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Oculus Connect VR Livestream Coming to Gear VR and Go, But Rifters Get Left Out

Oculus today announced it will offer an immersive livestream during the company's annual Oculus Connect developer conference, including coverage of the opening keynote and several VR esports championships hosted during the event. Owners of the Oculus Go or Gear...

Everything We Know About Oculus Santa Cruz (so far)

Oculus Santa Cruz is a VR prototype that brings many high-end features of the Oculus Rift and Touch, most notably positional (6DOF) tracking on both headset and controllers, into a self-contained, standalone design. What follows is a brief overview...

Oculus to Donate Rift & Go to Learning Institutions Across Seattle, Taiwan, & Japan

Oculus recently announced the'll be expanding their educational pilot program by donating Oculus Rift and Oculus Go headsets to a number of educational institutions across Taiwan, Japan, and Seattle. Dubbed Oculus Education, the new phase of the program is intended...

Oculus Avatars Are Finally Going Cross-platform

Oculus had announced almost a year ago now that they planned to take their Oculus Avatars system cross-platform. Now, with last week's release of Oculus Avatar SDK 1.28, the package is finally ready to be deployed cross-platform, meaning that...

Report: Oculus Aiming for Santa Cruz Launch in Q1 2019

Oculus first announced that it was developing a high-end standalone headset, codenamed Santa Cruz, way back in 2016, and ever since there's been great anticipation for the device which aims to offer 6DOF head and hand tracking with no...

Oculus Removes Handful of Fake Game Reviews, Says They’re Uncommon

After a handful of seemingly fake reviews were spotted on a game in the Oculus Store, the company says the offending reviews were removed, and further claims that fake reviews on the platform are few and far between. Redditors 'thekthepthe3'...

Oculus Launches Its First Retail Bundle: Rift + ‘Marvel Powers United VR’

Oculus today launched its new retail bundle which adds Marvel Powers United VR to the usual retail box including the Rift headset and Touch controllers. The front page of the company's website has been updated to feature the bundle where...

‘Marvel Powers United’ is One of Oculus Studios’ Biggest Content Investments Yet

Marvel Powers United may not have turned out to be an instant classic, but with a big name IP and 18 playable characters, the game represents a bar of scope and polish arguably never before seen in a made-for-VR...

Facebook Spent Over $88M This Year on Oculus’ Seattle Area Satellite HQ

Oculus has been on quite the hiring spree as of late, with over a hundred positions currently advertised on the company's career website aimed at bringing hardware and software engineers into the Seattle area. Now, a report from real...

Oculus Cuts Price on Rift Business Bundle, Now Shipping to Four New Regions

Last October Oculus announced its 'Oculus Rift for Business' bundle, offering for the first time a package which included a warranty and license officially sanctioned for commercial use. This week the company dropped the price of the package and...

Penalty in ZeniMax v. Oculus Reduced to $250M, Motion to Halt Headset Sales Rejected

Bloomberg reported this week that the $500 million penalty levied at Oculus in last year's case brought by ZeniMax has been reduced to $250 million. A motion seeking to prevent sales of Oculus products using code attributed to ZeniMax...

Windows 10 to Become Minimum Supported OS on Rift When Core 2.0 Goes Live

Rift owners still running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, beware. Oculus is changing both its recommended and minimum supported OS to Windows 10 on Rift, something the company says will come when Rift Core 2.0 is pushed out to...

Oculus Go Now Available from European & Canadian Retailers, In-store & Online

Oculus Go, the company's $200 standalone 3DOF headset released last month, is finally available through Oculus retail partners in Europe and Canada. Online availability is fairly wide-spread, while some brick-and-mortar locations now have the headset in stock on store...

‘Virtual Virtual Reality’ Developer Teases New Project Backed by Oculus Set for 2019

Virtual Virtual Reality is a VR gem which launched first on mobile VR headsets and recently came to the Rift. As a game which demonstrated an intricate understanding of VR interaction design and freeform narrative, Virtual Virtual Reality turned out to...

Rift & Vive Summer Sales Offer Big Savings on Hundreds of VR Titles

While we're still waiting on the Steam Summer Sale to materialize, this year's big Rift and Vive annual summer sales are already here, and hundreds of VR titles are on deep discount on the Oculus Store and Viveport until...
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