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Review: ‘The Climb’ is the Best-Looking VR Game I’ve Ever Played, But My Neck is Killing...

The Climb is a first-person rock climbing game from Crytek that offers charmingly realistic scenery alongside an interesting set of game mechanics that you may or may not fully appreciate. And as one person's experience may vastly differ from another's—a necessary preface...

Minecraft for Gear VR Now Available, Brings First Person and Comfort Modes

Oculus' long fought partnership with Microsoft, to bring the enormously successful social, creative Minecraft franchise to VR, begins with a release to Samsung Gear VR today as the title hits the Oculus Store. Oculus' CTO has gone on record saying...

Oculus Projects Two Month Delay for Some Early Rift Pre-orders

Unfortunately some more bad news for early adopters who pre-ordered the Rift and expected it to arrive on or around the March 28th launch date. The delay has now pushed expected shipping dates of some day-one pre-orders into late...

Oculus Rift Backorder Slips Another Month, New Orders Ship in August

It wasn't long after Oculus opened pre-orders for the Rift in January that the unit became backordered by four months. Having held steady since that time, the backorder has now been pushed back yet another month. The Oculus Rift launched officially on...

Oculus Refund Shipping Costs as Rift Shipments Delayed Due to “Component Shortages”

It seems that Oculus are acknowledging the troublesome Rift launch and associated delivery delays by covering shipping costs for affected customers. According to emails sent out by Oculus to customers still waiting for the consumer Rift VR headsets, the...

You Can Access Oculus Home with DK2, Play Free and Paid Content Right Now

There's plenty of reasons to be excited for the Oculus Rift to arrive at your doorstep in the next few days (or months), but don't throw out that DK2 just yet, because there's still some life in the old...

Veteran VR Developers Share Their Early Oculus Rift Memories

We asked some developers who were early to join the VR bandwagon to share memories of their first experiences with the new wave of VR technology represented by the Oculus Rift DK1, what it meant to them and where their it...

Unboxing the New Oculus Rift Step-by-Step in Pictures

Three years after the Kickstarter funded Oculus Rift Developer Kit shipped, the consumer edition Rift is here and it's an appealingly packaged piece of kit. We unbox the final retail package and share the process with you, step by...
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Unboxing Video of Early Oculus Rift Prototype ‘PR4’ Revealed

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was of course tinkering and prototyping ideas for VR HMDs long before the 2012 Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift DK1 propelled VR back into the spotlight. One of the Oculus Rift DK1's closest descendent prototype,...

Oculus Founder Clarifies Expected Rift Delivery Windows

In scenes strongly reminiscent of the Oculus Rift DK2 delivery fevers in 2014, community excitement and speculation in the absence of precise delivery information consumer Oculus Rift deliveries has mounted. Palmer Luckey took to Twitter to share new information...

Flipflops in Alaska: Oculus Founder Delivers First Rift in Person

In a move entirely in keeping with the Oculus founders attitude to his company's supporters, he's travelled from sunny California to beautiful but chilly Alaska to hand deliver the first Oculus Rift pre-order. If anyone else was confused after spotting...

The First Oculus Rift Has Shipped, Deliveries Begin Monday

It's been a long time coming, but the very first Oculus Rift consumer headset is due to arrive to customers starting this Monday the 28th. Anticipation is palpable for the first deliveries of the Oculus Rift VR headset which began...

Hands-on: Oculus Touch 2016 Prototype Brings Refinements to an Already Elegant Design

Oculus Touch won't launch until the second half of 2016, but the company continues to iterate on the impressively ergonomic VR controller. We went hands-on with their latest prototype at GDC 2016 last week. This article discusses the changes between...
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Oculus’ Jason Rubin on Rift and Touch Games “We’re Not Launching a Dev Kit”

The Oculus Rift will land in people's homes from March 28th and there'll soon be 1000s of people hunting for new content to play in virtual reality. Oculus is of course keenly aware of this, and Jason Rubin, Head...
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Oculus Names 30 Rift Launch Titles and Their Prices

Oculus' pre-GDC 'Game Days' event was an opportunity for the company to flaunt its substantial line up of original virtual reality content for the forthcoming Rift headset. But how many games will there be at launch and how much...
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