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‘Quill’ Development Continues Under Facebook Social VR Team After Oculus Story Studio’s Shuttering

VR painting app Quill, which began its life as an internal production tool for Oculus Story Studio and was eventually released to the public, will see continued development despite the shuttering of the studio back in May. Former Story Studio members...

Facebook Update Adds 4K 360 Video Streaming Support to VR Headsets and More

Facebook today announced new updates coming to their 360 streaming service including live 4k streaming support to VR headsets, image stabilization and a number of features that puts VR-ready 360 video more in line with the company's standard streaming video service. Facebook...
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Facebook Spaces Now Lets You Broadcast Live from VR to Any Facebook-capable Device

Facebook today announced their Oculus Rift app Spaces is getting an extra feature, bringing it closer in functionality to the rest of Facebook's near ubiquitous platform—of course with a few extra 'VR perks'. Starting today, Facebook is letting Rift owners...

Oculus Brings Mixed Reality Capture Support to Rift

Trying to capture what someone is experiencing when they're head-first in a VR game has been an interesting problem to crack. By matching up live video and a digital environment with the help of a green screen setup though, you...

Facebook Fights to Prevent Oculus Rift Sales Ban

In February, ZeniMax filed an injunction to request the worldwide blocking of sales of products that use Oculus software, which includes both Rift and Gear VR hardware, following a recent high-profile court case against Facebook/Oculus. According to a Bloomberg report, the...

Palmer’s Post-Oculus Interview, Part 2: Virtual Relationships, Sleeping Under a Bridge, & His Next Project

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just...

In First Interview Since Leaving Oculus, Founder Palmer Luckey Talks VR’s Mobile Future, Facebook, and Cosplay

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just...
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The Future of ‘Facebook Spaces’: Opening the Door to Third-party Developers

Facebook launched their first social VR app Spaces last month to much acclaim. It's a polished experience that does a few things very well, and has the major benefit of tapping into Facebook's existing dominance of the social graph. But...

Why the Closure of Oculus Story Studio is Good News for VR Filmmakers

Oculus just officially announced that they'd be winding down Story Studio, the company's internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost, Henry, and Dear Angelica. Along with the closure, the company also says they're earmarking $50 million to...

Facebook is Researching Brain-Computer Interfaces, “Just the Kind of Interface AR Needs”

Regina Dugan, VP of Engineering at Facebook's Building 8 skunkworks and former head of DARPA, took the stage today at F8, the company's annual developer conference, to highlight some of the research into brain-computer interfaces going on at the...

Facebook’s New 360 Capture SDK Can Record HQ Videos and Photos in VR Apps

Facebook F8, the company's annual developer conference, is currently in full swing on its second and final day. Today's big VR announce from the social platform giant? Facebook is releasing the 360 Capture SDK tool that developers can integrate into VR...

Facebook Unveils Two New Volumetric Video ‘Surround360’ Cameras, Coming Later this Year

Facebook today announced two new additions to the Surround360 hardware initiative that are poised to make 360 video more immersive. Unveiled at the company's yearly developer conference, F8, the so-called x24 and x6 cameras are said to capture 360 video with...

Vive Users Can Join Rift Friends in ‘Facebook Spaces’ With Revive Hack

It appears that Revive is already compatible with the Facebook's new social VR app, Facebook Spaces. Revive is a popular free hack that allows Oculus content to be played on HTC Vive system. Launched today at Facebook’s F8 opening conference,...

Facebook Launches New Camera Tools as a Foundation for Advanced Augmented Reality

F8, Facebook's yearly developer conference, is here again for a two-day info blast from the world's biggest social platform. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today during the keynote address to announce a new initiative that will...

Watch: Video Calling, 3D Drawing, and Shared Experiences Inside Facebook’s Social VR App

Oculus says that Facebook's newly released social VR app, Facebook Spaces, "takes some of the best features of Facebook and brings them into your VR space," but it also lets you do new things that you could never do on...
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