Oculus
2 Year Anniversary of Rift: Prizes, Sales, New Content and More
Two years ago today, Oculus launched the consumer version of Rift. To celebrate the occasion, the company has announced new content/updates, some pretty big sales, prizes, and even the chance to win a 'Golden Account' that gives you 100...
Oculus PC SDK Adds NVIDIA Lens Matched Shading to Boost Performance
Oculus' PC SDK version 1.19 now supports NVIDIA's VRWorks Lens Matched Shading (LMS) technique, offering "a performance boost and a slight quality improvement" on supported GPUs.
Lens Matched Shading is part of NVIDIA's VRWorks toolset, and takes advantage of the...
Oculus Affirms Commitment to Rift, Believes PC Will Lead the VR Industry for the Next Decade
Over the last year, Oculus' public hardware ambitions have mostly centered around their upcoming standalone headsets (Oculus Go and Santa Cruz), with little to say about what's next for the company's PC VR headset, the Rift. Addressing a small...
Oculus to Scrap Trackpads on Santa Cruz Controllers in Favor of Buttons & Sticks
At GDC 2018 this week, Oculus revealed some additional details surrounding their high-end standalone VR headset prototype, Santa Cruz. Among those details, the company plans to replace the current controllers' trackpads with buttons and sticks, much like the Rift.
Santa...
Oculus Home to Get Multiplayer & User-generated Content This Summer
At GDC 2018 this year, Oculus released word during their 'Inside Oculus 2018' developer talk that Home, the customizable user space for Rift, is gaining the ability to host multiple players as well as user-generated content.
The new Home space...
Oculus Go to Offer Fixed Foveated Rendering and Up to 72Hz Refresh Rate
Oculus has revealed that the standalone, entry-level mobile VR headset Oculus Go will support refresh rates up to 72Hz and will make use of fixed foveated rendering.
At GDC 2018 Oculus's dedicated hour long session was a treasure trove of...
Oculus Store Credit Starts Arriving to Those Affected by Major Software Error
If you've used your Oculus Rift since the beginning of February, you likely already have a small surprise waiting for you in your account.
After a debilitating software error that occurred last week, which ostensibly rendered every Rift on Earth...
Oculus Research to Talk “Reactive Displays” for Next-gen AR/VR Visuals at DisplayWeek Keynote
Oculus Research's director of computational imaging, Douglas Lanman, is scheduled to give a keynote presentation at SID DisplayWeek in May which will explore the concept of "reactive displays" and their role in unlocking "next-generation" visuals in AR and VR...
Oculus to Send 6 VR Projects to Tribeca Film Festival 2018
The Tribeca Film Festival starts next month, an annual screening of everything from indie documentaries to family-friendly films. Coming to the festival's Immersive program, which showcases works by artists who are pushing boundaries and using cutting-edge technology, are six Oculus-funded projects.
Oculus most...
Update: Oculus Publishes Repair Tool to Patch Debilitating Rift Error, Offers $15 Store Credit
Widespread reports of an error preventing users from launching the Oculus software that powers the headset began appearing earlier yesterday. The company has today released a repair tool that patches the error in lieu of an automatic update.
Update (03/08/18):...
Oculus Rift Surpasses HTC Vive in Steam Majority Market Share for the First Time
According to Valve's February Steam hardware and software survey, the Oculus Rift is now the most used VR headset on the Steam platform, taking the market share of VR headsets on Steam with a near 2% lead over its competitor HTC...
Facebook VP Teases Company’s ‘biggest AR/VR news to date’ Coming to F8 Conference
Facebook's annual developer conference, F8, won't be here until May, but with registration opening today, Facebook and Oculus is teasing some exciting AR and VR news to come.
Update (2/28/18): Algonside Oculus head Hugo Barra's tease about AR/VR news to...
Oculus Go Dev Kit Images Show the Headset to Be Near Consumer-ready
Two images showing a seemingly consumer-ready box containing Oculus Go, the company's upcoming standalone VR headset, found its way to Reddit and Twitter recently, possibly indicating that launch is right around the corner.
As first reported by TechRadar, the images appear...
New Official Dev Tool Tests VR Apps Against Oculus Platform Guidelines Before Submission
Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if...
‘Oculus Start’ Program Aims to Help Indies Jump into VR Development
Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR. The program, which was introduced in a brief...


















