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Facebook F8 Keynote – Oculus Rift Crescent Bay “Launching Soon”
Oculus Rift is coming! That’s something we’ve known for a long time. What started as a humble crowd funding, quickly become a huge change in the industry and the company was then bought by Facebook, turning it into something even bigger that anyone could have imagined. DK1 and DK2 have…
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Oculus Rift DK2 VR Headset Review
Introduction Oculus VR is one of the hottest technology companies of a generation, promising huge innovations in the way we consume content such as computer games and movies. While their consumer ready CV1 (Consumer Version 1) Oculus Rift technology is still not ready, we have been fortunate enough to get our…
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VR Master Race Competition [Oculus Rift Owners Only]
Bit of an odd competition this week, as we look to kick off our eTeknix VR Week. While I understand that many of you will not be able to enter this competition, it’s just a little bit of fun for a smaller part of our community and we’re very grateful…
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Oculus VR Worried About The True Cost of VR Gaming
The Oculus Rift headset is already making big waves in the technology industry, the DK2 development kit is a strong seller, and developers around the world have been working hard to integrate the hardware into their games. The hardware is incredible, but it does have some draw backs even in…
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Leap Motion Launch Oculus Mount for Hand Tracking
Oculus Rift is nothing short of awesome, but it lacks just one thing; when you’re looking around your 3D environment of choice, you reach out for things and naturally expect to see your hands in front of you, but you don’t. Of course you need to control your digital self…
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Oculus Rift Creator Discusses Consumer Model (CV1) Development
At this years Gamescom event, Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey sat down with Heise to discuss their upcoming VR headset. The technology is currently in a development stage, I should know, I’ve ordered their Dev Kit 2 (DK2) model already! But the question we’ve all be wanting answered is “when…
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Oculus Rift DK2 Support Now Available in Half Life 2
Good news Oculus Fans, as Valve classic Half Life 2 has finally gotten the update you’ve been waiting for. The game will now support the recently released and much updated Oculus Rift DK2 headset thanks to a recent update and while I know many of you are still waiting for…
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Exploration and Stunning Visuals Ahead in Oculus Ready ‘Pollen’
DK1 was impressive, but its technical limitations have been a tough challenge for games developers, who will have needed to see the potential for the technology beyond the hardware they were developing for. Now DK2 is here and while many developers are still awaiting their new hardware, some have been…
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Oculus Rift Dev Kit Sales Pass 100,000 Devices
Oculus VR are going from strength to strength recently, not only have they sold 60,000 of their DK1 (Dev Kit 1) hardware, but they’ve also sold 40,000 pre-orders for their DK2 which is due for release later this month. Hitting that 100,000 benchmark is pretty impressive for a bit of…
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“It’s Official, We’re Building A Platform” Says Oculus VR
Oculus VR are still working hard on their consumer model of their upcoming Oculus VR headset, but as the hardware developers, so far progression through DK1 and the current progress with DK2, the company has also been working hard on other aspects of their VR technology. With services like Steam,…
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