MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
An American marketing specialist has said Facebook got it spot on about keeping quiet about the true heft of the Oculus Rift’s price tag. Until Wednesday Oculus has suggested various RRPs for the device ranging between $200 and north of $350. As a result, the actual RRP of $599 came …
Read More »Luckey: ‘Oculus Rift is obscenely cheap for what it is’
While the internet continues to debate the hefty 500/$600 price tag handed to Oculus Rift, Palmer Luckey has argued that it represents extremely good value. Not only that, but the pricing means that Facebook itself won’t be making a return on the device. To reiterate, we are not making money …
Read More »Hiring for VR: What the new medium requires and what to look for
NDreams' VP of development Tom Gillo discusses the skills needed to build great games for virtual reality
Read More »More than 100 games coming to Oculus Rift this year, says Luckey
Over 100 titles will be coming to the Oculus Rift headset this year. That’s according to Oculus boss Palmer Luckey, who said in a Reddit AMA yesterday that ‘at least 100′ games are to be released for the headset this year. Luckey told Reddit users that over 20 of these …
Read More »Oculus boss Luckey apologises for Rift pricing confusion
Just hours after it was revealed that the Oculus Rift would be setting back consumers 499 (or $599), the company’s founder Palmer Luckey took to Reddit for a Q&A. During the AMA (Ask Me Anything), Luckey was asked by one user why the messaging around the Rift’s price tag was …
Read More »Oculus Rift to set consumers back £500, shipping starts in March
The Oculus Rift VR headset is now available to pre-order and its price has been revealed. The pre-order page features a cost of $599 (410), but going through to the check out page in the UK shows that the Rift headset will set consumers on this side of the pond …
Read More »Three out of four VR users will choose mobile
New SuperData report suggests smartphones will lead this year’s virtual reality push
Read More »Oculus giving free Rift to early Kickstarter backers
Just shy of 7,000 people to receive free headset
Read More »Global VR market to reach £3.5bn in sales in 2016 – report
Virtual reality is almost upon us now, and research firm SuperData reckons that the market for the new tech will reach $5.1bn (3.5bn) by the end of the year. That’s according to the company’s ‘Virtual Reality Market Brief‘, which also predicts that the install base of VR in 2016 would …
Read More »Latest HTC Vive Pre dev kit includes front-facing camera
‘Big technology breakthrough’ blends physical and virtual reality
Read More »