News
Preview: Eden River HD Early Access Release for Oculus Rift DK2
Eden River HD launches today in early-access form. While the game is pending some optimization updates before its full launch on Steam in late August, we got an early glimpse at this serene title which is being launched with...
Report: ZeniMax Wants Compensation for Tech it Says Carmack Stole to Oculus
ZeniMax, parent company of Bethesda, Arkane Studios, Zenimax Online Studios, and, John Carmack's former employer, id Software, is seeking damages for tech it says Carmack stole away to Oculus. "It was only through the concerted efforts of Mr. Carmack,...
Latest UE4 Release Includes Time-Warping, Couch Knights Demo and is DK2 Ready
Unreal Engine 4 has only been on general release since March but has made quite an impression on developers. Its low cost of entry, wealth of supporting documentation, tutorials and its 'no coding required' approach to game development has...
HTC Reveals ‘Vive Pre’ Development Kit at CES
HTC has finally taken the wraps off of the second development kit of the Vive VR headset, they're calling it the 'Vive Pre', and the new unit is being shown off here at CES 2016.
The Vive Pre largely seems...
‘Grav|Lab’ Lets you Build Incredible Machines with Oculus Touch and HTC Vive
Grav|Lab is a physics-centric puzzler which has you devising ever more elaborate ways to guide balls from one point to another. A simple premise, but one that lools instantly appealing.
One of the HTC Vive's most effective showcases early on was...
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...
Preview: ‘Racket: Nx’ for HTC Vive
Matthew Magee gets active and takes a swing at the new futuristic VR sports featuring heavy classic arcade influences for the HTC Vive, Racket: Nx.
I’ve always felt that there’s an innate satisfaction in hitting things with other things, as much...
META Raises $50M in Funding to Accelerate “Groundbreaking” AR Tech
On Monday, Meta, the company building AR HMDs that allow the wearer to manipulate holographic objects within the wearer’s visual field and the headset’s field of view (90 degrees, in the Meta II), among other things, announced that it's...
Valve VR Frontman Chet Faliszek Departs Company After 12 Years
Though there's surely many talents folks at Valve responsible for the company's VR initiatives, over the last several years Chet Faliszek has become a front-facing evangelist and go-to spokesperson for VR at Valve. Now after 12 years with the company,...
Oculus Rift News Bits: Rift Now Available for Direct Pre-order, New Job Listing for Art Director
The Oculus Rift head mounted display / VR headset is now available for pre-order from the company's website for those who missed out on the initial Kickstarter. If you're late to the party, have no fear, you can pick...
Oculus Rift Pre-orders Available Now
Oculus have today started taking pre-orders for the Oculus Rift, the long-awaited virtual reality headset poised to be the first consumer grade headset of its kind to make it into the hands of virtual reality fans.
Pre-Order the Oculus Rift
The Oculus...
SundayVR With Cymatic Bruce – Ep. 30: Live for Speed, SubLevelZero, Half-Life VR, and More VR...
Hey Rifters!
Missed the last episode of SundayVR? No worries, catch the video recording and written recap here! Live for Speed steals the show, we see some incredible Descent-like action from SubLevelZero, and I (finally) got Half-Life VR up and running.
Episode...
VRLA Summer Expo Bringing Reggie Watts, VR Rave, and More to LA August 5th and 6th
VRLA Summer Expo is back and aims to be bigger and better than ever. Coming to the LA Convention Center August 5th and 6th, the event we be host to keynote speaker Reggie Watts, a 'VR Rave', and more...
‘Kintinuous’ Fuses Virtual and Reality with the Oculus Rift and Kinect
The Kinect was a great example of cutting edge technology coming from R&D into entertainment. First released as a peripheral for the Xbox 360, it quickly became one of the most successful console peripheral ever launched and then promptly...
HTC Vive ‘Developer Edition’ Sign-ups Could Start Next Week
According to a report at Ars Technica, HTC's VR Headset the 'Vive' could find its way into selected developers hands very soon for nothing. Sign-ups for the device may also begin as early as next week.
GDC 2015 was dominated...

















