All Stories Tagged: Oculus Rift, Page 28

Oculus VR has picked up another industry veteran: Halo 4 senior art director Kenneth Scott. He's heading up their first-party content team.

EVE Online fans are currently in Iceland, enjoying Fanfest. There, they've been able to get their hands on the latest build of VR darling EVE Valkyrie.

ZeniMax has issued a legal threat against Oculus VR, claiming that it both took proprietary VR technology and used John Carmack's expertise from his time at ZeniMax-owned id Software.

Oculus and Project Morpheus are both going after the VR consumer. And while they're technically competitors, Sony's Shuhei Yoshida sees the competition as healthy for gamers. In fact, he says that the two rival headsets are indirectly helping each other out.

Titled Conquest of the Skies, Atlantic Productions' virtual-reality nature film will be narrated by Planet Earth's David Attenborough.

Condition One is using Oculus Rift to take films to new, exciting places and director Danfung Dennis explains some of the technology used to make VR films possible.

Red Thread Games has announced a new first-person horror game called Draugen. Set in 1923 Scandinavia, the game is set to release in 2015 on PC, Mac, and Linux and support VR headsets, like the Oculus Rift.

John Carmack has spoken out about Facebook's acquisition of Oculus VR, expressing confidence in the social media giant, while also expressing concern that tech startups will now enter the field with the goal of acquisition over innovation.

Michael Abrash was previously known as one of the faces of Valve's VR initiative, having most recently spoken about the potential of VR tech during January's Steam Developer Days. Today, Abrash has announced his depature from Valve, having joined the team at Oculus VR as its Chief Scientist.