One year ago today, Oculus launched the Rift headset after two development kits and numerous prototypes. Today the company is celebrating with discounts up to 80% on 33 titles that launched in the early days of the headset. The sale runs through April 4th. As the Rift launched many months ahead of the company’s Touch...
VR and 360-degree media creation are becoming more and more accessible as inexpensive software and cameras are made available, but they’re still pricey endeavors. Take into account that you’re not just shooting footage in one direction and you’ll understand that the immersive content can be a stout investment of time as well as money. That...
Hands up, I admit it; I was not expecting to enjoy Fated: The Silent Oath as much as I did. As a first-person game made by an indie studio using gamepad only controls I had a preconceived notions of what I was about to experience when I sat down to play. I thought I was...
Getting a full Grand Theft Auto game inside VR headsets is a dream for many of us, but we do at least have something to hold us over in the GTA 5 VR mod, Grand Theft VR. Last week its developers returned with the first updates of 2017. Last we heard from Grand Theft VR...
A year later, Facebook just made a major hire for its VR hardware division and will be charging forward in the effort to make VR more mainstream. Also, Oculus would love for people to stop saying VR doesn’t have any games. There are plenty of solid titles across VR platforms and Oculus is celebrating its library...
In the middle of August 2012 I wrote my first article about Oculus. A few months later, I got my first demo. I’d previously seen some expensive VR installations, like those used by Disney, but my view inside the Oculus Rift — and the interviews I conducted with researchers at Stanford and USC — convinced me VR...
Twisted Arrow released today for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on Steam with a price point of $19.99 along with a 25% launch discount. When we revealed the game with our exclusive preview a few weeks ago, we likened it to what it might feel like to explore a city as the Marvel superhero, Hawkeye....
Late last year, NBC’s popular late night talk show the Tonight Show with host Jimmy Fallon debuted a new Virtual Reality Pictionary segment which uses the HTC Vive and Tilt Brush. Scarlett Johansson, Michael Che, and Dove Cameron are the latest to step into VR with Fallon. Fallon is no stranger to VR. As far back as 2013,...
Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger has out and out rejected Virtual Reality (VR) as a component of any Disney Theme park. While Knott’s Berry Farm, why-hasn’t-this-chain-shut-down-yet Sea World (seriously, RIP Tillikum), and Six Flags have all invested in VR to help spice up their parks in this theme park depression period, Iger has “ordered...
Getting a full Grand Theft Auto game inside VR headsets is a dream for many of us, but we do at least have something to hold us over in Grand Theft Auto V’s VR mod, Grand Theft VR. Last week its developers returned with the first updates of 2017. Last we heard from Grand Theft...
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