Oculus Rift
News Bits: DARPA Uses the Oculus Rift to Visualise Cyber Terrorism
So here's a story that brings the use of virtual reality that bit closer to the Hollywood fantasies of l33t computer hackers. DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) have apparently been working for the last 2 years on a...
News Bits: Elite: Dangerous Enters Premium Beta 2, Impressive New Video Demonstrates Orbis Starport
We reported earlier that the crowd-funded latest entry in the Elite franchise had entered it's premium beta phase, opening the doors to many more players keen to explore the game's vast universe.
Along with the release, a new video demonstrating...
News Bits: Waiting For Your DK2? This Guys Knows How You Feel (Video)
The wait for the Oculus Rift DK2 is almost over. Oculus VR have stated that they're confident they can ship 20-30k DK2 units in the month of July, which means that there's likely to be a lot of very...
News Bits: ‘Affordable’ Oculus Rift 3D Camera Rig Demonstrated (Video)
Virtual Reality cinema and video is quickly becoming the hot topic. A seemingly endless stream of '360' cameras are spawning, Jaunt VR of course recently won $6M+ backing for it's 3D 360 VR cinema venture and it seems even...
‘Kintinuous’ Fuses Virtual and Reality with the Oculus Rift and Kinect
The Kinect was a great example of cutting edge technology coming from R&D into entertainment. First released as a peripheral for the Xbox 360, it quickly became one of the most successful console peripheral ever launched and then promptly...
News Bits: Live For Speed Latest Update Brings Oculus Rift DK1 Support, DK2 Support Soon
A little while back we reported that the racing simulation genre was embracing virtual reality enthusiastically, with almost all major titles either already having implemented or planning to implement support for Oculus Rift at some level. Games like Assetto...
News Bits: Xing: The Land Beyond, Public Demo Available Soon
Frustratingly, Road to VR and the White Lotus Interactive team seem to keep missing each other. Such was the case at E3 this year too unfortunately. It's especially annoying because, as a backer of the project, I've been wanting to...
‘Dreadhalls’ Gets a Makeover and DK2 Support, Developer Talks Positional Tracking
I'm a wimp! There, I said it. I never did make it all the way through the dark, dank and terrifying tunnels of Dreadhalls when it debuted as a finalist in last year's IndieCade VR Jam event. It was a finalist...
News Bits: Cyber Space is a Theme Park Ride Simulator that Tries to Turn Your Stomach,...
One of the things we're written about many times on the site is the possibilities for virtual reality inside the entertainment sphere but outside the scope of traditional games. Virtual Tourism, VR Cinema and Virtual Arcades are all tantalising prospects when...
News Bits: Eden River HD Developer Aaron Lemke Shares New Screens, Motivations
We reported yesterday that VR relaxation title Eden River HD was on it's way to Steam soon and shared a teaser trailer for the title. Now Unello Design founder Aaron Lemke shares some thoughts on why he wanted to...
E3 2014: Nate Mitchell and Palmer Luckey Talk Oculus Rift Games, DK2 Shipping and More
E3 2014 was the year of content not hardware for virtual reality, and Oculus lead the charge proudly demonstrating the fruits of their push to get developers to support their Oculus Rift platform.
Ben Lang caught up with Nate Mitchell,...
News Bits: Beautiful Eden River HD Teaser Trailer Surfaces, Coming Soon to Steam
Unello Design are probably the most chilled out VR developers in existence right now. Aaron Lemke's approach to game design seems to start with throwing away anything that could traditionally be considered a game. From the meditative Waking Man through...
E3 2014: Sony, Oculus, and Valve are Working Together To Make Great Virtual Reality
One of the defining and ingratiating aspects of Oculus VR as a company is their openness in sharing their progress and gathering knowledge from places other than their own offices. Their engagement with the community and their willingness to...
Alien Isolation with the Oculus Rift is Terrible (in a great way)
They say that man is the most dangerous game to hunt, but I don't think they considered an Alien xenomorph being the hunter. Alien: Isolation, a new title (with Oculus Rift support) based on the famous franchise, traps you helplessly in...
E3 2014: Control VR Gloves – Interview With CEO Alex Sarnoff and CTO Ali Kord
Control VR, the company that offers a solution for tracking the detailed movements of your upper body and fingers, have managed to whip up quite the storm over an amazingly short period of time.Since their Kickstarter campaign launched a...











