Virtual Reality
Editor's Letter: Virtual Reality
Twenty years after a bad five dollars at Dave and Buster's, virtual reality is back. A long look in both directions.
Virtual Reality
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On the frontlines of the coming backlash against VR
Think of the children.
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Introducing Kill Screen’s Virtual Reality issue
Long story short, we’re planning on being bought by Facebook.
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Dance offs in virtual reality are going to change your life
If clubbing in virtual reality turns out to be anything like this insane dance party demo, tearing the club up in, say, whatever the VR equivalent to Second Life is will be a consciousness-altering nexus of pulsing wavelengths and florescent tracers—no party favors necessary. As you can see in the
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Oculus Rift + Kinect + Wii Balance Board = hoverboard ride of your dreams
Just when you thought your childhood dream of hoverboarding would never materialize … Enter: project Hoverboard VR, a virtual reality setup that simulates those bodacious fictional levitating skateboards of the ’90s. Jiggered together from gaming peripherals that don’t get out much these days, the s
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A VR treadmill that (potentially) doesn’t want to kill you
In the increasingly crowded market for home omni-directional treadmills, there is one that doesn’t look like a form of mind-washing reconditioning at a terrorist training camp. Recently on display at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Expo, the Infinadeck is a frameless, treaded walking machine that
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Second Lifestock is the free-range VR simulator our chickens deserve
Still awaiting: Eggcraft, Sheep Fortress, Dark Sows.
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At last, an Oculus Rift game where you can play Zelda on a crappy old TV
Visiting fantastic virtual worlds. Simulating amazing experiences you’ll never have in real-life. Having out-of-body experiences in cyberspace. Forget all that. What we really want to do in virtual reality is play old games. And that is exactly what the MemoRift project by Roy Lazarovich allows you
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Watch this guy have an out-of-body-experience with three Kinects and an Oculus Rift
Microsoft might be revising their vision for the Kinect by removing it from the Xbox One, but the motion-tracking camera still has a bright future in creating spooky, immaterial OOB experiences, apparently. As you can see in this reality-splitting YouTube video, a long-time VR developer has concoct
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Jeff Minter games in virtual reality sound life-changing
The prospect of Jeff Minter making a game for Oculus Rift is pretty terrifying, especially when said game is Minotaur Rescue, a psychotic swirl of ZX81 graphics and random goat blurts. Personally, I love the game; it remains one of my favorites on iOS, and that’s saying a lot. But I say terrifying b
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Relive the Virtual Boy in its original retina-burning glory on Oculus Rift
Yeah, yeah. The Oculus Rift has the capacity to radically reshape the way we experience games and all. But what I’m really stoked about is using it to finally replay twenty-year-old Virtual Boy games as they were intended. That dream is coming true thanks to the VBjin-OVR Virtual Boy Emulator for th
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Amazing VR experiment turns your living room into an interdimensional drawing app
Crazy things happen when you combine a Kinect with an Oculus Rift, like drawing with your finger in thin air and watching shapes that defy the laws of nature levitate over your living room set. As we can see in this fever dream of a video clip, programmer Matt Guertin has invented a mind-bending 3D