23May Virtuix Omni Kickstarter Starts June 4th with Giveaway Contest, New Gameplay Video with Oculus Rift and Half-Life 2 Posted in Motion Sensing Peripherals, News | 3 Comments The Virtuix Omni VR treadmill is headed to Kickstarter on June 4th. The company has released a new gameplay video showing the Omni in use with the Oculus Rift and Half-Life 2. Virtuix will be giving away a number of more »
21May Theme Park Studio Coming With Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra Support Posted in News, Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift Compatible Games, Razer Hydra | 1 Comment Theme Park Studio lets you design your own amusement park and ride the roller coaster of your dreams; with a set of convenient editor tools for quick content creation and both Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra support, the program looks more »
20May Zoom Into Infinity in the Oculus Rift with Boxplorer2 Fractal Explorer (video) Posted in News, Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift Compatible Games, Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality Games | 5 Comments Fractals are intricate, infinite, and beautiful repeating patterns that are created from an equation. A fractal rendering program called Boxplorer2 recently added support for the Oculus Rift, allowing you to create mesmerizing 3D fractals which you can fall forever into.
19May Outerra Developers Making Progress on Oculus Rift Support (video) Posted in News, Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift Compatible Games, Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality Games | 1 Comment Outerra is an in-development ‘world rendering engine’ which is literally capable of rendering a geographically detailed world on a 1:1 scale. The developers have shared with us a video showing initial Oculus Rift Outerra support and are expected to soon release support more »
18May Oculus Rift Interview with Unity’s Emil Johansen (video) Posted in News, Oculus Rift | 2 Comments Back at GDC 2013 I had a chance to speak with Unity’s Emil Johansen about the Oculus Rift.
17May Project Holodeck Shows Latest Wild Skies Gameplay at USC Demo Day (video) Posted in News, Oculus Rift Compatible Games, Virtual Reality Games | 7 Comments Project Holodeck is an ambitious project out of the University of Southern California to create a low-cost fully embodied virtual reality environment with the help of the Oculus Rift, Razer Hydra, and other hardware. The team showed off their latest more »
17May Among the Sleep Horror Game Kickstarter Reaches Oculus Rift Stretch Goal Posted in News, Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift Compatible Games, Virtual Reality Games | 1 Comment Among the Sleep is a forthcoming horror game by Krillbite Studio which, thanks to passing its $225,000 stretch goal, will be developed with Oculus Rift support.
16May Exclusive: VorpX Teaser — Crysis 3 on the Oculus Rift [video] Posted in 3D, News, Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift Compatible Games, vorpX Compatible | 7 Comments We were lucky enough to recently get our hands on the latest beta of the soon-to-be-released vorpX DirectX injection drivers, similar in aim to the community supported Vireio Perception offering, which adds Oculus Rift head-tracking, stereoscopic 3D, and pre-warping support more »
15May (Update: video) Google IO 2013: First Photos of Google Maps with Oculus Rift and Leap Motion Posted in News, Oculus Rift | 1 Comment Earlier today we noted that Google had mentioned some sort of Google Maps integration with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion. A source on the ground at Google IO 2013 gives us the first photos and early details.
15May Google IO 2013: Oculus Rift Support Coming to the New Google Maps? Posted in News, Oculus Rift | 2 Comments This week is Google IO 2013, the company’s annual developer conference. While we expected to hear about Google Glass, it turns out Google may be bringing Oculus Rift support to their new version of Google Maps.
