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Blackspace is a Hybrid-RTS Game with Oculus Rift Support, Fundraising with Kickstarter [video]
Blackspace is a rather awesome looking upcoming hybrid-RTS (real time strategy) game which plans to incorporate the Oculus Rift head mounted display. The game, which is notable for being one of the first non-FPS (first person shooter) titles pledging Rift...
Hands-on With Sony’s HMZ-T2 ‘Prototype SR’ at the Tokyo Game Show
Last week news broke that Sony would be demonstrating an augmented reality 'Prototype SR' head mounted display at the Tokyo Game Show. This HMD is based on the new HMZ-T2 which Sony announced at the beginning of the month....
Project Holodeck Update: Razer Now Official Sponsor, The Team Tests the Oculus Rift
Exciting info for the team of Project Holodeck, Razer is now an official sponsor. The company, which was founded in 1998 and manufacturers PC peripherals for hardcore gamers, will supply the Holodeck team with hardware pertinent to the project and...
Valve Denies Working on Its Own Head Mounted Display for Virtual Reality Games Despite Internal Research
It's no secret that Valve is internally researching virtual reality. Michael Abrash is publicly known to be Valve's virtual reality and augmented reality researcher. Valve recently put out a job posting for an industrial designer noting that the company...
Sony to Show off HMZ-T2 HMD Prototype with Head Tracking and Pass-through AR [Video]
Sony appears to be finally experimenting with augmented reality and virtual reality on their HMD line. The company has traditionally marketed their HMZ-T1 and HMZ-T2 head mounted displays as a "personal 3D viewer" rather than anything to do with...
Oculus Rift Creator Builds 120 and 270 Degree FoV HMD Prototypes
Palmer Luckey has been a virtual reality junkie since before the Oculus Rift. He claims to have the largest private collection of head mounted displays in the world, totaling some 43 units. And as the Rift has shown us, Luckey doesn't just...
Valve Hiring for Hardware Position (possibly VR related), Oculus LLC Lists 6 Job Opportunities
Valve, the beloved makers of the Steam digital game distribution service and a number of famous games like Half-Life 2, Portal, TF2, and more, has never made any hardware products. New broke last week that they were looking to...
Silicon Micro Display Resumes ST1080 HMD Production After Hurricane Closed Factory
Last week Silicon Micro Display made an announcement on their blog that the company's South Korean factory lost power due to a hurricane and was rendered in-operable. Now the company has announced that utilities have been restored to the...
Sony Quietly Announces “All New” HMZ-T2 HMD, Reduces Weight by 20% [Gallery, Specs]
Sony has quietly announced a refreshed version of their HMZ-T1 head mounted display. The HMZ-T2 reduces weight by 20% which is good given that weight was one of the top issues with the original. The press release making the announcement calls...
Experience Augmented Reality Now on Your iPhone or Android Phone for Free with Aurasma
Aurasma is a free augmented reality app that runs on iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad), and Android. Using your phone's camera and other sensors, the app projects digital scenes onto the real world through your device's viewfinder. Aurasma...
PCGamer Goes Hands-on With the Oculus Rift in Video: “Everything You’ve Heard is True”
PCGamer's Owen Hill met with Palmer Luckey and some folks from Oculus to try out the Rift at Gamescom. After using it, he opines "The Oculus Rift is the most exciting peripheral I’ve ever used. This is the virtual...
Oculus Rift News Bits: Kickstarter Passes $2 Million, Palmer Luckey AMAA Today, Oculus Office in South...
With 3 days left, the Oculus Rift Kickstarter has passed the $2 million funding threshold. This is a huge landmark for the campaign which originally sought to raise $250 thousand in funding. Sitting pretty at 803% of its funding...
Hawken Will be Oculus Rift Ready At Launch, Looks Incredible [video]
Here's some excellent news for anyone interersted in the Oculus Rift. Adhesive Games, the studio behind the upcoming (and awesome looking) Hawken has announced in conjunction with Oculus that the title will be Oculus Rift ready when it launches this December. Hawken...
Oculus Rift Kickstarter Infographic: Almost 2 Million in Funding With 7 Days Remaining
With just 7 days remaining in the Oculus Rift Kickstarter which is nearing $2 million in funding, the campaign easily passed my early $1 million estimate. I took all of the publicly available data from the Kickstarter and compiled...
Inreal Technologies Virtualizes Architecture Environments, Working on VR Locomotion Device and More
Inreal Technologies is a German-based startup that is offering a virtual reality terminal which is targeted toward architecture visualization. The terminal incorporates the Carl Zeiss Cinemizer head mounted display which is combined with a head-tracker developed by Inreal which...





