Oculus Shares 5 Key Ingredients for Presence in Virtual Reality

Having open-sourced the design and software that powered their first VR headset, Oculus shares 5 key ingredients that it believes are the baseline for achieving Presence in virtual reality. See Also: Oculus Open-sources Rift DK1: Mechanical Designs, Firmware, and More All...

Oculus Connect: Ultracast 2014 – Recorded at the VR Beach House

After the success of the SVVR UBERCast, the folks who stayed at the VR Beach House decided that it was necessary to do it again, this time calling it the Oculus Connect ULTRACast. A great group of well-known developers...

8 Photos of Internal Gear VR Prototypes Revealed by Oculus

At Oculus Connect, CEO Brendan Iribe took to the stage to talk about the company's recent work, including their collaboration on Samsung's Gear VR headset. During the presentation, Iribe showed photos of 8 previously unseen Gear VR prototypes. Samsung Gear...

News Bits: More Photos of Oculus Rift Crescent Bay Prototype in Action

Though Oculus didn't initially allow photos or video to be taken of the new Crystal Bay prototype, the company has now released some images of the headset in use.See Also: First Hands-on – Oculus Rift Crescent Bay is IncredibleOculus is...

10 Seconds of Testing Striker VR’s Gun Recoil System and I’m Sold – Hands-on and Interview

We've written about Striker VR and their electrically driven weapon recoil system previously, but it wasn't until I met up with the company at Oculus Connect two days ago that I was able to try the system for myself....

Oculus Open-sources Rift DK1: Mechanical Designs, Firmware, and More All Freely Available

During a session at Oculus Connect, the company released the totality of the Oculus Rift DK1 plans to the public. Under an open-source license, anyone can now freely download the blueprints of the company's first VR headset and even...

Oculus Connect: Oculus ‘Platform’ Replaces ‘Share’ as Oculus Plans the Future of VR Content Delivery

The Wild West of Early VR Oculus Share was launched a little over a year ago as a way to gather together the torrents of content being produced by developers around the world. After the Oculus Rift DK1 shipped, well...

Oculus Connect: Oculus Partnership Means Free Rift Support for ALL Unity Developers

The cross platform 3D development engine Unity 3D, it's fair to say, has been incredibly important in the drive to get content created for virtual reality. According to Oculus' VP of Product Nate Mitchell, at one point, Unity based...

Oculus Connect: Elevating Your VR – Live Blog @ 4:45pm PDT

"How to recognize what elevates VR from good, to breathtaking, and practical steps on how to get there. In this presentation, we explore how to recognize the levels of excellence to aspire to in VR, and how to take...

Oculus Connect: Learnings from UE4 Engine Integration and Demos – Live Blog @ 3:30pm PDT

"We’ll give a high-level overview of how we integrated the Oculus Rift hardware into Unreal Engine 4, with a focus on tricks we used to reduce latency and optimize the engine. Additionally, we’ll go through the successes, failures, and...