Oculus Rift Compatible Games

Oculus Rift Compatible Games

Storytelling in VR: Ambiguity and Implication in 1st Person Narratives

Rob Morgan is the writer of The Assembly, and he spoke last year at GDC about narrative design in VR and the importance of accurate body language in NPCs to maintain a sense of presence. He returned to GDC...
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NASA-backed ‘Mars 2030’ is a Breathtakingly Real Slice of Martian Landscape the Size of ‘Skyrim’

Backed with support from NASA, the development of Mars 2030 is underscored by a singular mission: do everything possible to make the player feel like they're actually on Mars. And that, apparently, means starting with a massive, detailed recreation of...
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Latest VorpX Adds Oculus Rift CV1 Support, HTC Vive Support “Planned”

The latest release of VorpX, the VR injection driver that lets you play your favourite non VR games in VR, is here and it brings support for the consumer edition (CV1) Oculus Rift. It's hard to believe VorpX, the injection...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – April #2

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. https://youtu.be/sAiZfBJvY5g Explore an abandoned dragon planet by moving around platforms and going through...

EVE: Valkyrie is Coming to HTC Vive this Year, CCP Confirms

It seems that the game people most associate with and indeed shipped alongside the Oculus Rift, is coming to the HTC Vive this year. EVE:Valkyrie has evolved alongside the Oculus Rift since the early days and the association with the...

‘Damaged Core’: Building VR Locomotion into Gameplay

Part of the challenge of creating a first-person perspective game in VR is that there are limited locomotion options for moving around in VR in a way that's comfortable for most people. Damaged Core is a Oculus Rift launch...

Paul Bettner on the Launch of ‘Lucky’s Tale’ for Oculus Rift

When most people think about the types of things that want to do in virtual reality, then they almost always think of experiences that are from the first-person perspective. But Lucky's Tale proved to me that there are going...

You Can Access Oculus Home with DK2, Play Free and Paid Content Right Now

There's plenty of reasons to be excited for the Oculus Rift to arrive at your doorstep in the next few days (or months), but don't throw out that DK2 just yet, because there's still some life in the old...

Oculus ‘Dreamdeck’ is the One-size-fits-all Gateway Drug for VR

The Oculus Rift is arriving at people's doors today, and Oculus kept a couple of surprises back for launch day. One of these, Oculus Dreamdeck, is a bundling of a series of 'vignettes' used originally to demo a standing...

Unboxing the New Oculus Rift Step-by-Step in Pictures

Three years after the Kickstarter funded Oculus Rift Developer Kit shipped, the consumer edition Rift is here and it's an appealingly packaged piece of kit. We unbox the final retail package and share the process with you, step by...

The First $100 You Should Spend on Oculus Rift Games

Oculus Rift pre-orders have been hitting doorsteps in limited quantities for the past few days (the first pre-order got hand-delivered from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey himself), but today marks the official launch of both the headset and the headset's software platform,...

‘Project CARS’: Making an Authentic Racing Simulation Work in VR

Slightly Mad Studios been making racing games for the past 10 years, and they raised over $3 million dollars in crowd-funding to produce their own racing game called Project CARS. It's a AAA racing simulation game that was first...
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‘Bullet Train’ on the Latest Oculus Touch Makes You a Bullet-Catching Badass

If you didn't know you could catch bullets, Epic Games wants you to reconsider in their physics-bending VR first-person shooter Bullet Train. The game gives you a few well-placed commands in the beginning, and thankfully no lengthy tutorializing as such. Time dilates...

Combining VR, RTS and Twin-Stick Shooting with ‘AirMech: Command’

James Green is the creative director at Carbon Games, and he was inspired to create AirMech: Command from playing a 1989 game called Herzog Zwei, which was one of the first real-time strategy games that also used a gamepad...

Ben Gabbard on the VR Design & Gameplay of ‘Chronos’

Gunfire Games' Chronos is an atmospheric RPG with over 10 hours of action and adventure, and it uses a satisfying combat game mechanic that's very similar to their Herobound: Spirit Journey on the Gear VR. Chronos had a lot...
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