Promising Breakout style Virtual Reality game Proton Pulse by Pushy Pixels has pushed past it's $3000 target in under 7 days but continues aiming high. Breaking Out We took a look at Proton Pulse recently and came away markedly impressed with...

Positional tracking is hard. Especially if you want to move through your virtual world as a physical space. Aaron Rasmussen has a solution and it's an elegant one. His Atlas project promises to make your home a VR playground...

Huge, unexpected news straight from Oculus VR Inc this morning: John Carmack is joining the company as chief technical officer, the company announced on its blog. Carmack was a key player in the Oculus Rift genesis story and is...

We speak to 'Teddy', the developer behind the UDK based and Razer Hydra powered positional tracking demo 'Hydradeck' and the new 'Hydradeck Cover Shooter'. VR Prospecting In these early days of the Virtual Reality resurgence, there's much to be discovered. Developers...

Inition has recently hosted a successful Oculus Rift / VR Meetup in London and plans to arrange future events. Industry insider Kevin Williams gives us the scoop. Guest post by Kevin Williams Kevin Williams is the founding chairman of the Digital Out-of-Home...

In what seems like a total reversal of the usual paradigm, a VR researcher is showing the benefits of augmenting the virtual world with the real world. In 'traditional' augmented reality, we take a scene from real life and overlay...

You may well have already seen Proton Pulse, the retro breakout style bat 'n' ball blaster from developer Justin Moravetz. Cymatic 'Awesome' Bruce covered an earlier version a little while back. Justin was kind enough to send us the...

Last week Oculus, in conjunction with IndieCade, announced the VR Jam, a virtual reality game design competition for Oculus Rift developers. Today marks the beginning of the competition, which will run through August 25th. All developers worldwide are welcome...

Dynamic Digital Depth, producers of a suite of 3D Driver products to enhance PC media and games by adding stereoscopic 3D support have just announced a new beta release with support for the Oculus Rift. TriDef Gets Rifted Stereoscopic 3D gaming...

Last week, gaming charity drive group Omnithon raised $2,367 for the Child's Play charity. The event was a 48-hour Oculus Rift gaming marathon that was streamed live to viewers -- at the end, the team raffled the Oculus Rift...

Ever wondered what it would feel like hurling yourself from a levitating building miles above the ground whilst surrounded by a neon dystopian futurescape? No? Well we go hands on with an early version of Owlchemy Labs' Aaaaaaa! Oculus...

Indie developer Owlchemy Labs recently announced that Oculus Rift support for their Futuristic Base-Jumping title 'AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome'. We were intrigued, so we asked their 'Chief Scientist' Alex Schwartz to tell us more. Virtually Awesome! "Absurd and highly polished games"...

On July 26th, Omnithon will be holding a 48-hour Oculus Rift gaming session, during which they'll collect donations for the Child's Play charity. If you contribute to the donation drive, you'll be entered to win an Oculus Rift developer...

In a move that's sure to excite Oculus Rift developers around the globe, Oculus has partnered with IndieCade for an worldwide 'VR Jam' game development contest. $50,000 in prizes are up for grabs, including a grand prize of $10,000. When...

Sixense has published a new video showing their forthcoming virtual reality CAD program, MakeVR, in use with the Oculus Rift. The software is an ambitious project by Sixense, creators of the Razer Hydra, to combine advanced CAD modeling software with an...