Already more affordable than the HTC Vive, the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset matches the PlayStation VR for a limited time, at $399, Touch included.
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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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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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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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If there’s one thing we’ve got to commend Samsung for, is for taking R&D so seriously, they actually launch some of the products even if they won’t be hits. Succeeding examples are the Galaxy Note line-up, which we all mocked when originally launched, and which we all ended-up using and loving afterwards. Today we hear that Samsung is up-to something bigger and badder, and it has everything to do with competing with the Oculus Rift. Rumors have it that Samsung is building a Virtual Reality headset to compete with the Oculus Rift, but with the idea of using your Galaxy ...
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After some early stabs late last century, virtual reality looks like it may finally be ready to become a commercial success, and we have the Oculus Rift to thank. The VR headset was a huge Kickstarter success, and work has been underway ever since to tweak the hardware until it’s ready to hit stores. While already set up to be a smash on the PC, over the summer we heard some chatter about how the Oculus Rift might take advantage of mobile devices, possibly even connecting to next-gen smartphones. Back then, nothing was set ...
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