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Xbox One Game Streaming Coming to Windows 10 PCs with Oculus Rift
Good news from the folks at Microsoft, read their official relase… Today, Microsoft announced how Xbox One Game Streaming is coming to Windows 10 PCs with Oculus Rift. Oculus Rift owners will be able to stream their Xbox One library to Rift with the new Xbox One Streaming to Oculus Rift app, including first party games such as “Gears of War 4,” “Forza Horizon 3” and “Halo 5: Guardians,” as well as the Backward Compatible Xbox 360 games, and more titles coming in 2017. Through the world’s fastest multiplayer gaming network and with the included Xbox One controller, gamers can play Xbox One games in a Rift virtual reality cinema screen. The Xbox One Streaming to Oculus Rift app is available for free in the Oculus Store on Dec. 12. Oculus Rift works natively with Windows 10, which makes...
Watch Out For These Upcoming VR Games
VR headsets seem to be the centre of attention this year, and the hype is real. Whether it’s the HTC Vive or the PS VR, everyone seems to be craving for some of that virtual reality action, and for all the right reasons. Considering all this, it’ll be unfair not to have a list of the top titles that are making their debut on the VR platforms. So here it is, the GC list of the 5 best upcoming VR games (in no particular order, of course). Batman: Arkham VR Release Date: October 2016 Platform: PS VR Arkham: VR is a brand new take on the Arkham series (not a sequel, though), where you can be Batman. Finally, you can say AND mean the words “I’m Batman” (I mean, I’m Batman). The fascinating thing is that the game does not seem to be as action packed as the ori...
VR Devs Angry At Oculus Rift Founder Palmer Luckey, Wants Him To Step Down
Looks like Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey is gained more the ire of more VR game developers. This comes after The Daily Beast put out an article revealing that Luckey has raised funds for a non-profit organization that was in support of Donald Trump, and was ‘shitposting’ memes against Hillary Clinton. Developers have since taken to social media to denounce Palmer Luckey’s actions. Insomniac Gamers, the creators of the Ratchet & Clank Series told Motherboard, “Insomniac Games condemns all forms of hate speech. While everyone has a right to express his or her political opinion, the behavior and sentiments reported do not reflect the values of our company. We are also confident that this behavior and sentiment does not reflect the values of the many Oculus empl...
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...
Facebook’s Vision For Virtual Reality & Gaming
While the time of Farmville and Words with Friends invites might be over, but Facebook is once again indulging in the economy of online gaming. This time around it’s going to be simple. The “secret ingredient” or the key is the log-on-with-Facebook feature which allows publishers who use it to accept Facebook ads and as Facebook’s ad revenue grows, so does the revenue for the gaming companies. It’s a win-win situation! Over the past five years, Facebook has invested $8 billion to its developers, a major chunk of this amount was palmed off to game developers. In the year 2015, game developers who used Facebook tools for web alone earned $2.5 billion. If this isn’t enough, even the number of people who play games on or with Facebook has increased from 375 ...
Which Virtual Reality Headset Should You Buy?
Are you one of those socially awkward types who hates society and all the atrocities that it represents? Do you despise being around people? Do you wish that you could put on a headset and make the world around you go away, just to lose yourself in a fantastic/magical pixel generated world inhabited by pixel generated folks who’d slobber over you and love you no matter what sort of perversions you are into? Well, then Virtual Reality is here for you! But before you start jumping around in wild excitement, there’s a few things you need to know. We’ll take a look at the four popular VR headsets, and everything we know about them so far. HTC Vive Price: $799/£689 (includes three games and two hand controllers) Release date: April 2016 Computer required: PC running Windows 7 ...
Oculus Rift Priced At A Whopping $600
Oculus Rift, The VR headset which was announced long back is now available for pre-orders at the Oculus Rift website with a price tag of 599$, with a shipping date of March 28th for only 20 countries to which it can be shipped as of now. According to the Oculus blog ,the Rift will be available at limited locations at select retailers starting in April. The package is supposed to include the headset with built-in headphones and mic, sensor, an Xbox One Controller, an Oculus Remote along with 2 games such as EVE: Valkyrie and Lucky’s Tale. For the full Oculus Rift experience the recommended specs are as follows :- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater Processor: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater Memory: 8GB+ RAM Output: Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output Inpu...
Trackmania Turbo Now Compatible With Oculus Rift And Playstation VR Devices
Ubisoft announced that Trackmania Turbo will be compatible with Oculus Rift and with PlayStation VR, once both the game and these devices are available. Trackmania Turbo, the latest installment in the Trackmania franchise developed by Nadeo, a Ubisoft studio, will be released on the PlayStation 4 , Xbox One and Windows 10 PC in early 2016. The Trackmania series is known for its thrilling and fast gameplay experiences and Virtual Reality is a natural fit for the series, by allowing players to immerse themselves deeper into the game when racing along the mesmerising Trackmania tracks. Players can experience the entire Trackmania Turbo game, including all tracks and game modes, whether they are playing on a console or computer, or with the additional VR device. For the ninth consecutive year,...
P·O·L·L·E·N New Gameplay Trailer On VR
Pollen is a first person exploration and adventure game that’s ‘optimised’ for virtual reality headsets. That is, Pollen has been designed form the ground up to not only work well with VR Headsets, but also to exploit the unique properties they expose. And it has to be said, first person adventuring is a neat fit for VR. Anyone who’s spent any time in even the most rudimentary first person VR experience will know that it’s very easy to lose yourself to the world around you. Watch the gameplay trailer below: Pollen is due for release in 2015 for PC and as stated, optimised for the Oculus Rift. For more news and reviews, keep checking back Gaming Central.
Oculus Rift System Specs
Oculus says these are the recommended specs “for the full Rift experience”: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater 8GB+ RAM Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output 2x USB 3.0 ports Windows 7 SP1 or newer A build like this would roughly cost you about 51000 rs. Not too shabby a cost for a rig that would be able to run full 3D immersive visuals. Sorry console buddies, only PC Master Race for now. But seriously though it isn’t too bad, if anything it’s good news that the Oculus Rift is able to run in a rig of that price. Some of you guys might also be wondering, “What about plugging the Oculus Rift into a laptop?” Unfortunately, we’ve nothing but bad news for you at the moment: “Almost no current laptops have the GPU performance for the recommended spec” s...
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...
Virtual Reality mode added to latest Steam beta
Valve is slowly getting very comfortable with the idea of having a huge video screen being mounted to its face, as it was announced that the beta client of Steam is to add a “virtual reality mode” option. The latest beta version of Steam does away with the “-vr” command line option and replaces it with a button in the view menu, which only appears for those with SteamVR installed when a head-mounted display like the Oculus Rift is detected. Virtual reality is really gaining a lot of attention and is probably going to be the next big thing in gaming. Over the year even Valve has realized this and have made virtual reality their focal point as its former head of VR joined Oculus VR’s new Seattle team around a week ago. People at Engadget think that this week, th...
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