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HelmetVR Combines an Oculus Rift with a Real Race Helmet

Said to be the world’s first VR sim racing helmet, the HelmetVR is perhaps the ultimate in VR sim racing excess, combining a real Arai racing helmet with an Oculus Rift headset. The custom headset comes from FormulaVR, a...

Oculus: Rift Won’t Be Superseded by New Version for ‘at least two years’

During an interview at the Game Developers Conference at the end of March, head of Oculus’ PC VR division Brendan Iribe stated that the Rift will remain the company's flagship VR headset for “at least the next two years”....

Facebook’s New 360 Capture SDK Can Record HQ Videos and Photos in VR Apps

Facebook F8, the company's annual developer conference, is currently in full swing on its second and final day. Today's big VR announce from the social platform giant? Facebook is releasing the 360 Capture SDK tool that developers can integrate into VR...

Oculus Co-founder Palmer Luckey Bids Goodbye to Facebook

Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, is stepping down from his position at the company. Oculus told Upload VR the news, saying that it will be Luckey's last week at the Facebook-owned VR headset...
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‘AirMech: Command’ Gets Major Oculus Touch Update, Launches on Steam VR

VR motion control comes to AirMech: Command, and the game has been released on Steam with support for multiple VR headsets and controllers through OpenVR. The game originally appeared as a launch title for the Oculus Rift in March...

‘Robo Recall’ Mod Adds Full Locomotion to Address Room-scale Niggles

Robo Recall has been given a locomotion mod for those looking for a less-restrictive movement system. Epic Games’ new VR shooter employs a teleport mechanic for movement, but has full mod support, allowing for additional experimental control systems. Robo Recall,...

Oculus Cuts Price of Rift Sensors to $59

Alongside the $100 price cut of both Rift headset and Touch controllers, Oculus also permanently reduced the price of additional Sensors to $59. This is the first major price reduction for high-end PC VR hardware since launch. Oculus have applied...

Epic Games Shows You How to Create Your First ‘Robo Recall’ Mod

As has been Epic Games' style for many years, Robo Recall - built on the company's Unreal Engine 4 - allows you to change the original game via the engine's editor, giving you the tools you need to mod...
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Watch: ‘Robo Recall’ is Playable on HTC Vive Using ‘Revive’ Mod, Here’s How

Oculus Rift exclusive title Robo Recall - which launched just yesterday - can already be played on the HTC Vive, using the infamous Revive mod. And, as you can see in this video, the game seems to work remarkably well. Oculus' approach...

Oculus Announces Significant Price Drop for Rift and Touch

In an aggressive move that'll help lower the bar of entry still further for VR, Oculus have announced sizeable permanent price drops for both the Oculus Rift headset and Oculus Touch controllers, both now cut by $100 each. There are...

‘Robo Recall’ Review

When the Robo Recall title screen first appears - a voice calling its name out like a boxing ring announcer while the electro-rock soundtrack builds in the background - arcade aficionados could be forgiven for thinking they had stepped...

Oculus Acknowledges Ongoing Tracking Issues with 3-Sensor Setups, Promises February Update

Oculus' most recent platform update, 1.11 was designed to improve tracking performance for experimental room-scale tracking setups with two or more Sensors. For some users however, the update seems to have made things worse. Oculus has now acknowledged the...

Watch: This Mobile VR Crane Simulator Showcases the Future of Industrial Training

Industrial Training International is readying their VR Mobile Crane Simulator for the March ConExpo Event in Las Vegas. The simulator uses an Oculus Rift headset in combination with a modular rig, in order to significantly reduce the costs of...
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Oculus Home Voice Search Now on Rift and Gear VR Makes Browsing Your VR Library a...

Recent updates to Oculus Home on both desktop and Gear VR have added a Voice Search feature which makes zipping around your VR content library much easier than the old method of digging through menus and thumbnails. Update (2/10/27, 9:28...

Oculus Head of Content Teases ‘Months of High Profile VR content’ On the Way

Jason Rubin, Head of Content at Oculus, has recently teased ‘months of high-profile VR content’ for the hardware. In a recent tweet, he points towards the upcoming release of Rock Band VR, an exclusive title for Rift and Touch,...
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