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Say hello to Off Grid, a game about privacy in the digital age
Paradox? Why not.
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Technolust is saving us from terrible VR before it’s even arrived
It will still arrive though, to be clear.
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What will the future of VR be? Ask David Cronenberg.
The master of body horror has been interrogating the divide between the virtual and physical worlds for decades.
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Now you can play reality in third-person perspective, too
Because real-life needs third-person perspective too, Polish software modders Mepi have created this strange, perspective-shifting Oculus Rift mod, which allows you to view the world from an over-the-shoulder view (and keep tabs on your bald spot to boot). Possibly the most cumbersome wearable tech
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Here comes Google’s cardboard, DIY alternative to Oculus Rift
Apparently, you don’t need a hefty black face-mask with rubber straps to access the constructs of virtual reality. All you need is a sheet of cardboard, an Android phone, and a little ingenuity. Oh yeah, and you’ll need Google’s new app Cardboard, which, when run on a mobile situated inside a homem
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Darpa makes the cyberpunk fantasy of VR hacking a beautiful reality
Cyberspace is portrayed in works of sci-fi as a beautiful virtual world where hackers and cyber-criminals vie for the security of databases. In real life, the intrigues of cyber warfare are less appealing, reduced to some guys hunched over their laptop. But with Plan X, the experimental wing at DARP
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Classroom Aquatic and cheating at the dawn of VR
How the helmet changes the wearer.
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Scary haptic-feedback toy gun vibrates and recoils like the real thing
Because it’s totally lame to fire a dinky little light gun in virtual reality, the Striker VR looks, rattles, and vibrates like a real-deal, deadly assault weapon. “Input” remains one of the great unknowns in our VR-filled future, so you might as well pick one of these up if you’ve already sprung fo
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SUPERHOT on Oculus Rift draws the game into its clearest focus yet
Time enough.
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Here’s something nice. Virtual reality is helping medics in the UK train to save lives
The Oculus Rift is foremost thought of a fun, future-y head-mounted videogame device, but it has many applications outside of that, like training medics to save soldiers in the line of fire. The training program is being used by he United Kingdom’s army to teach rookies how to prioritize life-and-de
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Miyamoto: Virtual reality is "in direct contrast with what it is we’re trying to achieve"
When it comes to the console space, Nintendo’s mantra is making games that bring people together face-to-face. We’ve seen that with the Wii U and its Gamepad, the Wii in general, and the 4-player docks of Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. So virtual reality presents a quandary for the quality face time soug
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It sounds like Oculus wants to make Matrix plugs and holodecks a reality
Oculus—those far-seeing, Facebook-owned virtual reality devs—are peering even further into the future, to the time when we will all have Matrix jacks in our skulls and everyone owns a holodeck—the virtual reality cave from the Star Trek universe, not the Russian jelly mold. In a recent Reddit AMA wi