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Why the Oculus Rift’s Integrated Headphones Might Replace Your Gaming Headset
At E3 2015 we got our eyes and ears on the consumer Oculus Rift, which now of course includes integrated headphones. Here's why we think you may consider ditching your existing gaming headset in favour of Oculus' alternative.
Oculus' inaugural 'Connect' developer conference...
‘Blocked In’ Creator Daniël Ernst on the Art of the Virtual Reality Diorama
Daniël Ernst is the founder and sole member of The Shoebox Diorama, a production company dedicated to exploring the brand new artistic possibilities of a new genre, the virtual reality diorama.
Ernst has thus far eschewed VR's early rush for cheap thrills...
Top 5 Things We Still Don’t Know About the Consumer Oculus Rift
Although Oculus has revealed the design of the consumer Oculus Rift (the so called 'CV1'), there's still some crucial facts that we've yet to learn about the highly anticipated VR headset.
Price
What will it cost? This has been part of...
Tech Industry Heavyweights Debate the Future of VR at AMD ‘VR Advisory Council’
AMD demonstrated its commitment to the future of virtual reality during last month's E3 2015 by pulling together big name industry executives, content creators, and retailers to discuss the practical future of consumer virtual reality. The results were a refreshingly...
‘Inside the Box of Kurios’ Is Your Ticket to a World-class VR Performance
Inside the Box of Kurios is a brand new VR experience from Felix & Paul Studios which gives you a brilliant view of a Cirque du Soleil performance that's been specially tailored for virtual reality. If you've got Gear VR, you've...
NVIDIA Takes the Lid Off ‘Gameworks VR’ – Technical Deep Dive and Community Q&A
Virtual reality is coming, and it's going to need high frame rates and low latency visuals. In this guest post from NVIDIA Graphics Programmer Nathan Reed, we take a deep dive into their forthcoming Gameworks VR initiative. What is it...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 106): Where Has Reverend Kyle Gone?
Sorry folks. It has been a solid month since my last podcast, and I am truly sorry that I have not been as active as I normally am. I have recently lost my job, got a new one, and...
Oculus Demonstrates Their Own ‘Room-scale’ Tracking Capability at E3 2015
Much praise has been lavished on Valve's 'room-scale'-capable Lighthouse tracking system, which affords users an impressively large tracking volume for virtual reality interaction. Not to be outdone, Oculus demonstrated to us at E3 2015 that their own tracking technology...
24 Minutes with Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey on Rift CV1, Touch Controllers, Fresnel Lenses and More
E3 is over for another year and on this, the final day of the show, we caught up with Oculus founder and inventor of the Rift Palmer Luckey for an interview that covers everything from the Rift CV1's hybrid...
Video Hands-on: ‘The London Heist – Getaway’ on Sony Morpheus
At E3 2015 Sony is showing a brand new addition to their The London Heist VR game, this time putting the player in an action-packed car chase. From Sony's London Studio, the demo represents another exemplary entry into the company's VR...
Hands-on: Oculus Touch is an Elegant Extension of your Hand for Touching Virtual Worlds
From the beginning, Oculus said they didn't want to reveal an official VR input solution until they could do it right. Despite pressure from their developers, competitors, and the VR community at large, the company bided their time up...
StarVR Detailed Hands-on: Big Field of View, Even Bigger Potential
We go hands on with the latest StarVR headset prototype from Starbreeze Studios, sporting a 210 degree field of view and dual quad-HD panels as demoed at E3 with Overkill's The Walking Dead experience.
The InfinitEye team's metamorphosis from part-time garage hackers to...
Rothenberg Ventures Doubles Down: Committing Another $1 Million to Funding AR/VR Startups
Rothenberg Ventures, the San Francisco based VC firm behind the 'River' VR accelerator is opening their doors for a second class of VR startups. The company seeks to invest another $1 million across 10 companies after a successful inaugural...
How Mozilla Plans to Build VR Into the Foundation of the Web
Though people speak of the 'metaverse'—a vast network of interconnected virtual worlds—as a far flung future concept, in reality we already have the underlying structure built and functioning on a massive scale; it's called the internet and it connects billions...
E3 2015 Will Mark Three Years of Incredible VR Progress
Arguably the games industry's most important annual event, the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015 begins in LA next week. As the final E3 before the retail release of three major virtual reality headsets from Oculus, Sony, and Valve/HTC, we take...




















