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Oculus Rift Teardown Reveals Good Modding Potential, High Repairability
Ever wondered what the inside of the Oculus Rift dev kit actually looks like or how it scores when it comes to reparability? If you have, be sure to check out iFixit's extensive Oculus Rift disassembly. The writers take...
‘Render the Metaverse’ Contest by OTOY, John Carmack Signs on as Judge
OTOY, the studio behind the made-for-VR rendering software OctaneVR, has announced a contest sponsored by Oculus that aims to get the community involved in generating immersive 360-degree panoramas using their software suite. Oculus CTO John Carmack is also signing on to...
NVIDIA’s New GTX 1060 Answers AMD’s RX 480, Starts at $249 and Launches July 19th
NVIDIA has today announced the GTX 1060 GPU, their answer to AMD's budget-oriented RX 480. The company says that when it comes to VR rendering the card is equal in performance to the former flagship GTX 980 but at...
Chess World Championships to Broadcast Live in Pay-per-view 360 Video
One of the world's oldest competitive games is to get the immersive video treatment as this November's World Championship is streamed live in 360 video.
Yes, you read that right. The 2016 Chess World Championships are to set to be...
Reminder: Virtuix Omni VR Treadmill Airs on Shark Tank Investment Reality Show Tonight at 9PM EST
A friendly reminder for those with cable TV: tonight the Virtuix Omni omnidirectional treadmill for VR gaming will be on Shark Tank, a venture capital reality show.
The Shark Tank Virtuix Omni episode airs tonight, December 6th, at 9PM EST...
Valve Has Tips, Tricks, and VR Standards to Share at GDC 2015
Valve isn't holding another Steam Dev Days this year, a developers conference organized by the company in 2014. Instead they seem to be focusing their developer outreach energy on March's rapidly approaching Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Alex...
Augmented Reality Magician Shows You the Future Today
Augmented reality (AR) seems an inevitable part of our future. The possibilities are easy to see but realizing the necessary technology is incredibly complex. Researchers, experimenters, and tech folk are slowly advancing what can be done with augmented reality....
Exclusive: Hands-on With the Oculus Rift Tuscany Razer Hydra Demo — The Most Fun I’ve Had...
At GDC 2013 I met with the good folks from Sixense, makers of the Razer Hydra controller. They put me into the Oculus Rift and loaded up the Tuscany demo (built in Unity). This particular version of the demo...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – October #4
Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences.
Dreadhalls is a horror dungeon crawler that has you exploring the procedurally...
The VR Version of ‘Obduction’ is Coming to Rift on Halloween
Obduction, the highly rated first-person adventure game from Cyan, the makers of Riven (1997) and Myst (1993), has been available on traditional monitors for quite some time now, but what virtual reality enthusiasts have been salivating over is the pre-release VR...
Oculus Rift News Bits: On Schedule for March Delivery, Secret Partner Preview, and More
Oculus Rift developer kits will soon be leaving the Chinese factory and making their way into the hands of eager developers. What's happened since our last news bits update? Oculus says that shipping is going according to schedule. They've...
Get Alien Isolation 50%-off While Contributing to a Good Cause (deal ends soon!)
The Humble Bundle Store's daily deal will net you 50% off of Alien Isolation, a survival-horror game which can be modified with relative ease to enable hidden Oculus Rift support. In addition to getting a great deal, 10% of your...
Innovate UK Awards £210k to VR and AR Pioneers
There are a number of initiatives out there trying to encourage development into the huge potential represented by virtual and augmented reality's current renaissance. None we've seen are quite as wide in remit though as Innovate UK's national UK...
3dSunshine Will Let Gamers Edit Hit Games with VR
Steven Schkolne tells us why he's returning to his immersive creativity roots with his latest VR "passion project" 3dSunshine - a tool he says will let gamers edit and enhance their favourite games in virtual reality.
Steven Schkolne is a...
Oculus Reveals Multiplayer VR Shooter ‘Killing Floor: Incursion’ Designed for Touch
Oculus today announced Killing Floor: Incursion, a Touch-enabled cooperative VR shooter from the makers of the Killing Floor franchise, Tripwire Interactive. The announcement of the Killing Floor: Incursion comes hot on the heels of Oculus' pre-E3 game announcement of Wilson's Heart, another title designed for...


















