Oculus Rift
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Oculus is making good on promises to continually improve Medium, its VR sculpting tool, based on user feedback. Its first update debuts today with some significant improvements, such as the the ability to use reference images in your creative process.
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One of the draws of virtual reality is that you can do things you can't do in real life. If one of your fantasies is to find out what it's like to be Batman, look no further than Batman: Arkham VR. Formerly a Playstation VR exclusive, the title is coming to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on April 25.
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The Rock Band game franchise – where you can live out your dreams of shredding the guitar in front of a packed crowd – has been reimagined for virtual reality. Rock Band VR hits the Oculus Store today.
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Oculus has partnered with NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency to create an educational simulation of what it's like to be aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Mission: ISS allows you to virtually spacewalk and perform space station tasks like docking cargo.
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When considering a virtual reality purchase, is room-scale VR really a major consideration over standing VR? Some recent demos gave us reason to question our previous conclusions.
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Facebook has steadily incentivized the Rift virtual reality headset since acquiring its maker Oculus in 2014. These efforts are enough to push the Rift ahead of its competition, but can they spur the widespread VR adoption that Facebook envisions?
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If you were holding off on getting a high-end VR headset because of pricing, Oculus just made the hit on your wallet a bit lighter, with a significant price drop on both the Rift headset and Touch controllers.
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At Oculus' 2015 developer conference, much of the chatter at the Hollywood event centered around Epic Games' Bullet Train, a furiously-paced demo that felt like a breakthrough in VR gameplay. The full game it ultimately spawned, Robo Recall, launches today.
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This past weekend we spent about six hours hopping from demo-to-demo at a pre-GDC hands-on with Oculus. Our conclusion? VR gaming is about to take big leaps forward in depth, length, polish and quality.
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Oculus has teamed up with Felix & Paul Studios to present "The People's House: A Tour of the White House with Barack and Michelle Obama." The experience is a 360-degree tour of the White House (the US presidential mansion) for Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.
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While VR is prevalent at CES 2017, we haven't seen much tech this year that pushes the emerging space forward. One of the few exceptions is KwikVR, an adapters on show that takes wired, PC-based headsets like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift and makes them wireless. New Atlas took KwikVR for a spin.
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In a few short years, virtual reality has gone from something only a lucky few had tried in private demos to a consumer product advertised in prime time television (Samsung, Sony and Google all ran TV ads this year). Let's take a look back at VR's arrival on the scene in 2016.
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