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Oculus Rift in the ’80s

Oculus Rift in the ’80s

Wow, look at this! It’s like I’m in the movie TRON! Squirrel Monkey’s Wonders of the World Wide Web offers up another bit of retrorevisionist technology – a version of Oculus’ rift virtual reality system designed to run an IBM PC with at least an Intel 80286 chip.

Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop lets Oculus Rift and HTC Vive users wear their goggles and experience their computer desktop on a giant virtual screen, and watch movies like you’re actually in a theater. It supports multiple screens and can play all regular PC games. Drops 3/28/16.

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Oculus Rift Launch Games

Oculus Rift Launch Games

Virtual reality isn’t just about playing video games, but that’s certainly a major aspect of the burgeoning technology. It’s no surprise that the Rift will launch with at least 30 games, including space sims, sports games and platformers. Check out the full list here.

Oculus Rift Pre-Orders

Oculus Rift Pre-Orders

Rich people, it’s time to fulfill your destiny. Go forth and test the prophesied messiah of virtual reality for the rest of us. Shipping this March, the Rift will come with an Xbox One controller, a remote control and two games: Eve Valkyrie and Lucky’s Tale. Recommended PC specs here.

Starship Enterprise-D Virtual Tour

Starship Enterprise-D Virtual Tour

3D modeler and Star Trek fanatic Jason B is building out an insanely detailed digital reconstruction of the Starship Enterprise-D as it appeared on The Next Generation. Take a tour of the first few levels of his ambitious VR project for the Oculus Rift.

Star Wars VR Tech Demo

Star Wars VR Tech Demo

HammerheadVR Studios shows off a proof of concept visual demo of what could be an awesome use for the Oculus Rift – a virtual reality Star Wars game. We’d love it if Star Wars: Battlefront supports VR headsets.

2016 Oculus Rift

2016 Oculus Rift

The much awaited virtual reality headset drops on Q1 2016. The Rift will come with a sensor and an Xbox One controller, and will support Xbox One game streaming via a Windows 10 PC. The Touch controllers will be sold separately.

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Soniculus Rift

Soniculus Rift

Using the Unreal Engine powered Sonic the Hedgehog GDK, combined with an Oculus Rift VR headset, Chadtronic shows off what could be the most nauseatingly awesome use of the virtual reality tech so far.

Zero Point (Trailer)

Zero Point (Trailer)

Condition One’s documentary about the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Along with its standard releases, Zero Point will also be the first movie to have an interactive 360º 3D version, which can be watched only on the Rift.

The Future of Virtual Reality

The Future of Virtual Reality

(NSFW: Nudity) An amazing if not a bit creepy demonstration of how lifelike 3D scans of human models become when viewed with an Oculus Rift in combination with the motion controls of the Razer Hydra. More here.

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