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Speck Pocket VR Is a Smartphone Case and a VR Viewer In One
The Speck Pocket VR. Photo: Speck The era of portable, pocketable virtual reality is off to a good start in 2016 thanks to powerful smartphones today. Notable players in this…
Sony Adds External Processing Unit For The PlayStation VR
To the eye of the ordinary VR consumer, a virtual reality experience "just works" all thanks to the hardware behind it. Unknowingly, an increasing number of high-performance VR experiences demand…
Oculus Rift Will Not Have Oculus Touch Controllers At Launch
The Oculus Touch controllers. Photo: Oculus VR The much-awaited launch of the Oculus Rift will be early this year. However, the Oculus Touch controllers will have to wait a little…
Chinese VR Startup Launches Gear VR Alternative
A new name on the VR headset scene has been gaining attention recently. Chinese virtual reality platform company FiresVR launched its JiDome-1 VR headset which functions similarly to the Samsung…
Oculus Rift Will Come Bundled With Two Free VR Games at Launch
Screenshot of Lucky's Tale demo video. Photo: Playful Corporation Oculus VR recently announced that as the Oculus Rift VR headset launches early this year, it will have two VR adventure…
Crytek’s The Climb Is A VR Mountain-climbing Experience For The Rift
Many of the available VR experiences today are starting to get clearer for consumers as VR headsets are inching closer to their commercial launch. With the imminent launch of the…
Luna Is The World’s Most Compact Consumer VR Camera
Consumer-level VR cameras are steadily on the rise, due to the growth of VR experiences and the wide array of things that virtual reality has to offer. Now, a new…
Icelandic VR Experience Takes You To The Mount Everest
A glimpse of the Everest VR experience. Photo: Solfar You can't go regularly to the Himalayas just for the Mount Everest. Luckily, one VR company promises to give a one-of-a-kind…
Oculus VR Announces Rock Band VR For The Rift
Oculus VR co-founder Palmer Luckey went up on stage at the Game Awards event in Los Angeles to announce Rock Band VR, a new virtual reality game created in collaboration…
LucidCam Hopes To Become The Go-To Consumer VR Camera
Many of the virtual reality cameras out there are specifically made for the high-end, discerning eyes of the production field. But for the everyday consumer, how is VR going to…