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‘Tornuffalo’ Shows What Full-body VR Gaming Could Look Like with Vive Trackers
Using HTC’s Vive Trackers, Tornuffalo—named after a combination of 'tornado' and 'buffalo'—has been given a 'Full-Body Action' mode, an early example of full body tracking in a VR gameplay scenario. This simple action game involves dodging flying debris (which...
Ibex is a Virtual Reality Desktop Environment for the Oculus Rift and other VR Headsets [video]
The Oculus Rift developer kit might not have shipped yet, but that hasn't stopped some intrepid developers from working on exciting Rift projects like virtual reality desktop environments. Hesham Wahba is a developer working on one such project, he calls...
Carl Zeiss Cinemizer HMD Now Available in US and Canada for $749, Headtracker Coming in January
Today Carl Zeiss is announcing that the Cinemizer head mounted display is available in the US and Canada for $749. The Carl Zeiss Cinemizer has technically been available for a few months, though it would seem that the company...
Oculus Open-sources Rift DK1: Mechanical Designs, Firmware, and More All Freely Available
During a session at Oculus Connect, the company released the totality of the Oculus Rift DK1 plans to the public. Under an open-source license, anyone can now freely download the blueprints of the company's first VR headset and even...
Samsung Reportedly to Release “multiple AR and VR products” in Coming Months
Samsung hasn't really said much about VR since the release of Samsung Odyssey+, the hardware refresh to its Windows Mixed Reality headset that came to market in October 2018. However at Augmented World Expo (AWE), the company offered a...
‘Moss: Book II’ to Release on Quest 2 Next Month
Having received a strong reception on PSVR back at the end of March, Moss: Book II from developer Polyarc is now set to release on Quest 2 starting next month.
Update (June 9th, 2022): Polyarc today announced during UploadVR's Summer Showcase that...
Oculus Rift Razer Hydra Tuscany Demo Now Available from Sixense
Sixense, developers of the Razer Hydra, have officially released the Razer Hydra enabled 'Tuscany' demo that Ben had an exclusive hands-on with at GDC just a few weeks ago. The demo is a heavily customised version of the 'Tuscany'...
SundayVR Live Stream Show with Cymatic Bruce, Episode 28
Hey Rifters!
UPDATE: Stream Recording with recap! This week, we investigated the best from the first crop of demos for the DK2, including PolyWorld, Technolust, and Elite: Dangerous. A few technical issues hampered the beginning of the stream, but after...
Qualcomm Reveals New Reference Designs for XR2-powered VR & AR Headsets
Qualcomm today revealed new reference designs for VR and AR headsets powered by its new Snapdragon XR2 chip. Complete with hand-tracking, magnetic controller tracking, eye-tracking, and more, the Qualcomm reference designs are a glimpse of what's to come in...
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg to Testify in Oculus Vs ZeniMax Lawsuit
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been ordered to give a deposition in the long-running dispute between virtual reality company Oculus and games publisher Zenimax media after the latter claimed its intellectual property was used to improve the former's Oculus...
Periscape Brings VR Pop-up Installation to JFK International, Company in Talks with Over 200 Airports
Traveling through Terminal 4 on your way to, or through JFK International? Then you might have a chance to jump into VR thanks to Periscape VR's recent pop-up installation that brings a number of high-quality PC VR games and...
Oculus Brings More Lifelike Sound Propagation to Audio SDK 1.34
Despite being oft overlooked in the face of more attention-grabbing visuals, audio is an essential component to creating presence in VR. In a quest to create increasingly lifelike audio in VR environments, Oculus has pushed out an update to...
Sci-Fi Shooter ‘Guardians Frontline’ Gets New Update Featuring a Massive Queen Size Enemy
VirtualAge and Fast Travel Games today launched a new update for sci-fi shooter Guardians Frontline (2023), which brings a gigantic new enemy type to the co-op and single-player game alongside a number of new features.
Called 'The Queen Update', starting...
Co-op VR Space Delivery Game ‘Failspace’ Starts Registration for Closed Alpha
Hipfire Games, a Helsinki-based studio made up of ex-Supercell and Rovio developers, announced late last year that their space-based delivery game Failspace was in the making for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets. Now the studio is accepting...
Oculus Rift HMD Kickstarter to Begin no Later than June 14th
I'm away from a full blown computer this weekend, so please excuse the brevity of this post. I'm writing from my phone because I wanted to share some brief but exciting information regarding the Oculus Rift that I wrote...

















