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If Google’s VR tech had taken your fancy, but couldn’t justify shelling out the hefty price tag. Now you can. Owners of the wearable, sic-fi glasses can now treat themselves to a series of downloadable games, including Clay Shooter, Matcher, Shape Splitter, Balance and Tennis. That’s right. You can use …

John Carmack ultimately left id Software because Zenimax wouldn’t approve of a proposed VR deal with Oculus Rift, the industry veteran has revealed. Speaking with USA Today, Carmack admitted he’d still be with id today in some capacity – if the studio’s parent company Zenimax would have approved of his …

Steam-owner also plans to detail its product plans for Steam Machines

Hopes of Oculus Rift being compatible with PS4 and Xbox One appears to have vanished. "Consoles are too limited for what we want to do," Oculus inventor Palmer Luckey told TechRadar. "The problem with consoles in general is that once they come out they’re locked to a certain spec for …

The maker of Elite, Frontier, will support the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset in its upcoming Elite: Dangerous game. Frontier has also revealed that the Oculus Rift version of Elite: Dangerous will be available to of the title’s crowdfunding backers at no extra cost. We’ve been playing with the Oculus …

Better interface integration will keep players engaged, says Oculus

Virtual reality opens the doors to a new era for user interface design. Oculus VR speaks to Develop about its opportunities

2014 will see home consoles venture into the virtual reality space for the first time, a new report claims. Eurogamer says that Sony has plans to expand the PS4 feature-set into the VR sector in 2014 with the launch of an Oculus-Rift type headset device. It adds that internal testing …

Death-defying aerial experiment is latest project for hotly tipped VR headset

nDreams' CEO on the studio's journey so far with the Oculus Rift, and why it's going to be much bigger than you can imagine