Tag Archives: Oculus Rift

Oculus Rift VR HMD Developer Kits Release Date Set

After a long and anxious development process for the young company Oculus, they’ve finally set a solid shipping date for their groundbreaking virtual reality head mounted display, The Rift. Previously, they had estimated shipping The Rift by December 2012 but according to their latest Kickstarter newsletter, shipping for Kickstarter backers starts March of 2013. People who bought an Oculus Rift after the Kickstarter will get theirs … [ Read More... ]

The Last 58 hours for You to Support the Oculus Rift via Kickstarter

When we were at Quakecon, we were lucky enough to get an interview with Palmer Luckey, creator of the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display. In the interview he discusses why the Rift is special and how you can support this bleeding edge technology.

You can listen to it all the way at the bottom of this post.

While you listen to it, you can support … [ Read More... ]

Oculus Rift VR HMD Officially Supported by Hawken

Palmer Luckey’s Oculus Rift now has a second game officially supporting the revolutionary hardware. Hawken, a mecha FPS by game development studio Adhesive Games has announced along with its publisher Meteor Entertainment, that it will ship with Oculus Rift support. This is the second game to support the Rift following id Software’s Doom 3: BFG Edition.

Some of the special features the Hawken team annouced in their … [ Read More... ]

Quakecon: Hands On With John Carmack and Palmer Luckey’s Future Machine

The Rift. A new frontier. A virtual reality head mounted display controller.

We were lucky enough to try out Oculus‘  Rift at this years Quakecon. On display were 2 demonstrations, one was called the “flying demo” which was basically Id Software’s Rage with flying and noclip turned on (allowing for free movement). The other demo was of Doom 3 BFG Edition, which of course displayed the … [ Read More... ]