At Oculus’ special event in San Francisco today, Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox at Microsoft – announced a close partnership with Oculus to offer VR streaming of Xbox One games and native Windows 10 support for the Oculus Rift.
Oculus has announced that their forthcoming ‘Step into the Rift’ press event will be livestreamed for all to see. The action starts at 10am PT on Thursday (tomorrow!).
Futuremark, the Finnish company specialising in synthetic performance benchmarking software, has announced it’s to turn its hand to measuring immersive technology performance with VRMark, its first virtual reality benchmark.
Chris Pruett, Oculus’ head of developer relations and co-founder of Robot Invader, elucidates more about the technical knacks for optimizing Unity-based works intended for the Samsung Gear VR mobile platform.
The Landmark Entertainment Group, a theme park and live entertainment creative studio, has recently announced they are creating an interactive virtual reality park in China. The first of its kind, the park is said to heavily emphasize VR and AR in a theme park setting.
Just a few days prior to their ‘Step into the Rift‘ press event in San Francisco, Oculus has accidentally leaked what they’ve called a “placeholder concept” image which shows some never before seen additions to the Rift VR headset.
Along with the first look at a VR input controller from Oculus, today’s leak shows a front-facing camera on the consumer version of the headset as well as a redesigned positional tracking camera.
Oculus today launched a revamped version of their website to prepare for the upcoming ‘Step into the Rift‘ event later this week. With it came a slew of previously unseen photos which show, for the first time, an Oculus input controller, the ‘SID’ or Simple Input Device.
Though people speak of the ‘metaverse’—a vast network of interconnected virtual worlds—as a far flung future concept, in reality we already have the underlying structure built and functioning on a massive scale; it’s called the internet and it connects billions of us together. The only thing holding the internet back from becoming the metaverse is a way to step inside of it. Mozilla, it turns out, is working on the solution.
With deliveries of the HTC Vive Developer Edition now arriving, Valve has released the ‘Setup guide pamphlet’ that’s included in the box. Filled with classic subtle humor from Valve, the pamphlet also confirms IPD and eye-relief adjustments on the HTC Vive headset, as well as several interesting tidbits about the system.
Arguably the games industry’s most important annual event, the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015 begins in LA next week. As the final E3 before the retail release of three major virtual reality headsets from Oculus, Sony, and Valve/HTC, we take the opportunity to look back at the last three years of consumer VR.
Tilt Brush, the made-for-VR painting program that lets you create anything and everything with the stroke of a virtual brush, have announced “the world’s first VR painting exhibition” to take place June 12-13th, 2015 in San Francisco.
The first Vive Developer Edition headsets and controllers for SteamVR are arriving and Owlchemy Labs have been kind enough to provide us with high resolution shots of the system, including the new wireless Lighthouse tracked controllers.
Valve’s first ‘Vive’ Developer Edition VR headsets and controllers are now shipping and some lucky devs already have them. We take an early look inside the box.
