Oculus Chief Scientist: How and When Augmented Reality Will Transform Our Lives
Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, as-ever delivered an inspiring presentation at today’s F8 conference, this time on the topic of Augmented Reality. AR has received top billing at this year’s event, with Facebook introducing a camera-based platform to...
Facebook is Researching Brain-Computer Interfaces, “Just the Kind of Interface AR Needs”
Regina Dugan, VP of Engineering at Facebook's Building 8 skunkworks and former head of DARPA, took the stage today at F8, the company's annual developer conference, to highlight some of the research into brain-computer interfaces going on at the...
Facebook Launches React VR to Let Devs Extend the Web into Virtual Reality
Facebook has officially launched React VR, an open-source JavaScript library that lets developers create cross-platform WebVR experiences.
Oculus and Facebook announced React VR in October last year, an open-source JavaScript library (based on the popular React library) that's designed to...
Facebook’s New 360 Capture SDK Can Record HQ Videos and Photos in VR Apps
Facebook F8, the company's annual developer conference, is currently in full swing on its second and final day. Today's big VR announce from the social platform giant? Facebook is releasing the 360 Capture SDK tool that developers can integrate into VR...
Facebook Unveils Two New Volumetric Video ‘Surround360’ Cameras, Coming Later this Year
Facebook today announced two new additions to the Surround360 hardware initiative that are poised to make 360 video more immersive. Unveiled at the company's yearly developer conference, F8, the so-called x24 and x6 cameras are said to capture 360 video with...
YouTube VR Wants to Find the Next Billion Dollar Genre That Hasn’t Been Created Yet
At Sundance this year, I had a chance to catch up with a couple of representatives from Google to talk about what's happening on the YouTube VR platform with 360 videos. I talked with Jamie Byrne, YouTube's Director of...
HTC Expands Vive Financing Program – Get a Headset and VR PC Interest Free
Announced today via the official Vive blog, HTC now has three VR bundles available with 6, 12, and 24-month financing plans in an effort to help customers afford the high upfront cost of the system and the required hardware. Bundles...
Vive Users Can Join Rift Friends in ‘Facebook Spaces’ With Revive Hack
It appears that Revive is already compatible with the Facebook's new social VR app, Facebook Spaces. Revive is a popular free hack that allows Oculus content to be played on HTC Vive system.
Launched today at Facebook’s F8 opening conference,...
Facebook Launches New Camera Tools as a Foundation for Advanced Augmented Reality
F8, Facebook's yearly developer conference, is here again for a two-day info blast from the world's biggest social platform. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today during the keynote address to announce a new initiative that will...
Watch: Video Calling, 3D Drawing, and Shared Experiences Inside Facebook’s Social VR App
Oculus says that Facebook's newly released social VR app, Facebook Spaces, "takes some of the best features of Facebook and brings them into your VR space," but it also lets you do new things that you could never do on...














