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Oculus founder and inventor of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset Palmer Luckey previously said that something would have to go "horribly wrong" to prevent the device from an official launch in 2015. Three months into the year, we still don't have a release date.

Did something go horribly wrong? Luckey answered the question while speaking at a SXSW panel.

"I did say that before we made a lot of changes to our roadmap and we've expanded a lot of the ambition we had around the product and what we wanted to do," Luckey said. "Us partnering with Facebook allowed us a lot of things that we wouldn't have been able to do otherwise like hire 300 people to be working on getting the Rift out as quickly as possible at the level we want it.

"I can't comment on the date one way or another in either direction but I can say that nothing is going horribly wrong. Everything is going horribly right."

Luckey commented on whether he feels more pressure to release the Oculus Rift now that have announced that they will release their own virtual reality headsets in 2016 and 2015 respectively.

Luckey said that it doesn't add more pressure because there "couldn't possibly be more pressure anyway," and that Oculus wants to launch the Rift as soon as possible, but without comprises.

"I do still think that it will be [the best VR headset at any price]," he said. "That could change because that means that there's something even better out there, but I think that's unlikely right now."

You can watch the SXSW panel in the archived Twitch stream above.

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VRFocus reports on a statement from Palmer Luckey in which he suggests that the Oculus Rift will be the best consumer HMD.

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VRFocus- Virtual reality (VR) technology has the power to allow users to take on any role. By wearing an Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) players can become astronauts, animals, action heroes and more. But what about prisoners? It's a strange choice, but players can become exactly that in a new VR compatible title from indie studio Kopy Kat. Named Prison Life, the title has recently launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign and Steam Greenlight campaign. The former hopes to raise $35,000 AUD while the latter aims to secure enough votes to be approved for sale on Valve's digital story come full release.

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VRFocus- There was so much virtual reality (VR) related news to come out of last week's Game Developers Conference (GDC) that fans would have had a hard time staying on top of it all. That made it easy to miss several teases from CCP Games, the studio behind the popular EVE franchise which is currently working on EVE: Valkyrie for the Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus head-mounted displays (HMD). However, instead of teases for its upcoming multiplayer flight sim, it looks like the developer is pointing towards some new VR tech demos for the Oculus rift and beyond.

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GamersNexus: "Adr1ft puts players in the first-person perspective of an astronaut who wakes up following the destruction of her space station and the death of her crew. The game uses simple mechanics but challenges the player to wisely conserve oxygen and repair the astronauts suit to upgrade their health throughout the playthrough. Adr1ft debuts on PC this September and features Oculus Rift support, ranking it among the slew of impending 'First-Person Experience' titles now trending."

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Tony Polanco of The Koalition writes: While at a recent 505 Games event in my home town of New York City, I got some hands-on time with ADR1FT. While the prospect of playing the game was enough to get me excited, the fact that it was playable on the Oculus Rift really got my attention. Ive been skeptical about VR for some time now and I wanted to see if this game worked well with it. My time revealed a possible sleeper hit of the year as well as a convincing demonstration of what VR can do when implemented into an actual game.

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A New York-based developer is working on a piece of hardware that allows you to "feel" the Oculus Rift's virtual reality worlds.

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VRFocus- New to Steam Greenlight is virtual reality (VR) horror experience Survivor Z: Will To Survive. The title is aiming to get enough up-votes to launch on Valves digital sharing platform. The videogame allows users to walk through a cinematic environment as if in a real horror film. It is set to release with support from the Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) as well as Steam VR.

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A new add-on for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset allows the person wearing it to experience smell, heat, cold, and more. A VR research and development company called Feelreal demonstrated the Bluetooth-powered mask recently at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

The Feelreal mask uses heaters, coolers, misters, a vibration engine, a microphone, and even a "removable cartridge with seven unique smells." These smells are: Ocean, Jungle, Fire, Grass, Powder, Flowers, and Metal.

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A new add-on for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset allows the person wearing it to experience smell, heat, cold, and more. A VR research and development company called Feelreal demonstrated the Bluetooth-powered mask recently at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

The Feelreal mask uses heaters, coolers, misters, a vibration engine, a microphone, and even a "removable cartridge with seven unique smells." These smells are: Ocean, Jungle, Fire, Grass, Powder, Flowers, and Metal.