CNN and NextVR are teaming up to bring the Democratic presidential debate to VR this October. While NextVR captured the recent CNN Ronald Reagan Debate in VR, the upcoming Democratic debate will be the first to be livestreamed in VR. On October 13th,...

During the Oculus Connect keynote address, among the company's many announcements like Netflix for Gear VR and Minecraft for VR, was the news that Twitch is coming to Gear VR. And the best part: you can watch it socially...

Oculus Medium, the company's new 3D VR sculpting app revealed at this year's Connect, allows anyone to create clay-like works of art from the very simple to the frighteningly realistic with a few swipes of Oculus Touch hand controllers. But don't...

Manus Machina, a company dedicated to virtual reality input devices, has begun shipping their first sets of wireless VR gloves to developers. Roaming the halls of Birmingham's NEC covering EGX 2015 today, I bumped into the Manus Machina team, who gave...

Oculus Story Studio, the VR headset company's in-house production team, has released an immersive trailer of their animated VR short featuring a lovable little hedgehog, Henry. Henry is Story Studio's second film, but really shows the company's Pixar DNA which they acquired from several of...

During Oculus Connect's keynote speech yesterday, it was revealed that Touch, the company's optically tracked hand controller was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the result of hundreds of early prototypes. While the latest prototype is incredibly comfortable, almost to the point of disappearing into...

A number of games compatible with Touch were announced yesterday at Oculus Connect, ensuring at least 8 titles launching simultaneously so you can play right out of the box. Although Touch won't be shipping alongside the Oculus Rift, which is slated to hit stores...

In a session at day 1 of Connect, Oculus' Caitlin Kalinowski and Stephanie Lue took to the stage to speak about the challenges associated with making the Oculus Rift a mass-producible product. While the Rift Crescent Bay prototype, revealed by Oculus...

At Oculus Connect today a new 3D paint program was announced that aims to take Oculus Touch to the artists among us, and it's called Medium. Among the 10 new Touch demos made available to the attendees at Connect was Medium, a...

Halsey Minor, the founder of CNET, today announced at Oculus Connect the launch of Voxelus, an 'end-to-end' virtual reality content creation platform for PC and Mac that lets anyone easily create VR games, experiences, and places without the need of code. Voxelus...

During the keynote speech at Oculus Connect, a new arcade app was revealed by head of mobile Max Cohen for the Samsung Gear VR platform. Oculus calls it simply Arcade. With Oculus Arcade, the company is bringing classic titles from Sega, Midway and Bandai...

John Carmack, Oculus' Chief Technical Officer, takes to the big Dolby Theater stage here at Connect for his "signature talk." Catch the livestream right here starting at 1PM PT (find your timezone here). John Carmack will give his signature talk...

Samsung today revealed the consumer version of the 'Oculus Powered' Gear VR headset which is now compatible with four of Samsung's latest phones. The headset looks similar to the two prior versions but a careful look (or a scale!)...

Oculus Connect day one is over, but it was but a warm up act for the remaining two days, kicking off today with a series of keynotes at 10am PST. In the mean time, UploadVR noticed that information has 'leaked'...

John Carmack has a reputation for frank, no holds barred technical discussions in his publish speaking, but he's also known for his generosity with his time and seemingly endless patience. At last year's Oculus Connect, the programming legend who co-founded id,...