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1 year ago
If you saw our heads-up about the HTC Vive Black Friday deal earlier this week (to recap, you get a Vive, Fallout 4 VR, Doom VFR and a free deluxe audio strap and more for £599 starting from tomorrow), then you'll be pleased to know that the Oculus Rift is also being discounted for Black Friday - starting TODAY, in fact. It's almost as if…
2 years ago
Feature: Send your brain to these other dimensions
Here they are then - the best games to play in virtual reality...and those games are "watching football," "drinking", "a nice cup of tea", "fleeting emotional connection to another human being" and all those other everyday activities you believe to be real, as opposed than a simulation you have been experiencing since you first plugged your frail, mollusc-like form into a headset 19 years ago.…
Feature: Point'n'squeeze
I've already yammered about the design and capabilities of the Oculus Touch motion controller hardware itself, and now it's time to talk software. Around 50 Touch-enabled VR games and apps launched this week - more than I can feasibly hope to look at, but I've been able to finger-gun and swipe and prod in enough of 'em to give you a clear sense of what…
3 years ago
Feature: Hands on and in the Oculus Touch
My arms are aching, I'm anxious and I want to be standing on solid ground again. I'm just about as uncomfortable as I can remember being while playing a game, and I think that's a good thing. At Gamescom, I played two games using the Oculus Touch that impressed me. One was Wilson's Heart, a horror game that reminded me of Frictional's work, and the…
Feature: "like a greatest hits of Cryengine games"
Three fallacies I'm occasionally guilty of believing: 1) The Oculus Rift does not involve any of the physicality of the HTC Vive 2) VR gaming is riding a cart to minigame hell 3) There's a ceiling on how good VR games can look Crytek's beautiful and involving Oculus Rift game The Climb [official site] is a pretty good riposte to all of the above.
Feature: Onwards and upwards
There's always gonna be another mountain I'm always gonna wanna make it move Always gonna be an uphill battle Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose Ain't about how fast I get there Ain't about what's waiting on the other side It's the climb – Miley Cyrus, 2009 One of the most promising VR experiences I had at GDC came courtesy of Crytek's rock climbing Oculus…
Over the last year or so, you might've spotted Crytek's lovely Back to Dinosaur Island VR demos. The Climb [official site] is the Crysis devs' latest project - a virtual reality climbing simulator that charges players with scaling treacherous cliff faces in idyllic locales scattered across the world. The latest trailer visits the Alps.
