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Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe introduced a new pair of earbuds that connect to the Oculus Rift VR headset called Oculus Earphones at Oculus Connect 3.
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Oculus effectively replaced the Gear VR with the standalone Oculus Go last year, and it's now pushing Oculus Go owners toward the higher-end Oculus Quest.
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It does, however, have a few new services in the form of Oculus TV, Oculus Rooms, and Oculus Venues.
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Facebook and Oculus have finally revealed a release date for their Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S headsets: May 21st.
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In May, Oculus released the $199 Oculus Go headset and plans to release the $399 Oculus Quest headset sometime next spring.
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The company just announced a new corporate initiative for the Oculus Rift, Oculus for Business, onstage at the Oculus Connect Conference.
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" According to Upload VR, the filing demands that Oculus be:"...permanently enjoined, on a worldwide basis, from using…any of the Copyrighted Materials, including but not limited to (i) system software for Oculus PC (including the Oculus PC SDK); (ii) system software for Oculus Mobile (including the Oculus Mobile SDK); (iii) Oculus integration with the Epic Games Unreal Engine; and (iv) Oculus integration with the Unity Technologies Unity Game Engine.
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The Oculus Go fundamentally feels like a miniature Oculus Rift.
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Palmer [Luckey, inventor of Oculus Rift] is saying you can get an "Oculus ready" PC + an Oculus Rift for like $1,500 total.
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For the true wireless Oculus experience, you'll have to buy either its lower-end Oculus Go headset or the upcoming Oculus Quest.
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Oculus is officially launching Oculus TV, its dedicated hub for watching flatscreen video in virtual reality, on the standalone Oculus Go headset.
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The Fox Sports VR app is available on Oculus store for Gear VR, but not the Oculus store for Oculus Rift. 2.
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The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and Touch controllers now cost $399, Oculus announced during the Oculus Connect keynote on October 11.
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Additionally, we just launched the Oculus Rift and mobile experience on the Oculus store so anyone who has access to an Oculus Rift, Oculus Go or Gear will be able to download the experience.
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It has more capabilities than the cheaper Oculus Go, and it's more portable than the tethered Oculus Rift S. The Oculus Rift S also has cameras, but Oculus didn't mention adding support for it.
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Just days after Oculus released the Oculus Touch to rave reviews, Oculus cofounder and CEO, Brendan Iribe, has announced that he's stepping down.
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A month later, Oculus released a software update that locked down its ecosystem, essentially requiring an Oculus headset to play Oculus exclusive games.
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"Oculus products are based on Oculus technology," Zuckerberg told the court.
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Like the Rift, Oculus Go runs on the Oculus Home interface.
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The Oculus Quest represents a kind of middle ground between the company's Oculus Go headset and the high-end Oculus Rift, which requires a PC. Oculus Quest is a self-contained headset, like the $199 Oculus Go, but offers an experience that's much closer to the more expensive Rift.
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At last year's Oculus Connect developer conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off a family of headsets for different kinds of VR: the low-end Oculus Go, the tethered Oculus Rift, and the midrange Oculus Quest.
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The Oculus isn't a Kindle, the Oculus isn't a smartphone, and the Oculus definitely isn't a home computer or a car or a refrigerator.
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Oculus didn't have this feature quite ready for F8, but the company says Oculus TV will be launching later this month for Oculus Go.
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The Oculus Rift game (which is being published by Oculus Studios) relies on the Oculus Touch controllers, which will be out later this year.
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Oculus notes that the headset's Library and Store interfaces and the Oculus Browser and Oculus TV apps will work, but that's it for now.
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Oculus released the well-executed but low-stakes Oculus Go mobile headset.
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Oculus is removing support for all Note7 devices on the Oculus platform.
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Like the Oculus Go, the Oculus Quest is a self-contained headset.
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Oculus Rift Review (Full)Today Oculus released the Rift headset http://tcrn.
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The Oculus Rift for Business bundle costs $900, and includes the headset, Oculus Touch Controllers, three room sensors, an Oculus remote, and three Rift Fits.
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In some ways, the mobile version of Oculus Rooms is as powerful an experience as the Oculus Home app on the higher-end Oculus Rift.
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The new Oculus headset, called Mi VR Standalone, is essentially the same headset as Oculus Go, a standalone headset that Oculus first unveiled in October.
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Oculus Go Oculus Quest Oculus Rift S HTC co-created the Vive, the first major headset with a wide range of motion and full virtual hands.
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Oculus Rift + Oculus Touch VR System for $186.19 at Amazon (list price $716).
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Oculus first announced these features in October at the Oculus Connect 3 conference.
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Oculus hired Carmack in August 2013, several months before Facebook officially acquired Oculus.
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Oculus Rift + Oculus Touch VR System for $349 at Amazon (list price $399).
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Facebook bought VR firm Oculus in 2014 which makes the Oculus Rift headset.
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Oculus TV Oculus wants you to watch TV inside its new Go headset.
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Oculus is removing support for all Note 7 devices on the Oculus platform.
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What's made for Oculus Rift, stays on Oculus Rift — for the most part.
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Four hundred people at Facebook currently work on Oculus, a Oculus spokesperson said.
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And Oculus is rolling out its own Oculus TV app that essentially turns the Oculus Go into a smart TV, providing a central place for TV apps.
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Oculus will ship two new VR headsets, the all-in-one Oculus Quest and the Oculus Rift S, on May 21, each at a $399 price tag.
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It's supposed to come out this summer for the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift.
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Oculus Go is on sale starting Tuesday, and you can find it at Oculus.
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Oculus also announced the 2016 return of Oculus Connect, a three-day event — Oct.
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Oculus VR plans to ship its own Oculus Touch hand controllers later this year.
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Oculus VR is best known for its trademark virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift.
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Oculus social VR Oculus demos augmented social virtual reality with facial expressions http://tcrn.
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Oculus founder Palmer Luckey hand delivered the first Oculus Rift headset over the weekend.
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The Oculus headset must be connected to an Oculus-ready PC, which isn't cheap.
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Primarily, three Oculus-branded headsets: the Oculus Go, the Quest, and the Rift S. The Oculus Go is a self-contained lower-end headset that supports simple interactions.
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Oculus TV also conspicuously doesn't support YouTube, which is only available on the Oculus Rift through Steam or through the Oculus VR web browser on its mobile headsets.
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Meanwhile, the software used to watch video content remains confusing and fragmented, with Oculus itself offering three different viewing apps including Oculus TV, Oculus Video, and Oculus Rooms, while services such as Netflix and YouTube can only be found in standalone apps.
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As before, this bundle includes both the Oculus Rift headset and Oculus Touch motion controllers.
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I visited an Oculus demo at Facebook's campus, and Palmer Luckey, Oculus' creator, joined in.
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The Oculus Quest is a much-anticipated standalone VR headset that Oculus announced last year.
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Oculus avatar creation Oculus avatar creation That's not to say the company hasn't been experimenting.
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Oculus and Microcyn® Technology are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc.
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As I see it, the Oculus Go and Oculus Rift are on different development paths.
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Last week, developer Mojang and Oculus celebrated the release of Minecraft for the Oculus Rift.
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Oculus thinks that its hand and finger tracking controllers, the Oculus Touch, is the answer.
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"We are highly confident that Oculus products are built on Oculus technology," Mr. Zuckerberg said.
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Watch on Oculus: Facebook is also making its F8 keynote available to watch via Oculus Venues, the company's VR live video platform for the Oculus Go and Gear VR headsets.
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And Oculus and ZeniMax are still fighting the original suit in court, with Oculus appealing the verdict and ZeniMax seeking to halt the use of Oculus software with an injunction.
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Oculus said Xiaomi would be its hardware partner for the new Oculus Go headset, announced last October, and would also make the China specific "Mi VR Standalone" using Oculus technology.
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In addition to its own library of 50 apps such as the recently announced Beatsaber, the Oculus Quest will also support some content from the Oculus Go and Oculus Rift.
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It acquired virtual reality headset maker Oculus for $2 billion in 2014, and began selling the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S $399 VR headsets in May of this year.
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The Oculus Go, contrary to what we had hoped for, lacks support for Oculus Rift apps.
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The unveiling of Oculus Rift pricing and pre-orders brought another unexpected revelation: the Oculus Remote.
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Oculus is showing off a much cheaper face to VR at today's Oculus Connect 4 event.
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So we'll know soon enough whether the Oculus Go lives up to Oculus' claims of greatness.
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Microsoft could be working with Oculus to make its console compatible with the Oculus VR headset.
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The announcement came from Oculus' Hugo Barra at the company's Oculus Connect conference in San Jose.
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The Oculus Rift is a high-end headset made by Oculus – a company owned by Facebook.
