Power that’s not painfully expensive Unless you’ve had your head under a rock for the past six months, you probably already know that virtual reality headsets–namely the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive–are the new hotness when it comes to PC peripherals. VR is all over the media, but what keeps getting repeated over and...
Oculus’ Damaged Core is one of a few VR-exclusive FPSs. Jason Rubin Jason Rubin has a big job at Oculus VR: he’s overseeing “over 20” first party Oculus Rift games set for release this year while bringing the culture and processes of game development to a hardware company. Before Oculus, Rubin was briefly president of THQ...
Familiar faces in familiar places reviewing a VR game James secretly takes a selfie with me at this year’s GDC. This is PC Gamer’s first review of a VR-exclusive game, but it’s not a review of the Oculus Rift itself—that will come later this week—so it assumes some familiarity and comfort with the hardware. As we...
We originally wrote a guide to preparing for VR last year, but with the Rift finally here, we’ve updated it with new information based on our time with both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. If you’ve ordered an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, your own personal headset may be rolling off a factory assembly...
Like the platform-specific Apple App Store or Steam, the Oculus Rift has its own digital storefront, which Oculus says is “designed to prove the best VR experience and content.” Even so, developers are perfectly free to sell their stuff elsewhere, if they prefer, and it won’t cost them any extra to do it. But Rift owners...
Tim: I’ve seen a lot less of Lucky’s Tale over the game’s gestation than Wes has, so I was something close to dumbstruck by how polished it actually is. With a lot of VR stuff you expect compromises and rough edges, but this Technicolor platformer starring a cartoon fox is slick, responsive, and crucially, really good...
The Oculus PC SDK v1.3 has implemented Asynchronous Timewarp (ATW) on Windows. Basically, this affects the Oculus headset’s ability to render images smoothly, without as much “judder” in the image quality. Timewarping is a relatively new term for the way VR technology adjusts images before they’re sent to your headset. Before timewarp, your movement was captured...
Sony’s console virtual reality headset, PlayStation VR, has a chance of making its way to PC, an executive at the company has hinted. Masayasu Ito, Sony Computer Entertainment’s senior vice president, told Nikkei that making PSVR compatible with PCs is something there is a potential for: “Since PlayStation 4 shares a lot of its components...
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey traveled to Anchorage, Alaska this weekend to personally deliver the very first consumer Oculus Rift to its very first pre-orderer, Ross Martin. Wearing his signature shorts and sandals (perfect for March in Alaska), Luckey handed over the signed headset while livestreaming the occasion on Facebook (where else?). Martin is a software developer for Axiom Data Science and has been following...
We used a lot of VR while we were at GDC 2016. It was the heart of the conference this year, and we’re rapidly approaching the day the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are available to anyone with money to burn. So we gathered to discuss what the main differences between the two are, and what could be deciding...
