Oculus Rift
News Bits: New Atajrubah Dev Update Includes UE3 vs. UE4 Video
We wrote about Atajrubah recently and noted that the development team had moved to Unreal Engine 4 after spending much of the game's life up to that point as a UE3 project. The Oculus Rift enabled open world survival...
News Bits: Get DOSBox in Virtual Reality with DOSCulus
So to continue the retro / nostalgia theme that started with the release of MemoRift, we bring you news of somewhat more hardcore retro and emulation option for those wanting to try and bring their enjoyment of retro PC...
Radial-G Gives F-Zero and Wipeout Fans the VR Ride They’ve Been Waiting For, Kickstarter Now Live
If I were to say I liked the original Playstation game Wipeout, it would be disingenuous. I adored it! Back when 'next gen' consoles really delivered genuinely groundbreaking home gaming experiences, Wipeout lead the charge of 3D gaming...
News Bits: Take a Virtual Tour of the Millennium Falcon with the Oculus Rift
I've written before how virtual reality might well enable new and more powerful ways to re-live moments from the past or just gently wallow in immersive nostalgia. The recent launch of nostalgia simulator MemoRift and the Transformers tech demo...
VIVE – the Very Immersive Virtual Experience that Fuses Motion Capture with the Oculus Rift
Naturalistic input for users wishing to take that extra step towards full body immersion for their virtual reality experience is still some way off. You can see the pieces forming and coming together, and things are evolving quickly, but...
Oculus Rift DK2 Shipping Update: First Batch of DK2s Are En Route, 45,000 Pre-orders so Far
Oculus VR today posted an official shipping update on the highly anticipated Oculus Rift DK2. The company confirms that the first batch of DK2s have left the manufacturing facility and are on the way to distribution centers. Now at...
News Bits: Walk the Plank Like a Hero with Codemodeon’s ‘Action Star’
Some time ago we covered an event run by immersive experience specialists Inition that featured a very simple conceit; walk the plank in virtual reality and reality wearing an Oculus Rift VR Headset. The resulting experience was extremely successful and...
News Bits: New Oculus Rift Mod Aims to Give You an Out of Body Experience
A new project by Polish open source software tutorial website mepi.pl aims to give you the opportunity to follow your own movements as if you were a 3rd person spectator on your own life.
The project rigs a dual, customised webcams...
News Bits: Cyber Space VR Theme Park Ride Simulator Now Lets You Eject, World Scale Fixed
We reported on RiftAway's venture into white knuckle fantasy ride simulator Cyber Space a little while ago and mused on it's potential status as the ultimate in testing your VR Legs.
Now, RiftAway has released a new version of the...
News Bits: Hang Out With Optimus Prime In This New Oculus Rift Demo
As we reported yesterday with Benjamin Teitler's impressive mo-capped Lightsaber demo for the Oculus Rift, re-living your fantasies of youth can be made reality through the power of VR.
Now, developer Tipatat, who was behind the recent Matrix Oculus rift...
‘Walkmouse’ is an Elegant, Untethered, Motorised Omni-Directional Treadmill
If someone had come to me three years ago and said "Omni-directional treadmills, they'll be a thing soon" - I'd have laughed in their faces. Three years on and whilst input devices that aim to take natural walking, running...
Oculus VR’s Brendan Iribe: “we’re not going to sell 1 billion pairs of glasses ourselves”
In a report from Bloomberg, Oculus VR's model for expansion and fulfilling it's long term objective, to have 1 Billion users in Virtual Reality, it's choosing to adopt a proven method borne out by the success of Google's Android...
News Bits: ADR1FT Developer Receives Early DK2 Unit
It's getting closer. In March, Oculus VR opened pre-orders for their follow-up to their debut VR Headset the DK1. Developer Kit 2 (DK2) ships in July and features positional tracking and an 1080p panel with low persistence of vision...
News Bits: Impressive VR Lightsaber Video Uses the Oculus Rift and a Serious Mo-Cap Rig
Let's face it, there's a large proportion of people reading this post that hold a secret (or not so secret) desire to kick Imperial ass using nothing but the Force and a Lightsaber.
Well a hacker named Benjamin Teitler just...
Oculus VR Responds to ZeniMax Allegations with 32 Page Court Filing
As part of the ongoing lawsuit against Oculus VR on behalf of ZeniMax, Oculus has today responded to ZeniMax's official court filing with their own comprehensive 32 page document. The response presents what appears to be a strong case...









