Announced today at Oculus Connect, Owlchemy Lab’s Job Simulator is now among a number of launch titles to integrate Oculus Touch, the company’s hand-held controllers that feature both hand and basic finger tracking. The new ‘office worker’ level was also revealed, making it the game’s third level we’ve seen thus far.
Amidst the tidal wave of announcements at this year’s keynote presentation at Oculus Connect, it might have been easy to miss a feature or two. Oculus Video is one such initiative, a movie streaming platform for Oculus devices which may have slipped under the radar. Well, it’s coming and the first major studio to sign up to the platform is 20th Century Fox whose Innovation lab is helping to bring some well known flicks to VR.
Oculus Engineer Director Anuj Gosalia takes to the stage at Connect today to help developers to understand the ins and outs of developing for the Oculus Rift with the company’s PC SDK. We’ll be liveblogging the event starting at 2:30PM PT (find your timezone here).
We’re still running to catch up with all the news that spilled out of Oculus Connect’s Keynote presentation this morning. One of the most notable for casual VR users and movie fans alike was the announcement that you can now download a VR version of Netflix, built by John Carmack for Samsung’s Gear VR headset.
John Carmack, Oculus’ Chief Technical Officer, takes to the big Dolby Theater stage here at Connect for his “signature talk.” Catch the livestream right here starting at 1PM PT (find your timezone here).
Samsung today revealed the consumer version of the ‘Oculus Powered’ Gear VR headset which is now compatible with four of Samsung’s latest phones. The headset looks similar to the two prior versions but a careful look (or a scale!) will reveal big changes.
Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games, took the stage today at Oculus Connect to tell the world a little about their upcoming VR FPS, Bullet Train.
Oculus today was on a mission to prepare for consumer release and that means content. One of the biggest sources of movies, used the world over is Netflix and now, as of today, you can download and use Netflix in virtual reality, via the Samsung Gear VR.
At Oculus Connect’s Keynote presentation, Palmer Luckey took to the stage to announce that Minecraft will be adding official virtual reality support with Oculus Rift support Spring next year.
Florian Frieß is from the Visualization Research Center at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His presentation on using sonification to highlight events extracted from a molecular dynamics simulation. This talk on sonification was mentioned by a number of other participants in the first-ever workshop on Virtual and Augmented Reality for Molecular Science at the IEEE VR conference.
Oculus has today announced a partnership with Asus, Dell and Alienware to produce ‘Oculus Ready’ PCs, pricing at under $1000.
At Oculus Connect 2 today at the opening Keynote, SVP of Samsung Mobile Peter Koo to announce that they intend to ship a consumer focussed version of Gear VR, that works with all 2015 Galaxy phones for just $99.
Day two of Oculus Connect 2 will be underway shortly and this is where the fun begins. The main attraction, at least for many casual observers outside the conference, will be a series of keynote sessions to kick off the day and the event proper. If you’re not lucky enough to be at Connect this year, we’ve got two great ways for you to enjoy the keynote livestream, all from one page. The action starts at 10am PT (your timezone here).
