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‘Oculus Home’ Update Adds Virtual Screens, Custom Object Importing
Oculus Home, the hub space that users see when putting on their Oculus Rift, has been updated with virtual screens for embedded Dash content and the ability to import custom objects.
Announced in a post this week on the Oculus Blog, Oculus...
Carmack Details New 5K Mobile VR Playback Tech, Releases Sample for Developers
Oculus CTO John Carmack has developed a new approach to VR video playback which makes it possible to play 5K 3D 360 video on headsets like Oculus Go and Gear VR. The results, as shown in the recent re-release...
Oculus Mum on Rift Support for MacOS as Apple and Valve Forge Ahead
Apple has shown that it's getting serious about the VR on Mac with platform-spanning VR announcements crossing both hardware and software at last year's WWDC event. With SteamVR and the Vive now up and running on MacOS, eyes turn...
Oculus Go Launches in China Under Xiaomi Branding
Oculus previously announced earlier this year that Oculus Go, the company's 3DOF standalone headset, would officially launch in 23 consumer markets, although China would be receiving its own version with Xiaomi branding. Now, at a conference in Shenzhen, the...
Oculus Mobile Store Now Lets Devs Offer DLC, Coming to Rift Store Soon
It appears the age of paid downloadable content in VR is rapidly approaching us. Oculus developers will now be able to add discrete DLC to their games on Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR. Oculus Rift support isn't far...
Oculus Research Becomes ‘Facebook Reality Labs’, Creating “further and faster” Leaps in AR/VR
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...
Oculus on Half Dome Prototype: ‘don’t expect to see everything in a product anytime soon’
At Facebook's F8 developer conference Oculus revealed a glimpse at an intriguing new headset prototype dubbed 'Half Dome'. Including a 140 degree field of view, varifocal displays, and what appears to be eye-tracking, the prototype is a tantalizing peek at...
Oculus Reveals 140 Degree VR Headset Prototype with Varifocal Displays
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...
Palmer Luckey Posts Oculus Go Teardown, Revealing Possible Fix to Lengthen Battery Life
Oculus Go, the company's $200 standalone VR headset, launched at Facebook's F8 developer conference yesterday to much fanfare—likely because everyone in attendance got one free. Now that anyone can get their hands on one, Oculus founder and ex-employee Palmer Luckey...
Oculus Go Review: Standalone VR Priced for the Masses
Nearly seven months after its announcement back in October 2017, Oculus Go, the company's first standalone VR headset, is finally here. The company's thesis is that this affordably priced unit, which doesn't rely on a docked smartphone, will make...
Oculus Go Includes Glasses Spacer and Brackets for Prescription Lenses
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...
Oculus Revamps ‘Rooms’ for Go, New Apps ‘Oculus Venues’ & ‘Oculus TV’ Coming Soon
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...
Oculus Go Pre-order Page Hits Amazon, Best Buy Stocks Shelves
Oculus Go, the company's upcoming standalone VR headset, may already be waiting in the wings at Amazon distribution centers—they're certainly already on Best Buy shelves, as both retailers are gearing up for what appears to be an imminent launch.
The...
What to Expect in AR and VR at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference
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...
Oculus Now Lets Gear VR Devs Post Notifications to Better Communicate With Players
For developers, it's not easy grabbing a player's attention when their game is getting a big update, or an important in-game event is about to happen. In effort to remedy this, Oculus is opening up Notifications on Gear VR...




















