Tag Archives: oculus rift

Thu, May 16, 2013 | 08:30 BST

Strike Suit Zero trailer shows Oculus Rift support in action

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Strike Suit Zero developer Born Ready Games has released a new developer diary showing the game’s Oculus Rift support in action. You’ll be able to play it for yourself at the Geekopolis expo in Paris between 25-26 May.

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Sat, May 11, 2013 | 20:55 BST

Bleszinski: next-gen console winner will embrace “connectivity, sharing, user content”

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When in comes to next-gen systems, Cliff Bleszinski feels Sony’s really embraced the indie and sharing scenes, and he’s really interested in what Microsoft has to show on May 21.

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Fri, May 10, 2013 | 05:04 BST

Half-life 2 has Oculus Rift support

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The opt-in beta version of Half-life 2 already supports your shiny new Oculus Rift headset.

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Tue, May 07, 2013 | 20:26 BST

Krillbite Studio adds Oculus Rift support to Among the Sleep

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With 10 days left on its Kickstarter, Krillbite Studio has added Oculus Rift support to Among the Sleep.

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Tue, May 07, 2013 | 03:42 BST

Oculus Rift guillotine sim inspires a lot of headline puns

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The latest Oculus Rift delight to do the rounds is a guillotine sim. That’s right, friends; step right up and experience for yourself the horror of human execution as practised on actual people in France until the late 1970′s.

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Tue, Apr 30, 2013 | 23:48 BST

EVE Online Oculus Rift shooter sparks petition for full release

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In response to a comment from a CCP staffer, PCGamesN has put together a petition calling for the release of EVR, the Oculus Rift-enabled dogfighting sim demonstrated at EVE FanFest this year. All signs indicate EVR is nearly as sweet as the throes of first love, so get on that. Check out a trailer for the 6v6 title through the break.

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Mon, Apr 29, 2013 | 03:17 BST

Oculus Rift Virtual Boy emulator released

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Now you can recreate the experience of using the world’s worst commercial gaming VR headset with the best one.

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Fri, Apr 26, 2013 | 20:02 BST

CCP demos 6v6 space dogfighting Oculus Rift game EVR at Fanfest

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EVR, a 6v6 space dogfighting game set in the EVE universe and built for Oculus Rift, has been announced by CCP.

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Sun, Apr 21, 2013 | 23:48 BST

Virtuix Omni treadmill demo’d with Oculus Rift, Kinect

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Virtuix makes omni-directional treadmills, which may not seem relevant to your life interests until you see it in partnership with Oculus Rift and Kinect, bringing us one step closer to 1980′s sci-fi virtual reality experiences.

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Thu, Apr 18, 2013 | 22:50 BST

Oculus Rift goes deep sea diving in UnderCurrent

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Here’s a very clever Oculus Rift project from a group of UK students; rather than just adapt the VR tech to an existing genre, UnderCurrent uses it in a way that seems to capitalise on its strengths, by letting you explore a space most of us will never get the chance to see in real life.

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Mon, Apr 15, 2013 | 02:08 BST

Mirror’s Edge mod adds Oculus Rift support

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If there is any combination more likely to result in lost lunches than first-person parkour and virtual reality, I really don’t want to try it.

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Tue, Apr 02, 2013 | 06:46 BST

GDC 2013 recap: all the headlines here

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GDC 2013 is now under-way in San Francisco and it’s already produced some very interesting news, including a heavy focus on next-gen and indie chatter. Dave Cook recaps.

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Tue, Mar 26, 2013 | 22:19 GMT

Nolan Bushnell: Mobile gaming on the way out

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Navigating the mobile gaming universe can be a nightmare, because, well, there are a whole lot of those games. I play 5-10 new ones every week, in fact, but at the same time it’s rare that a new game will break into the top overall downloads chart. And Atari founder Nolan Bushnell tells All Things D that an environment like that will burn out developers.

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Wed, Mar 27, 2013 | 06:18 GMT

Oculus Rift: watch VG247 play Hawken here

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Oculus Rift promises to raise immersion in games to a whole new level. Watch VG247′s Sam Clay play Adhesive Game’s shooter Hawken here, and speak with the studio.

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Mon, Mar 25, 2013 | 08:49 GMT

Oculus Rift dev kits contain free, four-month Unity Pro trial

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Oculus has teamed up with Unity to give all developers that buy a dev kit for the anticipated VR headset device a free, four-month Unity Pro license trial.

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Tue, Mar 19, 2013 | 00:51 GMT

Team Fortress 2 to add Oculus Rift support this week

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Team Fortress 2 will add a “VR mode” this week, compatible with the Oculus Rift headset.

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Mon, Mar 18, 2013 | 01:02 GMT

DOOM 3 BFG Edition won’t support Oculus Rift devkits at launch

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Those awaiting an Oculus Rift dev kit have received notification that a promised copy of DOOM 3 BFG Edition is no longer on the cards.

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Sat, Mar 02, 2013 | 18:32 GMT

PS4, HTML5, Project SHIELD and Oculus Rift talks added to GDC 2013

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GDC 2013 organizers have added new vendor sessions for PS4, HTML5, Project SHIELD and Oculus Rift to the event schedule.

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Tue, Feb 26, 2013 | 13:22 GMT

Crysis: original game modded to support Oculus Rift head-tracking

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Crysis has been given the Oculus Rift mod treatment, throwing head tracking support into the mix.

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Sun, Feb 24, 2013 | 23:04 GMT

Oculus Rift: John Carmack discusses latency problems

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In a lengthy and involved blog post, legendary engineer John Carmack has gone into detail on the problems he and the Oculus Rift team face trying to achieve the virtual reality dream. The headset-tech requires a maximum latency of about 20 milliseconds to feel like genuine head movement, Carmack said, but current systems only achieve average response times of 100 milliseconds. Carmack’s discussion of how he’s tackling this issue is technical but fascinating. Valve’s Michael Abrash has shared similar thoughts in the past.

Thanks, PCGamesN.