The Oculus-ready UDK will be available from the Oculus Developer Center in early April.
ENGADGET: Unreal Engine 3 adding Oculus Rift support this April, Epic Citadel demo packed in
For a taste of Skyrim running with the Oculus Rift, head past the break.
Imagining what the Oculus could do to games certainly requires a leap forward in imagination.
Regardless, like so many software demos running on the Oculus hardware, it was unnervingly effective.
ENGADGET: Hands-on with the newer, larger Oculus Rift prototype (video)
The Pebble smart watch, the Oculus Rift and the Razer Edge all scored big.
Unlike VR goggles like the Oculus Rift, putting on the Cast AR doesn't cocoon you in another world.
At the festival, there was also a glimpse at a new space dogfighting title using the Oculus Rift.
Motion controls, for example, would be a natural extension of the Oculus platform.
The same goes for the sounds-too-awesome-to-be-true virtual reality system, the Oculus Rift.
Several games are currently in development for the Oculus Rift, and Valve's Team Fortress 2 already supports the device.
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If you're at GDC, we have two fantastic UE3-based demos at the Oculus booth this week: Hawken and Epic Citadel.
ENGADGET: Unreal Engine 3 adding Oculus Rift support this April, Epic Citadel demo packed in
The Oculus-ready UDK includes a few sample levels, including one of our favorites: the 'summer' Epic Citadel tech demo (shown below).
ENGADGET: Unreal Engine 3 adding Oculus Rift support this April, Epic Citadel demo packed in
Maybe the Oculus Rift and Google Glasses and the next Kinect and whatever Valve cooks up will be awesome.
Here's some exciting news: Skyrim, the game where you hunt and murder dragons, is relatively playable on the Oculus Rift VR headset.
Hawken, developed using UDK, will be shown at the Oculus GDC booth.
ENGADGET: Unreal Engine 3 adding Oculus Rift support this April, Epic Citadel demo packed in
Simple: Team Fortress 2 is the Oculus Rift's first official game.
The Oculus folks are saying that Rift dev kits will begin shipping to Kickstarter backers this month, with orders fulfilled by mid-April.
We've been working with Epic since the launch of the Kickstarter campaign to make the Oculus integration for Unreal Engine as high-performance as possible.
ENGADGET: Unreal Engine 3 adding Oculus Rift support this April, Epic Citadel demo packed in
The Oculus Rift actually delivers on the promise, and then some.
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The Oculus-ready UDK will be available to all Oculus developers.
ENGADGET: Unreal Engine 3 adding Oculus Rift support this April, Epic Citadel demo packed in
Thankfully, the Oculus Rift VR headset met those exact specifications in its latest prototype update, going from a 5.6-inch LCD to a 7-inch 1280 x 800 display.
ENGADGET: Hands-on with the newer, larger Oculus Rift prototype (video)
The Oculus team just got bigger by two, with software engineer Tom Forsyth, formerly of Valve, and robotic scientist Dr. Steve LaValle of the University of Illinois both jumping on board.
The characteristic reaction to using Oculus with any game world is still a stark one -- the initial feeling of being instantly teleported is jarring, and the most immediately impressive part of the Oculus Rift.
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With the Oculus-ready version of the UDK, you'll be able to start building incredible VR experiences with the Unreal Engine toolset the moment you receive your Rift development kit (or even right now, if you're so inclined).
ENGADGET: Unreal Engine 3 adding Oculus Rift support this April, Epic Citadel demo packed in
It's not clear if Icelandic game studio CCP is extending its crazy MMO, EVE Online, into the world of virtual reality, but the company is working on some form of EVE-based VR application using the Oculus Rift.
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That said, it is challenging to try and figure out what will happen to the Wii U once the Playstation 4 and Durango are released, and up and comers like the Oculus Rift start to inch closer to a purchasable product.
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If you're looking for more virtual worlds to explore using the Oculus Rift, MTBS3D forum user StellaArtois has developed something that might strike your fancy: a Minecraft mod dubbed Minecrift that bakes in support for the virtual reality headset.
And certainly there's a lot to be said for the sort of pre-show buzz such campaigns can elicit -- there weren't too many projects that we were more excited to play around with in the lead up to the show than the Oculus Rift.
If your own ambitions don't stretch that far, you can still build the VR2GO viewer, which uses iPhones and iPod touch players as the eyepieces, as well as mods for the Oculus Rift developer kit that add stereo cameras or increase the field of view.
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