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Video: Watch Mark Zuckerberg Demo Facebook’s Latest Social VR Prototype

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference, to show off Facebook's latest social VR prototype. Zuckerberg toured the newest features of the app including more lifelike avatars complete with facial expressions triggered...

New Oculus Render Tech Cuts Entry Level VR PC Costs to $499

Keeping games chugging along at 90 frames per second (fps) while rendering modern graphics is a tall order, which is why building a VR-ready computer is pretty much impossible with less than $600. Well, now the minimum spec—at least...

Oculus Wants You to Talk With ‘Parties’ and Play in ‘Rooms’

Remember that friends list you made back when you got your Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Rift? Yeah. It's been pretty useless. Today Oculus announced that they'll soon be turning on social with the help of two new social...
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Video: ‘Lone Echo’ is a Sci-Fi Adventure from the Makers of ‘The Order: 1886’

Today revealed at Oculus Connect, Lone Echo is a narrative-driven first-person game for Touch from Ready at Dawn, the same studio that brought you The Order: 1886 (2015), a number of mobile God of War games. You play as an assistant android helping...

Oculus Announces Connect 3 Dev Conference, Registration Coming Soon

If you're panning on attending this year's Oculus Connect developer conference in San Jose, CA, you can now officially mark your calendars for October 5-7 for what Oculus is billing as their "largest developer conference yet." Last year's Connect saw with it several big...

Oculus Connect 2 Developer Session Videos Now Online

Outside of the more visible publicity surrounding announcements at Oculus Connect 2 in September, the event is of course primarily a developer focused event, designed to bring creators up to speed with the latest in virtual reality techniques and technology....

Mark Zuckerberg on Oculus Toybox and Touch “The Craziest Oculus Experience”

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of social media giant Facebook, has become more and more vocal around the company's virtual and augmented reality plans of late. He took to the stage at Oculus' recent developer conference 'Connect' and now he's waxing...
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Watch How Epic’s Oculus Touch Shooter ‘Bullet Train’ Was Made

Epic's Bullet Train was one of the highlights of last month's Oculus Connect developer conference, being one of the first triple-A titles to demonstrate ground-up support for Oculus' new VR controller, 'Touch'. This short film charts the final stages...

First Look at Samsung’s Consumer Gear VR Headset

Samsung today revealed the consumer version of the 'Oculus Powered' Gear VR headset which is now compatible with four of Samsung's latest phones. The headset looks similar to the two prior versions but a careful look (or a scale!)...

Netflix is Now Available for Samsung Gear VR

Oculus today was on a mission to prepare for consumer release and that means content. One of the biggest sources of movies, used the world over is Netflix and now, as of today, you can download and use Netflix...

Oculus Connect Keynote Livestream @10am PST, Two Ways to Watch from One Page

Day two of Oculus Connect 2 will be underway shortly and this is where the fun begins. The main attraction, at least for many casual observers outside the conference, will be a series of keynote sessions to kick off...

Oculus Connect 2 Mobile App Now Available, Check Who’s Going and What’s There

As with every major event, Oculus have launched a mobile application to assist you organise your time at the forthcoming Connect 2 conference. The new app update allows you to check in to identify to your fellow developers you're...

Samsung Galaxy S7 May Include Depth Camera, Useful for Gear VR SLAM Tracking

As we approach Oculus' 2nd developer conference, Connect 2, we're expecting to learn much more about the next generation of mobile VR hardware the that might emerge from the Samsung Oculus partnership. The latest specification leak for Samsung's forthcoming...

‘Oculus Social SDK’ Slips Out in Connect 2 Schedule

Details of Oculus' second 'Connect' VR developer conference are now out and hints at a new 'Social SDK' which it's presumed is designed to help developers to create applications designed to being people together in VR. There are many examples of disruptive...

Oculus CTO John Carmack Will Demo His ‘VrScript’ Environment at Connect

John Carmack is something of a legend in the programming world with a history that's intertwined with the early gaming industry. Now at Oculus as Chief Technical Officer, Carmack may be poised to leave a similar mark on the world...
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