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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...

Phones With Snapdragon 820 Are “ahead of the best currently available mobile VR devices,” says NextVR

Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 820 chipset is set to power flagship phones throughout 2016 and the company is touting the 'system-on-a-chip' as being optimized for virtual reality. The well recognized VR broadcast company, NextVR, has high praise for what the chipset is able...

Vuze is a 360 3D 4k Camera Aimed at ‘Soccer Moms’

At CES yesterday I had the chance to take a look at the new 'affordable' 360 camera called Vuze. The camera shoots at resolutions up to 4k per combined, sporting 8 x 1080p cameras capturing footage at up to 30FPS...

Pre-ordering Oculus Rift Will Reserve Your Spot in Line for Touch Later This Year

Oculus Rift pre-orders open tomorrow (Wednesday January 6th) at 8AM PT. Founder Palmer Luckey this evening is providing a few last minute details, including the fact that pre-ordering the Rift will reserve your spot in line to pre-order the company's Touch...

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...

ionVR is a Smartphone VR Headset That Aims to Kill Latency

ionVR is a smartphone based VR headset that augments the standard Google cardboard experience with custom optics and electronics to drastically reduce latency. We go hands on at CES to see if it actually works. VR smartphone adapters in my...
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Free Limited Edition Rift Coming to Oculus Kickstarter Supporters

Oculus has announced that backers of their 2012 Rift DK1 Kickstarter campaign will receive a limited edition version of Oculus Rift consumer for free. In a move that is likely to make Oculus the most popular company in the world for...

HTC, Valve and SteamVR: A 2015 Retrospective and CES 2016 Preview

CES is mere days away and as we edge into 2016, we take a look back at the surprise entry and stratospheric rise of the HTC Vive, Valve's SteamVR flagship virtual reality hardware and, what we might expect to...

‘Teslasuit’ Kickstarter is Live, Full Body Haptic Suits Start at £1199

Teslasuit, the full body haptic 'skin' which uses an 'electro-tactile' feedback system to give the wearer sensations of touch, force and even warmth, has now hit Kickstarter but, perhaps predictably, it ain't cheap! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/247607504/teslasuit-feel-what-you-play?ref=nav_search We told you yesterday that UK based...

Oculus: A 2015 Retrospective and CES 2016 Preview

As the biggest consumer electronics show looms large on the horizon, we look back on the most notable Oculus related VR events of 2015, what to look forward to in 2016 and what we’re likely to see from the...

‘Star Citizen’ to Refocus on VR Support in Early 2016

Star Citizen, the massively crowd-funded space adventure game, committed to adding VR support back in 2012, before the now relatively ancient Rift DK1 had even begun to ship. Unfortunately the game's VR support hasn't seen much attention beyond some...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep.114): Rev. Kyle’s Final Thoughts on 2015

Almost none of the predictions I made during my 2014 year-end podcast were correct. In fact, If you listen to that podcast now, most of the comments I make could technically be made again right now and still be...

Oculus Teases Improved Touch Controller with “Significant Advances in Ergonomics”

After revealing the Touch 'Half Moon' prototype earlier in 2015, Oculus has continued to hone the already impressively designed VR controller. Alongside an update stating that Touch would be shipped in the second half of 2016, the company also...

HTC Vive’s Laser-based Lighthouse Trackers Get FCC Approval for Safe Use

As one of the necessary steps for getting a product ready for consumer sale in the U.S., the HTC Vive and its laser-based 'Lighthouse' base stations have received approval from the FCC. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is tasked with...

OSVR Supporters Grow to 300 with 70 New Developers Added

The organisers of the Open Source Virtual Reality movement (OSVR) have today announced that their supporter list has grown to 300, with the recent addition of 70 new companies and groups interested in developing for Open Source VR. Razer announced OSVR,...
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