Addressing shareholders during Facebook's Q2 2019 earnings call last week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that unit sales of Oculus Quest are exceeding the available supply of the headset. Facebook and Oculus have always been mum about sales figures for their...

According to a report by The Information, Facebook is allegedly looking to sign more deals with game studios, the result of which aims to bring some high-profile franchises to the Oculus platform. This is said to include VR versions...

Oculus seems to be on a bit of a hiring spree as of late; Facebook is advertising over 400 positions dealing with AR/VR via its job portal at the moment. One posting in particular at Facebook's Reality Lab—Electrical Engineer -...

Facebook's fragmented approach to social VR hasn't gotten any better with the launch of Quest. The company now has four separate social VR apps, and none of them are currently available on its newest headset. With Oculus, Facebook has aimed...

Facebook is currently developing a voice assistant that could function similar to Amazon Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant. Notably, it's intended to support Oculus headsets in addition to Portal, and "future products." Citing several sources familiar with the matter, a...

An internal email sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to senior executives offers a glimpse into the strategic thinking behind the company's feet-first leap into XR following the 2014 acquisition of Oculus. Update (February 14th, 2019): Sources tell Road to VR...

Jason Rubin joined Oculus in 2014 and has been a key figure in guiding the company's content investments and strategy. Following the recent Oculus shakeup and deeper absorption into Facebook, Rubin is now overseeing AR and VR content &...

DeepFocus is Facebook's AI-driven renderer that's said to produce natural looking blur in real-time, something that's poised to go hand-in-hand with the varifocal displays of tomorrow. Today, Facebook announced that DeepFocus is going open source; while the company's wide...

Facebook and ZeniMax Media have officially settled the long-running lawsuit that alleged Oculus stole intellectual property developed by the company’s current CTO John Carmack back when he was employed by ZeniMax’ child company id Software. ZeniMax took Oculus to court...

Try on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive and one of the first things you'll probably notice looking through the lenses are fine concentric circles, creating something many call 'God Rays'—especially egregious when viewing high contrast scenes. A new...

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, recently published an article with his thoughts on what it will take for VR to reach the mainstream. Price, he argues, matters little if the experience is...

Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe is leaving Facebook. Citing "a source close to the matter," a report from TechCrunch indicates his departure is related to the cancellation of a Rift 2 headset, though Facebook has denied that element of the...

Last May, Facebook and RED Digital Cinema announced they were working on a volumetric video camera based on Facebook’s Surround360 technology. At Oculus Connect 5 today, the company's annual developer conference, Facebook and RED revealed a first-look at the...

As a current artist-in-residence on the Facebook Social VR team, Goro Fujita has been making some pretty impressive "quillistrations" as a part of his daily creative regime using Quill, Oculus' first-party VR paint and drawing tool that he helped develop. In a...

Oculus has been on quite the hiring spree as of late, with over a hundred positions currently advertised on the company's career website aimed at bringing hardware and software engineers into the Seattle area. Now, a report from real...