Oculus are gearing up for the official launch of the consumer Oculus Rift While the launch isn’t until early next year, the recommended specs required for the VR headset have been shared. The below specs are for what Oculus recommend for an optimal experience. NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater Intel i5-4590 equivalent […]
360-degree videos now available on YouTube
360 videos are getting more and more popular, and with VR headsets nearly in full swing, YouTube are getting into the game and have finally launched their support for 360 videos. There are already a good many 360-degree videos available. Assuming your YouTube app is up to date, you can check them out with your […]
HTC and Valve partner for HTC Vive VR headset
HTC are bringing their own VR heatset to market. Dubbed the HTC Vive, the VR headset from HTC combines Vavles Steam VR technologies and HTC’s design talent for a VR headset. The Vive will offer a full room/360 degree tracking ability for complete immersion in a virtual environment. The headset will include high quality graphics […]
Samsung partners with Oculus for Gear VR accessory: Uses Note 4 to provide VR experience
Samsung and Oculus have teamed up for a new product dubbed Gear VR. The new accessory will allow future owners of the Galaxy Note 4 to simply slot their device into the device and use it as a complete and functional VR headset. Since the current Oculus development kit uses a complete Galaxy Note 3 […]
Facebook buying Oculus VR for $2 billion
Facebook and Oculus VR announced earlier that Facebook will be purchasing Oculus VR for a total sum of $2 billion in both Facebook stock and cash. Oculus have gotten more and more popular of the last year with their development kit and their big plans for the future of Virtual Reality gaming and more and […]
Sony announce Project Morpheus, officially bringing virtual reality to the PS4
GDC 2014 has kicked off, and Sony have just finished up their panel and with it have announced Project Morpheus and so the rumours are over. Sony are bringing a virtual reality headset to the PS4. While Sony have detailed a lot about the virtual reality headset and the fact they have been working on […]
Oculus suspending sale of Dev Kits due to component shortage
The Oculus rift has been in the lime light as a real step towards fully immersive gaming or in other words virtual reality gaming. The Oculus Rift dev kits have been available for sometime now so developers can get their hands on them and of course develop future titles and software for the device or include […]