As more VR headsets find their way into gamers’ homes, the higher demand grows for impressive, engaging titles. Oculus is responding by assuring early adopters that there will be 30 Touch-compatible games by the end of 2016, 20 of which are built specifically for the new controllers.
Some of them are games that we already knew were making their way to Touch, like Rock Band VR and Giant Cop. Others are familiar HTC Vive titles like Job Simulator and Fantastic Contraption. Some lesser known titles have also popped up, like Luna, a puzzle-based storytelling game, or I Expect You To Die, which places player in an increasingly dangerous situations and forces them to survive.
Also making the list are games like Crytek’s The Climb, which is already available for Rift, but will receive the upgrade to Touch-compatible later in the year.
From those 30 games, four are coming to Oculus first, although not all of them before the end of the year. Wilson’s Heart lines up actors like Rosario Dawson and Peter Weller with a psychological horror backdrop, which has you reaching, picking up, and smashing the world around you. Ripcoil pits players against each other in a deadly game of catch, while Killing Floor: Incursion turns the anger outward toward a horde of zombies. Superhot VR, the wildly anticipated virtual reality version of the game, will also be a part of the Oculus family at launch.
In addition to new games for the brand’s upcoming motion controllers, Oculus announced new partnerships with gaming PC brands. HP added an Omen desktop with an Intel Core i7-6700 and an R9 390X, and Lenovo’s Ideacentre Y700, powered by an Intel Core i5-6600 with a GTX 970. Alienware also rolled out three new Auroras with choice of i5 and i7 processors with GTX 970 and 980 graphics.
Along with the PC side of the Oculus equation, it was also announced at E3 that the Gear VR store has over 300 apps and experiences.
The only question that remains for the Touch controllers is when? And how much? The blog post detailing the new games didn’t share any hard dates or price, but did suggest there would be more info in the fall.
After five years with Apple silicon, from the original M1 MacBook Air to the M5 MacBook Air released earlier this year, I've watched these chips mature not just on the spec sheet, but in real-world workflows and overall efficiency.
The new M6 chip might sound like a routine generational upgrade, but it's the company's first chip built on a 2nm manufacturing process, which brings meaningful improvements over previous Apple chips.
Gemini Notebook’s mobile app now has a built-in recorder for capturing lectures and meetings as sources. You can record directly where you’ll use the material, skipping the separate recording app and the file upload afterward.
Google announced the feature on X, highlighting classroom lectures and team meetings as potential uses. It also works for capturing your own thoughts, so you can talk through an idea and bring that explanation into your notebook while it’s still fresh.
In 1950, Alan Turing asked whether machines can think. Rather than argue over definitions, he turned the question into a party game, where an interrogator trades typed messages with hidden players and tries to work out who is who. Since then, chatbots have gotten so good that they have already fooled humans in modern versions of the test.
So, four researchers from Paris Cité University asked the obvious follow-up question in a new study published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports: can AI at least catch its own kind?