The Oculus Touch goes on on sale today, and it’s more than a set of VR controllers. The devices are, in effect, your hands. The post Inside Oculus’ Quest to Design an Invisible VR Controller appeared first on WIRED. Source: Inside Oculus’ Quest to Design an Invisible VR Controller
Based on the popular party game Mafia (also known as Werewolf), Werewolves Within represents Ubisoft’s first dive into the world of social VR games. I first got my hands on the game at GDC earlier this year, and while it remains basically the same since I last played, really settling into the gameplay provided me with some amount...
Quill is Oculus’ ‘VR paint’ app, and it’s nothing short of spectacular. Tucked away inside this creative-focused app, however, is an interface that’s so simple, you might miss its brilliance. Quill, which is available to every Touch owner for free, is impressive. I thought initially that there would be a lot of overlap between Oculus...
Melbourne-based firm Zero Latency has raised $7 million in venture funding. The company specialises in out-of-home ‘warehouse scale’ local multiplayer VR experiences, and is beginning to open attractions around the world. Consumer VR headsets are optimised for use in a small living space, and the vast majority of software is designed with these limitations in...
The Vive gets a lot of releases each week and this one is definitely packed full of content. Smashbox Arena is the multiplayer highlight for this week and drops teams of three into an arena with weapons and physics based power-ups. It’s a treat to play and the pacing allows for a degree of tactical teamwork that...
You might not have heard, but Oculus had a big release this week. Something called the Oculus Touch controllers. I heard it was like a Wii remote for VR. Okay, it’s not really like that at all. Touch is finally here, it’s awesome, and it’s got a whole heap of games ready for day one. Actually...
Oculus might be having a big week with the launch of its Touch controllers, but there are some big new releases for PlayStation VR that are sure to delight fans this week as well, especially coming off the back of last week’s PlayStation Experience event. There might not be many big releases left this year,...
Vive X is an incubator started by HTC that is designed to help VR startups turn their ideas into profitable realities. Earlier this week, Vive X hosted its very first demo day at its downtown San Francisco headquarters. This was an opportunity for members of the press and of the investment community to see these...
Following a bout of skeptical press, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz claims the company is already doing production test runs of their first AR “system,” which is said to be “small, sleek, cool.” Following an oddly scathing headline from The Verge, based on a report by The Information, Magic Leap’s peculiar CEO, Rony Abovitz, published a...
Featured image from left to right: Rob Goodman (OpenVerse), Han Jin (Lucid VR), Amitt Mahajan (Presence Capital), Timoni West and Tony Parisi (Unity). With new hardware releases from Google, HTC, and PlayStation, the runaway success of augmented reality megahit Pokémon GO, and the early buzz of Snap’s Spectacles all filling our newsfeeds in 2016, you’d think...
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