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New Oculus Rift orders are expected to be shipped in July, according to the Oculus website.
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In March, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who created the prototype Oculus headset, parted ways with Facebook.
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To be fair, Oculus Rift, from Gear VR co-developer Oculus, didn't originally offer controllers, either.
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Like the Oculus Go, the Rift + Touch can be used with Oculus and Stream VR games.
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It's also a first for Oculus Story Studio, a division of Oculus focused on interactive film.
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Facebook acquired Oculus and recently released the first commercial version of the Oculus virtual reality headset.
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Oculus is selling its Oculus Rift headset for $599, or $1,500 when combined with a computer.
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Oculus filled the Gear VR's old spot with the Oculus Go mobile headset, and it's now nudging users toward the Oculus Quest, a more expensive but also far more capable device.
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Oculus Facebook Page Oculus Twitch Page Oculus YouTube Page Yahoo Finance Some of the things we're listening for… There's sure to be lots of face computer nerdiness today so stay tuned.
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Oculus TV is part of a larger push for non-gaming content by Oculus — which is also launching an app called Oculus Venues for live concerts, comedy nights, and sporting events.
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However, even after putting out the first consumer-ready Oculus Rift in 2016, which was followed up by this year's Oculus Go and the upcoming Oculus Quest, today's departure of Oculus co-f0under and former CEO Brendan Iribe casts doubts on the future of Facebook's VR efforts.
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Facebook's full Oculus VR family now includes four headsets: Gear VR, Oculus Go, Santa Cruz, and the Rift: To recap the hardware updates: Facebook now counts 4 (!!!) VR headsets #OC4 #Oculus pic.twitter.
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Nearly three years after the Oculus acquisition Zuckerberg defended against allegations that Oculus stole ZeniMax's intellectual property, also explaining his interest in VR and how it fits into his vision for Oculus.
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Oculus and Sony have long used their clout and money to lock up big VR titles for the Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, and PlayStation VR. Now, Valve has its own flagship product.
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One the most frequent requests from Oculus Rift users is the ability to search for apps on Oculus Home, a basic but missing tool in the Oculus virtual reality environment — until now.
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The Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S got mixed reviews, and you can now pre-order them.
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"Palmer still works at Oculus and he will be moving into a new role," confirmed Oculus' spokesperson.
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Oculus announced a new party system during its Oculus Connect developers conference in San Jose, California, Thursday.
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But in a keynote at the Oculus Connect developer conference, Oculus CTO John Carmack seemed more dubious.
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When Facebook bought Oculus for a large stash of cash, it sparked outrage from Oculus' Kickstarter backers.
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Joe Chen, Oculus' 10th employee, worked at Oculus though the Facebook acquisition, eventually leaving in January 2015.
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Instead, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other senior Oculus employees took the stage.
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With this check in place, players who didn't have an Oculus Rift supposedly couldn't launch Oculus games.
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Facebook bought Oculus – the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset – in 2014 for $2 billion.
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The technology works on the Oculus Rift and the Samsung Gear VR, which is powered by Oculus.
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A new Oculus feature lets you record an abusive VR user and report them Oculus is rolling out new updates that include a platform-wide abuse reporting system, Adi Robertson reports It's live on the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go, and is coming to the Oculus Rift later.
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Zuckerberg, Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey, and former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe will testify this week in a $2 billion dollar lawsuit brought by ZeniMax Media, the owners of video game developers Bethesda Softworks and id Software, against Oculus VR. Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion in 2014.
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But even if Oculus manages to sell Oculus Touch to most Rift players, the delay pushes Oculus Touch games months down the line, and with them the dream of true virtual reality experiences.
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Hybrid Apps were announced at the Oculus Connect 5 conference today in San Jose where Facebook also revealed the new Oculus Quest headset, forward compatability for Oculus content, a mobile app for discovering and remotely installing software on the Rift, and the debut of the YouTube VR app on Oculus Go. Hybrid Apps are built atop the Oculus Dash virtual desktop system announced last year.
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Related coverage from How To Do Everything: Tech:How to factory reset your Oculus Go using your headset or the appHow to update your Oculus Quest headset in 2 different waysHow to update your Oculus Go automatically or check which operating system it&aposs runningHow to turn off an Oculus Rift or put it in sleep modeHow to properly clean your Oculus Rift headset and accessories
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Oculus, which makes Oculus Rift and Gear VR headsets, was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $3 billion.
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The Oculus Home menu on Gear VR is almost identical to the one displayed on the Oculus Rift.
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Facebook — Facebook's Oculus unit is experiencing delays in shipping Oculus VR virtual-reality headsets, due to parts shortages.
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The company helped Oculus fast-track the development and consumer launch of its Oculus Rift virtual reality set.
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Raw Data is built for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, once Oculus releases its Touch motion controllers.
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In recent weeks, Oculus has stoked anger online due to difficulties with shipping the first-generation Oculus Rift.
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Oculus Rooms is to Oculus Go the way Wii Sports was to the Wii — it'll hook you instantly.
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An Oculus spokesperson tells Bloomberg that Hillman will work closely alongside Oculus COO Hans Hartmann in his role.
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Ouch: Batter up: Oculus Founding Partner Palmer Luckey and former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe testify later this week
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You can check out a livestream of the keynote on the Oculus Facebook page or Oculus YouTube channel.
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It's free to download, but for now, is available only for the Oculus Go and the Oculus Quest.
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UploadVR noted today that the "Oculus for Business" page no longer lists the Oculus Go for the platform.
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The Oculus Rift's motion controllers come out on December 6th, and Oculus just announced the list of over 50 Touch-compatible games and apps that will be available on the Oculus Store at launch.
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While Oculus hopes to bring space down to Earth, Oculus is releasing Mission: ISS not too long after sending one of its Oculus Rift headsets to space in a partnership with French space agency CNES.
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For Facebook, the Oculus Quest ($399) rounds out its VR lineup, with the Oculus Go ($199) at the low end and Oculus Rift ($399, plus the cost of a powerful PC) at the high end.
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The new Oculus Home design The new Oculus Home design While the Oculus Rift might command more attention, it's mobile VR headsets like the Gear VR that will bring virtual reality to a mainstream audience.
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Then, Oculus product manager Stephanie Lue said 50 Oculus Go apps were being ported to the Quest, complete with free upgrades (until the end of the year) for people who bought the Oculus Go version.
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Oculus gave more details about its its next-generation VR headset today at the Oculus Connect 4 developer conference.
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Facebook-owned Oculus VR is on the verge of releasing its first ever virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift.
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The tour is free and can be downloaded from the Oculus Store for Samsung Gear and Oculus Go headsets.
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The original Oculus Rift has been retired, but the Oculus Go and Gear VR are both available right now.
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Oculus is updating its Medium virtual reality sculpture app with some new features and (according to Oculus) better performance.
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Oculus Go for business starts at $599 (64 GB) and the enterprise Oculus Quest starts at $999 (128 GB).
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And no, you can't get any version of "The Raid" app on the Oculus store for the Oculus Rift.
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Oculus Rift is a $600 System, not counting the Oculus Touch gear that puts your hands in the action.
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Like Oculus, Vive requires a beefy PC. Unlike Oculus, HTC plans to bundle two Vive controllers with the headset.
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Oculus Rooms is reason enough to get an Oculus Go if you ask me, but it's just the start.
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Facebook-owned Oculus VR will launch its highly anticipated Oculus Rift on March 28 to the first pre-orderers.
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The Oculus Go weighs 468 grams, almost exactly the same as the Oculus Rift and the latest HTC Vive.
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A jury ordered Facebook to pay damages after a company sued Oculus, claiming Oculus computer code and trade secrets.
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Oculus has recently issued a public statement remarkably claiming that 'Zenimax has never contributed IP or technology to Oculus.
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Facebook-owned Oculus will open pre-sale orders for its widely anticipated Oculus Rift virtual reality headset on Wednesday.
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Oculus has tried to offset that by directly funding developers and filmmakers; among other things, it runs a diversity-focused incubator program called Oculus Launch Pad and a program for new VR developers called Oculus Start.
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Today, the Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus announced that Oculus Link, which lets you plug a standalone Quest headset into your gaming PC so you can play Oculus Rift games, is out now in beta.
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Like Oculus' earlier headsets, the Rift S and Quest will ship through Oculus' site and a handful of retail partners.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is showing off a new way to interact with the Oculus Rift headset: an Oculus glove.
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Where the Oculus Go headset is "80 percent media and 20 percent gaming," the Oculus Quest is emphatically gaming-focused.
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Pre-orders for the PC-free Oculus Quest and the higher end Oculus Rift S opened up three weeks ago.
