Dealing with stressful or traumatic medical procedures is about to get easier thanks to a collaboration between VRHealth and Oculus, which are bringing the latter’s VR headsets into hospitals to soothe uncomfortable patients. Ahead of today’s Oculus Connect 5 event, the companies announced that they’re using Go and Rift hardware t…Read More Source: VRHealth uses Oculus...
Oculus VR chief scientist Mike Abrash has been one of Facebook’s best advocates for motivating developers to commit themselves to virtual reality. At his keynotes, he tries to inspire people to do the hard work necessary to bring about the future. One of his big predictions is that a single product will be able to...
Facebook showed a demo of its new Oculus Quest virtual reality headset on Wednesday, and it could be quite liberating because it gets rid of those pesky wires that have kept VR tethered. The Oculus Quest will arrive as a stand-alone product — you won’t need to connect it to a computer to play with...
One of my early joys in virtual reality was the HTC Vive’s Final Approach from Phaser Lock Interactive. It put you in the middle of a virtual reality landscape, as if you were standing in a table with miniature toys. You could reach into the air, grab a plane, and set it on a path for landing at an...
The contemporary version of virtual reality has only been around for a few years, but Mike Daly is one of its veterans. As a lead designer at Insomniac Games, Daly has now helped create three of Insomniac’s four VR games. That gives Daly a lot of knowledge about how to make VR games the right...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in 2016 that the social network had invested $250 million in virtual reality apps and games for the Oculus Rift VR headset, and it was going to put a lot more into it. And it’s clear that at the Oculus Connect 5 event, the social network continues to pour money into VR...
Oculus Connect 5 focused on the Oculus Quest, the new standalone VR headset that is coming out in spring. But the event still had a few gaming-focused announcements, many of which focused on Quest. Virtual reality is an exciting and emerging technology, but it needs games to attract customers. The Quest is touting ease of...
Ready At Dawn Studios won high praise in 2017 for its Lone Echo and Echo Arena virtual reality games. Now the studio will launch a single-player sequel, Lone Echo II, on the Rift in 2019. The game, announced at the Oculus Connect 5 event in San Jose, California, shows that Facebook’s Oculus division is still willing to greenlight...
PREVIEW: Lone Echo and Echo Arena debuted in 2017 on the Oculus Rift, introducing immersive zero-gravity movement in virtual reality. And it didn’t make me feel like throwing up. Now Ready At Dawn Studios will be launching Echo Combat, an arena-based shooter game in zero gravity, on November 15 on the Oculus Rift and Touch....
Phaser Lock Interactive has created a real-time strategy combat game dubbed Final Assault for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. It stands out from other VR RTS games because it skips the boring stuff like building a base. I played the game at an Oculus event. It’s coming out in late 2018 on the Oculus Rift and Touch,...
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