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
The Vive, Valve and HTC’s VR headset collaboration, will be out in April 2016. Like, for consumers to actually buy. Read more
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Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games is bringing an on-rails rollercoaster horror game to PlayStation VR called Until Dawn: Rush of Blood. Sony’s said its VR headset should launch sometime next year.
Whenever PlayStation VR launches next year, it’ll have Volume: Coda, a spin off of this year’s slick stealth game, as a launch title. Set after the events of Volume, it features 30 levels and brand-new characters. The original game is being modified to work in VR, too. Read more
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Thanks for my new album cover, Oculus Touch. (It was incredible, by the way. Holy cow.)
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“I’ll never get to do this but here,” remarked an awe-struck father, as tears rolled down his face.