VorpX, the highly anticipated utility that adds Oculus Rift support to many existing games, is finally available to the public. The program makes it easy to enjoy your existing game library in virtual reality.
Total Cinema 360 is a company that specializes in recording 360 degree video. They’re now formatting their footage for the Oculus Rift head mounted display and enabling head tracking to let users look around the live action scene.
For those wanting to get in on the PrioVR Kickstarter, but couldn’t back the $349 ‘PrioVR Lite’ kit with 11 trackers, YEI Technology has announced a new less expensive tier aimed toward seated VR gaming.
Kevin Williams once again brings us a report of the latest VR happenings in London. The second Oculus Rift /VR meetup hosted by Inition drew as many as 60 interested individuals and showed off a number of exciting VR demos.
Sixense has put together a video showing their STEM prototype played with one of my favorite Oculus Rift demos — Crashland. The Sixense team is also doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit where the community can post questions directly to the creators of the Hydra and STEM.
The already highly successful STEM Kickstarter just keeps getting better. A new update from the team at Sixense brings prices down, adds a new stretch goal at $700,000 for iOS/Android, and introduces a new $149 reward level.
It looks like we’ve got a new challenger to Project Holodeck. ‘Inversion Project’ by Zero Latency Media is a low-cost, portable VR environment that allows players to crouch, jump, and move around a physical space while having that movement mirrored in a virtual reality game. The developers are showing off an early demo using the environment with a game called Zombie Fort: Smackdown.
A certain web based seller is advertising to sell prospective buyers Oculus Rift Development Kits in bulk. Something’s amiss here, Road to VR investigates.
Fancy re-living one of the most iconic scenes in Cinema history? Author Boone (of Rift Coaster fame) has released video of new Star Wars inspired demo for the Oculus Rift.
We talk to E McNeill (real name Ed, known as ‘E’), author of Ciess – recently crowned winner of the Indiecade VR Jam contest. We discuss what the development process was like and of course whether Ciess will see a full commercial release.
Hello dear readers, and welcome to the latest version of our site. For those of you wondering why we’ve been slow on the reporting lately — now you know!
In a newly published video, Neal Stephenson, project leader on Clang, extols the benefits of the Sixense STEM system, and how it will enable Stephenson’s goal of realistic sword fighting in videogames.
The VR Jam held by Oculus VR Inc and IndieCade has come to an end. Two winners, announced today, take home $10,000 each, along with a trip to attend and exhibit their game at IndieCade 2013, and an invitation to visit Oculus HQ and spend the day with the Oculus team.
The Sixense STEM system for VR motion control blew through its $250,000 goal one day one. The campaign is now at $476,000 and appears well on the way to $1 million. Sixense have announce a ‘stretch goal’ at $550,000 which will make the STEM base station wireless.
The 20 finalists singled out for the finals of the Oculus / IndieCade VR Jam have now been chosen. We take a look at the first 10 games to be selected as finalists.
