virtual reality

With the new virtual reality category on Steam, VR is officially a thing

A new category has appeared on Steam, bearing the words “VR support.” Now that virtual reality is a separate entity in the database, maybe this means we’ll be seeing some made-from-scratch VR games soon.  When the current wave of virtual reality first gained momentum with the Oculus Rift, it was ver

We’re 75 million dollars closer to living the dream of virtual reality

The future has gotten even rosier for virtual reality, as the Oculus Rift headgear has just received a whopping 75 million dollars in financial backing from the investing firm Andreessen Horowitz. Oculus had previously raised just 16 million.  This will undoubtedly propel us into the virtual future

Just because virtual reality can take us to GTA 4 doesn’t mean it should

Virtual reality continues to show that man will go to great lengths to supplant himself inside the world of Grand Theft Auto. A batshit but impressive tech demo of one devoted man strapped into every virtual reality peripheral there is makes that evident. In the video, he’s using a locomotion device

Oculus Rift dev says PS4, Xbox One are out-of-date

Palmer Luckey, the outspoken, young entrepreneur behind the Oculus Rift, says the reason we won’t see his revolutionary virtual reality headset on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 is because consoles can’t keep up with the pace of technology.  “Consoles are too limited for what we want to do. We’re tr