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Oculus Founder: Rift S Suitable for Only About 70% of Population Due to IPD
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company back in 2017, says that the lack of hardware-adjustable IPD (distance between lenses) on the Rift S means he won't be able to comfortably use the headset, and says that it...
OptiTrack Shows Hundreds of Simultaneously Tracked Objects in a Single VR Experience
OptiTrack at GDC last week showed off a demonstration of their enterprise/commercial tracking technology which is capable of accurately tracking hundreds of objects simultaneously in real-time. For those building out of home applications with VR, OptiTrack now has available...
Long-delayed PSVR Game ‘Golem’ to Reemerge at PAX East Next Week
We weren't certain the PSVR title Golem would ever see the light of day after its lengthy delay. It wasn't until the studio assured us late last year that yes, the game was still in production well after its prospective March...
Nintendo’s Switch VR Labo Kit Includes a Genius Makeshift 6DOF Controller
Nintendo's upcoming Labo VR Kit for Switch includes a trove of creative VR content along with six 'build it yourself' cardboard accessories which are paired with VR experiences that work together with them. One of the accessories might look like...
Valve Psychologist: Brain-computer Interfaces Are Coming & Could Be Built into VR Headsets
Valve's resident experimental psychologist Dr. Mike Ambinder took the stage at GDC 2019 today for his talk on the state of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and how they'll inform the future of game design. In his talk, Ambinder put forth...
Nintendo Shows a Trove of Creative VR Content for Switch VR Labo Kit, Pre-orders Open
None among us can deny Nintendo's penchant for creativity. The limited VR specs of the Switch don't exactly inspire, but the company's creative array of accessories and content in the Labo VR Kit just might. Nintendo has shown off a...
New ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Gameplay Video Reveals Dungeon Crawling in Action
Asgard's Wrath is an upcoming combat RPG from Sanzaru Games, the studio that created Rift exclusives Marvel Powers United VR (2018) and Ripcoil (2016). It's slated to launch on Rift and the newly unveiled Rift S in 2019, although to whet our...
Rift S Isn’t the Headset Fans Want, But Facebook Wagers It’s What Their Ecosystem Needs
While to some Oculus' announcement of the Rift S represents the newest and best version of a good VR headset, to others it's a far cry from what they hoped Oculus would be able to deliver three years after...
Oculus is Considering an Over-ear Headphone Accessory for Rift S
Oculus announced its next iteration of Rift this week at GDC, Rift S. While there's a few key differences about the upcoming hardware specs-wise, it seems the company has also taken a page out of Go's playbook by including...
Hands-on: ‘Shadow Point’ is a Clever Room-scale Puzzler Narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart
Coatsink, the studio known for VR games Augmented Empire (2018) and the Esper series, unveiled a new puzzle game at GDC 2019 this week that's slated to be a day-one launch title for Oculus Quest. We got a chance to go hands-on...
Epic Games to Award $100 Million to Devs with New ‘MegaGrants’
Epic Games today announced at GDC that the company is set to turbo-charge their long-running developer grant initiative with 'MegaGrants' and the largest pool of funds yet, $100,000,000.
Epic have been running developer-focused funding initiatives for many years now, with...
‘Space Junkies’ Open Beta to Land on All Major VR Headsets Tomorrow with Cross-play
Ubisoft is getting ready to launch its next big foray into VR with the multiplayer shooter Space Junkies, which is set to launch on March 26th. But first, users on PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows VR will have a free...
Oculus Rift S Revealed with Inside-out Tracking, Resolution Bump, & New Ergonomics
Oculus today announced the new Rift S headset which ditches external tracking sensors in favor of a five-camera inside-out tracking system. The headset also gets a slight bump in resolution over the original Rift while moving from OLED to...
Hands-on: Oculus Rift S is a Better, Easier to Use Rift (with a Few Tradeoffs)
Oculus has finally taken the wraps off of Rift S, its first PC VR headset release in three years. But there's a reason the company is calling this Rift S and not Rift 2; the changes are mostly for...
Hands-on: ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Offers Deep Combat, But Not Without a Steep Learning Curve
At a special GDC Oculus media event this week we got a chance to go hands-on with Sanzaru Games' upcoming Norse-themed action adventure game Asgard's Wrath, presented on Oculus' newly unveiled 'Rift S' headset. It's beautiful, difficult, and will definitely require...
