Something For The Weekend: Post-E3 PlayStation VR Deals

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2018 has come to an end, but that does not mean the excitement needs to end. VRFocus has put together a number of deals on virtual reality (VR) titles from the PlayStation store so you can keep the excitement of the week going strong. From fighting demons with big guns, flying through the skies over Paris, or walking with dinosaurs, there is something for everyone. As always, be sure to check back every weekend for even more deals right here on VRFocus.

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DOOM VFR

“Ultimately DOOM VFR stands as a fine example of just what can be achieved with the FPS genre in VR as of today, lining-up against Robo Recall as an action-heavy experience that throws the rulebook out of the window. It’s true that the visual quality has suffered dramatically and the control systems could be seen as far too awkward by many, but the fact that DOOM VFR pushes so hard against the VR grain makes it well worth any PlayStation VR owner’s time and money.” – Read VRFoucs’ Editor Kevin Joyce’s review of DOOM VFR.

DOOM VFR is available now for £14.99 (GBP) down from the usual £19.99.

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Gran Turismo Sport

If you are looking to lose yourself in one of the most stunning racing titles on the PlayStation 4, then look no further than Gran Turismo Sport. With support for PlayStation VR, players can get behind the wheel of over 170 of the world’s most sought-after vehicles, with true-to-life visuals and stunning realistic handling. Once more, with PlayStation VR, players can fully immerse themselves and head out to the track, feeling the rush of the race as they drive at top speed and take every turn as tight as possible. This is how racing was meant to be.

Gran Turismo Sport is available now for £15.99 (GBP) down from £49.99 with a Digital Deluxe Edition available for £24.99 (GBP) down from £59.99, with PlayStation Plus members getting an extra 5% discount on both titles.

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Volume

British based developer Mike Bithell is known for his popular indie title Thomas Was Alone and Volume. The latter of which has a VR expansion which is available for free within the base game. Players are tasked to sneak around and avoid enemies, traps, and all sorts of bad things as they try to steal from the rich and give to the poor. Making use of a number of gadgets to get the job done, players will need to navigate through 100 levels of stealth action, along with then being able to enter Volume: Coda which offers plenty more of the stealth action, all within PlayStation VR.

Volume is available now for £3.29 (GBP) down from £14.99 and includes the free Volume: Coda VR expansion.

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Light Tracer

Light Tracer is a well-crafted VR platform title. Once you get used to the controls, it becomes challenging enough to keep you coming back for more. There are some very frustrating elements, but not enough to spoil the gameplay entirely. Having said that, Light Tracer is at its best when played in relatively small doses. Like a plate of snacks to nibble on instead of a feast, but still just as tasty.” – Read VRFocus’ Staff Writer Rebecca Hills-Duty’s review of Light Tracer.

Light Tracer is only £3.29 (GBP) down from £9.99.

PlayStation VR Worlds

Easily the must have PlayStation VR title, PlayStation VR Worlds offers players a number of different experiences to lose them self in and witness the full extent of what VR has to offer. The pack includes moments such as The London Heist, Ocean Descent, Scavengers Odyssey, VR Luge, and Danger Ball. If you don’t have this title in your collection yet then make sure to pick it up and try all the experiences.

PlayStation VR Worlds is available now for £15.99 (GBP) down from £24.99 with an extra 5% discount on offer for PlayStation Plus members.

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Eagle Flight

Have you ever wanted to fly through the skies as though you were a bird? In Ubisoft’s Eagle Flight, players take to the skies of Paris and experience the freedom of flying like never before. Set fifty years after humans vanished from the face of the Earth, wildlife and nature have reclaimed the cities, offering a breathtaking city playground to explore all though the joy of flight.

Eagle Flight is available now £15.99 (GBP) down from £34.99.

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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

Do you have what it takes to survive in an abandoned farmhouse in the American South. With a new perspective and a new engine, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard marks a new earn of survival horror where players will find themselves immersed in the action like never before. The photorealistic world is full of danger and every action could be your last.

Resident Evil 7 Biohazard is currently £14.99 (GBP) down from £19.99 with PlayStation Plus members getting an extra 5% discount.

Bloody Zombies

Bloody Zombies

“The visual design of Bloody Zombies has obviously taken VR into account throughout, with the 2D characters appearing like cardboard cutouts when the VR player moves their view alongside the action opposed to in front of it. This is obviously why nDreams – a publisher that has solely committed to VR content – took an interest in Paw Print Games’ Bloody Zombies to begin with. And they were right to do so, as while Bloody Zombies doesn’t reinvent the scrolling beat-‘em-up wheel, it does offer a convincing argument for 2D videogames making the jump to the more immersive medium.” – Read VRFocus’ Editor Kevin Joyce’s review of Bloody Zombies.

