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Facebook Delays Launch of Oculus Touch
Oculus Rift Remains on track for a Q1 launch, but the Touch controllers have been delayed until later in 2016.
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Oculus Rift Pre-Orders Will Open On Wednesday
Pre-orders for the consumer version of the virtual reality headset are due to open on Wednesday January 6, at 8am PT, Oculus Rift announced today.
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Oculus begins shipping the finished Rift to developers
Oculus has announced that it's shipping "early builds" of its Rift VR headset to developers, along with the developer kit SDK 1.0. According to the company's blog, "the Rift SDK 1.0 and runtime include features tied to the consumer product, so we've currently limited the release to developers putting final touches on launch titles." Companies now getting the much-anticipated headset are technically not the first to have received it, since Oculus has already...
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The Promise of Virtual Reality is Starting to Look Very Real
Only a handful of virtual reality headsets existed when Alphabet unveiled Google Glass, but the past half-decade has seen billions invested in VR, moving a technology once thought of as a gimmick much closer to the everyday lives of real people. Virtual reality companies raised $1.46 billion in venture capital from the start of 2012 through the third quarter this year, according to CB Insights, marking four straight quarters that these start-ups reached $100...
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Virtual reality just got real: New tech lets users feel VR
Virtual reality has been a long time coming, but the most notable strides have come in the past few years. Oculus has led a revitalization in VR tech, the development of which had slowed significantly over the preceding decade. Now, a resurgence in consumer VR products has resulted in great strides, and affordable virtual reality kits like the Samsung Gear VR make virtual reality accessible to nearly anyone.
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Will the new VR gear trip up older gamers?
Your body has a delicate system to control balance—and VR complicates that fast.
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Toybox Demo for Oculus Touch
The Toybox demo for Oculus Touch demonstrates the power of social VR. You can use your hands to poke at things, pull objects apart, stack blocks, and play games with another person inside a virtual world.
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How Soylent and Oculus Could Fix The Prison System
The theme, if you care to psychoanalyze, is control. But in addition to the mental claustrophobia of being locked up, my fear of prison also stems from the fact that some 21 percent of U.S. prison inmates get raped or coerced into giving sexual favors to terrifying dudes named Igor. Living in fear of violence is not part of a prison sentence, but it ends up being part of the punishment all the same. In fact, among the...
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Samsung-Oculus Consumer Virtual Reality Headset to Cost $99
Oculus and Samsung’s co-developed virtual reality headset will cost $99 when it ships in November, Samsung SVP Peter Koo said today at Facebook’s VR developer conference, Oculus Connect. The new, consumer-minded edition of the Samsung Gear VR is lighter and more comfortable, Koo said, and will be compatible with four high-end Samsung smartphones: The Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge+, Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge.
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VR’s inevitable move to eye control: Why the industry will be taking a lesson from Iron Man
Imagine a world where you can control objects with your eyes instead of your hands. With virtual reality moving into the mainstream, this could become an everyday activity. Marvel has already shown us how it could work in its Iron Man movies: Tony Stark frequently interacts with his armor through eye-tracking and voice control, freeing him up to save the world.
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Valve and HTC's Vive stand at the precipice of VR's future, but they may have a long wait
HTC: Mainstream VR is 3-5 years off
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How Virtual Reality Will Influence the 2016 Presidential Election - Virtual Reality & Oculus News and Events
Virtual reality is on the precipice of transforming our world in many ways, from gaming to productivity. But what about the US Presidential Election?
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Steven Spielberg Signs on as Advisor to "The Virtual Reality Company"
Led by Steven Spielberg, Robert Stromberg and VR pioneer Laurent Scallie, VRC is yet another piece to the puzzle of the VR entertainment revolution.
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The Camera for Virtual Reality - Sphericam 2
Sphericam 2 allows you to capture absolutely everything around you in high resolution without any blind spots. You can watch the resulting videos on a VR Headset like Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard. Six cameras work seamlessly together to capture the world around you in stunning 4K resolution. In other words, you can capture great looking VR video content straight out of the box.
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AMD LiquidVR™ Technology
AMD's pioneering Virtual Reality technology is poised to bring better content, comfort, and compatibility to VR applications
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Elite: Dangerous Launches Mac Beta - VRFocus
VRFocus reports on the launch of the Mac Beta for virtual reality (VR) compatible space simulation videogame, Elite: Dangerous.
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Oculus Rift's Palmer Luckey: 'I brought virtual reality back from the dead'
Meet the new boy king of technology, 22-year-old Palmer Luckey. Visionaries see his 3D virtual reality headset as a real life-changer – the future of education, business, medicine and more – and Mark Zuckerberg paid $2.3 billion to acquire his company, Oculus Rift. The Telegraph meets him in Silicon Valley
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Oculus warns Sony to solve motion sickness before launching a VR headset
The chief executive of Facebook-owned virtual reality firm Oculus VR has warned rival Sony not to launch a VR headset until it has solved problems of motion sickness.
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How Palmer Luckey Created Oculus Rift
The young visionary dreamed up a homemade headset that may transform everything from gaming to medical treatment to engineering—and beyond
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I Tried The New Oculus Rift, And It Blew Me Away All Over Again
I've tried practically every version of the Oculus Rift VR headset, from some of the original duct-taped prototypes through to the latest DK2 developer kit and the Samsung Gear VR. Nothing I've seen prepared me for the new Crescent Bay demo. I just tried one of the best games I've never played. I want more.
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