Politics and technology should not mix. Yet, Palmer Luckey did. And developers don’t like it so much, they’ve decided to vote with their feet.The Oculus founder is known for more than just his awfully-off “ballpark” estimate for a PC-powered virtual reality headset. He’s also known as NimbleRichMan on Reddit, using his vast wealth accumulated from when Facebook bought ...
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Virtual reality is about to open new worlds for us to explore, and with the arrival of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, it’s nearly time for users everywhere to plug in and start experiencing for themselves all the potential these new tools have to offer. Well, users everywhere, so long as they’ve got a properly equipped Windows PC – Mac users, you’re out of luck. Despite Apple’s share of the desktop ...
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A little over an hour ago, at 10am Eastern, HTC opened its doors for pre-orders of the Vive virtual reality headset. With a head-mounted display, wall trackers, and a pair of wireless controllers, Vive’s hoping to give users one of the most well-rounded VR experiences they can come by – but it’s not alone. Last month, Oculus Rift got its own pre-order party ...
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Following a couple of unmistakably experimental “innovator” versions, Samsung and Oculus VR have finally decided to take their virtual reality alliance to the next level in September, unveiling the first Gear VR consumer model.This isn’t quite a full-on competitor for the polished
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After experimenting for several years with so-called “development kits”, virtual reality pioneer Oculus is at last ready to move the Rift headset to mass-production stages. We’ve known this for a while, but company founder Palmer Luckey is only now starting to spill the beans on prospective retail value.Of course, we’re still a few months away from Rift’s planned Q1 2016 commercial rollout, so the pricing details aren’t spelled out just yet. Last-minute tweaks to the advanced custom hardware of the VR ...
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The world of virtual reality is finally seeing the arrival of hardware advanced enough to make truly immersive experiences a reality. That’s bringing us efforts like the HTC Vive, set to go up for sale before the end of the year. But the granddaddy of them all is Oculus VR’s Oculus Rift, long available as developer hardware but seemingly never quite ready to take the retail plunge. That’s all changing in 2016, and today Oculus shared ...
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Samsung’s Gear VR for the Galaxy Note 4 is nearly here, with US sales set to begin as we move into December. For Note 4 owners interested in picking up the accessory, a whole new world of virtual experiences awaits them, but what about the rest of us? Will Samsung ever have another VR product that’s maybe not so closely tied to an already expensive phablet? That could well be a possibility, as Oculus VR’s co-founder talks a little about what’s next for the company’s collaboration with ...
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This may be pushing the limits of what counts as smartphone news, but bear with us for a moment: Samsung and Oculus VR have been partnering up for work on what’s promising to be a real virtual reality renaissance. We know Oculus itself has been thinking about Android compatibility since its early days, and more recently the company has been helping Samsung develop the technology it’s using for its own Gear VR headset ...
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Google Glass may be facing some hurdles even before it becomes available to the public. Adrian Wong, lead electrical engineer for Google Glass, is heading over to a new company — Oculus. Wong, who was at Google since 2010, has made the departure to begin “Building the Metaverse” over at Oculus (which, by the way, was recently acquired by Facebook). He officially departed on May 2, posting his au revoir on Facebook, fittingly. According to Wong’s LinkedIn profile, he ...
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