News Bits: Impressive VR Lightsaber Video Uses the Oculus Rift and a Serious Mo-Cap Rig

Let's face it, there's a large proportion of people reading this post that hold a secret (or not so secret) desire to kick Imperial ass using nothing but the Force and a Lightsaber. Well a hacker named Benjamin Teitler just...

Oculus VR Responds to ZeniMax Allegations with 32 Page Court Filing

As part of the ongoing lawsuit against Oculus VR on behalf of ZeniMax, Oculus has today responded to ZeniMax's official court filing with their own comprehensive 32 page document. The response presents what appears to be a strong case...

Google Reveals ‘Cardboard’, a low-cost VR Smartphone Adapter and VR Toolkit SDK at IO 2014—Breaking

At this week's Google IO 2014, the company's annual developer conference, the search giant is handing out 'Cardboard', a low-cost VR headset adapter for smartphones. The company is also making freely available an open 'VR Toolkit' and SDK to...

Horizon VR Close Website, “At the request of the VR community”

It's been a turbulent 48 hours in VR - in particular for the company that claimed to have the world's first 4k, UHD VR Headset in development. We broke the story that a new website had popped up, purportedly by...

News Bits: DARPA Uses the Oculus Rift to Visualise Cyber Terrorism

So here's a story that brings the use of virtual reality that bit closer to the Hollywood fantasies of l33t computer hackers. DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) have apparently been working for the last 2 years on a...

News Bits: Elite: Dangerous Enters Premium Beta 2, Impressive New Video Demonstrates Orbis Starport

We reported earlier that the crowd-funded latest entry in the Elite franchise had entered it's premium beta phase, opening the doors to many more players keen to explore the game's vast universe. Along with the release, a new video demonstrating...

News Bits: Oculus VR Agree to Acquire Design Carbon Design Group, Multiple Unannounced Projects in the Works

Those of us wrapped up in the dizzying (sometimes literally) world of virtual reality have been so focussed on following the progress of how the hard, pure technical problems are being solved by those smart eggs at Oculus VR, that we...

Alert: ‘Horizon V’ HMD Legitimacy Concerns Grow, What We Know So Far

It's been an interesting and somewhat sordid 24 hours since we broke the news a company supposedly called 'Horizon VR' who claimed that not only that they had a brand new VR Headset that comprised 2 x 4k /...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 69): Binaural Audio, ASMR Videos, and VR Content with Ally Maque

A friend recently sent me a video of a gal whispering into her microphone and tapping her nails on a coffee mug, with the message, "You have to talk to her about VR!" I invited Ally onto the Rev...

Alert: Horizon V ‘4K VR Headset’ May Not Be Legitimate, InfinitEye Team Deny Involvement

The VR headset race has seen many entrants in the last two years other than Oculus's Rift. But none has managed to convincingly best the Rift's raw technical specifications quite so dazzlingly as the InfinitEye 210 Degree, dual 720p...