The deals aren’t available in every territory so check your PlayStation Store to see which ones have been included, all the discounts and prices listed below are for the UK.

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  • Ace Banana – £7.39 (was £11.49 GBP)
  • Eagle Flight – £24.99 (was £34.99)
  • Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes – £7.99 (was £11.99)
  • KISMET – £3.99 (was £5.79)
  • Loading Human: Chapter 1 – £19.99 (was £34.99)
  • Pinball FX2 VR – £9.49 (was £11.99)
  • Pixel Gear – £5.79 (was £8.99)
  • Robinson: The Journey – £34.99 (was £54.99)
  • SUPERHYPERCUBE – £15.99 (was £24.99)
  • Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality – £12.99 (was £15.99)
  • The Brookhaven Experiment – £10.99 (was £14.99)
  • VEV: Viva Ex Vivo‎ VR Edition – £2.49 (was £3.99)
  • Weeping Doll – £5.79 (was £7.99)
  • Werewolves Within – £15.99 (was £24.99)

So if you’ve still got some cash left over from Christmas now’s a good time to build your PlayStation VR library. For the latest PlayStation VR news, keep reading VRFocus.

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VR vs. In Other News (December 2016)

Welcome back to another edition of VR vs. Your weekly feature from yours truly, in which I take on a subject, usually to do with something going on in the virtual reality (VR) industry or a topic that is presently under discussion (for whatever reason). Andd, through an array of words – sometimes even known to include a workable joke – I give you my personal take on things as an observer. Be that laying out some truths of the ‘hard’ or ‘home’ variety or just give you something to go think about you maybe have not previously.

However, something I introduced last month was a detour into the realm of ‘other news’. That’s stories we’ve just not covered here on VRFocus for one reason or another. Be they small minor updates, or stories that fell by the wayside due to time or other things coming along of a more urgent need to inform you.  This quickfire barrage of news was, I was pleasantly surprised to note, actually quite popular with people as they learnt a lot of things in a short space of time and got to see how VR is changing things across quite a wide spectrum of industry.

Soooo, let’s make this a semi-regular thing shall we? As with last time these are things we’ve not covered for whatever reason, if you’ve seen the story on another new outlet or in a forum, great. But that’s not the point of the list.

