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Running Amok in GTA V with an Oculus Rift, a Virtuix Omni and VorpX

What do you get when you piece together a Virtuix Omni VR treadmill, a DK2, and (with help from vorpX) a AAA title like GTA V? Madness. Pure madness. Stealing a car is wrong. Shooting innocent bystanders in the face, now that's downright...

Project Cars Arriving from May 7th with WIP Oculus Rift Support, Morpheus to Follow

Project Cars, the extraordinarily pretty looking, multi-format racing simulation title, may finally arrive next month after a series of delays. Importantly, it will include work in progress Oculus Rift support on arrival. Project Cars, a racing simulation title with impressively...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Explains His Vision for Oculus

Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg fielded a number of questions from the community in an hour-long online Q&A session recently, touching on everything from net neutrality to his personal tips on how best to learn Mandarin. The longest answer however came from a solitary...

Get a $50 Credit in the Unity Asset Store From Oculus Mobile VR Jam

In addition to competing for more than $1 million in prizes, developers can get a little boost during Oculus' Mobile VR Jam in the form of a $50 credit to the Unity Asset Store. The Unity Asset Store houses a...
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Reload Studios Release New ‘World War Toons’ Trailer and Here it is

Reload studios, a development studio comprised multiple members of former Infinity Ward (Call of Duty) alumni, unveiled their multi-player made-for-VR shooter World War Toons at the VRLA Spring Expo last month. The studio, as promised, have released a new...
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AltspaceVR Previews their SDK in New Video and Requests Collaborators

AltspaceVR is a social VR platform focused on sharing 2D and 3D web content in VR that shows great promise. In a new video, presented by Altspace's Community Manager 'Cymatic' Bruce Wooden, they take a tour of the SDK...

Watch this Team Build an Oculus Rift Star Wars Pod Racing Game Live at Bitcamp (Video)

Bitcamp is a place for exploration. You will have 36 hours to delve into your curiosities, learn something new, and make something awesome. With world-class mentors and hundreds of fellow campers, you’re in for an amazing time. If you’re ready...
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Epic New ‘Descent: Underground’ Trailer Shows Promise, Kickstarter in Final Hours

The crowdfunded successor to the PC gaming classic Descent, Underground packs Oculus Rift and Steam VR / HTC Vive support and the impressive new trailer gives us a tantalising glimpse of what could be should it's campaign succeed. Along with Doom,...

Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge Launch Today, Gear VR ‘1.5’ Compatible and Available from All Major...

Starting today, Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are available from all major wireless carriers, both of which will be compatible with the forthcoming second iteration of Samsung Gear VR. Although the new Samsung Gear VR still doesn't have a price or launch date...

2015 Proto Awards Submissions Open July 1st, 2015

The Proto Awards, virtual reality's very own annual awards show, has now announced that July 1st, 2015 will be the starting date for submissions. If you're looking to garner a little notoriety for your VR project, now is the time to...
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‘Level-Ups’: the Motorized Stilts that Provide Vertical Force Feedback in VR (video)

Standing-up interactions are coming to VR sooner than we can pronounce 'HTC Vive' correctly (like 'revive' minus the 're'), and although flat virtual surfaces are a breeze to get around, what about stairs? ledges? curbs? You know, all of...

VFX Studio Behind Iron Man 3 and Transformers Forms Partnership for VR Video Content with Immersive...

Digital Domain Holdings Limited and Immersive Media announced yesterday that they are partnering up to create IM360, a joint venture dedicated to creating immersive entertainment not only for tablets, mobile phones and televisions, but more importantly for VR. Digital Domain, an Academy Award-winning visual effects...

VR Support Coming to YouTube’s 360 Degree Video Playback

Earlier this month, YouTube officially threw the digital lever to enable 360 video support for the first time on the video sharing platform. At the time the official announcement of the new functionality didn't include any mention of VR,...
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Rift Coaster Meets TRON in ‘Grid Coaster’, Demo Available Now

Grid Coaster is an Oculus Rift enabled roller coaster experience built on Unreal Engine 4 which wants to recall the aesthetics of 80's sci-fi Disney classic TRON (1981). The legendary Rift Coaster was a rough 'n' ready Unreal 3 tech demo...
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‘Action Star: Parachute’ VR Experience Has You Throwing Yourself Out of a Plane

Istanbul based digital workshop Codemodeon have come up with a VR experience which adopts some clever mechanics to sell the illusion of throwing yourself out of a plane and parachuting to an island paradise. We've come across Codemodeon's brand of bespoke virtual...
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