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Oculus Quest Back Orders Slip into Early March, Oculus Link in Mid-February
If you're looking to pick up an Oculus Quest after the holiday rush, you may be more than a bit disappointed to find out that online retailers across the board have listed it as 'back ordered', with Oculus US...
Oculus Link Beta Now Supports Some AMD GPUs
Launched last month in beta, Oculus Link lets you connect your Oculus Quest standalone headset to a VR-ready computer, letting you play PC VR games simply by hooking up a high-quality USB 3 cable. Users with AMD graphics cards...
The 10 Best Games for Oculus Rift
So, you've either got your hands on an Oculus Rift or an Oculus Quest with the help of Link, and now you want to know what to download first (besides the free stuff). Here's our breakdown of the top...
Oculus Releases Beta Support for Link, Turning Quest into a PC VR Headset
Oculus today announced that Link is officially in beta, the company's compatibility software so that Quest users can play Rift titles on PC. If you have an AMD GPU, you're going to have to wait though.
If you have a...
John Carmack Moves to “Consulting CTO” Role to Make Time for Non-Oculus Ventures
Legendary programmer and Oculus CTO John Carmack today announced he'll be moving to a "consulting CTO" role in order to reduce his time spent at the company to a "modest slice." This, he says, will make way for him...
The Top 20 Best Rated and Most Rated Rift Games & Apps
While Oculus doesn't offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it's possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here's a snapshot of...
Facebook CEO: ‘VR is Taking Longer Than Expected, but We’ll See It to Mass Adoption’
Facebook held its Q3 2019 earnings call late last week, and Oculus again found itself in the center stage as one of the company's most visible of projects. Company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that although their plans...
New Oculus Social Tools Will Help VR Feel More Like a Place, Less Like a Game
Social and Multiplayer VR can be incredibly compelling, but the process of actually 'finding' your friends in VR is still a clunky and often frustrating process. Oculus is developing a new set of social and multiplayer tools which stand...
Oculus is Making Link’s Hardware Specs Available to Third Parties
Oculus Link, the upcoming feature that will let you play Rift games on Quest, is set to launch sometime in November. According to statement made by an Oculus Product Manager, the company is also making Link's specs available to third...
The Most Interesting Thing About Quest Tethering is What it Says About Next-gen Oculus Headsets
Oculus announced last month that Quest will soon be able to play Oculus games on PC via a new feature called Oculus Link. Though Oculus Link will immediately add big boost in value to existing Quest headsets, perhaps even...
Oculus: ‘We’d Eventually Like Quest PC Tethering to be Wireless’
Today at Oculus Connect 6, CTO John Carmack dove into the work the company has done on Oculus Link, the Quest feature which will soon allow the headset to tether to PC to play Rift games. Today this requires...
PC Tethering on Quest is a Huge Upgrade, Making Rift S a Tough Sell
Oculus today announced an upcoming PC tethering feature coming to Quest headsets in November. Oculus Link, as it's called, will let users plug into VR ready PCs and play games originally designed for Rift. Oculus is calling it "the...
Facebook: Users Have Bought Over $100M in Oculus Store Content to Date
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Oculus Connect today where he announced that the Oculus Store has now sold over $100 million worth of content to date.
Zuckerberg maintains that the Oculus Store—which provides content for Rift, Quest,...
Oculus Reveals New VR Headset Prototypes with Major Advances in Optics Form-factor
On stage at Oculus Connect today, Facebook Reality Labs Chief Scientist Michael Abrash revealed two new prototype VR headsets from the company, Half Dome 2 and Half Dome 3. Both headsets offer improvements over the original Half Dome prototype...
Watch Oculus Connect 6 Opening Keynote Livestream Here @10 AM PT
Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, is back again for its sixth year. We're none the wiser as to what the company has planned for its all-important opening keynote; you can watch along with us here, starting September...
