3 Years Ago the Oculus Rift DK1 Shipped, Here’s a Quick Look Back
You may not have realised, but as people anxiously await delivery of the consumer Oculus Rift, today marks almost exactly 3 years since the original Kickstarter-backed Oculus Rift DK1 shipped to developers. Here's the original unboxing video from Oculus...
Oculus Founder Clarifies Expected Rift Delivery Windows
In scenes strongly reminiscent of the Oculus Rift DK2 delivery fevers in 2014, community excitement and speculation in the absence of precise delivery information consumer Oculus Rift deliveries has mounted. Palmer Luckey took to Twitter to share new information...
Flipflops in Alaska: Oculus Founder Delivers First Rift in Person
In a move entirely in keeping with the Oculus founders attitude to his company's supporters, he's travelled from sunny California to beautiful but chilly Alaska to hand deliver the first Oculus Rift pre-order.
If anyone else was confused after spotting...
GTC 2016 Highlight: Audi on The Future of Digital Retail
As Audi look to introduce virtual reality showrooms to their flagship stores this year, at GTC 2016 the company is presenting their philosophy behind "The Audi VR Experience" and sharing the challenges behind driving high visual fidelity VR experiences.
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Preview: ‘Moderat: Reminder’ is an Energetic VR Music Video set in a Beautiful Dystopia
Electronic music and dystopian worlds seem to go hand-in-hand these days, and with German electronic group Moderat releasing their third album in April, what better way to hype the release than with a VR experience of the record's first single, 'Reminder'?
Director Mate Steinforth and...
Oculus Touts New VR Rendering Feature, Valve Calls It an “Ideal Safety Net”
At GDC last week Oculus announced they were bringing a VR rendering function called Asynchronous Timewarp to Windows with version 1.3 of the Oculus PC SDK. The feature (abbreviated 'ATW') smoothes over otherwise uncomfortable stuttering which can happen when...
GTC 2016 Highlight: Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB on Powering Cinematic VR Experiences
Lucasfilm's experimental division ILMxLAB, set up to explore the use of immersive technology in storytelling, are heading to NVIDIA's GTC 2016 conference to share their experiences in bringing realistic virtual reality imagery to life for experiences
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‘Project CARS’: Making an Authentic Racing Simulation Work in VR
Slightly Mad Studios been making racing games for the past 10 years, and they raised over $3 million dollars in crowd-funding to produce their own racing game called Project CARS. It's a AAA racing simulation game that was first...
‘Cardboard Enabler’ Opens Google’s VR Library to Gear VR, No Root Required
Are you the sort of person that lugs around your Gear VR and Google Cardboard on your mission to evangelize the ever-living-hell out of virtual reality? Well, the Cardboard Enabler for Gear VR wants to free up some space...
‘Bullet Train’ on the Latest Oculus Touch Makes You a Bullet-Catching Badass
If you didn't know you could catch bullets, Epic Games wants you to reconsider in their physics-bending VR first-person shooter Bullet Train. The game gives you a few well-placed commands in the beginning, and thankfully no lengthy tutorializing as such.
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