Oculus Touch
Preview: ‘Dead & Buried’ Action Packed Multiplayer Could be the Killer App Oculus Touch Needs
After playing the latest build of Dead & Buried, the gun-slinging action game from Oculus Studios, I walked away disappointed. Disappointed that I would have to wait many months still for Oculus to release their Touch controllers so that I'd be...
Developer Pushes Valve’s Lighthouse Tracking to its Limits
Developers Stress Level Zero, the team behind the HTC Vive shooter Hover Junkers, are known for their VR experiments. But their latest investigation pushes the theoretical limits of Valve's Lighthouse tracking system, as featured in the HTC Vive.
Using just...
Oculus Rift Hits the FCC for Approval Leading up to March Launch
As with the HTC Vive in late December, the Oculus Rift VR system has now made its rounds through the FCC, the U.S. regulatory body that certifies devices for electromagnetic spectrum compatibility for consumer usage.
Before any company can sell...
Watch Artist Wesley Allsbrook Create ‘Live’ in VR with Oculus’ ‘Quill’
This is footage of artist Wesley Allsbrook, using an Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch motion controllers to paint in virtual 3D space in front of a live audience using Oculus Story Studio's 'professional' VR paint package 'Quill'.
At Sundance Yesterday,...
‘Quill’ is Oculus’ Professional VR Paint Package, Powered by Touch
At the Sundance Festival today, Oculus launched a new virtual reality application that harnesses the motion controlled accuracy of the company's Oculus Touch controllers to let you paint in virtual 3D space. The results, are quite impressive looking.
Tilt Brush...
Hands On: The Martian VR Experience is a Triumph in Motion
We went hands on with the new, real-time, VR experience inspired by the Ridley Scott movie 'The Martian' and found its mix of high production values, motion controllers combined with motion chairs seriously compelling.
Ridley Scott's The Martian is a...
Pre-ordering Oculus Rift Will Reserve Your Spot in Line for Touch Later This Year
Oculus Rift pre-orders open tomorrow (Wednesday January 6th) at 8AM PT. Founder Palmer Luckey this evening is providing a few last minute details, including the fact that pre-ordering the Rift will reserve your spot in line to pre-order the company's Touch...
New Oculus Touch Photos Show Unidentified Feature & Matured Design
After teasing us last week, Oculus has released more revealing photos of the latest design of their Touch VR controllers. Not seen on the previous 'Half Moon' prototype is a mysterious pattern to the left of the buttons, as well...
Oculus: A 2015 Retrospective and CES 2016 Preview
As the biggest consumer electronics show looms large on the horizon, we look back on the most notable Oculus related VR events of 2015, what to look forward to in 2016 and what we’re likely to see from the...
Oculus Teases Improved Touch Controller with “Significant Advances in Ergonomics”
After revealing the Touch 'Half Moon' prototype earlier in 2015, Oculus has continued to hone the already impressively designed VR controller. Alongside an update stating that Touch would be shipped in the second half of 2016, the company also...
Oculus Touch Release Date Pushed to 2nd Half of 2016
Oculus has announced that their 'Touch' VR controllers will be released in the second half of 2016. Previously the company had expected the Oculus Touch release date to come in the first half of the New Year.
After recently announcing...
Oculus Remains Silent on 2015 Rift & Touch Pre-orders in Wake of Vive Delay
Following the HTC Vive delay which pushed the headset just into Q2 2016, eyes turn to Oculus to see if they can deliver on the Rift's Q1 2016 release date window.
While Valve and HTC's initial Vive shipping target of...
Jason Storey on Colosse’s Gaze-Controlled Narrative & Echo Red’s Motion Controls
Jason Storey (aka apieceoffruit) is a VR developer, Left-Handed VR podcast co-host, and all-around VR enthusiast who has worked on number of different VR experiences. He talks about working on the gaze-control mechanism in the cinematic VR experience of...
Hands-On with Epic Games’ ‘Bullet Train’ and Oculus Touch at SEA-VR
Guest writer Michael Glombicki attended SEA-VR, a Seattle based virtual reality event, yesterday where local developers Epic Games - creators of Unreal Engine - and went hands-on with their latest Oculus Touch enabled, first person, VR shooter 'Bullet Train'...
Mark Zuckerberg on Oculus Toybox and Touch “The Craziest Oculus Experience”
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of social media giant Facebook, has become more and more vocal around the company's virtual and augmented reality plans of late. He took to the stage at Oculus' recent developer conference 'Connect' and now he's waxing...




















