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Project becomes first virtual reality movie Outstanding Original Interactive Program to win an Emmy
Read More »Ex-Bungie devs’ studio Polyarc Games raises $3.5m
Tam Armstrong, Danny Bulla and Chris Alderson worked on Destiny, with former pair consulting for Oculus, before founding virtual reality outlet
Read More »HTC Vive bests Oculus Rift as developers’ headset of choice
New study shows almost 50% of VR devs are creating games for HTC's device
Read More »ZeniMax accuses Carmack of tech theft in Oculus lawsuit
Bethesda owner ZeniMax has amended its lawsuit with Oculus to include accusations of theft and deception. Game Informer reports that the company now alleges that id Software co-founder and Oculus’ current chief technology Carmack copied thousands of documents from a computer at ZeniMax to a USB storage device” that were …
Read More »Oculus Rift given UK release date
Pioneering virtual reality headset due on September 20th
Read More »Expanded Oculus motion-tracking support paves way for room-scale VR
Oculus has updated the number of motion-tracking sensors supported by the Rift virtual reality headset, ahead of the launch of its Touch motion controllers later this year. The tech now allows devs to track through up to four boxes, twice the number used in the standard room-scale VR setup for …
Read More »Oculus expands motion-tracking support to four sensors
Accuracy of Rift headset movement improved as launch of Touch controllers approaches
Read More »Google cancels work on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive rival, goes all-in on mobile VR
Android-powered platform Daydream unveiled in May as successor to barebones Cardboard
Read More »Half of devs are interested in creating for VR (but only a third actually are)
HTC Vive leads battle of the headsets with 50 per cent of game makers exploring platform, while Oculus Rift attracts just over a third of the community
Read More »All Oculus pre-orders shipped, four months after launch
Its Rift headset was released in March of this year, and Oculus has revealed that all pre-orders have finally been sent out to customers. That’s according to a post on the company’s blog, in which the firm also announced that all new Rift orders are shipping within two to four …
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