New Oculus Render Tech Cuts Entry Level VR PC Costs to $499
Keeping games chugging along at 90 frames per second (fps) while rendering modern graphics is a tall order, which is why building a VR-ready computer is pretty much impossible with less than $600. Well, now the minimum spec—at least...
Hands-on: Oculus’ Wireless ‘Santa Cruz’ Prototype Makes Standalone Room-scale Tracking a Reality
On stage at Oculus Connect 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that Oculus is developing a new, standalone, wireless VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. Following the keynote, I was whisked away behind closed doors to see the so-called...
Oculus Wants You to Talk With ‘Parties’ and Play in ‘Rooms’
Remember that friends list you made back when you got your Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Rift? Yeah. It's been pretty useless. Today Oculus announced that they'll soon be turning on social with the help of two new social...
Oculus Touch Pre-Orders Open October 10th at $199, Ships December 6th
Oculus' developer conference Connect is in full swing and in the opening keynote, the news many were waiting for has finally been announces. Oculus' VR motion controllers Touch will go up for pre-order Monday October 10th for $199 and...
Hands-on: Epic’s New Action-packed ‘Robo Recall’ FPS is Beautiful, Brutal Arcade Fun
It was back at the end of 2015 that Epic Games Founder Tim Sweeney teased "something much bigger" than the VR tech demos the company has done in the past. Now the company plans to launch Robo Recall, the evolution...
Video: ‘Lone Echo’ is a Sci-Fi Adventure from the Makers of ‘The Order: 1886’
Today revealed at Oculus Connect, Lone Echo is a narrative-driven first-person game for Touch from Ready at Dawn, the same studio that brought you The Order: 1886 (2015), a number of mobile God of War games.
You play as an assistant android helping...
Hands-on: ‘Arktika.1’ is a Sci-Fi Gun Fanatic’s VR Dream
Today at Oculus Connect 3, 4A Games publicly debuted their first VR FPS title for Oculus Touch, titled Arktika.1. Previously, they had teased the game leading up to the reveal and was met with anticipation, as the high quality assets, as...
Facebook Shows Updated Social VR Prototype That Dials Into the Real World – Breaking
Facebook is plugging away on creating their perfect VR app that promises to integrate the social platform into 3D virtual worlds. Last we saw of the prototype in April that introduced a number of features, all of which hinge on Touch,...
Oculus Working on Inside-Out Tracking for Stand-Alone VR Headset – Breaking
Revealed today on stage at Oculus Connect, Mark Zuckerberg teased "the next phase of virtual reality," an inside-out tracking solution that would allow a headset to go entirely without the need of an outside tracking tech like the Rift's IR...
Social VR Platform ‘VRChat’ Raises $1.2M Seed Funding
VRChat, a social VR platform that allows users to create, publish, and explore VR worlds, have announced a $1.2 million seed investment round. Investors include HTC, Rothenberg Ventures, GREE VR Capital, and Brightstone Venture Capital.
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