Oculus has Rift event on June 11th
5 days ahead of E3
Oculus has already showed rendered pictures of the next Rift and the company even talked about a possible launch date in early 2016.
VR units like Oculus, Re Vive to cost close to $1,000
Expensive technology
Now there is another player in the Virtual Reality arena and it goes under the name FOVE.
Oculus needs Radeon R9 290, Geforce GTX 970 or higher
Lots of GPU power needed
Oculus Rift is coming as a commercial device in 2016, and this might be one of the hottest VR products next year. However, its appeal will be limited to high-end gamers.
Oculus Rift delayed
Not ready this year
It is starting to look like Oculus Rift peripheral will not be in the shops as promised this year.
HTC Vive VR glasses need to be wired to PC
But lasers, controllers to get wireless in final
HTC has showcased its Re Vive VR glasses that they are bringing to market with Valve, the creator of Half Life and the steam game distribution. We knew that Valve has been working on a VR headset for a while, but we didn’t see them partnering with HTC.
HTC Vive VR Valve demo runs on GTX 980
It can run AMD too
We still hope that there is a chance that we can see the HTC Vive demo in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, but we have a slim chance, right next to hell freezing over.
Sony Project Morpheus VR headset coming in 2016
Impressive specifications
During its press conference at Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2015 in San Francisco, Sony released more information on Project Morpheus, its virtual reality (VR) headset which should be coming in the first half of 2016.
AMD LiquidVR to deliver new virtual reality capabilities
More about software than hardware?
AMD Liquid VR is not a retail product – it is an initiative to develop and deliver the best Virtual Reality (VR) experience in the industry.
Valve and HTC announce VR headset
It's called HTC Vive
HTC has just announced the One M9 smartphone, the HTC Grip smartband and a Valve cooperation on a device called Vive - a Virtual Reality headset.
AMD working on Virtual Reality too
Cooperation, not VR headsets
We became aware of a few VR-related things back in mid-2014, and one of them was that both AMD and Nvidia were investing a lot of resources in Virtual Reality.