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Oculus Fixes a Few Serious Annoyances With Its Latest Update to Rift Core 2.0 Beta

Already in the wild for over a month now, Rift Core 2.0 Beta has seen its first substantial update since launch. The January update addresses performance and general ease-of-use of Home and Dash, but more importantly provides solutions to some rather niggling issues. Considered a major overhaul...

Oculus Now Sells Single Replacement Touch Controllers

So you got a little out of control last night playing Robo Recall (2017), and you smashed one of your Touch controllers to smithereens. It used to be that you'd have to buy a brand new pair of controllers...
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Oculus Rift Core 2.0 Update Now Available in Beta – Hands-on with Home & Dash

Announced back in October, Oculus is launching the Rift Core 2.0 update today in beta, a major overhaul to the platform’s underlying experience. The update not only rebuilds the default ‘Home’ environment with huge customization potential, it also introduces...

Oculus Offers Comprehensive List of VR GPUs Meeting Recommended and Minimum Specs

With so many choices for graphics cards out there, it's hard to know exactly what you should buy to outfit your next VR-ready PC. To make things a little easier, Oculus recently published a list of GPUs that meets its...

Rift Core 2.0 Beta Rolls Out December 6th, Bringing Updated Oculus Desktop App, Dash & More

Oculus has now confirmed the launch the 'Rift Core 2.0' update in public beta; it's hitting Rift headsets December 6th. The anticipated updated will bring a major overhaul to 'Home'—the place you see in the headset when you're not inside...

With Facebook’s 💰, Oculus Is Fending off Old Enemies, Former Friends, and New Foes

Blink and you might have missed it—a lot has happened in the VR landscape in the last few months. At Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new...
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Oculus Explores 8 Experimental Locomotion Methods, Adds Samples to SDK

Following a two-part blog series in partnership with Crytek, where the studio shared some of its research into VR locomotion comfort, Oculus has now added eight new experimental locomotion methods to the SDK. A recent entry on the official...

Easily Browse Oculus Store Sales and Free Games With ‘Oculus Store Spoofer’

When games insufficiently deliver on critical features, modders tend to fill in the gaps with their own solutions—part and parcel of the gaming world. Doing exactly that, but for the Oculus Store, a third-party website finally lets you filter the...

Oculus Store to Include Flexible Bundle Pricing So You Get a Discount If You Already Own...

One of the big barriers to buying flash sale bundles is the selection of games available. What if you already own one in that almost perfect bundle that has you salivating at the nearly perfect price? Oculus plans to...

Oculus Home’s Big Update Will Only Be Semi-social to Start

At Connect 4 earlier this month, Oculus announced a major overhaul of their VR hub space, Oculus Home—the virtual bedrock where players find themselves when they aren't inside of a VR game or app. The new space promises to...

Oculus: ‘More than 8 VR Titles Have Made $1M+ in the Oculus store alone’

For VR to succeed in the consumer space, an ecosystem of developers making content that users want to buy is an absolute must. Oculus for its part has attempted to kickstart that ecosystem by investing hefty sums in content...

Hands-on: ‘Red Matter’ is an Adventure Puzzle Set in a Wonderfully Weird Pseudo-Soviet Dystopia

Red Matter is an upcoming story-driven VR adventure puzzle game, first revealed at Oculus Connect, that puts you in a retro-futurist world that borrows elements from the Cold War-era and teases them out to an interesting logical conclusion. Created by Madrid-based...

Developers Can Now Request Oculus Go Dev Kits, Could Have Headsets As Soon as Next Month

The new Oculus Go standalone headset was revealed yesterday at Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference. According to Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack, developers could have their hands on the $200 standalone mobile headset as soon as next...
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Ubisoft’s Multiplayer Arcade Shooter ‘Space Junkies’ Is Heading into Closed Beta in Early 2018

Ubisoft today announced that Space Junkies, the multiplayer arcade VR shooter, is going into closed beta in early 2018. We got a chance to go hands-on with a more developed prototype of the game at this year's Oculus Connect, and while...

‘Echo Arena’ FPS Expansion Announced and More ‘Lone Echo’ Teased

Ready at Dawn's single player sci-fi adventure Lone Echo (2017) already has its multiplayer mode, the much beloved sports game Echo Arena, but the studio says it's bringing out a new first-person shooter multiplayer mode called Echo Combat, and also an...
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