On stage at Facebook's F8 conference this morning, CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the company will today launch their first social VR application. Back in October, Facebook Social VR Product Manager Mike Booth said that the company intended to launch their...

Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, is stepping down from his position at the company. Oculus told Upload VR the news, saying that it will be Luckey's last week at the Facebook-owned VR headset...

Following a prominent lawsuit between ZeniMax and Facebook/Oculus which resulted in a $500 million award to ZeniMax, the company is now seeking an injunction to prevent Oculus from continuing to use code that was found by the jury to...

After a long and somewhat awkward period of Google keeping all of their VR apps from Facebook's VR platforms on desktop (with Rift) and mobile (with Gear VR), Tilt Brush is the first VR olive branch extended across the platform...

Michael Antonov, Chief Software Architect at Oculus, is due to speak at Facebook's F8 Developer Conference on April 18th about React VR, a framework that builds on Facebook’s React JavaScript library. This web-based framework allows easier creation of VR...

Facebook's 2017 F8 developer conference has seven scheduled sessions dedicated to VR. The company's annual two-day event is dedicated to exploring the future of Facebook's family of apps and services (including Oculus), and how businesses and developers can leverage them. With sessions covering...

Following the recent unfavorable court decision which saw a $500 million judgement levied on Oculus and some of its founders last week, Facebook has shared a glimpse into what they call "the most advanced virtual and augmented reality research center...

Ever since Facebook's acquisition of Oculus in 2014, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has poised the move as a strategic bet on a technology that would eventually change the way we communicate. In the company's most recent earnings call, Zuckerberg asked for...

While it wasn't the $4 billion slam dunk ZeniMax was hoping for, a Dallas, TX jury today awarded $500 million to ZeniMax after finding that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey had breached nondisclosure agreements. However, Oculus was not found to...

This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute...

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has tapped Hugo Barra, Xiaomi's current Global VP, for the position of CEO at Oculus VR. Barra will be tasked with not only leading Oculus, Facebook's subsidiary, but all of Facebook's VR projects. Barra will be replacing...

At CES 2017 it was announced that users with NVIDIA's Geforce Experience software will be able to stream gameplay of whatever they’re playing, including VR content, to Facebook Live. An update now available for the software enables the feature, including...

Facebook says they want to launch an official social VR experience "as soon as possible;" to get there the company has been experimenting with various approaches to find out which avatars work best for social VR interaction. During the opening...

Oculus plans to bring livestreaming to Gear VR, letting users stream their gameplay to Facebook allowing friends to watch and interact with comments and reactions. One of the common problems with Gear VR and mobile VR in general is that,...

At Oculus Connect's opening keynote today, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to drive home the company's commitment to the virtual reality space. How much commitment? Some $500M worth. Amid a flurry of announcements at Oculus Connect 3's...