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...
‘Morgan Lives in a Rocket House’ Offers a Peek into a Kid-friendly VR Future
You have a minor infestation of tiny people in your house. They don't pay rent, they don't like to brush their teeth, and they always want to use your stuff—the most important of which is your VR headset (even if...
Where & When to Watch Sony’s Keynote @ Paris Games Week, Announcing New PSVR Titles
Paris Games Week (PGW) is just about to kick off, starting officially November 1st and lasting until November 5th. Sony is announcing a few new games ahead of time at their annual pre-PGW keynote though, which they say will include 7 titles spanning PS4...
Best Buy’s Insignia Brand Releases Charging Dock for Touch Controllers
Best Buy’s consumer electronics brand, Insignia, has released a charging station for the Oculus Touch controllers.
Out of the box the Oculus Touch controllers use AA batteries (disposable or rechargeable) for power. The new product from Insignia includes two rechargeable...
Google’s AR/VR Chief on Ambient Computing, Conversational Interfaces, & AR/VR Strategy
At Google's big October 4th press conference, the company announced a new Pixel 2 phone and a range of new ambient computing devices powered by AI-enabled conversational interfaces including new Google Mini and Max speakers, Google Clips camera, and...
Oculus Store Gets Devilish Discounts This Halloween, Up to 50% Off on Selected Rift & Gear...
Halloween is nearly here, and there's no better way to scare your friends and family (and you poor cat or dog) than a disturbingly immersive VR horror game. From now until 11:59 pm PDT on October 31st (local time here), selected...
Gartner’s Brian Blau on the State of the VR & AR Industries
Brian Blau is the vice president of research for personal technologies at Gartner Research where he's in the business of making predictions about the consumer adoption of virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. I last interviewed Blau in 2015...
Samsung Introduces Pro-focused ‘360 Round’ Camera for 4K 3D Livestreaming
Announced at the Samsung Developer conference last week, the 360 Round is the company’s new camera for creating and streaming 4K 3D content. The camera appears to be a reboot of the 'Project Beyond' camera that the company introduced...
Oculus Explores 8 Experimental Locomotion Methods, Adds Samples to SDK
Following a two-part blog series in partnership with Crytek, where the studio shared some of its research into VR locomotion comfort, Oculus has now added eight new experimental locomotion methods to the SDK. A recent entry on the official...
‘Waltz of the Wizard’ Gets Substantial Update Including New Locomotion Scheme and Combat Area
Waltz of the Wizard, an uncommonly high-quality VR wizard experience from Reykjavik-based Aldin Dynamics, just got an update today introducing a new locomotion system and a "significant" expansion to the potion-mixing magical experience including an entirely new area full of traps and...
