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Rez Infinite Hits Steam and Oculus Today
Enhance Games announced that its multi-award winning game Rez Infinite launched on Steam and Oculus Home today. Originally released exclusively for the PlayStation 4 and PS VR in October 2016, Rez Infinite quickly earned high praise from critics and audiences globally, being touted as ‘the killer app for VR’ by many. In addition to being the top rated PS VR title on Metacritic, Rez Infinite has collected over 40 awards and nominations including Best VR Game Winner at The Game Awards 2016 and a nomination for the Audio Achievement category at BAFTA 2017 amongst others. “We are extremely excited to finally bring Rez/Rez Infinite to PC. It was a long time coming but now we have the best version yet, “ says Enhance Games founder and Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi. “With 4K support, up to double...
Marvel: Powers United VR Announced for Oculus Rift
Unleash your rage and smash foes, lock n’ load your favorite plasma cannons, or take to the skies with powerful photon blasts. Hulk, Rocket Raccoon, Captain Marvel, and a powerful roster of Marvel’s greatest heroes are ready for battle. Suit up, power up, and team up with friends to engage in immersive, explosive co-op fights from across the Marvel Universe. Be the hero and unleash your powers now! Choose Your Hero • Rocket Raccoon – A genetically modified and cybernetically enhanced alien raccoon-like creature with a penchant for large explosive weaponry and shiny relics. Rocket, a mercenary turned hero, is a master tactician and weapons marksman. Rocket has a versatile assortment of weaponry and gadgets for any occasion. His trusty blasters, jet pack and strategically-placed sticky bombs...
Lone Echo Launch Trailer
Ready At Dawn and Oculus Studios proudly present Lone Echo, a VR adventure into the unknown. Lone Echo tackles the mysteries of the universe with awe-inspiring outer space visuals, zero-G mobility, and real-time problem solving. Immerse yourself into the unforgettable character of Jack, a Series 11 Echo Unit stationed on the Kronos II mining facility on the outer rings of Saturn and equipped with futuristic tools and capabilities that push the limits of your Touch controllers. When an unknown anomaly threatens your space station and your human companion, Captain Olivia Rhodes, you’ll leverage your technical ingenuity and futuristic tools to overcome a variety of challenges and obstacles to protect your ship and save your crew from impending danger. And don’t miss Echo Arena, the competitiv...
Oculus Touch Controllers Available From Dec 6, Cost $199
At Oculus Connect, the company announced that the Oculus Touch, the controllers for Oculus Rift will be available starting 6th December for a price of USD 199. The controller bundle comes with two games, The Unspoken and VR Sports Challenge, along with a secondary camera that can be put by the users in the play area. A third sensor, which will allow the controllers to room-scale will also be released along with the launch of Oculus Touch, for USD 79. Other titles will also be released for the Touch controllers, including games like Lone Echo and Arktika. Oculus also revealed a VR headset for which any external tracking will not be required. Additionally, they previewed a new VR browser, called Carmel. As the company claims, the browser can run on any VR headset. The Touch controllers, alo...
Oculus Offering Money For Timed Exclusivity?
Looks like oculus is again under the fire in new for it. This time the company tried to get the Serious Sam VR game and offered a lot to the Croteam and the VR community when heard about this shot their fiery arrows of disapproval towards oculus. The company had received a lot of negativity back when it blocked the games which could have been available to all VR platforms through Revive. This was the statement found on reddit made by one of the members of Croteam: “They tried to buy Serious Sam VR as well. It wasn’t easy, but we turned down a shitton of money, as we believe that truly good games will sell by themselves and make profit in the long run regardless. And also because we hate exclusives as much as you do.” However another Croteam member later stated this on reddit: “I want...
Virtual Reality: The War For Exclusives
Tech giants are spending more and more on securing exclusive content for their VR technologies, with Oculus catching a lot of heat for the Rift. But in an interview with TechCrunch during the E3 conference, Oculus co-founders Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell quickly pointed out that Sony is following a similar approach for the upcoming PS VR headset. “You see Sony investing in their content the same way,” they said. “They want to make things that take advantage of their features that they have in the best way possible.” They’re not wrong. It makes sense for these companies to make sure that their platforms have the edge over the others. According to Luckey, this is how the VR industry will move forward for the time being. And while it may work for the developers behind these platforms...
Samsung’s and Oculus’ VR Device Coming Out Next Month
Samsung’s Gear VR, a virtual reality device made of software that went into producing the Oculus, is set to come out next month, Oculus VR has announced on its website. The Gear VR Innovator Edition for the Galaxy Note 4 smartphone is up for pre-registration from Samsung, and is set for delivery in the United States sometime early next month. This device comes out in two variants: for $249, you’ll get the headset and a Bluetooth gamepad, and for $199, you’ll get only the headset. “The Innovator Edition, much like the Oculus Rift Development Kit, provides developers and enthusiasts everything they need to build and experiment with the platform before the hardware and software are ready for consumers,” Oculus said. “There are numerous made-for-VR apps that will ship f...