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At Connect, I talked to Oculus after trying the Oculus Quest, looking for hints about the future of virtual reality.
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The team has issued a fix that prompts people to update the Oculus software when they open the Oculus app.
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This year, Oculus will have 153 games coming from Oculus Studios — games the company funded to produce along with developers.
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The Oculus Rift is infinitely better and more immersive with Oculus Touch, which won't launch until later in the year.
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As we watched, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer donned an Oculus Rift headset and grabbed a pair of Oculus Touch controllers.
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Oculus is also including copies of art apps Quill and Medium, plus shooter Dead & Buried, with all Oculus Touch sales.
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Oculus Go goes on sale for $199 Oculus Go, Facebook's cheap and capable standalone VR headset, is now on sale.
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The recommended Oculus Rift specifications are the same as before, and will provide the best experience, Oculus' CEO told us.
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It's unclear whether Oculus will have any announcements related to mobile at its Oculus Connect 3 conference later this week.
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Oculus touts over a thousand experiences for Gear VR and Oculus Go, far more than rival platform Google Daydream offers.
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But Zuckerberg was frustratingly vague about what's next for Oculus, other than finally releasing the already delayed Oculus Touch controllers.
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ZeniMax sued Oculus in May 2014, alleging that trade secrets were stolen during development of a gaming headset by Oculus.
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Luckey's company, Oculus, raised more than $2 million on Kickstarter to produce the headset, which he called the Oculus Rift.
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Katie Chironis, a current Riot Games designer who worked on several Oculus demos, also reported a negative experience at Oculus.
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I have an Oculus Rift sitting, or not a Rift, an Oculus Go, excuse me, sitting at home right now.
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Mark Zuckerberg described the Oculus Quest as an "ideal VR system" that capped off the company's first generation of VR headsets, alongside the Oculus Rift and Oculus Go. Mitchell says he doesn't quite agree with that framing.
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The lawsuit questioned Luckey and Oculus's origin story—that Luckey built the Oculus in his parent's garage—and said that Oculus used technology built by former a ZeniMax employee who is now CTO at Oculus, John Carmack.
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Oculus is announcing a new standalone VR headset that will sit in the middle of its lineup between the mobile Gear VR and high-end Oculus Rift, called Oculus Go. Oculus Go will ship early next year for $199, not too much more than the $129 Gear VR and significantly less than the $499 Rift.
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Cisco used Oculus for Business to build this collaboration environment Cisco used Oculus for Business to build this collaboration environment The $900 Oculus for Business bundles will come with an Oculus Rift, remote, Touch controllers, three sensors for creating room-scale VR, plus extra face pads so businesses can accommodate high volumes of different users.
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Oculus (and basically Facebook) owns creative content [See Update]If you create something using Oculus' services, the Terms of Service say that you surrender all rights to that work and that Oculus can use it whenever it wants, for whatever purposes:By submitting User Content through the Services, you grant Oculus a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual (i.e.
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Now, Oculus announced that the Oculus Video app on Gear VR would be incorporating a new Facebook video tab that lets you connect your Facebook and Oculus accounts to bring personalized info to your VR content absorption experience.
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Zuck introduces the $199 Oculus Go headset Zuck introduces the $199 Oculus Go headset What's important is that these moves isolate Facebook and Oculus from other tech giants getting cold feet in the race to build VR tech.
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ZeniMax sued Oculus in May 2014, alleging that trade secrets were stolen during development of a gaming headset by Oculus. reut.
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A still showing one of the Oculus Story Studio team illustrating a character in the film using the Oculus Touch devices.
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Now we know that Facebook, which bought Oculus in 2014 for $2 billion, will be selling the Oculus Rift for $599.
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However, the list of backers includes noteworthy names, such as the founder of Oculus (and designer of Oculus Rift), Palmer Luckey.
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The Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch motion controls bundle, which is usually priced at $600, is currently on sale for $400.
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Oculus is putting major effort into reducing the friction of finding new content, with a new feature it calls Oculus Explore.
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The game is compatible with the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive but designed with the Oculus Touch controller in mind.
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ZeniMax's case could be bolstered by the previous judgment against Oculus, since the Gear VR is unambiguously based on Oculus software.
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Samsung sells the $129 Gear VR, which lets you access Oculus Home, a platform created by Facebook-owned VR company Oculus.
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Oculus Rift Exclusivity Debate Heats Up Over Serious Sam VRThe debate over "exclusive" Oculus Rift games reached a new pitch yesterday.
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Oculus also asks for players' height but says this data is only stored locally on your computer, not on Oculus' servers.
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Superhot VR was originally developed as a timed exclusive for the Oculus Rift, due mostly to Oculus helping fund the project.
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While Oculus announced two new headsets that might get closer, called Oculus Go and Santa Cruz, they're not out until 2018.
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He also bypassed the company's Oculus Connect conference, an annual event meant to energize developers working on software for Oculus products.
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Microsoft launched a partnership with Oculus Rift last year, which made some Xbox One games playable on Oculus' virtual reality platform.
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Oculus will also sell bundles that include an Oculus Ready PC and a Rift for preorder in February starting at $1,499.
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Update January 6th, 11:40AM ET: Added exact release date from Oculus and news of the Oculus Remote and compatibility tester.
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"I am currently returning my Oculus dev hardware," says one, who recalls backing the Oculus Kickstarter campaign in its first hour.
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Oculus announced a big price drop on the headset that started the VR craze at their Oculus Connect conference in October.
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Onstage at Oculus Connect today, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company has surpassed $100 million in revenue in the Oculus store.
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On Wednesday, Oculus announced its first standalone headset, called Oculus Go, which won't require a smartphone, cables or wires to operate.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and then-Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe at Oculus Connect 3 in late 2016 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and then-Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe at Oculus Connect 3 in late 2016 Iribe's exit comes at a time when a number of the founders of Facebook's high-profile startup acquisitions are leaving the company.
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"On the social side, looking back, it's kind of embarrassing all of the stages we've gone through at Oculus," Oculus CTO and veteran programmer John Carmack conceded onstage during his signature rambling annual keynote, noting that his own social APK was followed by Oculus Rooms, Oculus Venues, Facebook Spaces and now the company's latest shiny pearl Facebook Horizon.
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Oculus and Facebook still operate as distinct entities, each working on its own platform; Nate Mitchell, Oculus' VP of product, announced a number of updates to the Oculus platform that make it familiar to anyone with a videogame console.
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Besides its hardware and research groups, Oculus has two content divisions: Oculus Studios, which helps fund VR games like Chronos and Superhot, and Oculus Story Studio, which makes interactive films like the Emmy-winning Henry or upcoming Dear Angelica.
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Image: OculusBetween the departure of former CEO Brendan Iribe and Oculus' recent focus on standalone VR headsets like the Oculus Go and the forthcoming Oculus Quest, it sort of felt like the company's PC roots were being left behind.
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One of the most fun parts of using the Oculus Rift is almost hidden in plain sight, and it's called Oculus Avatars.
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Jon Thomason, who joined Oculus this summer as its head of software, will run the new mobile VR group at Oculus. on.wsj.
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Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Facebook-owned VR company Oculus and primary inventor of the Oculus Rift headset, is leaving the company.
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Though the app is in the Oculus Store, it is not available for download on the Oculus Rift VR headset quite yet.
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Those who have already snagged the Oculus device will be offered a discount code for the Oculus-ready PCs on Feb. 16.
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And based on descriptions from Mitchell and Oculus CTO John Carmack, some existing Rift games simply won't work well on Oculus Quest.
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The Oculus Go takes a few design cues from the Oculus Rift, like a plastic strip that makes tightening the strap easier.
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Oculus has put the kibosh on a workaround that would let people play Oculus-only games on competing headsets, Motherboard has learned.
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The Oculus Remote, a small input device that we saw in leaked renders earlier this year, is shipping with the Oculus Rift.
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Oculus is also updating its Oculus Home on Gear VR to make it easier to navigate, especially for finding recently downloaded content.
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This is Oculus' invitation to try out Rock Band VR, one of the biggest, most potentially crowd-pleasing Oculus Touch launch titles.
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For all we know, the price of an Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch might end up costing more than the $799 Vive.
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Games bought in the Oculus store don't play on the Vive or PS VR. Sensors for the Vive don't work on Oculus.
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Facebook's Oculus VR today announced the promotion of Jason Rubin to Head of Content, and Steve Arnold to Head of Oculus Studios.
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An Oculus spokesperson tells TechCrunch that the employees will also be able to apply for other positions elsewhere within Oculus or Facebook.
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Correction: This article has been edited to clarify that Oculus Touch was never going to be included with Oculus Rift at launch.