  • We get things underway with a report on market growth. Now, we love these. There doesn’t seem to be a week goes by without us getting a couple of them. The latest from Technavio however focuses not on VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) but instead on VR gloves. The market for which is, according to the report set to expand with a CAGR (that’s a compound annual growth rate) of a pretty significant 82% over the course of this year through to 2020.Whilst the American and European markets are expected to be strong, the Asia-Pacific market is set to become the fastest growing section of the market by 2020, taking nearly 24.5% by 2020. With a CAGR of 126% and sales expected to reach $12.31 million (USD).
  • Speaking of the market: VR was listed as one of the top eighteen technologies set to shape the future of healthcare by analysts Frost & Sullivan in a new report that looks into just what the year 2025 will bring in terms of technological growth and application. Other technologies include things such as digital avatars, medical tricorders (yes, exactly like Star Trek) and advances in artificial intelligence (A.I). You can order a copy of Vision 2025 – Future of Healthcare here.Wearable-Technology-and-Health
  • Over to the world of jobs in the industry itself, as we know from Sunday’s weekly visit to The VR Job Hub the merry-go-round of roles never stops. But, it’s always interesting when one company starts taking an interest in a specific group of staff at another company. Such is the case with Tesla, who recently acquired the services of Andrew Kim, a Senior Designer on Microsoft’s Hololens team and former member of the XBox One S design team who is now working as Lead Designer at Tesla.  This in itself would not be strange however Tesla also acquired a member of the Hololens team last year in computer vision expert Yekeun Jeong. Will there be any more hires for Tesla with Hololens experience and what does it all mean? We’ll be keeping an eye on Tesla’s activities, certainly.
  • The PlayStation Experience 2016 livestream featured a number of livecast segments after the main event, one of which showcased EVE: Valkyrie courtesy of CCP Games’ Andrew Willans and Teddy Keefe. You can see the session in full below.
  • Then there was the one for Gran Turismo Sport, with PlayStation.Blog interviewing Kazunori Yamauchi.
  • If you wanted to see the ‘sizzle trailer’ produced for the event you can also see it here.
  • Did you know VLC can now handle 360 degree video clips and images? It’s true. At least in a new technical preview courtesy of the developers VideoLAN which utilises the technical skill of Giroptic to show off 360 content in a variety of ways. You can get it from here.
  • Virtalis have had a busy few months, with a number of different announcements. Their latest sees them enter into an agreement with Lockheed Martin to provide two new VR simulators to help with training helicopter pilots. Based on the company’s existing Helicopter Crew Reality System (HCR), which has been used as part of Virtalis’ historic dealings with VR training. If you think VR training is new, Virtalis has been working with the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) for almost two decades on VR helicopter training. That’s quite something.
  • Want to pet a cheetah? You can. At of all places Canberra Airport in Australia thanks to some augmented reality (AR) trickery introduced by APositive. As you might expect at an airport there’s a tourism connection here, with the installation promoting a visit to the National Zoo & Aquarium. Indeed the screen itself was partially funded by the government tot he tune of just under $250,000 (AUS). It all comes hot on the heels of a Star Wars: Rogue One takeover of Gatwick Airport in London that included a new 360 degree experience called Rogue One: Recon.
  • Speaking of AR, research from the University of Central Florida has shown that the technology employed in Google Glass, and, one presumes by extension similar wearables may not be better than natural vision in all ways. With the brain having to take in multiple things – the true vision and the vision being seen on top of that – the resultant multitasking needed can see a downgrade in your reaction time. Depending on what you’re doing that could have some potentially serious issues.”The idea here is to explore to what extent displayed secondary information might interfere with the primary task at hand, such as driving,” Mark Neider, of UCF explains. “What our data suggests is secondary information presented on a heads-up display is likely to interfere, and if that happens while driving, it may be distracting and dangerous.”
  • From Australia, to America and now on to China! Deepoon have revealed a new partnership which will see them bring their VR HMD, software and associated infrastructure to the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower. A building which is truly marvelous in its design.
  • Back to PlayStation Experience once more where we never got to see the trailer for Bossa Studios’ PlayStation VR title Surgeon Simulator ER. Will Nigel Burke hold to his oath to do no harm? Well… no. I mean have you seen Surgeon Simulator before?
  • And lastly, we covered the announcement of StarBlood Arena but the trailer itself was revealed a while afterwards. You can find more PlayStation VR action below.

That’s all for this time around. I’ll be back next week with the final VR vs. prior to Christmas and after that we’ve still got to look back over the course of the year and to what awaits us in 2017 ahead.

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Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality: Achievements, Cheats, Tips & Tricks

Earlier this month UK-based developer Bossa Studios launched a full virtual reality (VR) version of its long running Surgeon Simulator series, Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality for PlayStation VR and HTC Vive. For the PlayStation VR version Bossa has 48 Trophies to unlock, all of which VRFocus has listed below.

Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality allows players to perform all of their favourite procedures from the critically acclaimed original, just in VR, with a few extra additions. These include brain surgery in the dark and an extra hand for those tricky procedures.

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Full Trophy List:

