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Oculus Quest Touch Controllers Hit FCC Preceding Spring 2019 Launch
Oculus Quest may not have a specific release date yet, although now that both the headset and its Touch controllers have undergone FCC testing, there's little left standing in the way of the headset's launch this Spring.
Oculus revealed Quest in...
Oculus Brings More Lifelike Sound Propagation to Audio SDK 1.34
Despite being oft overlooked in the face of more attention-grabbing visuals, audio is an essential component to creating presence in VR. In a quest to create increasingly lifelike audio in VR environments, Oculus has pushed out an update to...
Oculus Quest Experience ‘The Under Presents’ Debuts at Sundance 2019
Oculus today announced that it's bringing two VR experiences to this year's Sundance Film Festival— the previously announced Traveling While Black for Oculus Go & Rift, and the newly unveiled The Under Presents for Oculus Quest.
The Under Presents
Oculus says in a blog...
Oculus Just Made It Easier to Screencast Mobile VR Sessions to Your Phone
Oculus released screencasting in beta late last year, and while it's been a great way of letting someone outside of VR see what's happening during a VR session, the company just made this a lot easier in a recent...
Oculus to Bring Upcoming Rift Titles ‘Stormland’ & ‘Defector’ to PAX South
Oculus is bringing two highly anticipated Rift exclusives to PAX South in San Antonio, Texas this year: Stormland and Defector.
Stormland, a sci-fi adventure from Insomniac Games, first debuted at PAX West last summer. It was available through a pop-up installation...
Oculus Rift + Touch Now Permanently Priced at $350
After Oculus' big Black Friday sale, which saw Rift & Touch temporarily cut from its regular price of $400 to $350, Oculus now says they're permanently dropping the price of the bundle to just $350.
We expect to see the...
Oculus’ Jason Rubin Now Overseeing AR/VR Content & Partnerships at Facebook
Jason Rubin joined Oculus in 2014 and has been a key figure in guiding the company's content investments and strategy. Following the recent Oculus shakeup and deeper absorption into Facebook, Rubin is now overseeing AR and VR content &...
Oculus Quest Hits FCC on Its Way to Spring 2019 Launch
As we head into 2019, there's a growing sense of bated breath within the VR industry as the Oculus Quest launch draws near. Today the headset popped up in FCC listings, seemingly indicating that things are on track for...
Facebook Open-sources DeepFocus Algorithm for More Realistic Varifocal VR Rendering
DeepFocus is Facebook's AI-driven renderer that's said to produce natural looking blur in real-time, something that's poised to go hand-in-hand with the varifocal displays of tomorrow. Today, Facebook announced that DeepFocus is going open source; while the company's wide...
Facebook & ZeniMax Settle Major Legal Dispute Over VR Intellectual Property
Facebook and ZeniMax Media have officially settled the long-running lawsuit that alleged Oculus stole intellectual property developed by the company’s current CTO John Carmack back when he was employed by ZeniMax’ child company id Software.
ZeniMax took Oculus to court...
Facebook Patents Hybrid Fresnel That Could Make VR Optics More Clear
Try on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive and one of the first things you'll probably notice looking through the lenses are fine concentric circles, creating something many call 'God Rays'—especially egregious when viewing high contrast scenes. A new...
Rift Referrals Paused Recently Due to High Demand, Now Back Online
Oculus recently opened a referral program that lets U.S. residents generate discount codes for friends, family, or anybody in else that wants to buy a Rift or Go at 10% off. That program proved to be extremely popular, at...
Better-than-Black-Friday Rift Deal Still Available on Amazon for Limited Time
Missed out on Black Friday and Cyber Monday for some of the biggest deals in VR? You're in luck—as a part of Best Buy's 'Door Buster' deal, an even better deal has come to the Oculus Rift + Touch...
Oculus Holiday Deal Brings Modest Discounts to Oculus Go & Rift
Black Friday is nearly upon us, and Oculus is cutting a few bucks off both Oculus Go and Oculus Rift to celebrate.
While we knew from Best Buy's Black Friday deal that Rift was getting a $50 discount, bringing it...
Award-Winning VR Space Experience ‘SPHERES’ Lands on Rift
SPHERES is a three-chapter space experience from Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures and writer/director Eliza McNitt that takes you on a trip through a universe filled with sound. Once featured at film festivals the world over, including Sundance and the...

















