Oculus Connect 3

Oculus Connect 3

Oculus Connect: Talk “Designing Touch” Live Blog @6pm PST

Oculus Touch is almost with us, but as launch day now approaches, how exactly did the unique half-moon VR controllers come to be? This talk from Oculus' Industrial Designer Peter Bristol looks to explore the challenges and decisions that...

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...
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Hands-on: Oculus’ Wireless ‘Santa Cruz’ Prototype Makes Standalone Room-scale Tracking a Reality

On stage at Oculus Connect 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that Oculus is developing a new, standalone, wireless VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. Following the keynote, I was whisked away behind closed doors to see the so-called...

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...

Oculus Touch Pre-Orders Open October 10th at $199, Ships December 6th

Oculus' developer conference Connect is in full swing and in the opening keynote, the news many were waiting for has finally been announces. Oculus' VR motion controllers Touch will go up for pre-order Monday October 10th for $199 and...
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Hands-on: Epic’s New Action-packed ‘Robo Recall’ FPS is Beautiful, Brutal Arcade Fun

It was back at the end of 2015 that Epic Games Founder Tim Sweeney teased "something much bigger" than the VR tech demos the company has done in the past. Now the company plans to launch Robo Recall, the evolution...
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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...
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Hands-on: ‘Arktika.1’ is a Sci-Fi Gun Fanatic’s VR Dream

Today at Oculus Connect 3, 4A Games publicly debuted their first VR FPS title for Oculus Touch, titled Arktika.1. Previously, they had teased the game leading up to the reveal and was met with anticipation, as the high quality assets, as...

Facebook Shows Updated Social VR Prototype That Dials Into the Real World – Breaking

Facebook is plugging away on creating their perfect VR app that promises to integrate the social platform into 3D virtual worlds. Last we saw of the prototype in April that introduced a number of features, all of which hinge on Touch,...

3 Ways to Watch Oculus Connect Keynote Presentations in VR

Connect, Oculus's annual developer conference, is already in full swing, but if you didn't manage to book the flight and hotel to San Jose, CA, you can still pop your head in to see what this year's hubbub is...

Oculus Connect 3 Schedule Posted, to Be Streamed in Virtual Reality via NextVR

With the Oculus Connect 2016 developer conference just around the corner, the company has finally posted the full schedule of sessions and confirmed that the conference will be livestreamed in VR thanks to NextVR. Oculus' developer conference is being held...

Oculus Connect 3 Registration Now Open, Early Bird Passes from $199

You can now register to attend Oculus' 3rd 'Connect' conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Held in San Jose, CA between October 5th and 7th,...
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