There’s been a whoooole lot of VR at GDC last week. Every third developer session was about making things for Oculus…
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QUOTE | “[I]f it doesn’t make sense for the fans then you’re basically fucked. They’re gonna go to the App Store,…
Nightmare children of the future, courtesy of McDonald’s Happy Goggles, a Happy Meal box that transforms into a…
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Valve’s new VR performance test program contains a two-minute snippet of the infamous Portal-theme…
His hands are like “what the fuck is this shit.”
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The Unreal Engine will soon get VR content creation tools, and while it might sound an impractical feature at first,…
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BUTTS: The VR Experience is a thing. Sure, you’ve experienced butts, but VR butts? This is the beginning of a new…
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HTC and Valve’s Vive VR headset lets you physically move around in virtual reality. You can walk, run, jump, flail…
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I whirled around and plugged two perfectly placed shots into an enemy player. I was finally getting the hang of Vive…
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Valve and HTC’s virtual reality headset, the Vive, is almost here. It’s the one that tracks you while you move around
Palmer Luckey is currently slapping together a new gaming rig he thinks people might find “interesting.” He is not…
Let’s say you’re interested in Oculus Rift. Maybe you’re like me, and you pre-ordered one to be safe. (You can…
Is this truly the Year of Virtual Reality? Or just the Year That A Lot Of VR Devices Come Out? Find out on today’s…
Found this quote thanks to this tweet. It’s from an AllThingsD interview with Oculus founder Palmer Luckey in 2013.…
The first consumer model of the Oculus Rift will run you $599, the VR company announced today while opening up…
Oculus announced today that Kickstarter backers of the original Oculus Rift will receive the final hardware—for free! It’s a nice gesture towards virtual reality’s biggest evangelists the day before pre-orders officially begin for the Oculus Rift. The biggest problem? We still don’t know how much it’ll cost. Read more
Oculus has announced that its Touch controllers won’t ship until the “second half” of 2016. The Oculus Rift itself, however, is apparently still on track for early next year. The delay is disappointing; the Touch devices were the highlight of my last VR demo.
When the Oculus Rift finally ships next year, it’ll come with a free copy of the impressive VR platformer, Lucky’s Tale. It remains one of the better VR demos I’ve played—the ability to look around the world with the headset while controlling the character was neat—but it remains to be seen how great of a platformer… Read more