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But unlike the Oculus Store, SteamVR supports basically any PC-based headset — including the standalone Oculus Quest, thanks to a recent update.
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This was the first Oculus Connect without an appearance from Nate Mitchell, the last of Oculus' original founding team to depart Facebook.
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Just two months after Facebook announced its acquisition of Oculus VR, Zenimax announced its intent to sue Oculus and, by extension, Facebook.
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Carmack freely admits to having worked on code for the Oculus Rift prior to being hired by Oculus VR/Facebook in 2013.
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It also said Oculus' VR device Oculus Rift was "primitive" until John Carmack, Oculus chief technology officer and founder of a company owned by ZeniMax, improved on the device using his knowledge from his previous work as a ZeniMax employee.
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As first posted on Reddit and later confirmed by UploadVR, Oculus will no longer require a hardware check when playing an Oculus exclusive game, meaning any headset will be allowed to play a game that is exclusive to the Oculus store.
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Oculus VR's new platform for live entertainment experiences is launching today for the new, standalone Oculus Go headset and Samsung's Gear VR. The platform, called Oculus Venues, was first announced at Facebook's F8 developer conference at the beginning of May.
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Driving the news: Facebook yesterday announced pre-orders for its standalone Oculus Quest and its PC-based Rift S, both of which sell for $399, plus its relaunch of Oculus for Business focused on the standalone Oculus Go and Quest headsets.
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Whereas the original version of Revive simply allowed users to play Oculus-exclusive games on other headsets, this updated version of the software designed to bypass the headset check circumvented Oculus' DRM altogether, making it easier to pirate Oculus games.
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In concert with the $599 Oculus Rift headset package, an Oculus system is now competitive with the $799 HTC Vive, which also ships with motion controllers, though an additional $79 sensor is needed for the Oculus setup to achieve "roomscale" experiences.
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The pack was teased in the lead-up to E3, and it's available today for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, and SteamVR.
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WATCH: Buzz Aldrin talks colonizing Mars at SXSW Soon, the experience will also be available in the Oculus store for the Oculus Rift.
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Oculus will give a special thank-you gift to the Kickstarter backers who made its virtual reality headset possible: a free Oculus Rift.
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Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe showed off new Oculus in-ear headphones as an alternative to the headset's current over-the-ear audio setup.
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The next VR headset from Oculus may have more in common with the Samsung Gear VR than the company's category-defining Oculus Rift.
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The suit alleges that Samsung knowingly profited from Oculus technology that was first developed at ZeniMax, then misappropriated by Oculus executive John Carmack.
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"Starting with VR, we are building an Oculus Go and Oculus Quest Enterprise edition expected to launch in 2019," it reads in part.
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Mission: ISS — a virtual reality collaboration between Oculus and three space agencies — is now available for free to Oculus Rift and Touch owners.
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Party chat and Oculus Rooms will come to Gear VR later this year, and to the Oculus Rift at the start of 2017.
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Oculus is shipping the Quest and Rift S with the same controllers, which are slightly modified versions of its 2016 Oculus Touch design.
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Best Buy and Oculus are closing Oculus Rift demo stations at around 200 of the 500 stores that have them, Business Insider reports.
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Oculus just announced the ReactVR javascript framework for building WebVR experiences that can run on the forthcoming Oculus VR web browser codenamed "Carmel".
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Oculus TV has been billed as a VR set-top streaming box, and Oculus says it's working on supporting more networks, including ESPN.
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Last week in San Jose, California, thousands of mostly youngish white guys attended Oculus VR's…Read more ReadWhere Is Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey?
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Oculus has mostly presented the Oculus Quest as a downscaled Rift or a personal gaming console, like a Nintendo Switch for virtual reality.
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The Xiaomi headset is going to feature the Mi VR SDK while the Oculus Go is going to run the Oculus Platform SDK.
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Earlier this year, Facebook-owned Oculus VR launched the standalone Oculus Go virtual reality headset that currently relies on a Qualcomm-branded chip.
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When I asked if she worked at Oculus or for Oculus PR, she refused to tell me and went back into the lunch.
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Similarly, the motion trackers in Oculus Go will probably be fewer and less precise than what you can get in an Oculus Rift.
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Although launching the Oculus Rift headset almost four months ago, Oculus confirmed today that it has finally shipped its last pre-order headsets.
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Facebook-owned Oculus issued an update Tuesday, removing support for all Note 7 devices on the Oculus Gear VR platform, The Verge reported.
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Simply set up the device with your Oculus mobile app, and Oculus Quest has absolutely everything you need to explore VR right away.
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Out of Oculus' VR-approved desktop computers, Dell's XPS 8900 is the most affordable and least impressive at $1,13 (with the Oculus included).
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The Oculus Touch will be available for the Rift on December 6th for $199, the company announced at its Oculus Connect keynote today.
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Oculus, the virtual reality company that Facebook acquired for $2 billion two years ago, released its much-hyped Oculus Rift system on Monday.
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If this method continues to evolve and Oculus can't or won't stop it, Oculus will essentially no longer be able to guarantee exclusivity.
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Oculus VP of Content Jason Rubin announced today that the company will shut down its award-winning cinematic VR division, Oculus Story Studio.
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Oculus said it will be making so-called 'Oculus Ready' PC plus Rift bundles available for pre-order in February, starting at $1,499.
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First, Zuckerberg revealed Oculus Link — an upcoming feature that will let people plug their Oculus Quest into a computer to play Rift games.
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Nothing is apparently changing for now — an Oculus blog post notes that Medium will remain free for people with an Oculus VR system.
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A few short months after Facebook acquired Oculus in March 20173, ZeniMax filed a lawsuit accusing Oculus — via Carmack — of stealing intellectual property.
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The case looks so good, Oculus should sell it as an accessory Speaking of Oculus, Audi is working with both Oculus and HTC on the project; full-room installations in Audi City locations will use the Vive, but the company says that its initial discussions were with Oculus, and standard dealerships will use a Rift-based setup, optimized for a sitting experience.
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With his $2,000 a month donation, Luckey is undoubtedly attempting to get back at Oculus and Facebook by ensuring people won't need to buy an Oculus Rift VR headset in order to play Oculus-exclusive games, thereby cutting into the company's profits.
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Late last year, an Oculus spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company is growing its Seattle team to achieve its goal to "get 1 billion people into VR." This May, Oculus announced that its Oculus Research division would be rebranded as Facebook Reality Labs.
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Oculus stated Tuesday at CES that Chinese company Xiaomi will be its hardware partner for the Oculus Go. The two companies also jointly announced Mi VR Standalone, a standalone VR headset based on the Oculus Go that will be sold exclusively in China.
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But it turns out that Fox Sports, in its mainstream content wisdom, decided to offer its VR presentation of the Super Bowl exclusively on the Samsung Gear VR version of the Oculus store, and not the Oculus store for the Oculus Rift.
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This is an impressive number, though it's important to note that not all (or even most) of these apps will be original content for the Oculus Go. Oculus Go is binary with Gear VR, Samsung's VR headset developed in collaboration with Oculus.
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CrossVR, one of the developers behind the Revive app, posted on Reddit that yesterday's Oculus update includes a new check to confirm the headset is linked to the Oculus Platform DRM in order to prevent non-Oculus hardware from connecting to the system.
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Oculus announced today that the Oculus Video app on Gear VR would be incorporating a new Facebook video tab that lets you connect your Facebook and Oculus accounts to bring personalized info — based on who you're following — to your VR content absorption experience.
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Nevertheless, it's clear that Oculus is probably expecting to ship more volume on the Oculus Go and is shifting the margins a bit accordingly.
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ZeniMax alleges that Oculus stole trade secrets and that Carmack stole source code from Zenimax when he took the job as CTO at Oculus.
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The Oculus Rift is currently out of stock just about everywhere except Oculus' own site where it's still listed as shipping within two days.
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Before Luckey and Oculus split, Revive was already a successful application, allowing people who bought Oculus-only games to play them on the Vive.
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Oculus is launching a TV app for users to check out streaming video content on a big virtual screen on the Oculus Go headset.
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Vive Studios is a direct analogue to Oculus Studios, the internal Oculus game studio headed by Jason Rubin, although its scope is apparently broader.
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The mobile VR division of Oculus will be led by recent hire Jon Thomason, whose title is currently listed as Oculus head of software.
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One of the areas Oculus needs to make announcements in at its Oculus Connect 3 developers conference is the company's renewed strategy for mobile.
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If you're an early buyer of the Oculus Quest or Oculus Rift S headset, you may get a hidden message in your motion controllers.
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He founded Oculus VR, which gained prominence when it first offered the original version of the Oculus Rift on Kickstarter in August of 2012.
