During the Oculus Connect keynote address, among the company’s many announcements like Netflix for Gear VR and Minecraft for VR, was the news that Twitch is coming to Gear VR. And the best part: you can watch it socially with friends while in the comfort of your virtual living room.
EGX 2015 was seemingly over flowing with virtual reality headsets this year and interestingly, with the exception of a handful of Playstation VR demo stations, the Valve’s flagship VR Headset the HTC Vive dominated. A nice surprise too, Elite: Dangerous being publicly demo’d on SteamVR’s first headset. We went hands-on.
Manus Machina, a company dedicated to virtual reality input devices, has begun shipping their first sets of wireless VR gloves to developers.
Oculus Story Studio, the VR headset company’s in-house production team, has released an immersive trailer of their animated VR short featuring a lovable little hedgehog, Henry.
Nicolas Férey was presenting a number of papers at the first-ever workshop on Virtual and Augmented Reality for Molecular Science at the IEEE VR. Nicolas was presenting different navigational paradigms for molecular biology tasks that were designed with the involvement of experts in structural biology.
During Oculus Connect’s keynote speech yesterday, it was revealed that Touch, the company’s optically tracked hand controller was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the result of hundreds of early prototypes.
A number of games compatible with Touch were announced yesterday at Oculus Connect, ensuring at least 8 titles launching simultaneously so you can play right out of the box.
In a session at day 1 of Connect, Oculus’ Caitlin Kalinowski and Stephanie Lue took to the stage to speak about the challenges associated with making the Oculus Rift a mass-producible product.
At Oculus Connect today a new 3D paint program was announced that aims to take Oculus Touch to the artists among us, and it’s called Medium.
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).
