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Hands On: Crytek Unveils Oculus Rift Exclusive Title ‘The Climb’

Crytek is widely known for best-selling titles like Crysis and the Far Cry series, but today they’re announcing an exciting new VR-exclusive game called The Climb. When coupled with previously-announced VR games Robinson: The Journey and Dinosaur Island, it...

The HTC Vive is Coming to Gamescom 2015, Register Now to Try it

The HTC Vive is on the move. As part of the company's 'World Tour', they're bringing their Steam VR flagship VR headset to Cologne, Germany so that attendees of Gamescom can see what all the fuss is about. The HTC Vive,...
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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...

Virtual Reality Ventures Wants to Revolutionize the Fashion Industry with VR (demo download)

Virtual Reality Ventures, an Australian VR consulting firm, is working with a client to produce a VR fashion show which could put you at center stage. Their proof of concept demo for the Oculus Rift is now available for...

Gamescom 2014: Oculus VR Interview – Oculus Connect, DK2 Launch, and Smash Bros. Rivalry

Oculus VR are, arguably, the most exciting company in the tech industry right now. In the 12 months since I last met Palmer Luckey (Founder) and Nate Mitchell (VP of Product) at Gamescom, their business has exploded. Facebook's acquisition has...
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VirtualGrasp Aims to Finally Deliver Realistic Hand Interactions in VR

Swedish robotics specialists are working on a system to allow game developers to deliver realistic, realtime and dynamic interaction animations, so that your VR hands can finally grasp in-game objects convincingly. By the end of this year, every major virtual reality...

Latest in Professional VR Shown at I/ITSEC 2014 Conference

Deep inside the inlands of Florida, a technology conference was held that brought together a collection of virtual reality headsets and simulations that focused primarily on military applications. The event was called I/ITSEC (Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference) and...

Epic’s ‘Showdown’ Demo Runs at 60 FPS on Morpheus After UE4 Optimizations

Epic's high fidelity Showdown demo was only barely able to hold framerate on one of the most powerful GPUs in the world when it debuted last September. But now, after optimizations for Unreal Engine 4 on PS4, the demo runs on...
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Oculus Rift and Other Tech Combined to Induce Real-life Lag

Ever wonder what it's like to live with three seconds of lag in real life? An 'experiment' from Swedish ISP UME uses the Oculus Rift to show just what that would be like. It turns out that real-life lag...

Oculus Bridge Opens the Door to Rift Web Applications

Oculus Bridge is a free package to get Oculus Rift head tracking data into the browser. With support for Mac OSX and Windows, Oculus Bridge opens the door for Rift integration with web-based applications. Oculus Bridge was created by Instrument, an...

Toybox Turbos and BlazeRush: The ‘Tiny Racer’ May Be an Emerging VR Genre

Two little games have been making a big splash with the VR community as of late, with their classic Micro Machines gameplay and solid Rift DK2 integration. Leading this pack of 'tiny racers', BlazeRush and Toybox Turbos showcase a masterful use...
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‘DiRT Rally VR’ Coming Soon to Oculus Store, Steam to See VR Update “this month”

DiRT Rally, the racing sim from Codemasters, doesn't have an official launch date for the Oculus Rift just yet, but in an Nvidia blog post announcing new optimized drivers for the game, we learned that the racer is coming soon to the Oculus Store and...

Mindshow’s VR Movie-making Helped Me Rediscover the Joy of Play-acting

Frank He rediscovers his childhood and finds a new talent for improvisational performance as he goes hands on with Mindshow, a new virtual reality application that lets you create and act in your own interactive movies. A childhood experience some of us...

VorpX Update Released – DK2 Support, Early Positional Tracking, DX11 G3D Support and More (video)

The new version of VorpX, the 3D driver that lets you play non-VR games on your Oculus Rift, has just been released and it adds early support for the DK2, Geometry 3D support for DirectX 11 games and positional...

Oculus Rift Anime Mascot “Oculus-chan” is born! Who’s your favourite?

All it took was a flippant remark from Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey to inspire a group of artists to create their own Manga-style Oculus Rift mascots. Welcome the Oculus-chan! Enter The Oculus-Chan Chan a japanese honorific, or suffix added to the...
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