One of the biggest questions on everyone’s mind regarding the Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch is whether or not it will work with many of the biggest and best Steam VR titles that were previously marketed as Vive-only. While the concept of an “exclusive” is fluid and up for interpretation in the VR industry since...
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‘The Gallery: Call of the Starseed’ Comes Full Circle and Releases For Oculus Touch On Dec. 6th
There are a lot of upcoming Oculus Rift games with Touch support. We spotlighted over 30 of them last month, but now know that 53 different titles are expected to be available on day one, December 6th, when the motion controllers launch next week. One of the games on that list will be the excellent adventure...
All 53 Oculus Touch Launch Titles Confirmed
Oculus has today confirmed all 53 launch titles that will be available on December 6th for the launch of the Touch controllers. Among the 53 Oculus Touch titles, 22 have been seen previously on SteamVR, leaving 31 brand new Oculus Touch titles (including a few former Rift titles updated to include Touch). Those that pre-order...
Here Are The 53 Oculus Launch Titles Available on Dec. 6
Oculus just released the full list of titles coming to its Oculus Touch controllers on Dec. 6. It’s a big list we copy and pasted below with some heavy hitters on the list. We count 53 titles coming for the launch of the controllers ranging from zombie wave shooters to all new art apps, though...
Reading List: 50 Scifi Books Featuring AR and VR Technology
It’s no accident that many people who appreciate VR and AR are also fans of scifi books, movies, and TV shows. Technology has imitated art and the other way around, with science fiction writers coining terms like “virtual reality” and “the metaverse,” and tech companies using science fiction writers as in-house futurists and advisers. If...
TIME-LIFE and HTC Launch 75th Anniversary ‘Remembering Pearl Harbor’ Experience for Vive
Launching today for $10 on HTC’s VR app store, Viveport, Remembering Pearl Harbor commemorates the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 1941 tragedy that led the US to join World War II. A collaboration between TIME’s LifeVR, HTC, and Deluxe VR, the experience is told through the eyes of Lt. Jim Downing, one of...
Sleight of Hand: How VR Content Creators Trick Your Brain Like Expert Magicians
There was a small, unassuming picture of Houdini that captivated me when I was growing up. It sat, framed, on my grandfather’s desk, amidst organized piles of technologies, books and notes on the secrets behind magic of all forms. The picture was the only hand-drawn eyewitness account of Houdini’s final moments backstage, before his death....
‘The Climb’ Free Oculus Touch Update Adds New Arctic Mountain, ‘North’
Today, Crytek is revealing details for the brand new mountain it will be releasing as part of next week’s free Oculus Touch update for The Climb. We are less than a week away from the release of Oculus Touch. On December 6 the $199 controller add-on for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will begin shipping to...
American Heroes Channel Releases Civil War 360-Degree Video Tie-In For Upcoming TV Series
The American Heroes Channel recently released a new 360-degree video titled Civil War: Letter From the Trenches. The video is planned to serve as a companion piece for Blood and Fury: America’s Civil War, a TV series scheduled to debut on Dec. 14th on AHC. The series will show the war from the perspective of soldiers during...
Exclusive: ‘ROM: Extraction’ Teaser Trailer Reveals Terrifying Alien Robots
When we first broke the news about ROM: Extraction by First Contact with our hands-on reveal last month, we didn’t have any footage to show you — only art work and a few teaser images. Now, that is unfortunately not a whole lot different, as we just have a brief and tantalizing teaser trailer along...