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IndieCade featured a dedicated booth for the Oculus Rift VR and now seemed like as good a time as any to try it out and get some first-hand impressions of Nostrum, Dumpy: Going Elephants, and Dreadhalls, as well as impressions of the peripheral itself.
EVE Online developer CCP showed off a prototype multiplayer space-dogfighting game for Oculus Rift in April, but at the time shrugged, "God knows what we'll do with this." Thankfully the answer is the one we'd all hoped for: it's becoming a full standalone game, as EVE: Valkyrie.
The Omni treadmill, an omnidirectional treadmill intended to work with the Oculus Rift for natural movement when playing VR games, has opened its pre-orders at $499.
Matt Hooper, the creative director of Rage who departed id six months ago, has joined Oculus VR as the new Director of Development.
John Carmack has long supported the Oculus Rift 3D goggles, even duct-taping a prototype together to show it off last year, and will now play a bigger role in its future. The id Software co-founder and 3D wizard has joined Oculus as its new chief technology officer--but will still work with id.
It's difficult not to get excited for the future of VR gaming after watching this video. Developer TeddyOk combines the Oculus Rift headset with a Razer Hydra controller to create a cover shooter that requires you to literally take cover.
Perhaps no game is better suited for Oculus Rift than Dejobaan's falling simulator, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome.
Oculus Rift has secured $16 million in venture capital funding, which it plans to use to roughly double its workforce and build new prototypes.
Surgeon Simulator 2013 is already perhaps the most realistic simulation of the yahoos and cowboys who pass for surgeons nowadays, I type with my thresher-savaged right arm reattached upside-down and back-to-front, and soon it'll undoubtedly be so. Developer Bossa Studios has announced it's adding supporting for the Oculus Rift VR headset and Razer's Hydra motion controller.
It's a packed house for the post-E3 edition of Weekend Confirmed. Hosts Garnett Lee and Jeff Cannata welcome in an esteemed panel of guests...
