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GUEST INTERVIEW: With virtual reality's future successfully rebooted due in part to the efforts of Palmer Luckey, who founded Oculus VR in 2012, designed the headset, led VR input and sold the company to Facebook in 2014 for US $2 billion, Luckey set his sights in 2017 to a much more pressing reality - delivering next-generation, cutting edge hardware, software, AI, VR, AR and more to turn US and allied warfighters into superheroes with next-level defence tech, and now in Australia, too.

GUEST INTERVIEW: With virtual reality's future successfully rebooted due in part to the efforts of Palmer Luckey, who founded Oculus VR in 2012, designed the headset, led VR input and sold the company to Facebook in 2014 for US $2 billion, Luckey set his sights in 2017 to a much more pressing reality - delivering next-generation, cutting edge hardware, software, AI, VR, AR and more to turn US and allied warfighters into superheroes with next-level defence tech, and now in Australia, too.

Half-Life 3’s “imminent” arrival has been a running joke for such a long time that a generation of gamers will know about the meme without ever having played the original games.

Time to get caught up in Star Trek technobabble and blast some Klingons into oblivion, avoid being assimilated and observe the prime directive with Star Trek: Bridge Crew.

Minority Report and Ready Player One are almost upon us. The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets aren't just for gamers; they also show the future of remote working.

VR is said to be the next big thing with total estimated market value in the multi-billions of dollars. But the reality its adoption will be slow and not necessarily steady.

The VR Village - a central feature of the exhibition hall at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose - gave delegates an opportunity to experience a selection of VR games and experiences using Oculus Rift and HTC Vive HMDs driven by Nvidia Quadro graphics cards.

Our friends at iFixit – or should that be iWreck-it – have become quite famous for their teardowns of perfectly good, functional products. Although they claim to have dismantled and re-mantled) and give the Oculus Rift a 7 out of 10 for reparability.

With predictions that shipments will reach over 12 million units by 2020, the current ‘stalled market’ will reportedly be invigorated by new use cases for Microsoft’s HoloLens.

Sure you look like you are possessed by invisible demons as you thrash about at thin air, but experiencing the modern day version of virtual reality (VR) tech is a pretty mind expanding experience.

Combining the virtual reality visuals of the Oculus Rift with the motion detection of the Kinect 2 Earthlight puts you in the rather foreboding position of an astronaut 430 kilometres above the surface of mother Earth.

What is Facebook thinking? Soon we will be able to immerse ourselves in a virtual 3D version of our acquaintance’s lives.  Facebook has announced the purchase of Oculus Rift, the current face of consumer grade virtual reality technology.

The Oculus team is answering its rivals with the second Rift developers' kit available to the public from today.

Sony is taking on the Oculus Rift, unveiling a virtual reality headset of its own for Playstation 4 in San Francisco.

Aussie Insurance firm NRMA has used Oculus Rift technology to launch the Crashed Car Showroom, a Sydney CBD virtual reality experience that demonstrates exactly what it's like to be in a horrific car crash.

EVE: Valkyrie will be the first game built exclusively to run on the Oculus Rift, and will be available within the launch window for the virtual reality headset.

The Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset currently in development by Oculus VR, has received a number of hardware updates for its latest showing at this year’s CES conference.

Until now the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter said it would be launching down under 'soon', but aspiring crowdfunders down under now have a firm date for the Australia and New Zealand launch.

The first Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) show outside of US soil took place over the weekend.  PAXAus in Melbourne was seen as an overwhelming success.  Will it be back?