Bloody Zombies is currently on sale for £4.49 (GBP) down from £10.99.

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ARK Park

Dinosaur theme park in VR, need we say more? ARK Park gives players a chance to experience multiplayer action within a world full of interaction and stunning creatures. Explore freely at this gran virtual theme park where there is no set plot line and engage in a range of activities.

ARK Park is currently available for £24.99 (GBP) down from £44.99 with PlayStation Plus members getting an xtra 10% discount.

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Football Nation VR Tournament 2018 (Formally VRFC: Virtual Reality Football Club)

“VRFC: Virtual Reality Football Club remains one of the best sports experiences VR has to offer. More than that however, it’s also one of the best social VR experiences currently available, with the tension of competition and the misery of defeat likely to help make new friends (and potentially enemies) across the VR community. VRFC: Virtual Reality Football Club is a welcome foundation for sports simulations in VR, and with the FIFA franchise now surpassing 25 editions (not including the many spin-offs such as FIFA Street and FIFA World Cup), it’s a wonder to think exactly how much of VRFC: Virtual Reality Football Club will remain in VR football 25 years from now.” – Read VRFocus’ Editor Kevin Joyce’s review of VRFC: Virtual Reality Football Club.

Football Nation VR Tournament 2018 is available for only £6.99 (GBP) right now on sale from £9.99 for PlayStation Plus members.

That is all for this week but remember that VRFocus gathers all the best sales and deals every week, so check back next weekend at the same time to discover more.

Reconstruct Your Favourite Movie in AR

Have you ever dreamed of living out your favourite movie scene? Want to be right in the middle of a squadron of X-Wings during the Death Star run, or dodging Orcs and Goblins in Lord of the Rings? A new augmented reality (AR) tool called Volume may soon allow you to do just that.

The developer behind Volume has utilised machine learning to create a tool that allows 2D videos and images to be converted into 3D spaces. The tool is still in relatively early stages of development, but the team has already successfully produced some proof-of-concept videos.

The team behind Volume hope that the tool will eventually become a tool for access for storytelling, archiving and cultural reconstruction. The app is able to predict and reconstruct 2D footage in 3D and place the character’s within the user’s space in AR, enabling the user to see the movie in an entirely new way.

The developers, Or Fleisher and Shirin Anlen, have already released a brief demo showing a scene from hit Quentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction converted into an AR experience. A video of the demo can be viewed below.

Volume was inspired by recent research into immersive digital platforms and methods of 3D depth predictions. Volume uses a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm. A Convolutional Neural Network allows the software to ‘observe’ RGBD images and build a model of how to reconstruct those 2D images into a 3D space.

The intention is for Volume to become an end-to-end web app, able to be easily accessible from any compatible web browser and capable of taking any input from 2D still images to video sequences or GIFs and convert it into an immersive 3D experience. The aim is for Volume to support content for AR, virtual reality (VR) and web platforms, with its models being flexible enough to support a variety of uses, from academic research to media and entertainment.

Further information can be found on the official Volume website. VRFocus will bring you further news on this project once it becomes available.

This AR App Brings Pulp Fiction Characters Into Your Living Room

This AR App Brings Pulp Fiction Characters Into Your Living Room

Ever wanted to dance alongside John Travolta and Uma Thurman in that scene from Pulp Fiction? This AR app could one day bring it right to you.

Volume is a new experience made by Or Fleisher and Shirin Anlen that brings recognizes 2D images in movies and projects them into a 3D space. In the case of Pulp Fiction, for example, it’s able to cut away the scene around the actors and project just them dancing in the user’s living room. Take a look below but, take note, it’s in its very early stages right now.

Sure, the process is glitchy, but imagine what this could look like when you’re able to accurately bring Darth Vader, Gollum or Indiana Jones right into your living room.

“Our experiment with Pulp Fiction allows users to step inside one the film’s scenes in Augmented Reality, using Apple’s ARKit framework on an iPad,” Fleisher explained to UploadVR. “This experiment is one of a few we are conducting at the moment, which illustrates the power of being able to reconstruct 3D scenes from 2D images. The possibilities of being able to reconstruct archival and static footage into 3D environments are one of the main motivations behind the development of the tool used to create these experiments called Volume.”

The system uses machine learning for depth prediction results from a single image. It uses a convolutional neural network to filter the image against their depth corresponding value.

Right now, Volume is being developed as an end-to-end web app and will later support AR and VR platforms. “Our entire machine learning infrastructure is based on Google’s AI tool Tensorflow” Fleisher said. “We are implementing extraneous considerations into the hardwired and complex field of machine learning. Our approach is motivated more by cinematic and visual storytelling than the mathematical logic of reconstructing 3D worlds. We feel that this approach will benefit this tool and lead to a new creative way of understanding the field’s challenges.”

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