E3 is over for another year and on this, the final day of the show, we caught up with Oculus founder and inventor of the Rift Palmer Luckey for an interview that covers everything from the Rift CV1’s hybrid Fresnel lenses and ergonomics to Oculus Touch’s capabilities and limitations.
At E3 2015 Sony is showing a brand new addition to their The London Heist VR game, this time putting the player in an action-packed car chase. From Sony’s London Studio, the demo represents another exemplary entry into the company’s VR content lineup.
From the first time that Oculus revealed the ‘Crescent Bay’ prototype back at Oculus Connect 2014, they said they knew that no matter how good they made the headphones, some people would still prefer to use their own. And thus the company promised that the headphones would be removable. The consumer version of the Oculus Rift delivers on that promise.
From the beginning, Oculus said they didn’t want to reveal an official VR input solution until they could do it right. Despite pressure from their developers, competitors, and the VR community at large, the company bided their time up until just one week ago where they showed the world the ‘Oculus Touch Half Moon’ prototype. After trying the system for myself, I can confidently say that it was worth the wait.
Here’s a full play-through of Overkill’s The Walking Dead experience at E3 2015 using Starbreeze’s StarVR 210 degree VR headset.
Tilt Brush‘s first painting exhibition, a gathering that took place last weekend in San Francisco, was organized to showcase a select group of artists using the made-for-VR painting program. Though VR headsets are largely known for enhancing immersion in gaming, Tilt Brush shows that VR can also be a completely new canvas for creative expression.
We go hands on with the latest StarVR headset prototype from Starbreeze Studios, sporting a 210 degree field of view and dual quad-HD panels as demoed at E3 with Overkill’s The Walking Dead experience.
StarVR, the recently reborn super-wide FOV VR headset from Starbreeze Studios, have put together something of a mini-museum at their E3 booth commemorating a number of development prototypes.
Crytek’s new virtual reality demo prototype which debuts at E3 this week, is an impressive testament to Crytek’s renewed commitment to VR. Here’s a video playthrough and some thoughts from my time with the ‘Robinson: The Journey’ Prototype.
Paranormal Activity, Paramount Pictures’ horror film franchise, is soon to be made into a VR video game set to release on all major headsets next year.
Snippets of VR-centric news have been coming out from major game studios and their subsidiaries—specifically from EA, Microsoft, and Ubisoft—throughout the course of E3. Here we take a look at some of the VR projects the big studios have mentioned in passing.
During his many rounds of E3 interviews, Founder and inventor of the Oculus Rift Palmer Luckey discussed the present and near future of virtual reality. Here’s a quick recap of our favorite bits:
We go hands-on with Rebellion’s update to Atari’s arcade classic Battle Zone and discover that this VR reboot is anything but a cheap VR cash-in on a retro title.
We scrounged, scraped, and combed for every single Morpheus game currently demoing in Sony’s booth at E3 2015 in Los Angeles. Here’s our complete list, coming to 17 impressively varied VR demos for the PlayStation 4.
With games like Crysis (2007) and Ryse: Son of Rome (2013), Crytek has cultivated a reputation for making beautiful games. The company’s VR team, which just announced Robinson: The Journey as their first title, is keeping with that tradition in full force. Their prototype of the game, shown at E3 2015, is one of the most expansive and visually impressive VR demos I’ve ever seen.
