And indeed, I find the whole idea a bit depressing — aging boomers alone in big empty suburban, robotic homes, sitting in vibrating barcaloungers with their Oculus
Rift headsets on.
Not exact matches
The Chernobyl VR Project will be released
on 26 April 2016 - the 30 th anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster, and it will work with Samsung Gear VR, Oculus
Rift, HTC Vive, Playstation VR and other consumer VR
headsets including Google Cardboard.
With the launch of Oculus»
Rift virtual reality
headset becoming available later this month and HTC's Vive due in April, SXSW is hosting a separate three - day event focused
on the new technology and its possibilities.
Inc., demonstrates the new Oculus
Rift headset during the «Step Into The
Rift» event in San Francisco, California
on June 11, 2015.
One of the features that sets Oculus
Rift apart from other virtual reality
headsets is its lightweight display screen and overall emphasis
on comfort that allows for long play sessions.
Wearing an Oculus
Rift headset, users can visit a high - end hotel in London and a beautiful beach in Maui, feeling everything from the sun
on their faces to the wind in their hair.
On the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset using the Touch controllers, you can reach out and grab objects and pull yourself through the game - world — often as you climb around on a spaceshi
On the Oculus
Rift virtual reality
headset using the Touch controllers, you can reach out and grab objects and pull yourself through the game - world — often as you climb around
on a spaceshi
on a spaceship.
The lack of VR media for
headsets like the Facebook (fb) Oculus
Rift, HTC Vive, and Sony's yet - to - be release
headset makes it less compelling for consumers to want to spend big bucks
on cutting - edge gadgetry.
The pre-orders for the consumer version of the virtual reality
headset Oculus
Rift are
on sale.
To help prepare them for the annual onslaught of bargain hunters, some retailers are using Oculus
Rift headsets to train employees
on how to handle challenging customer scenarios before they interact with busy shoppers in the real world.
For the World Cup, Coke created a virtual reality experience in which users could move through a Brazil's Maracana Stadium locker room, go onto the pitch, and play
on the field - all via the Facebook - owned Oculus
Rift headset.
GAME
ON Playing a virtual reality game using a
headset could give you motion sickness, particularly if you are a woman, a study using the Oculus
Rift concluded.
Originally designed to train US military recruits
on the use of weapons, the controller has been adapted to work with the Oculus
Rift gaming
headset.
Oculus
Rift says its consumer virtual reality
headset will go
on sale in early 2016.
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK - Aug 5 - A bizarre pillow shaped like a pair of girls legs coupled with an Oculus
Rift virtual reality
headset is now offering hope to men who do not want to spend the evenings alone sitting
on the sofa.
The manufacturer of the much - anticipated
Rift headset is expected to announce at the Sundance Film Festival
on Monday that it is launching a new unit called Story Studio and has...
Using an Oculus
Rift headset and gaming PC, staff are trained in 360 - degree video - based technology that includes
on - screen cues that will prompt staff to make decisions based
on real - world situations such as how to deal with Black Friday rush or customer service scenarios.
The idea of simply slipping
on a
headset and immediately being immersed into another world seems like something out of a sci - fi movie, but virtual reality gadgets, such as Google Glass, Oculus
Rift and others, are making it possible.
Of course strapping
on the Oculus
Rift VR
headset and diving in to the world of DiRT Rally will provide the ultimate immersive experience, to get an idea of how it will look take a look at the new VR trailer below.
Trackmania Turbo also initially offered Oculus
Rift support for owners of DK1
on PC, but at the time of writing it still doesn't support the consumer version of the
headset which was released back in March.
Samsung is working
on its own virtual reality
headset and plans to beat the Oculus
Rift and Sony's Project Morpheus to the market, Engadget reports.
Building
on a relationship between Microsoft and Oculus that saw the Xbox One controller bundled with the
Rift VR
headset, the sources also stated that the Xbox One Scorpio is designed to support output to the
Rift.
Oculus
Rift customers have discovered that their new VR
headset has data collecting software, that goes as far as check every time you turn it
on.
On the hardware side, one of the big stories was the release of the mass - market virtual - reality
headsets HTC Vive, Oculus
Rift and PlayStation VR.
