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Everything We Know (Officially) About the FOV and IPD of Rift S & Quest

With the announcement of Rift S earlier this month came the revelation that the headset would not include the ability to physically adjust the distance between the lenses in order to align with the distance between the user's eyes...

Oculus Founder: Rift S Suitable for Only About 70% of Population Due to IPD

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company back in 2017, says that the lack of hardware-adjustable IPD (distance between lenses) on the Rift S means he won't be able to comfortably use the headset, and says that it...

Oculus is Considering an Over-ear Headphone Accessory for Rift S

Oculus announced its next iteration of Rift this week at GDC, Rift S. While there's a few key differences about the upcoming hardware specs-wise, it seems the company has also taken a page out of Go's playbook by including...
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Oculus Rift S Revealed with Inside-out Tracking, Resolution Bump, & New Ergonomics

Oculus today announced the new Rift S headset which ditches external tracking sensors in favor of a five-camera inside-out tracking system. The headset also gets a slight bump in resolution over the original Rift while moving from OLED to...

Hands-on: Oculus Rift S is a Better, Easier to Use Rift (with a Few Tradeoffs)

Oculus has finally taken the wraps off of Rift S, its first PC VR headset release in three years. But there's a reason the company is calling this Rift S and not Rift 2; the changes are mostly for...

Report: New Oculus ‘Rift S’ Headset to be Revealed at GDC Next Week

According to a report by UploadVR, citing emails sent from Facebook to Oculus developers, the rumored Rift S headsets will be revealed next week at GDC. Rift S was first brought to light in a TechCrunch report last year about...

How to Spend That $15 ‘Rift Outage Day’ Store Credit Before It Expires

Nearly a year ago a debilitating software error occurred that rendered every Rift on Earth basically inoperable for about a day. As recompense, Oculus handed out $15 in Store credit (or regional equivalent) to pretty much anyone that used Rift in...

Oculus Rift is Out of Stock All Over the Web, Suggesting ‘Rift S’ is Near

It seems one of two things is happening at the moment: either Oculus Rift has been selling like hotcakes and going out of stock simultaneously all over the Internet, or the company is tuning down production for some unknown...

Oculus Founder is Giving Away Free Audio Repair Kits for Out-of-warranty Rifts

Last week we learned Oculus founder and former executive Palmer Luckey was getting ready to release a repair kit for out-of-warranty Rifts that suffer from a manufacturing flaw that results in malfunctioning audio in one (or both) of the...

Rift Platform Update Now Lets Users Import Custom Home Spaces

Rift users looking for a change of scenery from the stock cabin model in Oculus Home are in for a surprise, as the company has just pushed an update that now brings user-created spaces to the platform. Last summer Oculus...

Oculus Founder Vows to Create Audio Repair Kit for Rifts Out of Warranty

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has since moved on to greener pastures after leaving Facebook in 2017, founding his own border defense firm Anduril Industries. That hasn't kept him from mulling over some of the niggling issues with the now...

Bought a Rift Before Last Week’s Price Cut? 5 Ways to Refund the Difference

While the Oculus Rift could be occasionally found on sale at $350 over the last 12 months, the actual MSRP of the headset has been steady at $400 for a little over a year. Last week the company opted...

Oculus Rift + Touch Now Permanently Priced at $350

After Oculus' big Black Friday sale, which saw Rift & Touch temporarily cut from its regular price of $400 to $350, Oculus now says they're permanently dropping the price of the bundle to just $350. We expect to see the...

Missed Out on Rift’s Black Friday Deal? It’s Back for a Limited Time

Normally priced at $400, the Rift + Touch bundle has returned to its $350 Black Friday pricing for a limited time. The deal ($50 off MSRP) can be found at Amazon US, Oculus, NewEgg, Microsoft Store, Micro Center, and Best Buy. The Cheapest Deals Oculus is...

Rift Referrals Paused Recently Due to High Demand, Now Back Online

Oculus recently opened a referral program that lets U.S. residents generate discount codes for friends, family, or anybody in else that wants to buy a Rift or Go at 10% off. That program proved to be extremely popular, at...
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