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...
Oculus Rifts are shipping. The HTC Vive is just weeks away. For years, VR coverage has been all about the future. But this week, finally, it’s about the present. VR has arrived, and to celebrate, we have a whole week of VR stories for you to read. What does that mean? Look for: Guides to building PCs...
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...
VR is the talk of the town right now, with all the major players set to ship devices at the end of the month. Wander around GDC and you couldn’t swing a cat without smacking someone wearing a VR headset in the noggin. With multiple VR options showing up, one of the questions we inevitably...
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...
I’m sat on top of a castle looking over a gridded battlefield, with a menacing metal mask staring back at me from the fortress on the other side. Dragon Front, a free to play VR card game exclusive to the Oculus store, does a great job of making you feel more like the commander of an...
Valve brought a new set of demos to GDC 2016 to showcase the HTC Vive. So we played them. And no, there was no Half-Life 3 or Portal 3 to be found behind any of the closed doors. Those fist-clenching disappointments aside, the new demos showed off some first-person bow combat with the Vive’s controllers and put...
This just in: I think I’m too much of a baby for horror games in VR. This afternoon I tried out the demo for Paranormal Activity: The Virtual Reality Game on a Vive, and in the few minutes it took to play I screamed out loud three times. Well I say screamed, but these were...
Crytek has released a new gameplay trailer for its VR mountain climbing sim The Climb, this one showcasing the game’s second location in the Alps. The new teaser shows off more in the way of gameplay than the announcement trailer posted late last year. The disembodied hands appear to have changed ever-so-slightly, and those route...