There are already a few VR
headsets on the market, such as the VIVE, Oculus
RIFT and PlayStation VR, the main issue with all these consumer
headsets is the price, they're all pretty expensive, but Razer have bridged that gap by releasing the HDK2
headset powered by OSVR which provides VR to the masses at a budget price.
The dedicated free - roaming attractions
on display were represented by Jisei Interactive Technology showing their 2,000 m ² optically tracked environment, running backpack PC's, weapons and Oculus
Rift headsets — in a game environment they called VR Big Space.
They began working
on The Wizards shortly after the Oculus Touch controllers were announced for the Oculus
Rift headset.
High - end PCs are put to their paces when powering VR
headsets like the Oculus
Rift and HTC Vive, so it's understandable why PSVR functionality is so limited
on PS4.
The reports also mention that the
headset resembles Sony's own HMZ - T2 3D
headset model but it's specs will be more
on par and rival those of Oculus
Rift.
ABC News in Los Angeles is reporting that one of the developers of the virtual reality
headset Oculus
Rift has been killed, Andrew Scott Reise was 33 when he was run down by a fleeing drug dealer suspect in a Dodge Charger
on the intersection of Flower and MacArthur in Los Angeles in the midst -LSB-...]
At today's event, Microsoft said that the
headsets will start at $ 299 and will include inside - out tracking sensors, obviating the need for external cameras or laser systems like those
on the current Oculus
Rift...
Apex Construct will be available first
on PlayStation VR, with releases
on HTC Vive, Oculus
Rift and Microsoft Mixed Reality
Headsets to follow, although dates have yet to be confirmed.
If you're planning to snag an Oculus
Rift headset when they officially go
on sale soon, you will be happy to know that it will be coming with a couple of goodies.
Robo Recall is the daring, exclusive AAA VR game that released just yesterday
on the Oculus
Rift headset.
Sony is a great supporter of this game, and I won't be surprised if No Man's Sky will be released first with exclusive Project Morpheus support and later
on it will support Oculus
Rift VR
headset.
On whether the new
headset, revealed as Project Morpheus, is actually good for Oculus
Rift, Iribe simply said, «Totally.»
No mention was made of if this meant that Ether One could also support the Project Morpheus PS4 virtual reality (VR)
headset as it does the Oculus
Rift on PC.
EVE: Valkyrie, a multiplayer space - combat simulator game, was shown for the Oculus
Rift VR
headset on PC.
OrbusVR, an MMORPG created from the ground - up for VR
headsets, is getting a free weekend
on Rift starting April 19th to April 22nd.
While not quite
on the same level as industry leaders HTC Vive or Oculus
Rift, the PlayStation VR
headset is still a brilliant addition to the market.
Priced at $ 8, you'll find Starbear: Taxi
on Steam for HTC Vive,
Rift and Windows VR
headsets, and
on Oculus Store for
Rift.
Set to compete one -
on - one with the Oculus
Rift virtual reality
headset, Sony announced today at the Game Developer's Conference that their own VR
headset is far enough along in hardware development that software developers will now begin work, and the...
Positioned at the $ 399 price point for just the
headset, it was the cheapest high - end option available
on the market at the time, especially when the Oculus
Rift and HTC Vive were going for $ 599 and $ 799 respectively.
Starbear: Taxi launched today
on Rift, Vive, and Windows «Mixed Reality» VR
headsets.
The $ 600
Rift came out
on March 28, but production shortages frustrated many who bought the device early, as a lot of customers had to wait months before receiving their
headset.
Now if you are developing content for VR the guide does surmise that you'll have a head - mounted display (HMD) of some sort — otherwise what's the point — with the instructions based
on the HTC Vive, although
headsets like Oculus
Rift can also be used.
This shifts the
headset's weight from the front of your face as with the HTC Vive and Oculus
Rift and places it
on your forehead.
It could be, then, that the team is working with either
headset Oculus
Rift or the Project Morpheus VR
headset on this project, if not both.
Arizona Sunshine (2016), the room - scale zombie shooter adventure, is getting its first campaign DLC
on Oculus
Rift, Vive & Windows «Mixed Reality» VR
headsets on May 24th.
I believe the demo was running
on the Oculus
Rift, so I can only hope the graphical fidelity translates to the other platforms, especially the PSVR, as that is the only
headset I currently own.