As we reported yesterday, InfinitEye is alive, well and reborn as Star VR, now a 5k, dual panel, 210 degree FOV VR Headset. The headset will be on show at E3 this year and will have a custom ‘The Walking Dead‘ experience produced by parent company Starbreeze.
Oculus announced at their pre-E3 ‘Step into the Rift’ event that they would be committing more than $10 million to accelerate indie VR developers. The investment fund signifies the largest amount of money ever publicly earmarked by Oculus for third-party content development.
Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick says that the company is still far from deploying virtual reality games.
VR Karts: Sprint, the Gear VR adaptation of VR Karts, is now on the Gear VR store. With the addition of online multiplayer, you can now race around the game’s cartoony kingdom against competitors from all over the globe.
At yesterday’s Oculus ‘Step into the Rift’ event, Oculus listed some stats about the spread of the Rift DK1 and DK2 development kits, showing that more than 175,000 units have been sold.
Oculus is now taking Rift demo appointments at E3 through their app. If you’ll be at E3 and want to get your head into the Rift consumer version for the first time, jump in and sign up! You’ll get to choose between nine games to experience.
Yesterday at Oculus’ pre-E3 event in San Francisco, aptly named ‘Step into the Rift’, press got a chance to not only get a peek at all the consumer-ready VR headset from the company, but also a lineup of launch titles coming to the Rift.
Missed Oculus’ pre-E3 event today? Reading the coverage not quite the same as seeing the real deal? Good news for you, you can now watch the entire event recording right here.
Oculus today addressed a longstanding concern with the Rift VR headset by announcing that the consumer model would feature a physical IPD adjustment. The company also says that they’ve made the headset more comfortable for those with glasses.
Oculus showed off their solution for virtual reality enabled software delivery platform today when they gave us a glimpse of the latest version of Oculus Home.
Along with the latest batch of photos for the Oculus Rift consumer headset, we get a high resolution look under the shell of the hotly anticipated device.
The Oculus Touch VR controller will ship in the first half of 2016, says founder Palmer Luckey. The units will be available for pre-order at the same time as the Oculus Rift.
At Oculus’ special press event today, CEO Brendan Iribe announced that the consumer edition of the Oculus Rift VR Headset will ship with an Xbox One controller as standard.
Today at the company’s ‘Step into the Rift’ pre-E3 event in San Francisco, Oculus revealed what they’re calling ‘Oculus Touch’, the company’s VR-specific input controller.
