London Celebrates First Oculus Rift / Virtual Reality Meetup

Inition has recently hosted a successful Oculus Rift / VR Meetup in London and plans to arrange future events. Industry insider Kevin Williams gives us the scoop. Guest post by Kevin Williams Kevin Williams is the founding chairman of the Digital Out-of-Home...

VR Researcher Flips the Script, Augments Virtual Reality with Actual Reality [video]

In what seems like a total reversal of the usual paradigm, a VR researcher is showing the benefits of augmenting the virtual world with the real world. In 'traditional' augmented reality, we take a scene from real life and overlay...

Proton Pulse Preview: Hands-On With the Latest Beta [video]

You may well have already seen Proton Pulse, the retro breakout style bat 'n' ball blaster from developer Justin Moravetz. Cymatic 'Awesome' Bruce covered an earlier version a little while back. Justin was kind enough to send us the...

Sixense STEM Next Generation Motion Controller Goes to Kickstarter This Month

Sixense has officially announced that they'll be bringing their next-gen 'STEM' motion controller to Kickstarter this month, along with a few additional details. Sixense, creators of the technology behind the Razer Hydra motion controller, announced the wireless 'STEM' motion controller...

Is Sony Turning Away from Mainstream VR? New HMD is Designed for Surgery

In a curious move away from virtual reality gaming, Sony has announced a revamped version of their HMZ-T2 head mounted display specifically designed for surgical use. The company is calling it the HMM-3000MT. Along with the HMD comes the 'head-mount...

New Tactical Haptics Reactive Grip Video Shows More Tactile Experiences

Back at GDC 2013, we caught up with Tactical Haptics and demoed their Reactive Grip technology which seeks to provide players with convincing tactile sensations on controllers and other peripherals. The company has released a new video showing two...

Reminder: Oculus Rift VR Jam Starts Today, $50,000 in Prizes for Developers

Last week Oculus, in conjunction with IndieCade, announced the VR Jam, a virtual reality game design competition for Oculus Rift developers. Today marks the beginning of the competition, which will run through August 25th. All developers worldwide are welcome...

DDD Release Beta TriDef 3D Drivers With Experiemental Oculus Rift Support

Dynamic Digital Depth, producers of a suite of 3D Driver products to enhance PC media and games by adding stereoscopic 3D support have just announced a new beta release with support for the Oculus Rift. TriDef Gets Rifted Stereoscopic 3D gaming...

Oculus Rift Raffle Raises $2,367 for Charity — Interview with Omnithon’s Kyle Owsen

Last week, gaming charity drive group Omnithon raised $2,367 for the Child's Play charity. The event was a 48-hour Oculus Rift gaming marathon that was streamed live to viewers -- at the end, the team raffled the Oculus Rift...

DIY Guide: How to Increase the Oculus Rift Physical IPD

While the average IPD (interpupillary distance -- the distance between your pupils) is around 63mm, there are those on the edges of the spectrum that can have an IPD as high as 78mm or as low as 52mm. And...