Because real-life needs third-person perspective too, Polish software modders Mepi have created this strange, perspective-shifting Oculus Rift mod, which allows you to view the world from an over-the-shoulder view (and keep tabs on your bald spot to boot). Possibly the most cumbersome wearable tech
Apparently, you don’t need a hefty black face-mask with rubber straps to access the constructs of virtual reality. All you need is a sheet of cardboard, an Android phone, and a little ingenuity. Oh yeah, and you’ll need Google’s new app Cardboard, which, when run on a mobile situated inside a homem
Cyberspace is portrayed in works of sci-fi as a beautiful virtual world where hackers and cyber-criminals vie for the security of databases. In real life, the intrigues of cyber warfare are less appealing, reduced to some guys hunched over their laptop. But with Plan X, the experimental wing at DARP
Because it’s totally lame to fire a dinky little light gun in virtual reality, the Striker VR looks, rattles, and vibrates like a real-deal, deadly assault weapon. “Input” remains one of the great unknowns in our VR-filled future, so you might as well pick one of these up if you’ve already sprung fo
The Oculus Rift is foremost thought of a fun, future-y head-mounted videogame device, but it has many applications outside of that, like training medics to save soldiers in the line of fire. The training program is being used by he United Kingdom’s army to teach rookies how to prioritize life-and-de
When it comes to the console space, Nintendo’s mantra is making games that bring people together face-to-face. We’ve seen that with the Wii U and its Gamepad, the Wii in general, and the 4-player docks of Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. So virtual reality presents a quandary for the quality face time soug
Oculus—those far-seeing, Facebook-owned virtual reality devs—are peering even further into the future, to the time when we will all have Matrix jacks in our skulls and everyone owns a holodeck—the virtual reality cave from the Star Trek universe, not the Russian jelly mold. In a recent Reddit AMA wi
While you’re waiting with baited breath for the big news out of Los Angeles, we thought why not catch up on the weekend’s crop of outrageous virtual reality demos, which seem destined to encompass every possible human and non-human endeavor. The first up is Senza Peso, a beautiful looking and sound
We have one word about the famous Matrix scene being refitted for Oculus Rift: Whoa! OK, we have a few more, but that’s a good starting point. There’s just something awe-inspiring about being in the same hollow, boundless white room where a debonair Laurence Fishburne introduces slack-jawed Keanu t
Obviously, virtual reality is a pretty hot topic in games these days. We dedicated an entire issue to it. But now the head honcho at Take-Two, publisher of GTA and a whole stable of quality games, has put a bit of a damper on the optimism. Speaking to Bloomberg, CEO Strauss Zelnick said that donnin
At present, consumer-grade virtual reality is largely focused on putting you in a game space and blowing shit up, but it may one day be used to sate our appetite for luxury goods like Dior handbags and Audi R8s. That’s what Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said at an expo in California recently, getting
If clubbing in virtual reality turns out to be anything like this insane dance party demo, tearing the club up in, say, whatever the VR equivalent to Second Life is will be a consciousness-altering nexus of pulsing wavelengths and florescent tracers—no party favors necessary. As you can see in the
Just when you thought your childhood dream of hoverboarding would never materialize … Enter: project Hoverboard VR, a virtual reality setup that simulates those bodacious fictional levitating skateboards of the ’90s. Jiggered together from gaming peripherals that don’t get out much these days, the s
In the increasingly crowded market for home omni-directional treadmills, there is one that doesn’t look like a form of mind-washing reconditioning at a terrorist training camp. Recently on display at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Expo, the Infinadeck is a frameless, treaded walking machine that
Visiting fantastic virtual worlds. Simulating amazing experiences you’ll never have in real-life. Having out-of-body experiences in cyberspace. Forget all that. What we really want to do in virtual reality is play old games. And that is exactly what the MemoRift project by Roy Lazarovich allows you
Microsoft might be revising their vision for the Kinect by removing it from the Xbox One, but the motion-tracking camera still has a bright future in creating spooky, immaterial OOB experiences, apparently. As you can see in this reality-splitting YouTube video, a long-time VR developer has concoct
The prospect of Jeff Minter making a game for Oculus Rift is pretty terrifying, especially when said game is Minotaur Rescue, a psychotic swirl of ZX81 graphics and random goat blurts. Personally, I love the game; it remains one of my favorites on iOS, and that’s saying a lot. But I say terrifying b
Yeah, yeah. The Oculus Rift has the capacity to radically reshape the way we experience games and all. But what I’m really stoked about is using it to finally replay twenty-year-old Virtual Boy games as they were intended. That dream is coming true thanks to the VBjin-OVR Virtual Boy Emulator for th
