Oculus Explains Why They Didn’t Launch Touch with the Rift (Even Though They “Could Have”)

Oculus says they could have shipped Touch alongside the launch of the Rift back in April, but explains why they've been biding their time. Despite delaying their Touch VR motion controller to the latter half of 2016, Oculus says the...

‘Mythica VR’: VR LARP With D&D-style World Building Hits Kickstarter

Arrowstorm Entertainment is what you might call 'serial Kickstarters', as they've successfully completed 13 different campaigns on the crowdfunding site—mostly focusing on small budget sword and sorcery flicks starring the likes of Kevin Sorbo from Hercules (1995) and Kristian Nairn (aka Hodor) from Game of Thrones...

Sketchfab: Largest Social Media Site for 3D Objects Adds VR Navigation

Originally launched in 2012, Sketchfab has grown to be the largest social media website for sharing 3D objects and scenes with over 500,000 members and close to 1 million experiences. At SIGGRAPH, Sketchfab launched their VR browser to be...

Survey: 78% of AR/VR Developers Not Planning Platform-exclusive Content

In a survey published by VRDC, AR and VR developers are largely leaning toward platform agnostic development for their next projects. While Oculus and Valve/HTC continue to take two different approaches to stoking the development of VR games and applications—Oculus...

PlayStation VR Pre-Orders Had “Quickest Sellout in GameStop’s History”

GameStop executives have revealed that the last pre-order event for the soon-to-be-released PlayStation VR was the "Quickest Sellout" in the company's history. GameStop held its 2016 second quarter fiscal year conference call this week, and Sony's forthcoming PlayStation VR, due...
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President Obama Makes His 360 Video Debut

Felix & Paul Studios got together with Oculus Studios and National Geographic to shoot 360 video footage of President Barack Obama's recent Father's Day trip to Yosemite National Park, becoming the first official appearance by Obama in a VR...

Oculus is Working on a ‘Chaperone’-like Boundary System for Touch

Physically moving your body around to move through the virtual world is a great way to enhance immersion, but it can be potentially dangerous if users lose a sense of their real world surroundings. To keep users safe, Valve...

Highlights from the SIGGRAPH 2016 VR Village with Denise Quesnel

There was a VR Village again this year at the SIGGRAPH 2016 conference where a lot of experimental interactive technologies were on display. I had a chance to talk to the program chair Denise Quesnel about some of the content...

‘Obduction’ Oculus Rift Support Coming “in a few weeks,” Included With All Copies of the Game

Obduction, the hotly anticipated adventure puzzle game from the creators of Myst (1993), launched on PC on August 24th, but did so before the Oculus Rift version of the game was ready for release. Now the creators say it...

‘Rick and Morty’ Co-creator & Former Epic Games Exec. Producer Form New VR Studio, Squanchtendo

With a name that could only have come from the mind of Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, Squanchtendo is a VR game studio founded by Roiland and former Epic Games producer Tanya Watson to " edgy, mature comedy with refined, high-end...