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And it looks and works just like the Oculus Go. The Oculus Go works without a PC, and you don't need a smartphone either.
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Oculus will also make it easier to find both new games and film experiences like Nomads with a redesign of Oculus Home in June.
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However, it's noticeably less bulky than the Oculus Go. It's also more comfortable than the Oculus Go, which tends to feel heavy and awkward.
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Robertson: I think that [Oculus founder] Palmer Luckey said something like 'No one who owns a PS4 is going to buy an Oculus Rift.
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The news is coming alongside a date for Oculus' third annual developer conference, Oculus Connect: October 5th to the 7th, in San Jose, California.
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The Sling TV app for Oculus Quest is identical to the one on Oculus Go and comes with a basic point-and-click interface.
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The Oculus Go fabric "facial interface" is spongey and breathable and actually fit around my glasses which is a first for headsets from Oculus.
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Earlier this week, Oculus announced that the controllers will launch in the second half of 2016, months after the launch of the Oculus Rift.
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In January, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey said that even at the initial $599 price tag, the Rift headset didn't offer Oculus a profit.
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Windows Mixed Reality has Microsoft's app store, Oculus headsets have the Oculus Store, and HTC has Viveport, which also supports multiple brands of headsets.
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On the other side, they are facing huge pressure from Oculus, owned by Facebook ... Oculus is able to sell these devices at low prices.
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Screenshot: OculusHorizon will launch sometime in 2020, and users with Oculus Quest or Oculus Rift hardware can request early access to the beta here.
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Oculus said there were more than 30 games available on the Oculus Store and it would soon add feature-length movies and more content.
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Facebook-owned Oculus opened preorders for its new virtual reality headset, Oculus Rift, on Wednesday morning after years of pumping air into the product.
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According to one report, Iribe was unhappy about Facebook pushing Oculus in a "race to the bottom" away from high-end PC VR. There's certainly evidence that Oculus is focusing on lower-powered, non-PC headsets, particularly the Oculus Quest, a gaming-focused standalone device.
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But VR can also be very social, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckeberg demonstrated with the Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch controllers at F8 this year.
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First, you have to set up your Oculus account by downloading the iOS or Android app, then connect your Oculus Go or Gear VR headset.
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A jury found Oculus guilty of copyright infringement, failure to comply with a nondisclosure agreement and misuse of Oculus trademarks ( "false designation") in February 2017.
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This halo helps distribute that weight around your head — I've found it more comfortable than the Oculus Quest, which uses the old Oculus Rift design.
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Oculus' chief technology officer John Carmack recently called the upcoming standalone Oculus Quest headset a games console that's going to compete with the Nintendo Switch.
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Now you can use your Oculus Avatars on both the Gear VR and the Rift to join friends in Oculus Rooms to watch Hulu content.
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Although Oculus Avatars on the Oculus Rift are well rendered and highly customizable, at this point, there's not a lot you can do with them.
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The mobile Oculus Rooms experience is just as stunning as the higher-end constructs on the Oculus Rift, despite the mobile version's somewhat limited functionality.
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Oculus promised some Kickstarter backers a copy of Doom 3 for the Rift, although no commercial agreement between Oculus and id existed at the time.
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ZeniMax alleges that Oculus stole trade secrets, in part when former senior ZeniMax employee John Carmack left ZeniMax and joined Oculus as chief technical officer.
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These include AR and VR announcements from its Oculus unit (including the standalone Oculus Go headset), as well updates to its various live video initiatives.
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Oculus will also expand its terms of service to cover augmented reality — a field that Facebook has openly explored, but that Oculus hasn't so far.
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Spaces is distinct from Oculus' own social tools, including a similar hangout system in Oculus Home, which is supposed to launch in the next year.
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Kickstarter backers of Oculus – 8th Annual Crunchies Winner Last year we had a unique winner in this category – everyone who backed Oculus VR on Kickstarter.
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Oculus bundles an Oculus Remote and an Xbox One controller with every Rift purchased — the two Touch controllers can be purchased separately later this year.
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The headset you can buy today is not Oculus' most ambitious vision for virtual reality — but it's a vision that Oculus has successfully delivered on.
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The lawsuit alleged that the Oculus Rift product was vastly improved when Facebook hired a former ZeniMax employee as the chief technology officer of Oculus.
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The Oculus Rift isn't for everyone, not yet, and the $599 price tag makes it clear Oculus is as keenly aware of that as anyone.
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It also soured Oculus' relationship with parts of the VR community, especially after a former Vive title became an exclusive Oculus Touch game at E3.
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But Facebook saw trouble with Oculus, paying $300 million (plus $200 million from Oculus founders) to Zenimax after losing a lawsuit about stolen intellectual property.
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At its Oculus Connect event today, the VR company announced a new project: Oculus Avatars, designed to give you a real presence in virtual reality.
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Since Venues is produced by Oculus, it may receive special placement in the Oculus operating system, making it tougher for off-brand competitors to grow.
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Pretty soon, though, Oculus was announcing games that would be Oculus-only, available to download only through their storefront and only compatible with their hardware.
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Facebook is also facing a lawsuit from ZeniMax Media, which has accused Oculus of stealing technology that went into the creation of the Oculus goggles.
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You can factory reset an Oculus Quest using the buttons on the headset itself, or with the Oculus app on your iPhone or Android device.
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It's an entertaining vision, enabled mostly by Facebook's Oculus Rift headgear and Oculus Touch controllers, the latter of which has yet to hit the market.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introducing the $399 Oculus Quest Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introducing the $399 Oculus Quest There are some clear benefits for Oculus pushing iterative hardware in an iPhone-like "S" manner, especially around affordability, as a more drawn-out device life cycle gives both Oculus and PC component manufacturers time to reduce VR's high barrier to entry in terms of cost.
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It also said Oculus' chief technology officer John Carmack used his experience and knowledge from being a ZeniMax employee to improve the Oculus Rift VR headset.
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To make your VR persona feel more like you, Oculus also announced Oculus Avatars, which are customizable heads and hands that will persist across the platform.
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Altogether, there were around a dozen Oculus-funded games at the showcase, half of which had been previously shown off at Oculus Connect or other events.
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According to Polygon, Oculus is paying out $200 million of the $500 million judgement because Oculus founder Palmer Luckey broke a non-disclosure agreement with Zenimax.
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The update is available on the Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR mobile headsets, and it will arrive on the PC-based Oculus Rift next month.
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Not to be outdone, Oculus VR recently unveiled a standalone headset called the Oculus Go, which is expected to sell for $53 when launched next year.
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You can optionally link your Facebook account to your Oculus ID, in which case, Oculus will use your Facebook interests to suggest specific apps or games.
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Xiaomi is also working with some Oculus developers to make sure the Oculus Store's most popular content is available in the Mi VR store upon launch.
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Aware of this, both HTC and Oculus are taking aim at businesses as well, with Facebook using F8 to announce a renewed Oculus for Business effort.
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Oculus announced Monday that it will begin selling "a small number" of Oculus Rift headsets in 48 Best Buy stores around the country later this week.
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The demo was on an Oculus headset, but Facebook's ambition is to bring these kind of scenes directly into the News Feed itself, no Oculus required.
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While "Oculus Rift" was no longer a synonym for "virtual reality," Oculus remained a central player, especially after Facebook purchased it for an estimated $2 billion.
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For what it currently offers, we think the Oculus Go is bit pricey, and some people might want to wait for the Oculus Quest next year.
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Moments ago at Oculus Connect 3, Mark Zuckerberg gave a very brief look at a prototype standalone VR headset that Oculus and Facebook are collaborating on.
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When Oculus announced its new Oculus Avatars project last Thursday, I got a message from The Verge team asking if I wanted to write about it.
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The total number is similar to the Oculus Rift headset's 29-game launch catalog, although Oculus says there are "hundreds of additional Touch titles" in development.
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We hope schools that have access to VR hardware such as Oculus Gear or Oculus Go will use our games as part of their health curriculum.
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Additionally, Oculus Touch won't even be available to buy until months after the Rift launches, and Oculus has yet to announce what the controllers will cost.
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In May, Oculus shuttered its in-house VR-creation house Oculus Story Studio, with the stated goal of shifting the resources toward investment in outside content.
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Oculus used to make big announcements during CES, but it already made a few late last year when it announced the standalone $199 Oculus Go headset.
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Last month, a founder of Oculus, Brendan Iribe, stepped down as chief executive, moving to lead an Oculus group focused on virtual reality on personal computers.
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The feature is called Oculus Link, and it was announced today by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Oculus Connect developer conference in San Jose, California.
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Jason Rubin, Oculus' VP of content, trumpeted the robustness of the Oculus Store (2,000 apps launched in the last year!), the three Emmy awards Oculus experiences have won, and the fact that game studio Respawn (Titanfall) would be making a first-person shooter for the company.
