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Oculus Says Walt Disney Studios Collaboration Will “Set a Higher Bar for VR”

Among the swath of announcements made at Oculus Connect 3, one of the fleeting but important pieces of content-related news is that Walt Disney Studios is working with Oculus to create a series of VR experiences based on iconic...

Oculus Will Cover Unreal Engine Developer Fees Through First $5M in Revenue, Per Game

Oculus covered a lot of ground during their opening keynote at Oculus Connect 3 this week; among many exciting announcements, one of interest for Unreal Engine developers might be how Oculus says that they’ll cover the royalty fees for any...

OTOY Demos Lightfield Streaming From the Cloud

Jules Urbach, CEO of OTOY, believes lightfields are the endgame of virtual reality. Essentially a way to digitally record all light reflected from a real or virtual object, lightfields seemingly enable feats of technological magic, from being able to...

Hands On: ‘Lone Echo’ Nails Zero-G Movement in VR With Oculus Touch

Frank He gets his hands into Ready at Dawn's first VR title and finds Lone Echo to deliver one of the best zero g experiences yet seen in VR, all thanks to clever design and of course the Oculus...

Oculus to Support WebVR Through New VR Browser Codenamed ‘Carmel’

Oculus announced at Connect, the company's annual developer conference, that they'll be officially supporting WebVR through their new VR web browser codenamed Carmel. WebVR is an API that provides headsets access to web-based VR content. Touted as an easy way to share VR experiences...

Facebook Founder Says Company Invested $250M in VR Content, Will Invest $250M More

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...

Getting Social – Oculus to Offer Persistent Avatars Across Multiplayer Games

Up until now, multiplayer games on Oculus Home have relied on their own individual avatar selectors, meaning you couldn't have the exact same avatar in two different apps. In an effort to socialize the entire platform, Oculus is introducing...

Final Touch Battery Life Improved 40% Over Original Prototype, Up to 30 Hours of Use

At a session breaking down the design of Touch during Oculus Connect, designers of the controller explored the choices that drove the form and functionality of the device. Oculus Touch finally has an official launch date of December 6th and...

New Oculus Render Tech Cuts Entry Level VR PC Costs to $499

Keeping games chugging along at 90 frames per second (fps) while rendering modern graphics is a tall order, which is why building a VR-ready computer is pretty much impossible with less than $600. Well, now the minimum spec—at least...
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Hands-on: Oculus’ Wireless ‘Santa Cruz’ Prototype Makes Standalone Room-scale Tracking a Reality

On stage at Oculus Connect 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that Oculus is developing a new, standalone, wireless VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. Following the keynote, I was whisked away behind closed doors to see the so-called...

Oculus Wants You to Talk With ‘Parties’ and Play in ‘Rooms’

Remember that friends list you made back when you got your Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Rift? Yeah. It's been pretty useless. Today Oculus announced that they'll soon be turning on social with the help of two new social...

Oculus Working on Inside-Out Tracking for Stand-Alone VR Headset – Breaking

Revealed today on stage at Oculus Connect, Mark Zuckerberg teased "the next phase of virtual reality," an inside-out tracking solution that would allow a headset to go entirely without the need of an outside tracking tech like the Rift's IR...

Social VR Platform ‘VRChat’ Raises $1.2M Seed Funding

VRChat, a social VR platform that allows users to create, publish, and explore VR worlds, have announced a $1.2 million seed investment round. Investors include HTC, Rothenberg Ventures, GREE VR Capital, and Brightstone Venture Capital. Supporting Oculus Rift and HTC...

3 Ways to Watch Oculus Connect Keynote Presentations in VR

Connect, Oculus's annual developer conference, is already in full swing, but if you didn't manage to book the flight and hotel to San Jose, CA, you can still pop your head in to see what this year's hubbub is...

Amazon UK Lists Oculus Touch Pre-Orders with Price and Release Date

Amazon's UK retailer seems to have already jumped the gun on today's supposed announcement taking place at Oculus Connect opening keynote, where we'll likely hear official word on price, release date, and everything else surrounding the long awaited Touch controllers. While Amazon's...
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