Why the Oculus Rift’s Integrated Headphones Might Replace Your Gaming Headset
At E3 2015 we got our eyes and ears on the consumer Oculus Rift, which now of course includes integrated headphones. Here's why we think you may consider ditching your existing gaming headset in favour of Oculus' alternative.
Oculus' inaugural 'Connect' developer conference...
Grab One of 50 Early Access Tickets to Today’s Sold-out SoCal Virtual Reality Conference
Today's SoCal Virtual Reality Conference & Expo event in Irvine is chock full of talks, panels, and demos from VR pioneers. If you didn't manage to nab yourself a ticket before they sold out, you're in luck: we've got...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – July #2
WEARVR and Road to VR are joining forces this month to bring you VR goodness from the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. This video gives a glimpse of the top 10 most popular experiences...
Epic’s Big Data VR Challenge Winner Will Take Home $20,000 Next Week at Develop: Brighton Conference
Epic Games' Big Data VR Challenge has been underway since March and is coming to a close next week. With luck, the teams have created some entirely new ways of visualizing complex data sets in a VR space so that their hidden...
End of an Era: Disney’s First VR Attraction Set to Close
Sad news greeted the VR attractions sector with the confirmation from the Orlando Sentinel that DisneyQuest, the famous Indoor Interactive Theme Park, would be closing its doors in 2016 for the final time. Originally opened in 1998, the Orlando, Downtown...
‘Blocked In’ Creator Daniël Ernst on the Art of the Virtual Reality Diorama
Daniël Ernst is the founder and sole member of The Shoebox Diorama, a production company dedicated to exploring the brand new artistic possibilities of a new genre, the virtual reality diorama.
Ernst has thus far eschewed VR's early rush for cheap thrills...
Top 5 Things We Still Don’t Know About the Consumer Oculus Rift
Although Oculus has revealed the design of the consumer Oculus Rift (the so called 'CV1'), there's still some crucial facts that we've yet to learn about the highly anticipated VR headset.
Price
What will it cost? This has been part of...
Research Survey Suggests Kids Are Equally Aware of Major VR Headsets, Want to Buy One at Console Prices
A recent survey conducted by Touchstone Research, an online marketing research firm, suggests that kids and teens between the ages of 10–17 know what VR is, and when they see it in action they think it's "off the charts cool."
Touchstone...
New FOVE Industrial Design Aims to Enhance Eye-tracking Precision
Just before nearly doubling their Kickstarter funding goal of $250,000, Fove introduced a new and improved design for their eye-tracking VR headset, making it lighter, smaller, and more ergonomic.
Fove calls their new industrial design "refined and enhanced" with the addition of a...
‘VR: The Movie’ Raising Funds for Feature Length Documentary on History of VR
VR: The Movie is an in-depth documentary film that follows virtual reality from its mid-1900s past to the VR technology of today. The documentary features interviews with designers, scientists, engineers and several industry professionals to help illuminate virtual reality's legacy.
VR: The Movie was conceived by...
