After months of buildup, Oculus is finally taking pre-orders for its virtual reality headset. The Oculus Rift should begin shipping in March, and you can order one today for $599. That makes this virtual reality device more expensive than some PCs. But this will be one of the first high-end VR accessories to hit the market […]
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Oculus Rift VR headset pre-orders begin January 6th
2015 may have been the year virtual reality headsets generated a lot of buzz, but 2016 is poised to be the year when big name companies really get in on the action. Most of last year’s popular VR devices were basically frames for holding a smartphone close to you eyeballs. This year should see the launch […]
PPSSPP VR brings PlayStation Portable gaming to the Oculus Rift
PPSSPP is an emulator that lets you run PlayStation Portable games on a PC. But why stop there? There’s a new app called PPSSPP VR that not only brings PSP gaming to a computer… it brings them into the virtual reality age. Just install PPSSPP VR, fire up a PSP game and put on an Oculus […]
Oculus Rift VR headset will work with sub-$1000 PCs
The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is coming in early 2016, but you don’t have to wait until then to buy a gaming PC that will be able to work with the hardware. Earlier this year Oculus revealed the minimum specs for a “full Rift experience,” and now the company has started partnering with PC makers […]
Sony’s Project Morpheus VR available first half of 2016
The world’s greatest video game conference, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), takes place June 16 – 18. The day before the gamers’ playground party, about a half-dozen major video game development companies reveal future content. Sony was one of those companies to reveal some big news. Ahead of the official press announcement, Wired was able […]
Meet the Oculus Rift VR headset… and its Oculus Touch controllers
Oculus is getting ready to launch the commercial version of its virtual reality headset in the first quarter of 2016. The company announced new details about the upcoming VR device at an event about a week before the upcoming E3 game show. Thethe company still hasn’t revealed how much Oculus Rift headset will cost. The Rift will […]
Oculus Rift VR headset will work best with expensive gaming PCs
The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is expected to ship in early 2016, making it one of the first high-profile VR devices that doesn’t use your smartphone as a display. But the Rift is just a headset. You’ll need to connect it with a computer if you actually want to play games, watch immersive videos, […]
Oculus Rift coming to market, but is the public ready for VR headsets?
Oculus VR has officially announced that its flagship headset, the Rift, will be available for preorders later this year with estimated shipping in the first quarter of 2016. Although one of the most covered headsets in the media, the Rift is just one virtual reality device in an ever-growing market. Samsung launched Gear VR (in partnership with Oculus) last […]
Samsung Gear VR headset now available for $199
Want a virtual reality headset and don’t mind using your smartphone as part of the setup? The Samsung Gear VR is a headset designed to work with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphone. Samsung introduced the headset a few months ago, and now you can buy the Gear VR Innovator Edition for $199. As the […]
Lilbits (10-30-2013): Nexus 5 eve?
Another day, another rumor/leak/series of photos of the upcoming Google Nexus 5. The good news is that it seems pretty likely we’ll be able to stop waiting for an official announcement soon… unless the latest rumors are wrong too. Here’s a roundup of tech tidbits from around the web. Android Police founder Artem Russakovskii seems […]