IHS teardown breaks Oculus Rift

IHS have taken apart an Oculus Rift including the headset, a sensor, and an Xbox One wireless controller costs to work out how much it all cost and come up with a figure of $199 just for the bits.

Virtual Reality cinema is here

Samsung’s Gear VR headset has been installed in a what is believed to be the first Virtual Reality popup cinema.

Not interested in VR

The dark satanic rumor mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Google has abandoned its VR projects and is secretly working on a an augmented reality-style headset.

Touch controllers will not ship till later

As Oculus Rift finally shipped out the last of its much delayed pre-orders to customers, it seems that there is another product delay which has gone un-noticed.

Baked into Pascal

Nvidia has been showing off its new rendering technology which it has backed into the latest series of ‘Pascal’ GPUs.

Thanks to the porn industry

It is starting to look like the VR industry might take off afterall for reasons which are not the greatest.

We really have to do something about fatigue

Nintendo is keeping fairly quiet about its VR plans, although a system is clearly on the drawing board.

Analysts consult their tarot cards

Diviners and shamans working at the Taipei-based Topology Research Institute have been rattling their bones and consulting their tarot cards and reached the conclusion that Sony will sell six million  PlayStation VR (PS VR) headsets in 2016.

Backtracks

Virtual reality pioneer Oculus has woken up to the fact that installing DRM on its headsets is about as crazy as having making punters wait for months for their pre-orders to be delivered.

Alliances will help it grow

HTC is planning to spin off its virtual reality subsidiary to help it build alliances and gain cash from potential strategic partners.