Oculus Quest
SteamVR Update Improves Tracking Performance for Oculus Quest
A SteamVR beta update today improved tracking when used with Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.
Oculus Link allows Quest to be used just like a PC VR headset. While this makes it easy to play Oculus PC games, it also...
More Than 20 Oculus Quest Titles Have Surpassed $1M in Revenue
Facebook today announced that 20 Oculus Quest games have broken the $1 million revenue mark, a big milestone for the VR industry as a whole.
Oculus Quest famously sold out during the holiday season, and then promptly fell victim to...
Oculus Quest System Update to Make Multitasking Easier, Experimental Features Coming Soon
In place of GDC this year, which was postponed due to the coronavirus, Facebook is announcing some of its news via the decidedly more sterile environment of the Oculus blog, starting today and going until Thursday, March 19th. Today,...
You Can Get a 26 Foot Oculus Link Cable for $34 With an Active Extender
Oculus Link allows Oculus Quest to become a PC VR headset by tethering to a VR ready PC. While Oculus sells its own (quite expensive) Oculus Link cable, any appropriately high performance USB 3.0 cable will work. Here's an...
You Can Now Cast Oculus Quest to Xbox One with AirServer
AirServer, the casting software for Xbox One, received an update a few weeks ago that now lets users cast the view from inside the Oculus Quest to Xbox One without the need of a Chromecast device.
The paid app is...
Oculus ‘Designing for Hands’ Document Introduces Best Practices for Quest Hand-tracking
Hand-tracking on Quest rolled out as an experimental feature in late 2019, but Oculus is letting it gestate before it will accept third-party apps with hand-tracking. In the meantime, the company has published fresh developer documentation which establishes best...
Facebook Expects Coronavirus Will Have “additional impact” on Oculus Quest Availability
After being backordered by weeks in many regions, Oculus Quest is now "unavailable" from Oculus in 17 out of 23 regions where the unit is sold, including the United States, Canada, and much of Europe. Facebook says the Coronavirus outbreak is...
Mark Zuckerberg: ‘people bought nearly $5M in Oculus Store content on Christmas Day’
In Facebook's quarterly earnings call yesterday, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the Oculus Store had sold nearly $5 million worth of content on Christmas Day alone.
Zuckerberg says in the Q4 2019 earnings call that the Christmas Day boom was...
5 Oculus Quest Hardware Mods for Better Comfort
Oculus Quest is an awesome achievement in engineering; no other standalone VR headset offers the quality, rock solid positional tracking, ease of use, and competitive price point as Quest. But still, you may find that once your wallet is...
Quest Update Adds Digital IPD Indicator
Oculus Quest includes an IPD slider on the bottom of the headset which adjusts the distance between the lenses for ideal alignment with the user's eyes, which is important for visual comfort and clarity. Since launch however, there's been...
Oculus Quest Back Orders Slip into Early March, Oculus Link in Mid-February
If you're looking to pick up an Oculus Quest after the holiday rush, you may be more than a bit disappointed to find out that online retailers across the board have listed it as 'back ordered', with Oculus US...
Oculus Will ‘wait for feedback’ on Quest While Considering Hand-tracking for Rift S
Oculus rolled out hand-tracking on Oculus Quest last week as an experimental feature, but the company says it's waiting on feedback before it commits to bringing the capability to its latest PC headset, the Rift S.
Though the company has...
Oculus Link Beta Now Supports Some AMD GPUs
Launched last month in beta, Oculus Link lets you connect your Oculus Quest standalone headset to a VR-ready computer, letting you play PC VR games simply by hooking up a high-quality USB 3 cable. Users with AMD graphics cards...
Oculus Quest Hand-tracking Starts Rolling Out This Week, Developer SDK Next Week
Oculus announced today that hand-tracking on Quest will start rolling out sometime this week with basic functionality. A hand-tracking SDK will be made available next week, giving developers the ability to create third-party applications which use the new feature.
Oculus...
Quest Dominated Black Friday Search Volume in the US, Tied PlayStation VR Worldwide
Though it's Facebook's newest headset, Oculus Quest may be the company's most popular so far, at least as far as search volume is concerned. Kicking off the holiday shopping season on Black Friday, Quest dominated other VR headsets in...
