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Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus virtual reality, gave his old employers at Oculus and Facebook a huge middle finger this week by donating thousands of dollars to a VR project that makes Oculus-exclusive VR games playable on its competitor's VR device, the HTC Vive.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)While Facebook and Oculus are out there going after regular folk with the Oculus Go and the upcoming Oculus Quest, HTC Vive seems to be headed the opposite direction by attempting to push VR experiences even further with new Vive Pro Eye.
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Oculus VR now plans on selling its high-end Rift headset to businesses, the company announced today at the Oculus Connect developer conference in San Jose, California.
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Facebook's Oculus is building a standalone virtual reality headset that, unlike its current Oculus Rift headset, does not need to be tethered to a computer with cables.
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Facebook's Oculus has been ordered to pay $500 million after a jury found that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey violated a non-disclosure agreement, according to Polygon.
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Samsung's newest, Oculus-powered Gear VR headset and accompanying controller will sell for $129 and ship on April 21, according to a representative from Facebook's Oculus division.
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This is the week we find out how good the complete Oculus Rift experience is now that the $199 Oculus Touch controllers are shipping to early adopters.
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Rick and Morty Virtual Rick-Ality will be available on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets on Steam and Oculus Home for $29.99 on Thursday, April 20.
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Google is launching YouTube on the Oculus Quest Adi Robertson: Google will bring YouTube to Facebook's Oculus Quest virtual reality headset when it ships on May 21st.
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There Are Some Super Shady Things in Oculus Rift's Terms of Service (Updated)Image: GizmodoThe Oculus Rift is starting to ship, and we're pretty happy with it.
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At the time, Oculus listed more than 60 job positions in Redmond in additional to a smaller amount of hiring for its Oculus operations in Seattle proper.
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To boost its education efforts and provide classrooms with examples of top-tier educational VR apps, Oculus is releasing three new experiences on the Oculus Store today.
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After the most recent Oculus update, when an Oculus-purchased game runs on your PC, the DRM checks to see if a Rift is also plugged in.
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This should shake up the current VR landscape, which is dominated by Oculus with the Rift, as well as Oculus/Samsung with the Gear VR. [via Engadget]
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We've reached out to Oculus and Samsung for comment, but until this problem gets resolved, your best bet is to keep the Oculus app off your phone.
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This was should have let Oculus protect the exclusive games it helped produce, fund, and which were a selling point for the Oculus Rift over other headsets.
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Although the judgment cleared Oculus of the most serious allegations in the lawsuit related the code behind the Oculus Rift system, the bad press was poorly timed.
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Beginning with Mark Zuckerberg's opening remarks yesterday morning and continuing throughout the day, Oculus Connect's fifth edition felt more like a Facebook affair than an Oculus one.
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The Oculus business has been a sore spot for Wall Street analysts, who have questioned whether Oculus is on track to make money as competitors jump ahead.
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The developers of the futuristic combat game Titanfall are jumping into virtual reality with a brand new, mysterious game, Oculus revealed during the Oculus Connect keynote today.
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Although Oculus Gear VR headsets are practically handed out with Samsung smartphones, the company's more expensive Oculus Rift platform doesn't appear to have attracted any real following.
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Oculus advertises up to three hours of battery life on the Oculus Go, and I've gotten between two and two and a half hours in my sessions.
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The game will be available for purchase on the Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest (if you tether it to a PC), HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.
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An Oculus spokesperson confirmed the acquisition but declined to comment on other details, including deal terms and how many of The Eye Tribe's employees are joining Oculus.
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For example, Oculus Quest, which Facebook-owned Oculus released in the spring starting at $399, is much like Rift in an untethered, no-external-sensors-required package.
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Up until today, Mitchell was one of only two founding members of Oculus remaining alongside Antonov, who seems to work more for Facebook than Oculus these days.
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This essentially turns the Oculus Quest into a replacement for both the original Oculus Rift and the updated Rift S that went on sale earlier this year.
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While inevitable, the addition of Facebook features to Oculus devices may rankle longtime Oculus fans who prefer to keep their VR gaming separate from the social network.
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Through the Settings menu in the Oculus app for iPhone and Android, you can set your Oculus Quest to update automatically whenever it finds a new update.
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In December, a co-founder of Oculus, Brendan Iribe, stepped down as chief executive, assuming leadership of an Oculus group focused on virtual reality on personal computers.
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There was even an agreement between Zenimax and Oculus to produce a VR version of the Zenimax-published game "Doom 3" for use in the Oculus Rift.
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Oculus Targeting Q20163 22016 For Santa Cruz Release, Rift Ports Planned Facebook's next virtual-reality headset will be a high-end version of the recently released Oculus Go, David Jagneaux reports: The headset is designed to function on its own without the need for a PC, similar to Oculus Go, but with cameras added for inside-out tracking of 26DOF head movement and two Oculus Touch-style controllers.
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Given that Oculus Rift hasn't gone on sale yet, and Google Cardboard launched in December 2014, this shows the strength of demand for the Oculus headset that's designed for serious gamers to hook up to a PC. Read More Oculus Rift finally goes on sale with mystery price tag
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ZeniMax claims that Oculus CTO John Carmack, best known as the creator of the video game Doom, developed core parts of the Oculus Rift while employed at ZeniMax.
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It doesn't look like the Oculus Rift will be coming to Macs anytime soon, judging by the serious shade thrown at Apple by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey.
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Since then, Oculus has failed to gain mainstream adoption, but Facebook has continued to develop new versions of the company's hardware, most recently announcing the $399 Oculus Quest.
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Fitz is also set to get Oculus Touch next week at launch, which should open up a whole new level of VR gaming options for the Oculus Rift.
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The company is working on an "enterprise edition" of its Oculus Go and Oculus Quest headsets, according to a new job posting that was first discovered by Variety.
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As with the iPhone (App Store) and your average Android smartphone (Google Play), there's a dedicated Oculus Rift store where players can get games called the Oculus Store.
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But preorders opened for the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S, two new headsets that replace external tracking cameras with a much more user-friendly inside-out system.
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Zero Days VR is produced with help from Oculus, which means a Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and possibly Facebook 360-degree video release could be on the horizon.
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It's unclear what Luckey's role has been since Oculus reorganized late last year, but Oculus and Facebook insisted that Luckey was still with the company at that time.
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Thanks to team-ups with ASUS, Alienware, and Dell, Oculus will open pre-sales of Oculus-ready PC bundles starting at $1499 on February 16th at 8am PST.
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Vader Immortal — Episode I is set to release later in the year on both the upcoming Oculus Quest headset as well as the Oculus Rift line of devices.
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Oculus is dropping the Rift VR headset's support for renting or buying non-VR movies through Oculus Video, and the service will officially shut down on November 20th.
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Since Microsoft had previously partnered with Oculus to support Xbox controllers on the Oculus Rift, there was widespread speculation that Scorpio might work with the Rift as well.
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The game's original creator Notch publicly refused to bring a version of Minecraft to Oculus because "Facebook creeps [him] out" (Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion in 2014).
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This week, Palmer Luckey was still nowhere to be seen as Oculus VR, the company he founded, reached a significant milestone: the release of the Oculus Touch controllers.
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Oculus co-founder Luckey says, 'It wasn't my choice to leave' Facebook Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey revealed yesterday that he was fired, though he didn't say why.
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"This generation still has a long shelf life ahead of it," he says, noting that Oculus is constantly making software tweaks to improve Rift and Oculus Go performance.
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The $199 Oculus Go is Oculus' third major product release, and it occupies a similar niche to the mobile Gear VR, which offers affordable but limited VR experiences.
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Oculus will be compatible with lower-end PCs, including an upcoming $499 laptop, the company's CEO Brendan Iribe announced Thursday during the Oculus Connect conference in San Jose.
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Update 3:23 ET: Oculus says you do not need to uninstall the app and that you just need to update the Oculus app when you open it.
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But Oculus promised it was working on a successor to the original Rift from 2016, so here it is: the Oculus Rift S. And it's sort of underwhelming.
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I tried out the same "toybox" demo, but with the final consumer version of the Oculus Rift, inside of a soundproof room at Oculus VR's massive CES booth.
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A jury is hearing evidence in a civil lawsuit brought by videogame publisher ZeniMax Media Inc against Oculus in 2014, in the middle of the Facebook-Oculus deal.
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There's an Oculus Connect event coming up today, and the likeliest subject of the presentation will be the pricing and availability of the long-delayed Oculus Touch controllers.
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Oculus Connect is Oculus' version of Google I/O, Apple's WWDC, or its parent company Facebook's F8 conference: a show for developers that often features important product announcements.
