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‘Defense Grid 2’ Proves How Compelling Tower Defense in VR Can Be

Jeff Pobst admits that it's probably not a new Rift owner's first thought to go out and buy a tower defense game, but Defense Grid 2: Enhanced VR Edition proved to me how compelling a tower defense game can...

UK Retailer Currys Lets You Go Hands-on With the HTC Vive Right Now

We're just a few weeks out from the consumer arrival of two major VR systems, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The biggest problem with VR however, is that in order to understand it's potential, you need to try...
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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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Gunfire Games’ David Adams on Rebooting Old-School Adventures with Chronos

Chronos from Gunfire Games is one of the 30 titles you'll be able to play at Oculus Rift's launch on March 28th and it represents a revisiting of the traditional adventure game mechanics of yesteryear, brought up to date...
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New Job Simulator Trailer Reveals Final Job: The Automotive Mechanic

Owlchemy Labs' Job Simulator is coming to the Oculus Rift with Oculus Touch support this year and launches alongside (and indeed in the box) with the HTC Vive. This latest trailer for the game reveals the fourth and final...
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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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‘Elite Dangerous’ Support Coming to Oculus Rift at Launch

Frontier Developments, makers of Elite Dangerous, today announced that the open-Universe space sim will be supporting Oculus Rift on day one of its March 28th launch. The good news: if you already own the game, you'll be getting Oculus support for...

Oculus to Preview the Rift’s “Latest Titles” at Special Pre-GDC Event

Oculus has announced an invite only event to coincide with GDC which promises a preview of the games new owners will be able to get their hands on after launch. The long awaited Oculus Rift consumer VR headset went up...

Free Oculus Rift to be Sent to Pre-Kickstarter Backers, Source Claims

It seems as if those VR pioneers that were part of the revolution prior to Oculus forming and starting their successful campaign to bring the Rift to life, may also now receive a consumer Oculus Rift. The Rift VR headset,...

Oculus Launch Avatar Lip Sync Plugin for Unity

Oculus have released a dedicated Unity plugin which aims to automatically detect and transform an audio stream from speech into virtual character lip movements automatically. It seems that the substantial investment in research and development at Oculus over the last...

Consumer Oculus Rift to Arrive with 4-Month Free Trial of Unity Pro

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey revealed today at Vision Summit 2016 that the company would be giving away 4 months of Unity Professional Edition for free with the purchase of an Oculus Rift. The move comes as a bid to entice consumers...

‘Oculus Ready’ PC and Headset Bundle Pre-orders Coming Feb 16th

Oculus today revealed more information on their Oculus Ready PC lineup, and announced that PC and headset bundle pre-orders will begin February 16th. Oculus announced that starting February 16 at 8am PT (click here for local time), you'll be able...
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Crytek Releases First Video Dev Diary for ‘The Climb’

Crytek has gone head-first into developing The Climb, the upcoming VR game featuring solo free rock climbing. The acrophobia - or fear of heights - from watching their first video developer diary is palpable to say the least. Team members working on The Climb talk from a...
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VRLO 3.0 Event Wrap-Up Features Autodesk, Bossa Studios, HammerheadVR and More

VRLO is a London based VR event which celebrated its third outing in December, bigger and better than ever before. Road to VR's Jonathan Tustain was there to report from the show. Here's a nifty wrap-up tour featuring a collection...

7 Ways to Move Users Around in VR Without Making Them Sick

You only need 10 minutes with a keyboard and mouse set-up to find out that moving around in VR is completely different from anything else in gaming. Here we take a look at some of the techniques developers are using to put...
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