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Oculus Rift + Touch Bundle Gets Permanent Price Cut to $400

Following their highly successful Summer of Rift Sale, Oculus have announced a permanent price cut of the Rift headset and Touch controller package to $399. The new price was revealed by Hugo Barra, Oculus' Vice President of Virtual Reality at...
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‘Oculus Dash’ is a Total Rift Interface Overhaul That Lets You Use Desktop PC Apps in...

Today at Oculus Connect, Oculus' Head of Rift, Nate Mitchell, announced the 'Core 2.0' update coming to Rift on PC which brings Oculus Dash, a total overhaul to the store and library experience on Rift, which also allows you...
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Oculus is Making Home into a Customizable Social Living Room, Coming to Rift in December

Oculus Home is getting a full overhaul in the new Rift Core 2.0 update coming this December, which promises to add a level of user customization that will let you create a unique, persistent space that you can invite...
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Oculus Go is Facebook’s Affordable Standalone Headset Priced at $200, Shipping Early 2018

On stage at Oculus Connect 4 today, Oculus revealed the Oculus Go headset, the company's affordability-focused standalone VR headset. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the new Oculus Go headset today during the Oculus Connect keynote. The headset is a low-cost,...

Oculus Open-sources Rift DK2: Schematics, Firmware, and More All Freely Available

Following the open-sourcing of the Rift DK1 plans back in 2014, Oculus today released the recipe for the Rift DK2, the company's second development kit headset released in 2014. Under an open-source license, anyone can now freely download the blueprints...

Oculus Rolls Out Worldwide Refund Policy for Rift & Gear VR Digital Content

Oculus announced its digital marketplace will now include automated refunds for games purchased on both Oculus Rift and Gear VR platforms—effective immediately and across the entire world. Oculus says they will refund many Rift content purchases made on their store "for any...

Palmer Luckey: “I’m still working in the VR industry on some very exciting things”

Appearing this week on the stage of Oculus competitor HTC at the Tokyo Game Show, Oculus founder emeritus Palmer Luckey affirmed that he's continuing to work on projects within the VR industry. Luckey's appearance on the HTC Vive stage during TGS...

Oculus Details New Functionality in Audio SDK – Near-field 3D Audio and Volumetric Sound Sources

In a new series of articles on the official Oculus Developer Blog, the company is offering an overview of additions to the Oculus Audio SDK, specifically new techniques for near-field 3D audio and volumetric sound source rendering. These articles...

‘Brass Tactics’ RTS Now Available for Pre-order, Launching October 19th

Brass Tactics, the RTS from Defense Grid 2 (2016) studio Hidden Path Entertainment, was first teased at GDC earlier this year where they showed off their miniature tabletop world of war. As an Oculus platform exclusive, Brass Tactics is now available for...

Facebook Marketing VP Rebecca Van Dyck Joins Oculus as Chief Marketing Officer

Facebook's VP of Marketing, Rebecca Van Dyck, has been chosen to take over the role of CMO at Oculus. TechCrunch confirmed the story late last week, which initially broke via an unnamed Facebook spokesperson. It's only now that Oculus has officially released...

You Can Still Buy an Oculus Rift + Touch Bundle for $400 on Amazon

The big Oculus Rift Summer Sale may be officially over, which saw the Rift + Touch bundle temporarily slashed from $600 to $400 for a limited time, but for some reason the US Amazon site hasn't reverted yet to...

This is Your Last Chance to Buy an Oculus Rift on Sale for $400

Oculus has given the Rift & Touch their biggest discount yet: $400 to get you both the Rift headset and the Touch controllers, and a slew of bundled content. The company now confirms they'll be ending the sale on September 4th,...

Oculus’ New ‘Stereo Shading Reprojection’ Brings Big Performance Gains to Certain VR Scenes

Oculus is calling its latest rendering tech 'Stereo Shading Reprojection', and says that for scenes which are heavy in pixel shading, the approach can save upwards of 20% on GPU performance. The company says the new VR rendering technique...

Valve Sends ‘Knuckles’ Controller Dev Kit to Revive Developer

Valve isn't being shy about their support for Jules "LibreVR" Blok, the developer behind Revive, a hack which allows the Vive to play games from the Oculus store. Having patched SteamVR on more than one occasion to ensure Revive's...

‘Quill’ Development Continues Under Facebook Social VR Team After Oculus Story Studio’s Shuttering

VR painting app Quill, which began its life as an internal production tool for Oculus Story Studio and was eventually released to the public, will see continued development despite the shuttering of the studio back in May. Former Story Studio members...
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