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...
Oculus ‘Santa Cruz’ Standalone Dev Kits Coming Next Year, Including 6 DoF Controllers
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today at Oculus Connect 4, the company's VR developer conference, to tell the crowd that the high-end standalone Project Santa Cruz VR headset will be heading to devs next year and it will...
Oculus Go is Facebook’s Affordable Standalone Headset Priced at $200, Shipping Early 2018
On stage at Oculus Connect 4 today, Oculus revealed the Oculus Go headset, the company's affordability-focused standalone VR headset.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the new Oculus Go headset today during the Oculus Connect keynote. The headset is a low-cost,...
Where & When to Watch Oculus Connect Day 2 Keynote Livestream (including in VR)
Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference, goes down this week in San Jose, California on the 11th and 12th at the McEnery Convention Center. If you aren't attending in person you can catch the keynote livestream on several...
‘Cloudborn’ Hands-on – Reaching for Intuitive & Comfortable Locomotion
Cloudborn is an indie first-person VR exploration game, currently available on Steam Early Access, where the player is tasked with ‘cleansing the corruption’ by traversing the world to reach 'cores' using an intuitive climbing mechanic. Unfortunately, the “melancholic journey of...
NVIDIA ‘Holodeck’ Collaborative VR Design Tool Opens Applications for Early Access
At today’s GTC Europe conference in Munich, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced an Early Access program for Holodeck, their photorealistic, collaborative VR viewer. Described as the “design lab of the future”, Nvidia Holodeck aims to provide a highly immersive...
HTC Applies for ‘Vive Eclipse’ Trademark in New Zealand
HTC may have more than one new headset in sight than we initially thought when it registered the name 'Vive Focus' in the EU and US. It came to light via the Dutch publication Lets Go Digital that HTC has also applied...
‘Bigscreen’ Raises $11 Million Series A Funding to Grow, Improve & Expand Services to More AR/VR...
The team behind Bigscreen, the app that lets you view and share your desktop in social VR, today announced they've raised $11 million in Series A financing. The funding round, which comes only a year after their initial $3 million...
Oculus Open-sources Rift DK2: Schematics, Firmware, and More All Freely Available
Following the open-sourcing of the Rift DK1 plans back in 2014, Oculus today released the recipe for the Rift DK2, the company's second development kit headset released in 2014. Under an open-source license, anyone can now freely download the blueprints...
‘ARKTIKA.1’ Review – A Gorgeous VR Shooter, Plain and Simple
Arktika.1 is a first-person VR shooter that makes more than a few smart choices in its design, something that may have you thinking twice before dismissing its admittedly limited node-based teleportation style lock, stock, and barrel (holographic sight and flashlight too)....
