Oculus today announced it's rebranding Oculus Research, the company's R&D lab, to the newly created Facebook Reality Labs (FRL). The shift, the company says, better addresses the increasingly important role of research and development in AR/VR while emphasizing collaboration...

Facebook's VP of AR/VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth showed a quick glimpse of a "mixed reality" game of soccer using Oculus Santa Cruz, the company's 6 DOF standalone VR headset prototype. This is the first hint that Santa Cruz could have...

Oculus today at F8 overviewed some of the latest VR technology that they'd been working on internally. Among the projects mentioned is the 'Half Dome' prototype, a Rift-like headset with a 140 degree field of view, varifocal displays, and...

At Facebook's F8 developer conference, Oculus today announced it's both overhauling and rebranding React VR, the company's open-source JavaScript library that lets developers create cross-platform WebVR experiences. Now dubbed React 360, the company says the framework now "provides clearer prioritization for...

Oculus Go, the company's $200 standalone headset, is finally here. While the headset retains much of the basic functionality of Samsung Gear VR, including access to the communal Oculus app store, there's a few neat ergonomic updates to the...

Following today's Oculus Go launch announcement at Facebook's annual F8 dev conference, the company also revealed that Rooms, the social VR space first launched on Gear VR, is getting revamped to inaugurate Go. The company announced two upcoming apps...

Facebook's F8 developer conference is getting ready for its two-day event starting today. Here's how to catch the keynote livestream. Watch the livestream of Facebook's F8 2018 keynote by heading to the F8 website. The keynote begins at 9:30 AM...

Facebook's annual developer conference F8 starts today. While the company launched the long-awaited $200 Oculus Go standalone headset there this morning, it wasn't certain if the rumors were true, that F8 attendees would be receiving a headset for free....

While Oculus holds their own annual developer conference (coming later this year), parent company Facebook has in years past had plenty of exciting news to share at their own F8 developer conference. With F8 just around the corner on...

Facebook is expanding its augmented reality platform to make it possible for developers to create AR content tied to physical objects such as logos, signs and posters. The company has already integrated a few examples of its 'AR Target Tracking'...

Facebook Spaces, the company's social VR application which launched in beta one year ago, is getting an entirely new avatar system and customization tool, something Facebook says in a recent blog post was designed to make avatars "more expressive and...

Facebook's annual developer conference, F8, won't be here until May, but with registration opening today, Facebook and Oculus is teasing some exciting AR and VR news to come. Update (2/28/18): Algonside Oculus head Hugo Barra's tease about AR/VR news to...

Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it's bringing Spaces, the company's own social VR app, to HTC Vive. Like YouTube, which Google recently brought to the Vive, Facebook works only when it’s available to as many people as possible. And the...

Facebook Spaces, the company's social VR platform available on Oculus Rift, has updated to include a new mini-game that aims to pave the way for more yet to come. Called Bait! Arctic Open, the game lets you ice fish while...

Facebook Spaces, the company's experiment into social VR, launched to much fanfare back in April. Following a string of updates, the app now supports PC desktop sharing, allowing friends to stream any content from their computer, opening up a...