  • I Think I Got This – Perform a heart transplant. (Bronze)
  • Kali Mah! – Perform a heart transplant in under 1 minute 50 seconds. (Bronze)
  • Don’t In-Test My Patience – Perform a double kidney transplant in under 3 minutes. (Bronze)
  • How Long Can You Live Without A Brain? – Perform a brain transplant in under 30 seconds. (Bronze)
  • Blink And You’ll Miss It – Perform an eye transplant in under 2 minutes and 30 seconds. (Bronze)
  • You May Feel A Light Tapping – Perform a teeth transplant in under 45 seconds. (Bronze)
  • Nine Nine Nine! – Perform a heart transplant in an ambulance. (Bronze)
  • Life’s Too Short – Perform a heart transplant in an ambulance in under 1 minute 40 seconds. (Bronze)
  • A Surgeon’s Merit Is Based On Speed – Perform a double kidney transplant in an ambulance in under 2 minutes. (Bronze)
  • Brainstorm – Perform a brain transplant in an ambulance in under 30 seconds. (Bronze)
  • I Can See For Miles… Per Hour – Perform an eye transplant in an ambulance in under 2 minutes and 10 seconds. (Bronze)
  • Not The Time Or Place For Precision – Perform a teeth transplant in an ambulance in under 45 seconds. (Bronze)
  • In Space, No One Can Hear You Bleed – Perform a heart transplant in space. (Bronze)
  • It’s Life Jim, But Not As We Know It – Perform a heart transplant in space losing less than 1300ml of blood. (Bronze)
  • The Surgery Of The Future – Perform a double kidney transplant in space losing less than 1500ml of blood. (Bronze)
  • Precision Instrument Time – Perform a brain transplant in space losing less than 2300ml of blood. (Bronze)
  • Expert Space Stalker – Perform an eye transplant in space losing less than 1000ml of blood. (Bronze)
  • Maintained Healthy Gums At Least – Perform a teeth transplant in space losing less than 800ml of blood. (Bronze)
  • I Immediately Regret This Decision – Electrocute and drug yourself at the same time. (Bronze)
  • What Have I Done?? – Lose the patient within 15 seconds. (Bronze)
  • Hammer Time – Lose 50,000ml of blood using the hammer. (Bronze)
  • What A Load Of Bull – Listen to the surgeon rap. (Bronze)
  • The Goggles Do Nothing – Completely smash up the goggles. (Bronze)
  • Lumberjack – Cut out the eyes using the surgical axe. (Bronze)
  • Heterochromia – Give the patient heterochromia. (Bronze)
  • Keyhole Surgery – Completely remove the rib cage. (Bronze)
  • Practically Licensed – Complete all procedures. (Bronze)
  • I Should Never Have Doubted Myself – Get an A++ rating on a procedure. (Bronze)
  • Like A Wet Paper Towel – Throw the new heart away in the surgery. (Bronze)
  • I’m Sure He’ll Live – Complete a procedure with less than 10ml of blood remaining. (Bronze)
  • Vworrrp Vworrrp – Create a Time Lord. (Bronze)
  • The Beat Of Your Heart – Replace the heart with something else. (Bronze)
  • Doctor Doctor, Give Me The News – Answer the phone. (Bronze)
  • Nigel The Secretary – Go about your secretarial duties. (Bronze)
  • Spaaaaaaaaace – Go where no surgeon has gone before. (Bronze)
  • It’s In! It’s In I Tell You! – …and it was going so well. (Bronze)
  • Call Trisha – Now where did you leave her number… (Bronze)
  • Bin there, done that – Throw any object into any bin in reception (Bronze)
  • Mass ejection – Eject all the tools into space (Bronze)
  • Smash TV – Make the TV in the ambulance fall off (Bronze)
  • Bin Longden – Throw any object into the furthest bin in reception (Bronze)
  • And They Said It Was Impossible! – Complete a procedure after being drugged and electrocuted. (Must be afflicted within 20 secs) (Silver)
  • About As Politically Correct As Fur – Give the patient a… scarf. (Silver)
  • Best Surgeon In The World – Get an A++ rating on all procedures. (Gold)
  • You Can’t Handle The Tooth! – Complete the tooth transplant only removing the rotten teeth. (Gold)
  • Nothing But Skull – Complete a brain transplant by throwing it in. (Gold)
  • Let’s See That Sick Filth Again – Perform a 180° spoon flip. (Gold)
  • There Is Nothing More To Teach… – Completed every Trophy. Now go save lives! (Platinum)
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Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality Slices onto PlayStation VR and HTC Vive

The PlayStation Experience has begun in California, with attendees able to play all the latest videogames and demos for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR. The live-streamed showcase kicked off the event, with PlayStation VR announcements including Resident Evil 7 biohazard and a brand new title, Starblood Arena. For the many owners of the head-mounted display (HMD) that couldn’t attend, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced that Bossa Studios’ Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality can now be downloaded.

Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality allows players to perform all of their favourite procedures from the critically acclaimed original, just in virtual reality (VR). A very tongue-in-cheek title, Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality will take players from the operating theatre, to the back of an ambulance, to outer space, all whilst trying to save the trusting patient.

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In addition to the original surgeries, Surgeon Simulator: ER adds exclusive new features for you to experience in VR. How about brain surgery in the dark and some new achievements? What about adding a 2nd hand to perform surgery like delicately remove teeth from a patient using nothing but a claw hammer, or to perform complex eye surgery in Zero-G.

Surgeon Simulator: ER is available today for PlayStation VR, and on Monday 5th, December it’ll be arriving for HTC Vive. Vive owners can pre-purchase the videogame on Steam for £14.99 GBP, or try Surgeon Simulator: Meet the Medic for free.

For all the latest news from Bossa Studios, keep reading VRFocus.