Oculus Connect
John Carmack’s Brilliant Oculus Connect Keynote Goes ‘off Message from the Standard PR Plan’
There are two sorts of people in this world: those that have listened to John Carmack talk and those who are unenlightened. One of the key minds behind Doom and Quake is a most unlikely orator, but one who...
Oculus Shares 5 Key Ingredients for Presence in Virtual Reality
Having open-sourced the design and software that powered their first VR headset, Oculus shares 5 key ingredients that it believes are the baseline for achieving Presence in virtual reality.
See Also: Oculus Open-sources Rift DK1: Mechanical Designs, Firmware, and More All...
Oculus Connect: Ultracast 2014 – Recorded at the VR Beach House
After the success of the SVVR UBERCast, the folks who stayed at the VR Beach House decided that it was necessary to do it again, this time calling it the Oculus Connect ULTRACast. A great group of well-known developers...
Oculus Connect: Oculus ‘Platform’ Replaces ‘Share’ as Oculus Plans the Future of VR Content Delivery
The Wild West of Early VR
Oculus Share was launched a little over a year ago as a way to gather together the torrents of content being produced by developers around the world. After the Oculus Rift DK1 shipped, well...
Oculus Connect: Oculus Partnership Means Free Rift Support for ALL Unity Developers
The cross platform 3D development engine Unity 3D, it's fair to say, has been incredibly important in the drive to get content created for virtual reality. According to Oculus' VP of Product Nate Mitchell, at one point, Unity based...
Oculus Connect: Elevating Your VR – Live Blog @ 4:45pm PDT
"How to recognize what elevates VR from good, to breathtaking, and practical steps on how to get there. In this presentation, we explore how to recognize the levels of excellence to aspire to in VR, and how to take...
Oculus Connect: Learnings from UE4 Engine Integration and Demos – Live Blog @ 3:30pm PDT
"We’ll give a high-level overview of how we integrated the Oculus Rift hardware into Unreal Engine 4, with a focus on tricks we used to reduce latency and optimize the engine. Additionally, we’ll go through the successes, failures, and...
Oculus Connect: Nirav Patel on Building the First Rift Development Kit – Live Blog @5pm PDT
Those of you who've followed the Oculus story from the start may recall Oculus hiring a young engineer who'd produced a high performance "9 DoF" tracking sensor - a version of which eventually found it's way into the first Oculus...
Oculus Connect Begins Tomorrow, Live Stream Details, Schedule and Speculation
It's upon us. Oculus Connect, probably the most eagerly anticipated event this year (at least for the VR community) and perhaps Oculus VR's most important event in it's young life, kicks off at the Loews Hotel in Hollywood, CA tomorrow...
News Bits: Oculus Updates Connect Conference Schedule With Gear VR Session and More
Last time we checked in with the Oculus Connect schedule, the company had elaborated on most of the sessions that would take place, but left several timeslots 'to be announced'. Oculus has now updated the schedule with all but...
News Bits: Birthday Celebration for Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Included in Connect Conference Schedule
Oculus VR hosts its inaugural Connect developer conference in September. The company has remained quiet about the schedule until recently posting the initial itinerary which features keynotes from John Carmack (CTO), Michael Abrash (Chief Scientist), and Brendan Iribe (CEO),...
Oculus on Unconfirmed VR Input Device: “You’ll Probably Hear More About It [at Connect]…”
While there was lots of great info to come out of our Gamecom 2014 interview with Oculus VR, perhaps the most telling bit was the way the Oculus founder Palmer Luckey answered the question about an unconfirmed VR input...
Gamescom 2014: Oculus VR Interview – Oculus Connect, DK2 Launch, and Smash Bros. Rivalry
Oculus VR are, arguably, the most exciting company in the tech industry right now. In the 12 months since I last met Palmer Luckey (Founder) and Nate Mitchell (VP of Product) at Gamescom, their business has exploded. Facebook's acquisition has...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 73): Reverend Kyle’s “Project Torus” Kickstarter Begins
That is correct. I have launched a Kickstarter for Project Torus, my multi-platform VR game. I invited Nick Pittom, a fellow game developer, to discuss the Kickstarter process and the current state of VR.
We already knew about Nick, aka...
News Bits: Oculus Connect Conference Tickets Priced at $249
Oculus VR has confirmed the price for their inaugural developer conference, Oculus Connect. Tickets will be priced at $249. Oculus Connect registration opened on Wednesday without any pricing information.
Oculus calls the Connect event “a developer conference that brings together engineers,...






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