Manus Machina Begins to Ship Early Wireless VR Gloves to Developers

Manus Machina, a company dedicated to virtual reality input devices, has begun shipping their first sets of wireless VR gloves to developers. Roaming the halls of Birmingham's NEC covering EGX 2015 today, I bumped into the Manus Machina team, who gave...

‘Henry’ Realtime VR Trailer Hits Oculus Share, A Glimpse at the Evolution of Storytelling

Oculus Story Studio, the VR headset company's in-house production team, has released an immersive trailer of their animated VR short featuring a lovable little hedgehog, Henry. Henry is Story Studio's second film, but really shows the company's Pixar DNA which they acquired from several of...

Content and Task Based Navigation for Structural Biology in 3D Environments

Nicolas Férey was presenting a number of papers at the first-ever workshop on Virtual and Augmented Reality for Molecular Science at the IEEE VR. Nicolas was presenting different navigational paradigms for molecular biology tasks that were designed with the...
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Here’s a Look at Just a Few of Oculus Touch’s 300 Prototypes

During Oculus Connect's keynote speech yesterday, it was revealed that Touch, the company's optically tracked hand controller was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the result of hundreds of early prototypes. While the latest prototype is incredibly comfortable, almost to the point of disappearing into...
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Here are the Games Launching with Oculus Touch

A number of games compatible with Touch were announced yesterday at Oculus Connect, ensuring at least 8 titles launching simultaneously so you can play right out of the box. Although Touch won't be shipping alongside the Oculus Rift, which is slated to hit stores...

Oculus Rift Manufacturing Overview Reveals 200+ Custom Parts, IPD Adjustment Mechanism

In a session at day 1 of Connect, Oculus' Caitlin Kalinowski and Stephanie Lue took to the stage to speak about the challenges associated with making the Oculus Rift a mass-producible product. While the Rift Crescent Bay prototype, revealed by Oculus...
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Oculus Unveils ‘Medium’, a Creator’s Tool that Lets You Sculpt in VR Using Oculus Touch

At Oculus Connect today a new 3D paint program was announced that aims to take Oculus Touch to the artists among us, and it's called Medium. Among the 10 new Touch demos made available to the attendees at Connect was Medium, a...
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‘Job Simulator’ is a Launch Title for Oculus Touch, New ‘Office Worker Level’ Revealed

Announced today at Oculus Connect, Owlchemy Lab's Job Simulator is now among a number of launch titles to integrate Oculus Touch, the company's hand-held controllers that feature both hand and basic finger tracking. The new 'office worker' level was also revealed,...

20th Century Fox’s Innovation Lab Partner with Oculus for Video Content

Amidst the tidal wave of announcements at this year's keynote presentation at Oculus Connect, it might have been easy to miss a feature or two. Oculus Video is one such initiative, a movie streaming platform for Oculus devices which...

Founder of CNET Launches ‘Voxelus’, a Feature Packed VR World Builder

Halsey Minor, the founder of CNET, today announced at Oculus Connect the launch of Voxelus, an 'end-to-end' virtual reality content creation platform for PC and Mac that lets anyone easily create VR games, experiences, and places without the need of code. Voxelus...