Oculus Connect 4
With Facebook’s 💰, Oculus Is Fending off Old Enemies, Former Friends, and New Foes
Blink and you might have missed it—a lot has happened in the VR landscape in the last few months. At Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new...
Hands-on: ‘Windlands 2’ Gets a Change in Tone with the Addition of Co-op Combat
Windlands (2016), the high-flying exploration game from Psytec Games, is getting a sequel next year that's looking to alter its predecessor's formula with the addition of co-op adventuring as well as combat. We got a hands-on with the newly revealed game...
Oculus Gets Down to Business With New Rift Bundle Aimed at Commercial Use
A new commercial-focused hardware bundle including Rift headset, Touch controllers, three Sensors, and three facial interfaces was revealed at Oculus Connect 4 this week. The bundle, which can be ordered in bulk, for the first time offers a commercial...
Pixar Announces First VR Project ‘Coco VR’, a ‘Next level social experience’
Revealed during the Oculus Connect 4 keynote today, Coco VR is Pixar Animation Studios’ first-ever VR project, coming to Oculus Rift and Gear VR. Timed with the launch of Disney-Pixar’s new animated film Coco in November, Coco VR is...
Hands-on: ‘Red Matter’ is an Adventure Puzzle Set in a Wonderfully Weird Pseudo-Soviet Dystopia
Red Matter is an upcoming story-driven VR adventure puzzle game, first revealed at Oculus Connect, that puts you in a retro-futurist world that borrows elements from the Cold War-era and teases them out to an interesting logical conclusion.
Created by Madrid-based...
‘Oculus Venues’ Will Let You Watch Sports, Concerts, & More in VR With Up to 1,000...
During the Oculus Connect 4 keynote today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a new VR experience in development called Oculus Venues, described as a way to view live sports, concerts, and other live events in VR with friends and...
Developers Can Now Request Oculus Go Dev Kits, Could Have Headsets As Soon as Next Month
The new Oculus Go standalone headset was revealed yesterday at Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference. According to Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack, developers could have their hands on the $200 standalone mobile headset as soon as next...
Oculus Connect 4 Day 1 Roundup: Oculus Go, Rift Price Drop, New ‘Santa Cruz’ Prototype, and...
The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. This included new standalone VR hardware, a new price for...
Hands-on: Oculus Santa Cruz Prototype II & Controllers
Today at Oculus Connect 4, the company's annual developer conference, Oculus revealed the Project Santa Cruz 'Prototype 2' standalone VR headset, including 6DOF motion controllers. Though it might not look obviously different at a distance than the original prototype...
Ubisoft’s Multiplayer Arcade Shooter ‘Space Junkies’ Is Heading into Closed Beta in Early 2018
Ubisoft today announced that Space Junkies, the multiplayer arcade VR shooter, is going into closed beta in early 2018. We got a chance to go hands-on with a more developed prototype of the game at this year's Oculus Connect, and while...
‘Titanfall’ Developer, Respawn Entertainment, Teases Rift Exclusive Game Coming in 2019
Today at Oculus Connect 4, the company's Head of Content, Jason Rubin, announced that Oculus Studios will be publishing a Rift exclusive title made by Respawn Entertainment, the studio founded by ex-Call of Duty, and the creators of Titanfall.
On stage...
‘Echo Arena’ FPS Expansion Announced and More ‘Lone Echo’ Teased
Ready at Dawn's single player sci-fi adventure Lone Echo (2017) already has its multiplayer mode, the much beloved sports game Echo Arena, but the studio says it's bringing out a new first-person shooter multiplayer mode called Echo Combat, and also an...
Oculus Rift + Touch Bundle Gets Permanent Price Cut to $400
Following their highly successful Summer of Rift Sale, Oculus have announced a permanent price cut of the Rift headset and Touch controller package to $399. The new price was revealed by Hugo Barra, Oculus' Vice President of Virtual Reality at...
‘Oculus Dash’ is a Total Rift Interface Overhaul That Lets You Use Desktop PC Apps in...
Today at Oculus Connect, Oculus' Head of Rift, Nate Mitchell, announced the 'Core 2.0' update coming to Rift on PC which brings Oculus Dash, a total overhaul to the store and library experience on Rift, which also allows you...
Oculus is Making Home into a Customizable Social Living Room, Coming to Rift in December
Oculus Home is getting a full overhaul in the new Rift Core 2.0 update coming this December, which promises to add a level of user customization that will let you create a unique, persistent space that you can invite...




















