Oculus Connect: Watch Live – Oculus VR’s Brendan Iribe and Nate Mitchell @9:30am PDT
Watch Oculus VR CEO and VP of Product Nate Mitchell as the address attendees of the Oculus Connect event in Hollywood CA. Rumours are there might be some surprises in store. CV1 announcement? New controller perhaps? We shall see...
Oculus Connect: Nirav Patel on Building the First Rift Development Kit – Live Blog @5pm PDT
Those of you who've followed the Oculus story from the start may recall Oculus hiring a young engineer who'd produced a high performance "9 DoF" tracking sensor - a version of which eventually found it's way into the first Oculus...
News Bits: Dazzling New Unreal 4 DK2 Demo Drops You into a Bullet Time Action Scene
Epic's Unreal engine has been front and centre in Oculus' technical demonstrations since the Oculus Rift HD Prototype appeared just over a year ago and ever since. From the dazzling Elemental demo used to debut UE4 to the unnamed...
Big News for VR: Nvidia’s New Graphics Cards Are Designed for High Performance Virtual Reality Rendering
We knew it was coming and it looks like Nvidia is the first to throw their hat into the ring, now being the first of the big GPU manufacturers to design their latest processors with VR in mind. Nvidia's...
Oculus Connect Begins Tomorrow, Live Stream Details, Schedule and Speculation
It's upon us. Oculus Connect, probably the most eagerly anticipated event this year (at least for the VR community) and perhaps Oculus VR's most important event in it's young life, kicks off at the Loews Hotel in Hollywood, CA tomorrow...
News Bits: ZVR Apocalypse Playable DK2 Demo Released – Dismember Zombies in Bullet-Time
Developer Shaun Edwards (aka Sh0v), not content with producing Lunar Flight, one of the best early VR enabled games for the Oculus Rift, is already releasing a playable demo of his second VR-enabled title. Lucid VR Games has been...
News Bits: DK2 Reactions from Gamers Wowed by Z0NE (Formerly Rift Wars) at Boston Indie Games Show
Developers Pixel Router, the team behind the Star Fox inspired Rift Wars, have been quiet lately. They've now come out of hiding brandishing a video of their recent to the Boston Festival of Indie Games. They had the latest version...
Vrvana Totem Kickstarter Passes $100,000 in Day One, CEO Shares Details on Hardware Acceleration
After the first day of Vrvana's Kickstarter campaign for the Totem VR headset the company has raised more than $100,000 CAD toward their $350,000 goal. I recently spoke with Vrvana CEO Bert Nepveu to learn more about the Totem...
Quick Tip: The Best Way to Put on the Oculus Rift (or any other VR headset)
Don't strap on the Oculus Rift like ski goggles to eliminate smears on lenses from oil on your hair and forehead.
This was one of many excellent tips shared in a great guest article by VR developer Namielus: 10 Tips for...
‘Snow’ Brings Open World Skiing to the Oculus Rift, Hands On and Developer Interview
At this year's Gamescom in Cologne, I got the chance to meet up with the team from Poppermost Productions, a small development team from Sweden who are mad keen on throwing themselves down steep slopes strapped to planks of...
