Oculus Rift
News Bits: New Radial-G Demo With DK2 and Mac Support Due For ‘Soft’ Release Next Week
Both Ben Lang and I have confessed our love for the classic anti-gravity futuristic racing franchise 'Wipeout', and recently Ben waxed enthusiastic about a new Oculus Rift title from UK based developers Tammeka Games. The company launched a £50k Kickstarter...
Surgeon Uses Oculus Rift On Patients, Streams Operation Using Google Glass
One of the joys of writing about reporting from the cutting-edge of a newly reborn technology like virtual reality is that you're constantly being surprised as what people are finding to do with it. Almost weekly there's some innovation...
News Bits: Go Off-Road in VR With New WIP Oculus Rift 4×4 Game
Seated experiences, that's the focus of the first wave of virtual reality gaming, at least as far as Oculus VR are concerned. In order to ease the consumer into the wonders of VR and to alleviate limitations of this...
News Bits: Oculus VR: “Please Update Your Billing Info” – DK2 Shipments May be Imminent
In the last 24 hours, some of those who secured a pre-order for Oculus VR's 2nd Developer Kit (DK2) have received emails from the company requesting that they check their payment and shipping details so that order faced no...
News Bits: Oculus Connect Conference Tickets Priced at $249
Oculus VR has confirmed the price for their inaugural developer conference, Oculus Connect. Tickets will be priced at $249. Oculus Connect registration opened on Wednesday without any pricing information.
Oculus calls the Connect event “a developer conference that brings together engineers,...
Latest UE4 Release Includes Time-Warping, Couch Knights Demo and is DK2 Ready
Unreal Engine 4 has only been on general release since March but has made quite an impression on developers. Its low cost of entry, wealth of supporting documentation, tutorials and its 'no coding required' approach to game development has...
First Oculus Rift DK2 Shipment Delayed to Polish New SDK
Oculus VR today has made an official announcement about the shipping status of the first batch of Rift DK2s. The shipment, which the company previously said would be leaving distribution facilities on the 14th of July, has been held...
News Bits: Oculus Now Accepting Registration for Connect Developer Conference
Early last week, Oculus VR announced its first official developer conference, Oculus Connect. Registration for the conference was expected to open on the 10th, but was delayed indefinitely. Today, Oculus has opened registration for the Connect VR developer conference.
Registration...
News Bits: Xing: The Land Beyond – ‘Rainforest’ Demo Released
We've been waiting for a playable slice of White Lotus Interactive's Oculus Rift enabled title 'Xing: The Land Beyond' since the team teased it might be on its way shortly after this year's E3 expo.
The game, which successfully completed...
Aerometrex Combines Impressive 3D Mapping with VR for Intense Flyovers
Flying in virtual reality, a commonly held wish by enthusiasts since the dawn of the technology. The prospect of swooping over virtual landscapes, your mind convinced your body has taken flight is an extremely enticing one. Now that virtual...
News Bits: ‘Aliens, Trolls and Dragons’, 12 Minutes of Oculus Rift Enabled Action Adventuring (Video)
Virtual Reality is still and emerging (perhaps re-emerging) technology and gaming platform. As such, new surprises and interesting uses of the technology are never far away right now. 'Aliens, Trolls and Dragons' is an Action Adventure game with native...
Digital Combat Simulator (DCS), the DK2 Enabled Flight Sim That Flew under the Radar at E3...
Guest writer Kevin Williams lifts the lid on a game which missed the glare of the media spotlight at E3 2014—Digital Combat Simulator.
During E3 2014, there was a crowded assortment of demonstrators on the Oculus VR booth. One of...
News Bits: Oculus Connect Conference Registration Delayed
Earlier this week, Oculus VR announced Oculus Connect, a VR developer conference to be hosted at the end of September in Los Angeles, California. Registration was slated to open this morning at midnight, but Oculus says they need more...
Exclusive: Early Oculus Rift DK2 Unboxing, “The color, contrast, and motion is leaps and bounds over...
It's DK2 month, with swaths of developers and enthusiasts eagerly awaiting a knock on the door from their local delivery man. An anonymous source has revealed an unboxing of the highly anticipated Oculus Rift DK2.
In a recent update from...
Oculus VR Announces ‘Oculus Connect’ VR Developer Conference with Keynotes from Abrash, Carmack, and Luckey
Oculus VR today announced that the company will be hosting 'Oculus Connect' a VR-focused conference in Los Angeles, California this September. The company has also announced the acquisition, and open-sourcing, of RakNet, a networking middleware used in the games...











