DiRT Rally VR Gets HTC Vive Support Via Revive

Less than 24 hours after release, DiRT Rally VR has received support from Revive, allowing HTC Vive owners to enjoy Codemasters' excellent racing title on their VR headsets. LibreVR, the developer behind Revive, has added support for Codemaster's DiRT Rally VR. The...

Oculus CEO: “Well over 5,000” Touch Dev Kits Shipping to Developers Before Launch

Oculus Touch isn't here for consumers just yet, as the company just narrowed their launch window down to Q4 of this year. But if you're a developer, you might just get your hands on a Touch dev kit in the very...

Oculus Says All Rift Pre-Orders Shipped, Narrows Touch Launch to Q4

Looking to put the Rift launch behind them, a fiasco that had many pre-order customers waiting several months for their headsets to arrive at their doorstep, Oculus today revealed that they've finally caught up to demand, and will be shipping...

Oculus Announces Connect 3 Dev Conference, Registration Coming Soon

If you're panning on attending this year's Oculus Connect developer conference in San Jose, CA, you can now officially mark your calendars for October 5-7 for what Oculus is billing as their "largest developer conference yet." Last year's Connect saw with it several big...

Dolby Atmos and Audio Objects for Narrative 360 VR

Sound is probably the second most important part of creating a compelling immersive VR experience, but it's also usually put off to the end as an afterthought. The visual system is so dominant that this is not a huge...

In Search of the Pyjama People: VR’s New Wave of Bedroom Coders

Matthew Magee ponders virtual reality's potential impact on game development culture and how immersive technology may encourage a renaissance in independent, disruptive bedroom coders a.k.a the Pyjama People. Guest Article by Matthew Magee A twenty year career as a Software Engineer started in...

Snapchat Hires Hollywood Effects Artist as “Augmented Reality Designer”

Social media company Snapchat have just appointed a Hollywood effects artist Raffael Dickreuter who joined in June as a "Concept and Augmented Reality Designer." Snapchat is a rising giant in social media platforms, and it seems the company is serious about keeping...
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DiRT Rally VR – 4 Minutes of Oculus Rift Gameplay

DiRT Rally, one of the finest driving games out there, has finally arrived with official Oculus Rift CV1 support and it's elevated our opinions of the Codemasters developed game even higher. Here's 4 minutes of direct feed gameplay captured...

Review: ‘DiRT Rally’ VR

Available on the Oculus Store today (and via an update for the existing Steam version), DiRT Rally is the latest driving game to receive a VR makeover with Oculus Rift support. Originally drifting its way onto PC in April...

Biometric Feedback with ‘Guided Meditation VR’ and AR on Gear VR

Josh Farkas has given over 6000 VR demos over the last couple of years, and he's been in the position of having had to try to explain the potential of VR to many skeptical businesses. That's in part because...