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Oculus Mobile VR Jam 2015 Offers $1 Million in Prizes Beginning in April

Come April, Oculus will hold a Mobile VR Jam with prizes totaling $1 million. The company is incentivizing the creation of virtual reality games and experiences for the Samsung Gear VR headset, which Samsung built in collaboration with Oculus. The...

Oculus Rift Creator: “Don’t get too hyped on the possibility of seeing [VR input] at GDC”

Palmer Luckey, creator of the Oculus Rift, has preempted any rumors that Oculus might be showing a first-party VR input solution at the upcoming GDC 2015 in March. 'VR input', a more natural way of interacting with the virtual world...

Qantas to Offer 1st Class Passengers Samsung Gear VR and 360 3D Videos from Jaunt

First class passengers on Qantas Airlines will be getting quite the surprise to go along with their eight-course tasting menu, made-to-order signature dishes from Chef Neil Perry, award-winning wine and champagnes, leaf tea and espresso coffee, cotton pajamas, slippers, skincare products, toiletries,...

Oculus Story Studio Promo Video Reveals 5 VR Short Films in the Works

Yesterday Oculus revealed that it had formed 'Story Studio', an internal team dedicated to experimenting with real-time CG VR cinema. Today the company has put out a promo video which reveals that the studio has five VR short films...

Oculus Internal ‘Story Studio’ Draws Pixar Talent, Experiments with CG Cinematic VR

In the early days, it appeared that Oculus was taking a hardware and platform approach—'if you build it, will come.' But now with some 250 employees and the backing of Facebook, Oculus has begun working on first-party games,...

Samsung Talks Gear VR Development and Thoughts of a VR Feature Phone Way Back in 2005

Details have emerged about the evolutionary past of Samsung's Gear VR, offering a look at the formational stages of the device's history. The pictures show some prototype design concepts that explore an interesting relationship between the smartphone and the VR...

AMD to Share Low-Latency VR GPU Rendering Tricks at GDC 2015

GDC 2015 is just around the corner and the event's conference schedule has revealed that semiconductor giant AMD will be sharing tips and tricks designed to help developers targeting virtual reality to get the best performance for virtual reality from the company's...

Oculus Rift ‘Crescent Bay’ is Designed for Audiophiles – Here’s Why that’s Important for VR

Oculus' latest feature prototype VR Headset, code-named Crescent Bay, was out in force at this year's CES, blowing minds left, right and centre. But whilst debate rages over precisely what optics and display it contains, Crescent Bay's audio has...

CES 2015: Oculus Audio SDK Coming to Rift DK2 and Gear VR Before CV1 Launches

At CES 2015, Oculus brought their latest Rift Crescent Bay prototype to show off at the show. And while the unit remains identical to what we saw at the company's 'Connect' developer conference in 2014, there's new stuff hidden...

Reserve Your Demo with Oculus Rift Crescent Bay at CES 2015, Android and iOS Apps

Reserve your spot at Oculus VR's demo of their Crescent Bay prototype at this year's Consumer Electronics Show with a new Android/iOS app. Are you milling around this year's Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and don't have a...

CES 2015: First Look at Oculus’ Massive Two Story Booth

Oculus comes to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week with an open booth for the first time at the annual show. What's more, the booth looks to be a monster. Oculus' presence at CES up to this...

NailCanvasVR Lets You ‘Virtually’ Experiment With Nail Polish Designs

Have a hard time getting past the character selection screen of video games because you're too busy picking out the perfect clothes and styling your hair just right? If so, there's some fashion-oriented VR applications popping up that might be right down...

CES 2015: Fox to Debut ‘Wild’ VR 360 Movie Experience Starring Reese Witherspoon

20th Century Fox are to debut a new VR movie proof of concept featuring Reese Witherspoon to promote the upcoming feature film Wild. The 3 minute experience is to be on show at CES in Las Vegas next week and...

CES 2015 Marks the Arrival of Consumer VR – Road to VR Will be There!

Another year, another Internaional CES. But as the rapid growth of the VR industry shows no signs of abating, we look at the signs that mean 2015 will be the year VR heads to people's homes. The advent of another...

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...
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