Oculus Rift DK2
This is the Beginning of VR Education, and It Will Only Get Better
At a school in the Czech Republic on October 20th, a groundbreaking experiment took place. Instead of pens and paper, students sat down with specially adapted VR headsets (Oculus Rift DK2s) that dropped them into a fascinating, immersive, educational...
Oculus SDK 0.4.3 Beta Release Brings Unity Free and Experimental Linux Support
Oculus just fired an email to developers notifying them of their latest SDK release, 0.4.3 Beta. The latest version seems like a significant release with numerous feature additions and stability / performance improvements.
Oculus' move to a model of SDK...
‘World of Comenius’ Demonstrates Powerful Educational Interaction with Leap Motion and Oculus Rift
We recently covered a (at that point unnamed) VR project by developer Tomáš “Frooxius” Mariančík, the mind behind the stunning 'Sightline' VR series of demos. The project fused Leap Motion skeletal hand tracking with Oculus Rift DK2 positional tracking to...
Alien: Isolation in VR is Beautiful and Terrifying
Alien: Isolation is Creative Assembly's stab at moving a beloved movie franchise into a compelling interactive experience. Early word on the title was that, unlike the execrable Aliens: Colonial Marines before it, Isolation was something a bit special. What's...
Reverse Engineering the Oculus Rift DK2 Provides Brilliant Insight into Inner Workings
Spurred by the current lack of a Linux SDK for the Oculus Rift DK2, a group of developers sought to dissect the Rift's optical tracking system by reverse engineering the DK2. The information that was tediously corralled together is...
Elite: Dangerous Beta 2.0 Adds Oculus SDK 0.4.2, Fixes DK2 Judder and Much More
Elite: Dangerous emerged fairly early on in the Oculus Rift DK2s public life as the poster boy for the new hardware. With an exceptional, VR-tuned UI and an all-round best in class VR experience, it's clear that the team...
Darkfield VR Launches Kickstarter, Hands-On and Developer Interview
Darkfield VR is one of the earliest members of a new resurgence in the Space Combat genre - seemingly brought back from the dead with the advent of the Oculus Rift. It's a pure multiplayer dogfighting game which pitches...
John Carmack’s Brilliant Oculus Connect Keynote Goes ‘off Message from the Standard PR Plan’
There are two sorts of people in this world: those that have listened to John Carmack talk and those who are unenlightened. One of the key minds behind Doom and Quake is a most unlikely orator, but one who...
Oculus Connect Begins Tomorrow, Live Stream Details, Schedule and Speculation
It's upon us. Oculus Connect, probably the most eagerly anticipated event this year (at least for the VR community) and perhaps Oculus VR's most important event in it's young life, kicks off at the Loews Hotel in Hollywood, CA tomorrow...
News Bits: DK2 Reactions from Gamers Wowed by Z0NE (Formerly Rift Wars) at Boston Indie Games...
Developers Pixel Router, the team behind the Star Fox inspired Rift Wars, have been quiet lately. They've now come out of hiding brandishing a video of their recent to the Boston Festival of Indie Games. They had the latest version...
‘Snow’ Brings Open World Skiing to the Oculus Rift, Hands On and Developer Interview
At this year's Gamescom in Cologne, I got the chance to meet up with the team from Poppermost Productions, a small development team from Sweden who are mad keen on throwing themselves down steep slopes strapped to planks of...
Gamescom 2014: Hands-On With Pollen from Mindfield Games and Developer Interview (Video)
Pollen from Helsinki based developer Mindfield Games is an immensely promising 'Oculus Rift Optimised' story driven adventure set on Saturn moon Titan. I got a chance to catch up wit of the Mindfield team at this year's Gamescom in...
News Bits: Oculus SDK v0.4.2 Beta Released – New Firmware, Chromatic Aberration Fix, and More
Oculus VR has released an updated version of their SDK, the Oculus SDK v0.4.2 Beta. The update includes new firmware, with a fix for the Rift DK2's built-in latency tester, a chromatic aberration fix for headsets using the minimum...
New DK2 Enabled Senza Peso Featured by Epic Games at Pax Prime, Download it Now
I took a look at a very early version of a DK2 enabled Senza Peso demo recently (see the above video) just after Oculus' second VR Headset shipped and it remains one of the most impressive VR showcases out...
News Bits: HL2VR 1.4 Mod Released, The Best Half-Life 2 Experience Just Got Better
Back in October 2013 Road to VR's Ben Lang described HL2VR, a Half-Life 2 mod specially crafted to make playing in VR as cool as possible, as "The best way to experience Half-Life 2." The new version (1.4) is...















