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This is your brain on virtual reality
You may doubt that you’ll ever fall for the illusion of virtual reality, but your brain is already working against you. Kimberly Voll has a Ph.D. in computer science, specializing in artificial intelligence, and an honors degree in cognitive science. She is also one of the developers of the puzzle game Fantastic Contraption, built in virtual reality for the HTC Vive. Voll knows how your brain works, and at the 2016 Game Developers Conference she explained how it's specifically affected by VR.
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Dystopian Virtual Reality Is Finally Here
And it’s stranger than science fiction.
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Oculus Rift review: Virtual reality is always almost here
After nearly four years, the finished Oculus Rift has shipped to its very first group of customers, and it’s time to see whether the headset that started it all is still pushing the cutting edge of virtual reality. For a long time, the hopes and dreams of many virtual reality fans could be summed up with two words: Oculus Rift. Helped by the rise of cheap smartphone displays, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey took a technology that...
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Oculus Rift Collects Information and Sends It to Facebook
When Facebook acquired Oculus VR for $2 billion two years ago, some had privacy concerns. It appears those fears may have a bit more credence.
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Mixed Reality - Assetto Corsa GT3 Qualify
I want this.
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Will Virtual Reality Change Your Life?
For decades, virtual reality has failed to deliver on its great promise. But on March 28th, Oculus Rift, a breakthrough VR system, debuted – finally heralding the arrival of a technology seemingly pulled from a sci-fi future. On a recent spring morning, in a soundproof studio on the San Mateo, California, campus of Facebook – just days before the $600 Rift's release – I'm testing out the Oculus headset in a mountain-climbing simulation created by Crytek, a team of artists and coders that has spent...
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Oculus Touch will control over 30 games this year
Were you worried that Oculus' Touch controller would arrive without any games that used it? If you ask Oculus, there's no reason to worry. It's promising that over 30 Oculus Rift games will use the VR peripheral in 2016. Some of them are titles you'll know, like Rock Band VR and Serious Sam VR, while others are Touch-ready versions of existing VR experiences like Job Simulator and The Climb. Oculus itself will bundle a sculpting title, Oculus Medium.
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Hands on with PlayStation VR: space dogfighting and undersea adventures | ExtremeTech
What a year it’s been for virtual reality: The HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift are available now, Google and Microsoft are investing heavily in its future, and the PlayStation VR is only four months away from hitting store shelves. In preparation for the third major VR launch of the year, Sony is demoing its headset across the US and Canada, and we finally had the opportunity to try out the PSVR.
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Oculus Rift's Palmer Luckey “Sorry” for Funding Nimble America
Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey has said that he is
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Dexmo exoskeleton combines Virtual reality with haptic force feedback
The Dexmo exoskeleton allows its wearer to touch, grasp, and feel virtual objects as if they were real. A virtual baseball feels firm in the hand, an egg fragile. Pick up a digital rubber duck while wearing the Dexmo, and it can be squished pleasingly between the fingers.
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Oculus ordered to pay $500 million in ZeniMax lawsuit
Oculus has been ordered to pay half a billion dollars in a lawsuit with games company ZeniMax. According to Polygon, a jury awarded the sum after determining that Oculus executives violated a ZeniMax non-disclosure agreement in the early days of building the Oculus Rift VR headset.
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Facebook is closing hundreds of its Oculus VR pop-ups in Best Buys after some stores went days without a single demo
Facebook is closing around 200 of its 500 Oculus virtual reality demo stations at Best Buy locations across the US, Business Insider has learned. The scaling back of Facebook's first big retail push for VR comes after workers from multiple Best Buy pop-ups told BI that it was common for them to go days without giving a single demonstration. An internal memo seen by BI and sent to affected employees by a third-party contractor said the closings were because of "store performance."
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Oculus Co-Founder and Rift Creator Palmer Luckey Departs Facebook
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, the man behind the Rift concept and its first prototypes, is leaving the company three years after selling to Facebook. According to Oculus, this will be Palmer’s last week with Friday marking his official last day as an employee of Facebook. In an official statement, the company said that: “Palmer will be dearly missed. Palmer’s legacy extends far beyond Oculus. His inventive spirit helped kickstart the modern VR revolution and helped build an industry. We’re thankful for everything he did for Oculus and VR, and we wish him all the best.”
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Oculus Founder Plots a Comeback With a Virtual Border Wall
After facing political criticism and leaving Facebook, Palmer Luckey is working on another start-up. Its military interest will go nicely with his helicopters and abandoned missile silos.
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Oculus reportedly planning $200 standalone wireless VR headset for 2018
Facebook is set to reveal a standalone Oculus virtual reality headset sometime later this year, Bloomberg reports, with a ship date of sometime in 2018. The headset will work without requiring a tethered PC or smartphone, according to the report, and will be branded with the Oculus name around the world, except in China, where it’ll carry Xiaomi trade dress and run some Xiaomi software as part of a partnership that extends to manufacturing plans for the device.
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HTC Vive Focus Ready To Revolutionize The VR World
Reports suggest HTC may come out with its first Google Daydream VR headset called “Vive Focus” in the near future. This news can have a significant impact
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Oculus' John Carmack Explains Virtual Reality in 5 Levels of Difficulty - WIRED
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All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate
Someone at Oculus screwed up pretty badly today: An expired certificate appears to have soft-bricked all of the company's Rift VR headsets.
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Oculus Rift headsets have stopped working because of an expired certificate
Oculus Rift users today found that their headsets were not working, and the problem appears to be a single expired certificate, as reported by Neowin. The certificate, which is part of the Oculus Runtime service, is being read as invalid, and the cause is likely a simple mistake like someone forgetting to push out a new file. The file causing issues is called OculusAppFramework.dll and needs to be updated in order for the headsets and software to run as normal.
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Oculus Affirms Commitment to Rift, Believes PC Will Lead the VR Industry for the Next Decade
Over the last year, Oculus’ public hardware ambitions have mostly centered around their upcoming standalone headsets (Oculus Go and Santa Cruz), with little to say about what’s next for the company’s PC VR headset, the Rift.
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