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Eve Online and Oculus Rift devs say VR will help us transcend "the atoms of this particular earth"
Avatar fan-fests, virtual hands, and meta world peace will all be possible.
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Sorry, museum security guards, now we can touch the paintings (sort of)
“Into the Frame” is a project by researchers at Middlesex University on display at the Red Gallery in London’s Shoreditch neighborhood. The futuristic installation allows viewers (or rather, experiencers) of a painting to immerse themselves in the work through touch and sound, extending past the typ
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Virtual reality meets haute couture in this runway show in East London
We knew that affordable, consumer-level virtual reality would take us to places we’ve never been. We didn’t know that it would be to the front row of a swanky fashion show in London. However, that’s exactly what clothing retailer Topshop plans to do for its Autumn/Winter 2014 line, which they’re sho
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This guy is building Ocarina of Time’s Kokiri Forest in virtual reality
Sometimes you can go home again, at least in virtual reality. A guy going by Dark Akuma is recreating Link’s happy boyhood village from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Oculus Rift. The software allows you to explore the quaint woodland clearing from the Nintendo 64 game in all it’s bloc
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Forbes predicts virtual reality will be the next heroin. Really
A confused little article posted on Forbes seriously suggests that virtual reality will become the next China white. The argument is that videogames trigger the release of dopamine in the brain, which puts them in the same category as cocaine. Though Tom Bissell’s Extra Lives may have something to s
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Check out this first-person impression of Valve’s absolutely insane VR tech
Carlos Montero, the project lead on Black Mesa, the HD Half-Life remake, was one of the few who were invited to go face-on with Valve’s virtual reality helm, which is apparently the next best thing to lucid dreaming. So what do the lucky ones who tumble down the rabbit hole in Gabe Newell’s personal
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Unsurprisingly, Jonathan Blow hated virtual reality. Surprisingly, he doesn’t anymore
The Witness—Jonathan Blow’s Myst-like puzzler that set on a deserted island that is, yes, professionally landscaped—will be playable in virtual reality, the Braid-creator posted on his blog. But it wouldn’t be a Blow post without a dash of vitriol: Last year I was pessimistic about VR systems in the
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The Cast AR glasses turn physical reality into a holographic dreamscape
There was a lot of hype around virtual reality at CES last week, but don’t overlook the fantastic possibilities of augmented reality. You can see what they’re capable of in the video below: namely, very-impressive holograms projected out in front of you. While this pair of CastAR augmented reality g
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Now that Oculus Rift is forming a game studio, virtual reality is officially on fire
We recently learned that Oculus Rift—the guys who make the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset—are bulking up to develop their own games. They’ve already have brought on FPS-forefather John Carmack, although it was suspected he’d just be working on the technical aspects of thing. Not so! Now, they’r
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We let the Internet sum up CES so we don’t have to
If you’ve been following the tech and gaming blogs this week—and you have, or else you wouldn’t be here—you are aware that a pretty huge trade show known as the Consumer Electronics Show has been going down in Las Vegas. It can be a lot to keep up with, as this year we’ve got some big gaming news. W
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Virtual reality just got a little more real with the Avegant Glyph
One very cool gadget among a sea of very cool gadgets at CES is this pair of noise-canceling virtual-reality headphones. Yes, that is a thing. The Glyph by Avegant, as seen above, looks like a pair of ordinary headphones, until you tilt them down to wear them over your eyes and viola: virtual freaki
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Virtual reality needs more realistic expressions, less fox-people, says Second Life creator
Linden Labs’ founder wants to attract your mom to virtual reality