As the world’s best selling game, there’s serious demand for Minecraft in virtual reality. While developer Mojang is busy with things other than VR, some enterprising folks have been unofficially ...

Mojang Founder Markus ‘Notch’ Persson isn’t happy about Oculus being bought out by Facebook. Apparently any hope for Minecraft for the Oculus Rift has just been lost. We were in talks about maybe ...

Markus “Notch” Persson has canceled the Oculus Rift version of Minecraft due to the just announced acquisition deal of the VR company by Facebook. Why? Because as Notch stated, “Facebook creeps me out ...

The creator and master of Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson, is only human. As such, it would appear that his interest (or disinterest) in holding a grudge against Oculus for their Facebook agreement ...

Fulfilling a promise made nearly 12 months ago, Microsoft has finally delivered a virtual reality version of popular block-building game Minecraft for the Oculus Rift headset. The new Oculus Rift ...

Sometime very soon, Minecraft will be playable on your Oculus Rift. Developer Mojang said that support for the virtual reality headset would be switched on "in the coming weeks." The news was part of ...

After years of development and demos, virtual reality’s moment of truth is approaching. And that’s pretty exciting for Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR, which Facebook bought for $2 billion in ...

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The Minecraft-on-HoloLens demo is one of the coolest augmented reality experiences I’ve seen so far, but Microsoft’s HoloLens is still a long way out for the average consumer. In the meantime, ...

A few years ago, journalism major Palmer Luckey dropped out of Cal State Long Beach to work on a device that would wrap a small computer monitor across a person’s face. With the company he founded, ...

Millions of Minecrafters around the world just got a great reason to buy Facebook’s Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Microsoft Monday announced the debut of Minecraft, which it acquired along with ...

You can play Minecraft on an Oculus Rift now. Mojang's hit world-building game is already playable in virtual reality on Gear VR, but the Windows 10 Edition is now ...