Crytek’s ‘The Climb’ is The Best Selling Rift Game To Date

Oculus has confirmed that Crytek's The Climb is the platform's best selling Rift game to date, and among a handful of titles that have grossed more than $1 million on the company's VR storefront. When it comes to VR platforms today,...

Closeup With New, Cheaper Rift + Touch Bundle – Ships With Improved Foam Padding

Announced last week, Oculus has finally opted to put the Rift and Touch controllers together into one package, making motion input the new default. The new bundle also includes improved foam padding. The new bundle is currently on sale for...

Lenovo Reveals AR Headset DaystAR

Lenovo today unveiled at the company's annual Tech World conference a new standalone AR headset dubbed 'daystAR'. Revealed on stage by chief technology officer Yong Rui, daystAR is an augmented reality optical display with what the company says has an "independent vision...

‘Echo Arena’ Launches Today, Free for a Limited Time

Echo Arena, the zero-g VR sports game coming to Rift July 20th, is going to be free for anyone who downloads it in the first 3 months after launch, says production studio Ready at Dawn in an Oculus forum post. Update 07/20/17: Once...
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‘Racket Fury’ Bringing Amped-up VR Ping Pong to Early Access This Week

Table tennis is becoming an increasingly crowded area in the world of VR sport, and Racket Fury aims to differentiate itself with a blend of futuristic visuals, unique robot AI personalities, and detailed physics. The game has been in...

Applications Now Open for Oculus Connect 4 Developer Conference

Oculus' annual developer conference is back—Connect 4 will be hosted on October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center. Applications to register for the event are now open with regular passes starting at $400, though applications...

Trailer: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ to Get Trio of VR Experiences, Latter Two Coming to Rift

San Diego's Comic-Con always sees a massive fanfare for all things science fiction, so there's no better place for Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros Pictures to debut the VR experience for their upcoming film Blade Runner 2049, Riddley Scott's sequel to the iconic Blade...
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First Look: ‘MARVEL Powers United VR’ Gameplay & Hands-on

Oculus has teamed up with developer Sanzaru Games (behind titles like VR Sports Challenge and Ripcoil) to bring the world of MARVEL to VR. Marvel Powers United VR is a four-player co-op focused experience that will let you step into the...

Deadpool Joins Roster of 12 Heroes in ‘MARVEL Powers United VR’

Adding to the cast of Marvel heroes in the recently announced VR co-op adventure game Marvel Powers United VR, Oculus today announced that the wise-cracking "merc with a mouth" Deadpool will be added to the list, which has now been confirmed to offer...

Using Experiential Design to Expand VR Presence Theory

Dustin Chertoff has pulled experiential design insights from the advertising world to come up with a more holistic theory of Presence in virtual reality. In 2008, he was in graduate school and was dissatisfied with the major theories of...