Oculus
Oculus Wants to “Go big” On Opening Their Platform to Third-party Headsets, When the Time is...
Oculus has been on the receiving end of vocal criticism about its practices of funding the development of VR content with the requirement that it be exclusive to the Oculus platform. For many owners of the Rift's rival, Vive,...
Oculus 1.17 Update Will Let You Launch SteamVR Apps From Oculus Home
Until recently, Oculus Rift owners have had to maintain two separate repositories for games; Steam and Oculus Home. And depending on where you bought a game, that's usually where you'd launch it from. Revealed in a forum post, Oculus...
Oculus’ Nate Mitchell on the Fate of ‘Rooms’ and ‘Parties’ on Rift
VR is in many ways awesome, but still in many ways lacking. Ease-of-use, especially when it comes to playing in VR with friends, is presently a huge pain point for the experience. Oculus' solution to that pain point—announced more...
Closeup With New, Cheaper Rift + Touch Bundle – Ships With Improved Foam Padding
Announced last week, Oculus has finally opted to put the Rift and Touch controllers together into one package, making motion input the new default. The new bundle also includes improved foam padding.
The new bundle is currently on sale for...
Applications Now Open for Oculus Connect 4 Developer Conference
Oculus' annual developer conference is back—Connect 4 will be hosted on October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center.
Applications to register for the event are now open with regular passes starting at $400, though applications...
Rift Sale Eases Buyer’s #1 Concern, But All-in Cost Still Hinders Mainstream Traction
The six week Oculus Rift sale has made tangible waves within the VR community with its 'best-yet' $400 price point. And while the new price is bringing more early adopters into the fold, mainstream adoption is still hindered in...
Rift + Touch to Cost $500 at End of Oculus Sale, New Bundle Removes Xbox Controller...
Oculus slashed the original price tag in half to $400 on the Rift +Touch bundle last week, but the company's 'Summer of Rift' sale only lasts for six weeks, leaving the question on the table as to exactly how much the VR...
Report: Facebook to Ship a $200 Standalone Mobile VR Headset in 2018
According to a report by Bloomberg, Facebook is working on a wireless, standalone VR headset said to target the $200 price range. Citing "people familiar with its development," the report reveals the Oculus-branded headset, code named 'Pacific', will ship sometime next year.
The headset...
Oculus Founder Backs ‘Revive’—a Hack for Vive to Play Rift-exclusive Games—With $2K in Monthly Funding
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company back in March, has backed a crowdfunding campaign for Revive—a hack which allows HTC Vive owners to play games from the Oculus platform—to the tune of $2,000 per month to support...
Facebook Fights to Prevent Oculus Rift Sales Ban
In February, ZeniMax filed an injunction to request the worldwide blocking of sales of products that use Oculus software, which includes both Rift and Gear VR hardware, following a recent high-profile court case against Facebook/Oculus. According to a Bloomberg report, the...
Oculus Brings Rift to 90 Libraries in California for Public Access VR
Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico. Detailed on the Oculus Blog, the new partnership with the...
Oculus Founder Expects No Next-gen VR Headsets From Market Incumbents Before Mid-2018
Oculus' founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. Among a range of topics discussed, Luckey spoke of the timeline of future VR headsets...
How Google’s Latest VR Moves Are a Major Blow to Oculus’ Mobile Strategy
Last week at Google's I/O 2017 developer conference the company made a number of new announcements which are very exciting for VR consumers. Within the industry though, the announcements represent somewhat of a repositioning of industry players, one that...
Palmer’s Post-Oculus Interview, Part 3: Neural Links, Recorded Memories, & Revolutionizing VR, Again
Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just...
Oculus Research Reveals “Groundbreaking” Focal Surface Display
Oculus Research, the VR and AR R&D division of the company, today announced a new display technology that they're calling the "Focal Surface Display." The display aims to improve the vergence-accommodation conflict that plagues today's VR headsets. The company...




















