Oculus Connect: Elevating Your VR – Live Blog @ 4:45pm PDT

"How to recognize what elevates VR from good, to breathtaking, and practical steps on how to get there. In this presentation, we explore how to recognize the levels of excellence to aspire to in VR, and how to take...

Oculus Connect: Learnings from UE4 Engine Integration and Demos – Live Blog @ 3:30pm PDT

"We’ll give a high-level overview of how we integrated the Oculus Rift hardware into Unreal Engine 4, with a focus on tricks we used to reduce latency and optimize the engine. Additionally, we’ll go through the successes, failures, and...

First Hands-on: Oculus Rift Crescent Bay is Incredible

During a keynote at Oculus Connect, Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe unveiled a headset they believe approaches the holy grail of virtual reality, presence. That is, it delivers an experience that your brain accepts as an alternate reality. This...

Oculus Announces New Prototype, Crescent Bay, This is What It Looks Like—Breaking

At Oculus' inaugural 'Connect' event in Hollywood CA today, CEO Brendan Iribe announced a new feature prototype that  Oculus believes delivers VR presence for the first time. The Prototype is called Crescent Bay and although exact specs are not yet...

Oculus Connect: Watch Live – Oculus VR’s Brendan Iribe and Nate Mitchell @9:30am PDT

Watch Oculus VR CEO and VP of Product Nate Mitchell as the address attendees of the Oculus Connect event in Hollywood CA. Rumours are there might be some surprises in store. CV1 announcement? New controller perhaps? We shall see...

Oculus Connect: Nirav Patel on Building the First Rift Development Kit – Live Blog @5pm PDT

Those of you who've followed the Oculus story from the start may recall Oculus hiring a young engineer who'd produced a high performance "9 DoF" tracking sensor - a version of which eventually found it's way into the first Oculus...

News Bits: Dazzling New Unreal 4 DK2 Demo Drops You into a Bullet Time Action Scene

Epic's Unreal engine has been front and centre in Oculus' technical demonstrations since the Oculus Rift HD Prototype appeared just over a year ago and ever since. From the dazzling Elemental demo used to debut UE4 to the unnamed...

Big News for VR: Nvidia’s New Graphics Cards Are Designed for High Performance Virtual Reality Rendering

We knew it was coming and it looks like Nvidia is the first to throw their hat into the ring, now being the first of the big GPU manufacturers to design their latest processors with VR in mind. Nvidia's...

Oculus Connect Begins Tomorrow, Live Stream Details, Schedule and Speculation

It's upon us. Oculus Connect, probably the most eagerly anticipated event this year (at least for the VR community) and perhaps Oculus VR's most important event in it's young life, kicks off at the Loews Hotel in Hollywood, CA tomorrow...

News Bits: ZVR Apocalypse Playable DK2 Demo Released – Dismember Zombies in Bullet-Time

Developer Shaun Edwards (aka Sh0v), not content with producing Lunar Flight, one of the best early VR enabled games for the Oculus Rift, is already releasing a playable demo of his second VR-enabled title. Lucid VR Games has been...