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Instant VR for Your Next Party with ‘WeLens’

One of the most expensive and time-consuming parts of demoing at a VR event is outfitting enough demo stations. Too few and you'll have a long line of unhappy people, but at $700+ for a GearVR/Galaxy S6 combo, it's...

Get $100 in Free VR Games When You Buy an NVIDIA GPU and HTC Vive

Haven't decided whether to pull out the credit card and buy the VR system of your dreams yet? Well, NVIDIA is making it that much harder this holiday season with a new bundle that includes three highly rated games...

Oculus Connect: Oculus Partnership Means Free Rift Support for ALL Unity Developers

The cross platform 3D development engine Unity 3D, it's fair to say, has been incredibly important in the drive to get content created for virtual reality. According to Oculus' VP of Product Nate Mitchell, at one point, Unity based...

“They did it!” William Gibson is Given a Taste of Cyberspace via Gear VR

Legendary author of 80's cyberpunk thriller Neuromancer, a book in which he famously coined the term 'cyberspace', takes a spin in virtual reality courtesy of Samsung's Gear VR. It seems he was suitably impressed. At TED 2015 in Vancouver last...

More Than 300,000 Free Gear VR Headsets Will Come With US S7 Pre-orders, Starting Today (Updated)

This weekend Samsung announced they would be giving a free Gear VR headset to anyone pre-ordering the new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, with a "while supplies last" caveat. With pre-orders opening today, we've learned that Samsung will be...
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‘Project Ghost’ Lets You Bend Time Whilst Dual Wielding Lightsabers

A new early prototype game for the HTC Vive is aiming to bring your time-shifting, lightsaber wielding dreams to life with Project Ghost, a new game, early in production, which mashes together so many individually cool ideas, some of...

Armored Ops VR Game Incorporates Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra for Multiplayer Mech Combat [video]

While a number of games plan on supporting the Oculus Rift head mounted display, not many of them are being made specifically for it. Owen Pedrotti has a functional prototype of a virtual reality game that he is making to...

‘Oculus Ready’ PC Bundle Pre-Orders in Feb From $1499, Rift Included

Oculus has partnered with Asus, Alienware, and Dell to provide a number of 'Oculus Ready' badged systems to VR fans looking to jump head first into the world high-end virtual reality gaming. The all-inclusive Rift/PC bundle will be available for pre-order in...

Darkfield Alpha Now Available for Pre-Purchase, Early Access Download For Backers

Oculus Rift supporting space combat shooter Darkfield Alpha is now available to pre-purchase and download. We take a quick look. Space Combat: Finding a Resurgence in Virtual Reality I miss Space games, something I pondered last year with the announcement of...

Virtua View for Oculus Rift — Crowdfunding Campaign Launched

Christer-Andre Fagerslett (aka Namielus), the developer of VirtuaView (previously known as Virtual Cinema) has launched a Crowdfunding campaign via IndieGogo for his extremely promising multiplayer / multimedia Virtual Reality project. Virtually There We've kept in close contact with Christer-Andre since we...

‘The Last Starfighter’ TV Spin-off to Integrate Virtual Reality Enabled Scenes

1984 cult classic The Last Starfighter, beloved by 80's video-gamers the world over, is coming back in a new TV spin-off that will apparently feature scenes created for virtual reality. The Last Starfighter (1984) is one of those cult classics...
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Virtuix Omni Walks the Wasteland in Fallout 4, Powered by VorpX

The Virtuix Omni is well on its way to being the first consumer-facing VR treadmill to hit the market, with the first shipments set to go out in next month. In the mean time, Virtuix is keeping the hype...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 92): Interview with Sky Nite, Author of ‘Virtual Reality Insider’

We've all seen those 'books' about VR that seem to be nothing more than a quick cash grab, taking advantage of a burgeoning industry and hoping to dupe a few suckers into spending a few dollars. I am here...
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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...

High School Student Designs Snap-together Cardboard, Kickstarter Now Live

A high school student from Perth, Australia, has launched a Kickstarter campaign focused on a novel plastic VR smartphone adapter, that unlike many designs on the market actually snaps apart to retain its flat pack portability. https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/1591136/video-523918-h264_high.mp4 Since its initial release back in summer of 2014, Google...
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