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But the centerpiece to the Oculus Connect 3 keynote on Wednesday was the unveiling of the Oculus Touch controller, available for $199 when it launches on December 6th.
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Oculus wants people to watch TV in their VR headsets, and later this month, it's launching a dedicated "Oculus TV" app with partners like Showtime, Netflix, and ESPN.
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Taylor said the incident had made her anxious to attend Oculus events; Antonov was Oculus' chief software architect, but he left the Facebook-owned company earlier this year.
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The social media giant, which bought Oculus in 2014 for $3 billion, had released the Oculus Go VR headset earlier in May, and had priced it at $199.
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Oculus CTO John Carmack gave what he called a "eulogy" for the Samsung Gear VR during the Oculus Connect developer conference, calling the mobile headset a missed opportunity.
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"Starting late this year, we will begin to roll out a completely new social layer across the Oculus platform powered by Facebook," Oculus exec Meaghan Fitzgerald said onstage.
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When Oculus started showing off the first version of the Oculus Rift headset in 2014, virtual reality seemed like the next big horizon for the video game industry.
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Oculus founder and Trump meme connoisseur Palmer Luckey has left Facebook Oculus founder and Trump meme connoisseur Palmer Luckey has left Facebook Palmer Luckey — the 24-year-old, meme-loving, liberal-hating founder of Oculus VR — has officially left Facebook, which acquired his startup for more than $2 billion in 2014.
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The Oculus Rift S is indeed real and arrives in spring for $399 After years of high-profile onstage announcements, Oculus has decided to quietly deliver the successor to its flagship Rift virtual reality headset, confirming most of our October report with the release of the new Oculus Rift S.
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Oculus TV was announced at last month's F8 conference, and it ties together a lot of existing VR video options, highlighting Oculus' attempts to emphasize non-gaming uses of VR. The free app features a virtual home theater with what Oculus claims is the equivalent of a 180-inch TV screen.
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Luckey on stage at last year's Oculus Connect conference Luckey on stage at last year's Oculus Connect conference Luckey typically dispenses high-level thoughts on VR's potential at Oculus events, since he had the original vision for the company and built its first headset prototype in his garage at age 18.
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Related: 4 Experiential Artists Who Brightened Up 2016 I Had an Out-of-Body Experience at an Oculus Rift Art Show Escape from Miami Art Madness with Oculus Rift
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The virtual reality minds of Oculus Story Studio, the cinematic production arm of the Oculus Rift team, have taken the wraps off the studio's latest film called Dear Angelica.
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ZeniMax maintains John Carmack, current chief technical officer at Oculus, provided technology and information to the VR company before he left ZeniMax subsidiary id Software for Oculus in 2014.
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Best of luck to, uh, BadoinkVR: The X-rated Oculus Go headsets sell for $300, which is $100 more than what the base Oculus Go model costs at retail.
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While Katz isn't a high-profile Oculus employee, computer vision has a wide range of applications in virtual reality, including tracking the motion of headsets like the Oculus Rift.
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As the dust settles from yesterday's $500 million verdict against Oculus VR and Facebook, Oculus CTO John Carmack still has some things he wants to get off his chest.
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Oculus founder Palmer Luckey confirmed yesterday that he's donating money to a virtual reality project focused on letting the HTC Vive headset play games exclusive to the Oculus Rift.
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Oculus Go is a stand-alone device, which means you can run it without tethering it to a pretty powerful computer, as you must when using the Oculus Rift.
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In 2013, he joined Oculus as its CTO, and eventually Bethesda sued Oculus and parent company Facebook for improperly possessing trade secrets from years of Bethesda internal VR development.
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Former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe is leaving Facebook Brendan Iribe, who led Facebook-owned VR company Oculus until 2016 before moving to lead its PC VR division, is leaving.
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Oculus also ran into some bad PR last week over asking creators of the upcoming game Serious Sam VR to make its new game a timed Oculus Rift exclusive.
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Oculus created a partnership program with PC makers Dell, Alienware or Asus to create the "Oculus Ready" program, with PCs certified to be ready for virtual reality upon ordering.
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But Oculus Go can reach markets Gear VR can't, primarily the massive base of iPhone users — who are currently inaccessible to both Oculus and its rival platform Google Daydream.
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Correction: An original version of this article referred to "Go" as the product name; Oculus says the headset is always the "Oculus Go." Photography by Adi Robertson / The Verge
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Oculus is complying with the EU's new data protection rules with more detailed policies and a "privacy center" where users can check the data Oculus has collected about them.
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Subscriptions will be required to access each streaming service, but Oculus is including $80 of Sling TV credit with the purchase of any Oculus Go headset until January 15th.
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Some of the bad mojo started when Facebook acquired Oculus back in 2014, leading to an immediate outcry from early Oculus supporters who backed the VR device on Kickstarter.
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Oculus announced a bug update to its social platform, Oculus Rooms, which brings a redesigned space with cool new features designed to keep people coming back to the app.
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Quest will be Oculus's third VR headset when it launches sometime this spring and will sit between the standalone and mobile-powered Oculus Go and PC-based Oculus Rift.
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"Thousands of developers are building for Oculus, working on everything from entry-level games to fully immersive video and film," an Oculus spokesperson said in an email to CNBC.
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Facebook's Oculus Rooms, which is currently available in a limited form for Samsung Gear VR users, will roll out in a major way for Oculus Rift later this year.
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Unlike the Oculus Santa Cruz, the Oculus Go doesn't include full motion controllers or futuristic inside-out tracking technology, which lets users walk around rooms with no external cameras.
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All-in-one VR: Simply set up the device with your Oculus mobile app and Oculus Quest has everything you need to explore VR, right out of the box
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Oculus Co-founder Nate Mitchell to Leave Facebook As Alex Heath points out, Mitchell's departure means that every co-founder of Oculus, Instagram, and WhatsApp have now left Facebook.
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Mark Zuckerberg surprised the assorted developers and journalists during the Oculus Connect 6 Day One Keynote when he announced new updates to its standalone VR headset, the Oculus Quest.
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The company also began selling Oculus Quest and Rift headsets earlier this year, after acquiring Oculus for $2 billion in 2014, and recently launched Facebook Horizon, a VR universe.
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To turn off an Oculus Rift, you should take it off of your head, close the Oculus app on your computer, and then disconnect the cable from the headset.
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Ousted Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey is still very much the same boy who's obsessed with VR. Case in point: Despite being fired from Oculus, ostensibly for his pro-Trump political views, he's still finding ways to improve Oculus's VR headsets, namely the all-in-one Oculus Go. Since leaving Oculus, Luckey's taken to his own blog to post reviews, mods, and general thoughts on advancements in current AR and VR technologies.
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The input devices, which will cost $199, allow Oculus Rift users to have their hands tracked in VR experiences, something that's pretty essential for artistic creation in VR. Oculus Quill, which I was able to play around with a bit at Oculus' Connect developer conference last month, was built as a custom tool for Art Director Wesley Allsbrook to shape the visual style for the Oculus Story Studio original film Dear Angelica.
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Related coverage from How To Do Everything: Tech:How to update your Oculus Go automatically or check which operating system it&aposs runningHow to turn off an Oculus Rift or put it in sleep modeHow to properly clean your Oculus Rift headset and accessoriesHow to factory reset your Oculus Go using your headset or the appYou can connect up to 4 controllers to your PS4 at once — here&aposs how that stacks up to the competition
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New hardware — like Oculus' $200 standalone headset — could certainly help with that, but there's going to be a lot of work ahead before Oculus comes close to hitting that number.
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At the annual Oculus Connect developers conference, the Facebook-owned company announced Oculus Venues, an upcoming feature that will allow you to experience performances and other events in virtual reality.
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Less than a year after selling Oculus to Facebook, Forbes estimated Luckey's net worth at "well over $500 million," thanks to his Oculus stake and his haul from the sale.
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Oculus product manager Christina Womack showed off new avatars that will be coming to Oculus; their mouths will move to match a user's words, their eyes will follow interesting objects.
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There's also a VR web browser designed by Oculus, and support for playing videos straight from Oculus Home, instead of launching an app and then playing the video inside it.
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According to Polygon, a jury awarded the sum after determining that Oculus executives violated a ZeniMax non-disclosure agreement in the early days of building the Oculus Rift VR headset.
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Facebook's Oculus suffered a prolonged, embarrassing outage yesterday because someone at the company forgot to update a certificate, which expired and plunged the company's network of Oculus Rifts into darkness.
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Hugo Barra is leaving the Oculus team for a Facebook 'global AR/VR partner' initiative Facebook's Oculus division is officially just a team within Facebook now, and has no leader.
