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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m not buying a virtual reality device in 2016 and it has nothing to do with the price
I recently built a pretty beefy computer to play games with the hope that a virtual reality headset would be coming soon…
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Why I Won't Be Buying an Oculus Rift
When the $599 price for Facebook’s Oculus Rift was revealed this morning, I was honestly a little shocked the virtual reality headset would run that high. The price might not sound like too much for some people, but consider this: you’ll also need a PC that will likely cost you around $900 to run it, if we were to factor in the price with this earlier statement by Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe. But that would likely get you the barebones requirements, so PCWorld's...
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I will now talk about Oculus Rift for 27 minutes
TotalBiscuit brings you a video essay on the newly released Oculus Rift.
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Let's test the new Oculus Rift!
Time to put the new Oculus Rift through its paces.
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HTC CEO Cher Wang: "We had to rethink phones as a company. VR is more important."
The struggling smartphone maker's CEO tells Madhumita Murgia what went wrong
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Goldman Sachs says VR will be bigger than TV in 10 years
In an analyst note published on Wednesday, Goldman Sachs predicted that the virtual reality (VR) market will outpace the TV market in annual revenue by 2025.
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Lawsuit against Oculus founder can proceed, judge rules
A California U.S District Court has ruled that Oculus founder and Rift VR headset inventor Luckey Palmer must face a lawsuit filed by a former employer. U.S. District Court judge William Alsup (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California) in San Francisco ruled on Saturday that a breach of contract claim could proceed against Oculus founder Palmer Luckey. But it wasn’t a clean-cut victory for Total Recall Technologies; Judge Alsup also dismissed several claims including fraud.
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Who will be the George Lucas of VR? Film schools just started teaching it
Special effects pioneer Dennis Muren proclaimed the 1980 classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back the hardest film he ever worked on, because “we had to train people to do work that we barely knew how to do.” That’s a conundrum creative types face: How do you do what’s never been done? Star Wars creator George Lucas and the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) team Muren worked with on the film ended up making their own machines and their own programming.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Virtual reality can become the most social platform
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance at Samsung’s Mobile World Congress press conference Sunday to talk up progress in virtual reality and to promote VR in the future as “the most social platform.” Facebook, of course, paid some $2 billion in 2014 to buy Oculus which has been working with Samsung on its Gear VR consumer headsets. In fact, Zuckerberg appeared on stage during the MWC event just after audience...
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What a creepy photo of Mark Zuckerberg says about our dystopian tech future
In the photo, Mark Zuckerberg is half-smiling, dazed, as if he can’t quite fathom the spectacle he has achieved. He’s striding past his peons, heel-toe down the carpeted center aisle, as they swivel and grimace, oblivious to his presence, in their own virtual realities. Later, when the assembled journalists take the headsets off — they’re Samsung Gear VR headsets, for the record, and this is the Mobile World Congress in Spain...
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Oculus VR founder: We'll support Mac 'if Apple ever releases a good computer'
In January, virtual reality specialist Oculus VR opened pre-orders for its long-awaited headset, the Rift, priced at $599. In order to use the device, the company recommends that you have a mighty PC with some pretty fierce specs, including an Intel Core i5 4590 processor (or above/newer), NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 graphics card (or better), 8GB of RAM, HDMI-out, and 3 USB 3.0 ports + 1 USB 2.0 port. However, Oculus is only supporting Windows PCs for now...
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