Oculus promises 30 VR games for its Touch controllers
Your hands are about to joing you in Oculus’s virtual worlds. The Oculus Rift VR headset’s Touch controllers are launching later this year, and...
Former EA and Oculus exec David Demartini passes away
David DeMartini, a well-known former executive at Oculus VR and Electronic Arts, passed away at the age of 56. In recent weeks, DeMartini, known...
Hitman Go: VR Edition is Square Enix experimenting with virtual reality
New games keep coming out for virtual reality, and sometimes those releases are actually quite old. Hitman Go: VR Edition is one of the latest...
How CastAR’s Jeri Ellsworth will use augmented reality for fun tabletop gaming
Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson have been toiling away at augmented reality for years at their startup, CastAR. Their ambition to make a fun...
How Samsung plans to snare game developers with its ‘Made for Samsung’ program
Global conglomerates like Samsung dominate the tech landscape. But when it comes to games, they’re underdogs. Samsung knows this, and that’s why it recently...
Oculus and Samsung have 1M Gear VR users
Oculus has already sold more than 1 million virtual reality head-mounted displays — although most of those are the Gear VR peripheral for Samsung...
Playful’s Paul Bettner: VR is just getting its start, like Disney in the 1920s
Paul Bettner has been waiting for virtual reality for decades. That’s one reason why his VR gaming studio, Playful, created Lucky’s Tale as a...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney still opposes Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform
Microsoft wants to unify its desktop, mobile and game platforms through the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). At the recent Microsoft Build conference, Microsoft CEO...
Oculus to frustrated preorder customers: Go get a Rift at Best Buy this weekend
Oculus VR is preparing to launch its retail strategy even before it has fulfilled all of its preorders. Many people who preordered a Rift...
New computer science center will honor the memory of a lost Oculus cofounder
Brendan Iribe, chief executive of Facebook’s Oculus VR division, dedicated the launch of a new computer science building at the University of Maryland over...