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Oculus Connect: Ultracast 2014 – Recorded at the VR Beach House
After the success of the SVVR UBERCast, the folks who stayed at the VR Beach House decided that it was necessary to do it again, this time calling it the Oculus Connect ULTRACast. A great group of well-known developers...
10 Seconds of Testing Striker VR’s Gun Recoil System and I’m Sold – Hands-on and Interview
We've written about Striker VR and their electrically driven weapon recoil system previously, but it wasn't until I met up with the company at Oculus Connect two days ago that I was able to try the system for myself....
Oculus Open-sources Rift DK1: Mechanical Designs, Firmware, and More All Freely Available
During a session at Oculus Connect, the company released the totality of the Oculus Rift DK1 plans to the public. Under an open-source license, anyone can now freely download the blueprints of the company's first VR headset and even...
First Hands-on: Oculus Rift Crescent Bay is Incredible
During a keynote at Oculus Connect, Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe unveiled a headset they believe approaches the holy grail of virtual reality, presence. That is, it delivers an experience that your brain accepts as an alternate reality. This...
Oculus Announces New Prototype, Crescent Bay, This is What It Looks Like—Breaking
At Oculus' inaugural 'Connect' event in Hollywood CA today, CEO Brendan Iribe announced a new feature prototype that Oculus believes delivers VR presence for the first time. The Prototype is called Crescent Bay and although exact specs are not yet...
Oculus Connect: Watch Live – Oculus VR’s Brendan Iribe and Nate Mitchell @9:30am PDT
Watch Oculus VR CEO and VP of Product Nate Mitchell as the address attendees of the Oculus Connect event in Hollywood CA. Rumours are there might be some surprises in store. CV1 announcement? New controller perhaps? We shall see...
Oculus Connect: Nirav Patel on Building the First Rift Development Kit – Live Blog @5pm PDT
Those of you who've followed the Oculus story from the start may recall Oculus hiring a young engineer who'd produced a high performance "9 DoF" tracking sensor - a version of which eventually found it's way into the first Oculus...
Vrvana Totem Kickstarter Passes $100,000 in Day One, CEO Shares Details on Hardware Acceleration
After the first day of Vrvana's Kickstarter campaign for the Totem VR headset the company has raised more than $100,000 CAD toward their $350,000 goal. I recently spoke with Vrvana CEO Bert Nepveu to learn more about the Totem...
‘Snow’ Brings Open World Skiing to the Oculus Rift, Hands On and Developer Interview
At this year's Gamescom in Cologne, I got the chance to meet up with the team from Poppermost Productions, a small development team from Sweden who are mad keen on throwing themselves down steep slopes strapped to planks of...
Totem VR Headset Kickstarter is Live, In-depth Interview with Vrvana CEO Bert Nepveu
The Totem VR headset Kickstarter has launched. Vrvana, formerly 'True Player Gear', is seeking $350,000 CAD to get a dev kit of the product into the hands of developers. I sat down with Vrvana CEO Bert Nepveu to...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 79): Another Perspective on Gear VR from Nateight and Apieceoffruit
After our Gear VR Roundtable Chat last week, I was informed that not everyone in the VR community had the same warm and fuzzy feelings that were conveyed in our discussion. I felt the need to allow a few...
10 Samsung Gear VR Panoramas from Immersive Media’s 360 Video Player ‘im360VR’
Considering that Samsung Gear VR is yet to go on sale, the breadth of content announced thus far is impressive. One thing that is clear however, Samsung and Oculus clearly see this device as much as a video delivery...
Guide: Play Minecraft on Oculus Rift DK2 Using the Minecrift Mod
As the world's best selling game, there's serious demand for Minecraft in virtual reality. While developer Mojang is busy with things other than VR, some enterprising folks have been unofficially adding Oculus Rift support to the game since the...
Gamescom 2014: Hands-On With Pollen from Mindfield Games and Developer Interview (Video)
Pollen from Helsinki based developer Mindfield Games is an immensely promising 'Oculus Rift Optimised' story driven adventure set on Saturn moon Titan. I got a chance to catch up wit of the Mindfield team at this year's Gamescom in...
Dr. Llyr ap Cenydd, Developer of Ocean Rift: The Need for Procedural Animation in VR
Dr. Llŷr ap Cenydd is the developer of two well known Oculus Rift demos: Ocean Rift and (my personal favorite) Crashland. As an expert in procedural animation, Cenydd has imbued his creatures with beautiful and organic animation that's convincing...
