It’s the future! Well, maybe it isn’t, but either way virtual reality is on the cusp of changing games forever. This is where to read about Sony’s Project Morpheus, Oculus Rift, and all the weird, wonderful and mildly disturbing experiences that they enable.
Space games never really went away. But they've been on something of a comeback trail all the same. What happened to give all us neglected X-Wing fans reason to have faith once again? I'm willing to bet it has something to do with a little thing called the Oculus Rift
That sound you can hear? Me hyperventilating. The cherry on top? Using a Wii Balance Board to control it.
Game artist Priscilla Firstenberg first showed a video of how Oculus Rift helped her terminally ill grandmother go outside one last time in November last year. Now she's spoken more on the experience.
“We never expected to sell so many.” Oculus Rift after shifting 85, 000 development kits, split between 60, 000 first gen DK1 kits and 25, 000 DK2 kits.
First-person platforming is hard to pull off. It takes lots of planning and fine control to make it work, so really, Super Mario 64 playing so badly in first-person comes as no surprise. Still looks fun, though.
The Oculus Rift is a wonderful thing, but it takes a lot out of you, physically. You need to be at your best while using it, because there's a lot of stuff going on between your eyes and your brain. This guy is not at his best, and it has cost him dearly.
Usually celebrity Ask Me Anythings on Reddit consist of one word answers and people avoiding the hard questions. James Cameron's Ask Me Anything was not like this.
What Conquest of the Skies actually is, is a mystery. All we know is that Attenborough will write and present, and it's coming to Oculus Rift.
If you're like me, the concept of a VR Light Cycle game from Tron was a dream you always had as a kid. Well now you're in luck.
Using an Oculus Rift headset, I felt transported underwater in a manner that felt perfect for a setting in which there are things to see in every direction.
Pokémon, in first person, played with an Oculus Rift plus a 'virtual reality treadmill' called the Virtuix Omni—which allows you to walk around naturally in a game. This is the future, folks.
