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Oculus is (still) Covering Unreal Engine Royalties for $5M in Revenue Per-game Through 2025

With the recent news that Unreal Engine was permanently waiving engine royalties for the first $1 million in app revenue, we were reminded of a similar program for VR apps based on Unreal Engine 4 that Oculus established back...

Facebook to Start Accepting Collaboration & Productivity Apps on Oculus Quest

For many, remote work may be a new long-term reality. In that spirit, Facebook today announced that it will be introducing more collaboration and productivity apps to the Oculus Store for Quest soon. The first productivity apps are said to...

Oculus Quest to Get ‘Playspace Scan’ Feature to Detect Objects Intruding into Guardian

In honor of Oculus Quest's first anniversary today, Facebook announced that the popular standalone VR headset is getting a new 'Playspace Scan' feature to make its Guardian system capable of detecting objects that could trip you up during gameplay. Guardian,...

Oculus Quest Successor Reportedly Being Readied with Faster Refresh Rate, New Controllers

Oculus is reportedly readying a Quest successor which will iterate on the existing headset with a smaller form-factor, faster refresh rate, and new controllers. Rather than an outright Quest 2, it seems Oculus may be aiming first for a Quest...

Facebook’s Non-advertising Revenue ‘primarily driven by Oculus,’ up 80% to $297M

In Facebook's Q1 2020 earnings call today, the company overviewed its latest financial situation and noted that Oculus products were a major contributor to $297 million in non-advertising revenue. While Facebook makes the vast majority of its revenue from advertising,...

These Are the Countries Where You Can Still Buy Quest & Rift S Direct From Oculus

With a successful holiday season under its belt, Facebook was no doubt looking forward to resupplying its retail partners with more Oculus Quest & Rift S stock. However in a perfect storm of high demand, low supply, and on-going...

Oculus Rift S Still Out of Stock? Here’s Your Alternatives

Looking for an Oculus Rift S? You may be disappointed to see that the popular $400 PC VR headset is still suffering from supply shortages. We have a few alternatives you might consider though. Update (March 23rd, 2020): Some Rift...

Without Valve, ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Wouldn’t be Compatible with Rift or Quest

With the highly anticipated launch of Half-Life: Alyx just days away, it feels like an appropriate time to look at Valve's unique commitment to ensuring that SteamVR remains a hardware-agnostic platform for VR content, and how the company has...

More Than 20 Oculus Quest Titles Have Surpassed $1M in Revenue

Facebook today announced that 20 Oculus Quest games have broken the $1 million revenue mark, a big milestone for the VR industry as a whole. Oculus Quest famously sold out during the holiday season, and then promptly fell victim to...

Oculus Quest System Update to Make Multitasking Easier, Experimental Features Coming Soon

In place of GDC this year, which was postponed due to the coronavirus, Facebook is announcing some of its news via the decidedly more sterile environment of the Oculus blog, starting today and going until Thursday, March 19th. Today,...

You Can Now Cast Oculus Quest to Xbox One with AirServer

AirServer, the casting software for Xbox One, received an update a few weeks ago that now lets users cast the view from inside the Oculus Quest to Xbox One without the need of a Chromecast device. The paid app is...

Facebook/Oculus & Sony Are Pulling Out of GDC Over Coronavirus Concerns

Facebook and Sony today announced they won't be attending the annual GDC conference in San Francisco next month other Coronavirus concerns. GDC has historically been a key event for both Facebook/Oculus and Sony, with major announcements and previews of...

Months After Its Expected Launch, the ‘Oculus for Business’ Program is Still “Available Soon”

Back at the end of April, 2019, Oculus introduced "the new Oculus for Business" program, an enterprise-focused program which would see Oculus headsets sold with customized software aimed at large scale device management and business and commercial use-cases, along with...

Mark Zuckerberg: ‘people bought nearly $5M in Oculus Store content on Christmas Day’

In Facebook's quarterly earnings call yesterday, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the Oculus Store had sold nearly $5 million worth of content on Christmas Day alone. Zuckerberg says in the Q4 2019 earnings call that the Christmas Day boom was...

5 Oculus Quest Hardware Mods for Better Comfort

Oculus Quest is an awesome achievement in engineering; no other standalone VR headset offers the quality, rock solid positional tracking, ease of use, and competitive price point as Quest. But still, you may find that once your wallet is...
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