Tag: Oculus Rift
It was only a matter of time before Oculus Rift would be deployed to some terrifying militaristic end, and Norway may have been the first to do so. The video above shows Norwegian soldiers driving a tank with the virtual reality mask, which takes input from four cameras outside the vehicle to give the driver […]
In the video above, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology pilot a DJI Phantom 2 drone while wearing an Oculus Rift. They’re not piloting the drone with the virtual reality mask, like this guy — just getting a first-person view. Turn your head right, the camera turns right; turn your head left, the […]
Conquest of the Skies — a forthcoming nature documentary from David Attenborough — is a shoo-in to the pantheon of greatest-ever films to watch whilst stoned. How do I know? Besides the master documentarian’s mind-boggling pedigree — Life on Earth, Planet Earth, Blue Planet — there’s the fact that it’s being filmed with a 360-degree eight-camera rig and […]
The future is already here, folks, and it looks a lot like Dreamcast. Following Facebook’s $2 billion purchase of hot button-virtual reality company Oculus VR — makers of the Oculus Rift — developers Bronson Zgeb and Gruau Pomme Lackey created Facerift, a Mac and Windows app that lets you browse the social network on your Oculus with […]
I’ve played wizard chess against a demon king. I’ve had space ship battles that rival Star Wars. I’ve “sat” in a virtual movie theater with my actual butt planted firmly in a chair in a back room at a technology conference. I’ve even ascended Game of Thrones’ towering wall—and fallen down the other side. I’ve […]
As the debate rages on about fictional realism, it’s undeniable that many fictional people and places are so lodged in the public consciousness, that they may as well “exist.” So thoroughly suspended is our disbelief, that we don’t even consider the fact that Seinfeld’s apartment was a soundstage where the rooms didn’t even connect. In the spirit of […]
With the intent of giving people the experience of living in another’s body, the Machine to Be Another project uses Oculus Rift to approximate another person’s perspective. In the above video, entitled “Gender Swap,” two pairs of people — one man, one woman each — wear the perspective-switching headsets and mimic each others physical movements, […]
Oculus Rift — the very same virtual reality platform that that 90-year-old woman enjoys so very much — has gotten its very own guillotine simulator. The artificial dismemberment add-on called DisUnion was developed at the Exile Game Jam, a five-day game development “retreat” in which developers meet, hang out, and collaborate on their own independent projects. The creators insist […]
Paul Rivot’s grandmother is 90 years old. She lived through the Great Depression, World War II, and the advents of AM/FM radio, television, and the internet. In the above video, she tries out the extraordinarily powerful Oculus Rift virtual reality headset for the first time, and it is positively heartwarming. Rivot set the headset to […]
