Oculus Rift Archives

If You Need A New PC To Run It, The Oculus Rift Will Cost Around $1500
There is a lot of excitement surrounding the launch of the Oculus Rift, but one key fact remains illusive We still don't quite know exactly how much the Rift ia going to cost us That's a metric that could make or break this system in a big way. However, we have a new 'ballpark' number to[...]
Oculus Rift PC Requirements Revealed And You'll Need Some Decent Kit
Surely if you are playing a graphic intensive game with the Oculus Rift, these requirements will increase substantially. I'm happy to say I'm in the dark a little here, so maybe more of you can make sense of this I know I have the set-up to run thw device, but put a heavily modded Skyrim on[...]
The Consumer Oculus Rift Is Expected In Early 2016
The Oculus Rift has been in development for a hell of a long time It seems that we have been talking about the headset hypothetically for several years at this point However, it's clear the time of consumer VR is not too far away. Oculus announced today that the consumer unit of their device will launch[...]
Category: Video Games – Episode 31: Nintendo Did A Thing
We talk about the announcement of the Nintendo NX, the company getting involved with mobile, our worries for the Oculus Rift, Tales from the Borderlands Episode 2 and Destiny winning the best game award at the BAFTAs. Give it a listen. [audio:http://s39.podbean.com/pb/d0f562e025b5b8f2f2a2c43832e36c49/550a0d43/data1/blogs60/682909/uploads/Episode31-NintendoDidaThing-CVG.mp3] You can subscribe to us on Itunes here too if you want to keep up to[...]
The Humber In A Box Project – Industry Applications For Gaming Tools
I spoke to some of the researchers from the Hull Immersive Visualization Environment (HIVE), who were demonstrating their simulations to help train people to work on off-shore wind farms, using Oculus Rift VR headsets and a virtual environment built in Unity3D I had a go myself and built a 3D landscape in Unity using some[...]
John Carmack Says That Experiencing Oculus Rift Is Like 'Religion On Contact'
Last year he moved from Id Software to VR specialists Oculus Rift as the CTO Since then he has been championing virtual reality in a big way. As if to highlight his enthusiasm for the technology, he got very hyperbolic in an interview with Fortune recently When asked what the differences were between virtual reality today[...]
The Future Of Gaming At NYCC – Big On Virtual Reality And Digital, Bleak On Physical
Michael Gluck worked formerly for EA, and James Schmalz is affiliated with Digital Extremes. In summary: they're experts. The discussion for the panel took off rather quickly on the topic of virtual reality – a subject which has been on the gaming table for, according to Garrett Fuller, "since 1994." The biggest name to date in virtual[...]