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Samsung announces Gear VR, a new mobile virtual reality headset
Samsung has announced Gear VR at IFA 2014, a new type of virtual reality headset that works with the Galaxy Note 4. Instead of using a display, Samsung will employ…
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey claims virtual reality growth is “inevitable”
The creator of Oculus VR, Palmer Luckey, spoke to a crowd on Sunday at the annual CG conference Siggraph, along with a few other experts in the virtual reality space, to…
Facebook wants movies on the Oculus Rift
Facebook is looking to use some of its money and influence to persuade the movie industry to port their films onto the Oculus Rift. This would be a big boost…
Doom co-creator John Romero sees virtual reality as a fad
The Doom co-creators have become titans of the video game industry, but John Carmack and John Romero have differing views when it comes to virtual reality in video games. John…
Samsung bringing Gear VR to “Unpacked” event in September
Samsung wants to get into the virtual reality business, after the acquisition of Oculus VR by Facebook for $2 billion and both Sony and Valve getting into the market, it…
Cannot afford Oculus VR? 3D Print your own virtual reality headset!
The Oculus VR headset is quite expensive and very hard to get a hold of, so hard that people have taken to eBay, paying thousands of dollars for quick access…
Big Year: IEEE’s 2015 VR Conference in France
Pundits Discuss VR's Break Into Mainstream 2015 is the Year of the Goat in Chinese calendars; just before Christmas of that year, Disney will release Star Wars Episode VII; the…
Memorift: Virtual Reality Nostalgia
Create a Virtual 80's Gaming Den Video games, computers, everything techie is always getting sleeker, smaller, cooler. That means that the stuff from fifteen, twenty years ago usually looks…
Introduction to Oculus Rift
Facebook’s New Acquisition Is the Best Candidate to Bring Virtual Reality Mainstream Palmer Luckey, an affable looking fellow with hair that perpetually appears just-tousled, has a strange collection. Bulky, plastic,…
A Terminally Ill Woman Uses Oculus Rift to Take Her Very Last Stroll
As it has been previously established, Oculus Rift is more than a gaming and entertainment device. Where it has allowed paralyzed patients to enjoy the sensation of walking around, it…