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How to Watch Oculus Connect 6 Keynotes Live in VR
Oculus Connect 6 is fast approaching, and while today is technically the last day for registration, you can still follow along with the company's annual developer conference next week both in and outside of VR.
Taking place on September 25th...
Report: Facebook Strikes Deal with Ray-Ban Parent Company to Design “AR glasses”
Facebook is building augmented reality headsets with the intent of eventually bringing one to market, this much is clear from its many job postings, research projects, and forward-looking statements from company execs. Now, a CNBC report contends that Facebook...
Nate Mitchell is the Final Oculus Co-founder to Leave Facebook
Nate Mitchell, Facebook's Head of VR Product, and the last of Oculus' co-founders, has announced that he's leaving the company.
Mitchell was among five core people at the inception of Oculus in 2012, which also included Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe,...
Applications for Oculus Launch Pad Developer Program Now Open
Applications are now open for the fourth annual Oculus Launch Pad, a program designed to help empower developers and creators from diverse backgrounds. Applications are being accepted until August 23rd, 2019.
Oculus announced the news on their developer blog, stating...
Zuckerberg to Shareholders: ‘Quest is selling as fast as we can make them’
Addressing shareholders during Facebook's Q2 2019 earnings call last week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that unit sales of Oculus Quest are exceeding the available supply of the headset.
Facebook and Oculus have always been mum about sales figures for their...
OpenXR 1.0 Released, Microsoft Supports HoloLens 2 & WMR, Oculus Plans Rift & Quest Support
OpenXR, a widely supported initiative which aims to streamline AR/VR development across headsets and platforms, has reached its 1.0 release today. It's a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium...
Oculus Quest Will Support Oculus Go Apps Later This Year
Later this year Oculus Quest is going to get access to a heap of new VR content thanks to support for Oculus Go apps via official emulation.
Oculus CTO John Carmack this week confirmed that Oculus Quest will eventually support...
Quest Gets ‘Oculus Venues’, Finally Connecting Quest Users with Oculus Go & Gear VR
While Oculus Quest was devoid of any of Facebook's social VR applications at launch, Oculus Venues is finally available for the headset. That means that, for the first time, Quest users will have a first-party social experience in which they can...
Tyler Hurd’s ‘Beach Body Bros’ Experience Looks Patently Absurd as Ever
Tyler Hurd, the creator behind patently ridiculous VR experiences Butts (2016) and Old Friend (2017), has just joined the Oculus Medium team. Now, Hurd says, he's developing a new VR project called Beach Body Bros using Medium.
Beach Body Bros is a four-minute room-scale...
Report: Facebook Signs Deal for ‘Assassin’s Creed’ & ‘Splinter Cell’ VR Games
According to a report by The Information, Facebook is allegedly looking to sign more deals with game studios, the result of which aims to bring some high-profile franchises to the Oculus platform. This is said to include VR versions...
Oculus Job Listing Points to Eye-tracking in ‘next gen AR/VR products’
Oculus seems to be on a bit of a hiring spree as of late; Facebook is advertising over 400 positions dealing with AR/VR via its job portal at the moment. One posting in particular at Facebook's Reality Lab—Electrical Engineer -...
Oculus is Forcing the Removal of SteamVR Streaming from Quest App, Dev Says
The developer of Virtual Desktop, a Quest app which allows users to stream their PC desktop to the headset for use in VR, says that after the recent addition of a feature which allowed SteamVR games to be played on Quest,...
New Quest Ad Spot is One of Oculus’ Best Yet
Communicating what it feels like to use VR to someone who has never done it before is one of VR's major marketing challenges. Oculus' new 'Defy Reality' ad spot for Quest effectively uses mixed reality video capture to show...
Facebook is Giving Away a Free Oculus Quest to Everyone at F8
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today at F8, the company's annual dev conference, to announce that both the standalone headset Oculus Quest and the next Rift headset, Rift S, are now available for pre-order. Additionally, he surprised...
Oculus Rift S Pre-orders Now Live, Launching May 21st for $400
Facebook today announced at F8, their annual developer conference, that pre-orders for Oculus Rift S are now officially live. Rift S is slated to ship on May 21st alongside the standalone VR headset Oculus Quest across 22 countries.
The company's U.S....