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Oculus Confirms ‘Guardian’ Virtual Boundary System, Coming in Next SDK Update

Oculus has confirmed work on a VR boundary system which they're calling Guardian. The system will launch this week with the Oculus PC SDK 1.8 update. While it's relatively easy to keep users safe in seated-VR experience, once you have...

Oculus Says Shipping Woes Are Behind Them, “Judge us on our Touch Launch”

Oculus is asking for early adopters to give the company a second chance on delivery expectations with the forthcoming launch of Oculus Touch. After years of anticipation, starting with the Oculus' 2012 Kickstarter for the first development kit (DK1) of...

Oculus Explains Why They Didn’t Launch Touch with the Rift (Even Though They “Could Have”)

Oculus says they could have shipped Touch alongside the launch of the Rift back in April, but explains why they've been biding their time. Despite delaying their Touch VR motion controller to the latter half of 2016, Oculus says the...

Oculus is Working on a ‘Chaperone’-like Boundary System for Touch

Physically moving your body around to move through the virtual world is a great way to enhance immersion, but it can be potentially dangerous if users lose a sense of their real world surroundings. To keep users safe, Valve...

Oculus: Touch is “Fully Capable” of Roomscale Tracking, But Skeptical It’s “Absolutely Necessary for VR”

As the launch of Oculus Touch approaches later this year, the company is sticking firm to its plan to focus on standing, front-facing VR experiences for motion input. Though it's claimed that Touch can match the 'roomscale' tracking of...

Oculus CEO: “Well over 5,000” Touch Dev Kits Shipping to Developers Before Launch

Oculus Touch isn't here for consumers just yet, as the company just narrowed their launch window down to Q4 of this year. But if you're a developer, you might just get your hands on a Touch dev kit in the very...

Oculus Says All Rift Pre-Orders Shipped, Narrows Touch Launch to Q4

Looking to put the Rift launch behind them, a fiasco that had many pre-order customers waiting several months for their headsets to arrive at their doorstep, Oculus today revealed that they've finally caught up to demand, and will be shipping...

Oculus Announces Connect 3 Dev Conference, Registration Coming Soon

If you're panning on attending this year's Oculus Connect developer conference in San Jose, CA, you can now officially mark your calendars for October 5-7 for what Oculus is billing as their "largest developer conference yet." Last year's Connect saw with it several big...

Latest ‘Revive’ Update Lets You Play 35 Oculus Home Games on HTC Vive

Revive, the mod which lets HTC Vive owners play games released only on Oculus Home, has just got a new release and is now compatible with 35 titles in the Oculus Store. Revive, a free mod project created by LibreVR in...

Oculus Reverses DRM Decision: “We won’t use hardware checks as part of DRM on PC in...

In a new update to the Oculus Rift PC runtime, the company has removed a controversial DRM provision which checked to ensure that users running Rift games were actually using a Rift headset. In a statement shared with Road to VR...

What to Expect in VR This Week at E3 2016

E3 2016 kicks off this week; it's the first E3 since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and the last before the launch of Sony's PlayStation VR headset. What does the year's biggest consumer gaming show...

Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and ‘Revive’ Dilemma

Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. A recent update to Oculus Home crippled Revive, an act that has caused outrage...

VR Audio Specialists ‘Two Big Ears’ Acquired by Facebook

In surprise news, it seems that the British company behind the excellent 3DCeption spatial audio pipeline Two Big Ears, has been acquired by Oculus' parent company Facebook in a move set to see their technology included alongside Oculus' to...

Oculus Setting Up London Team to Build “Really Cool Stuff”

Oculus is coming to the UK in a significant way it seems, as they prepare to open a dedicated base in London with a team that's apparently gearing up to build some "really cool stuff" for virtual reality. Social media...

Oculus Launching in-store Rift Demos at 48 Best Buys This Week

Today Oculus has announced plans to offer in-store demos at 48 Best Buy locations across the U.S. starting on May 7th. Selling VR headsets is a particularly tough challenge because the only way to understand the experience of virtual reality is...
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