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Oculus will enforce tight rules for publishing a game or app on the Oculus Quest, asking developers to demonstrate "quality and probable market success" on the upcoming virtual reality headset.
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Fewer consumers might buy a Rift under these circumstances, but it would still hold appeal for companies — and in fact, Oculus announced an "Oculus Rift for Business" bundle at Connect.
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Oculus will continue supporting the feature for its two mobile headsets, the Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR. Road to VR printed an email sent to users about the change.
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Palmer Watch: Day 27 It's been 27 days since Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR and former Facebook golden child,…Read more ReadIs Facebook Disappearing Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey?
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Facebook's Oculus is returning to San Jose on October 11-12 this year to share some news about the future of VR at the company's Oculus Connect 4 developers conference.
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The Oculus Rift costs $600, but you'll need to have a powerful PC in order to run it properly; a complete Oculus VR and PC setup will cost around $1,500.
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Invites were sent to various employees on Oculus' staff, as well as participants from Oculus' "launch pad" program, which is essentially an incubator for virtual reality creators from diverse backgrounds.
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The Oculus Quest, which was released this May, has sold nearly 1.1 million units while the Oculus Rift has sold 547,3603 units since the start of 2018, according to SuperData.
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Last Friday, Oculus released a software update blocking Revive — a piece of software that allowed users to port Rift games they'd bought from the Oculus store onto HTC's Vive headset.
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Unlike Sony and HTC, Oculus isn't launching the Rift with a full controller of its own, since its Oculus Touch hardware will arrive in the second half of this year.
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The Oculus Rift isn't "obscenely cheap" to the average person But the Oculus Rift won't trigger the virtual reality revolution overnight, nor is such a revolution guaranteed to arrive ever.
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"We recently shared our vision to get 1 billion people into VR, and we're growing the Oculus team in Seattle to help make that happen," an Oculus spokesperson told TechCrunch.
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On top of that, Oculus announced a $103 gaming PC that's specced to be ready for its software, down from the $800-$1,000 range that previous Oculus-ready PCs occupied.
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I've gone back and forth on this, and it'll depend on your personal preferences, too, but now that Oculus Touch has arrived, I'd recommend getting the Oculus Rift to start.
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Oculus isn't trying to solve VR's biggest hardware problems with the Oculus Go. That includes low resolution and limited field of view, but also the basic weight of the headset.
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Oculus Quest specsYou have one main decision to make when buying an Oculus Quest: choosing between the $399 64GB model and the $499 124GB model (I splurged on the latter).
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Libre VR also said that he would like to work with Oculus on a solution that allows people to play Oculus game on other headsets without circumventing the ownership check.
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The biggest portion of the award stemmed from the finding that Palmer Luckey, an Oculus founder, had violated a confidentiality agreement he signed with ZeniMax as he was forming Oculus.
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The Rift platform will have more social features and more titles coming soon, said Oculus co-founder Mitchell, in time for the company's developer conference, Oculus Connect 4, in October.
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While the lack of position tracking, and the fact that the singular motion controller isn't as functional as the Oculus Touch, hold the Oculus Go back from being truly comparable with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, it's still a more fluid and compelling experience than any phone-based VR headset I've tested.
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Oculus announced today that it will be internally dividing into two groups, one focused on desktop-based VR like the Oculus Rift, and the other on mobile VR. Iribe is making the move right away, while Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer will help look for a new leader of the overall Oculus team.
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And since the apps that have already been created for Samsung's Oculus-based Gear headset can be ported over to the Oculus Go headset, there are already more than a thousand apps available for the new $200 Oculus Go. What else do you need at this point in order to embrace VR?
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If you've used the Gear VR, the mobile headset Oculus designed to work with Samsung's Galaxy smartphones, you've already seen Oculus Home—or at least a stripped-down version of it.
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The concern, then, is that the average Oculus Rift user will only be exposed to software that's distributed via the official Oculus Store, leaving behind developers who aren't on that store.
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The screen inside Oculus Rift looks slightly better than VIVE (making it your best bet for movie viewing), the Oculus Touch controllers feel more natural, and it's a more comfortable headset.
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Quill relies on Oculus' Touch controllers Quill relies on Oculus' Touch controllers When it's my turn to paint, I quickly discover the pallete, a cube that spawns from your left hand.
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Oculus VR's next-generation Rift headset may be called the "Rift S," according to Upload VR, which says it's found new filenames in Oculus' PC application that support the naming scheme.
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The company highlighted Oculus TV at Facebook's F8 developer conference as one of four new Oculus-built apps that would allow users to get the most out of the inexpensive headset.
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Oculus Go Oculus Go The new structure sounds like it could coordinate efforts around more general lines like hardware and software allowing insights to flow more intuitively across Facebook's planned devices.
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Oculus' Medium update comes just a couple of days after Google updated its VR painting app Tilt Brush, and a couple of months after Oculus updated its VR illustration app Quill.
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Fast forward to 2018 and there are plenty of high-quality games available on the Oculus and Steam stores though groups like Oculus and HTC are still investing just as heavily.
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Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe announced onstage at the company's third annual Oculus Connect developer conference that Touch will be arriving December 6 for $199 with pre-orders going live October 10.
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Oculus also said that in February, it would open orders for a bundle, which includes the Rift headgear system and a computer that is certified to work with Oculus, for $1,500.
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I was curious about whether any Oculus employees mentioned Luckey at the lunch, as several developers had by then pulled their games from the Oculus platform, or at least threatened to.
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Luckey used to be trotted out for interviews to speculate on the future on virtual reality, but a recent interview about Oculus Rift with The Verge featured Oculus CEO Iribe, instead.
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Those training sessions were done on PC-tethered Oculus Rifts, the move to Oculus Go headsets really showcases how much more simple standalone headset hardware is to set up and operate.
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And Oculus' own Toybox demo experience is also getting a final release on December 6th, and will be available for free to download in the Oculus Store alongside the Touch launch.
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Touch, the hand-held VR controller from Oculus VR, will not be shipping together with the first Oculus Rift units, which are expected to ship in the first quarter of 2016.
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Oculus was bought by Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion, and the company has just opened up preorders for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift headset for $599 a piece.
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Quill is a virtual reality illustration program conceived by Oculus Story Studio — not to be confused with the HTC Vive painting app Tilt Brush, or the Oculus Rift sculpting app Medium.
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My mind was blown the first time I tried Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch together, throwing balls and other objects into a virtual void, but I was also using hand controllers.
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However, the key here is "for now," because it seems almost inevitable that Oculus Rift users will be increasingly be pushed to marry their Oculus Rift devices to a Facebook account.
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Using the Xbox controller to manage my experience felt a little bit like a VR step back, especially after I recently used a pair of Oculus Touch controllers with Oculus Rift.
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In a blog post, Oculus called Xiaomi's device "a VR headset based on Oculus technology exclusively for the Chinese market" and said the product will support Oculus's mobile software developer kit.
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The new software update Oculus started rolling out on Friday implemented new DRM that checked to see whether an Oculus Rift was connected to the PC before it launched a game.
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It will cost $29.99 and be playable on the Oculus Rift (as well as the newer Rift S), the HTC Vive, and Vive Pro through SteamVR, Oculus Store, and Viveport support.
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While Oculus has made a big splash in the industry, Sony began officially working on its headset in 2011, before Oculus announced its efforts, said Richard Marks, a Sony research fellow.
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So on top of these updates, Facebook also promised that any current content designed for the Oculus Quest will be forward-compatible with new Oculus VR headsets released in the future.
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This year, Facebook released the Oculus Quest for $399 and, honestly, it's the only headset made by Oculus or anyone else that I've been able to give a full-throated recommendation.
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Zenimax and Oculus previously attempted to reach an agreement whereby Zenimax would be compensated for its intellectual property through equity ownership in Oculus but were unable to reach a satisfactory resolution.
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" Oculus has placed the blame on a "component shortage.
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In a letter to be sent to Kickstarter backers on Tuesday, shared in advance with WIRED, Oculus said that any backer of the 2012 Kickstarter who pledged at the $275 level or above (that is, enough to get an Oculus development kit as a Kickstarter reward) would get a special Kickstarter Edition Oculus Rift.
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How Oculus and HTC Screwed Their Most Important FansOn the morning of Monday, February 29th, the day HTC's Vive VR headset became available for…Read more ReadBut Oculus promises that it's over the pre-order hump and is now focusing on getting its next piece of hardware out the door, the Oculus Touch controller.
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However, Facebook is looking to give us a third option with the $200 Oculus Go.The new standalone Oculus is scheduled to be released in "early 2018" and looks to split the difference between the more expensive (and newly discounted) $400 Oculus Rift and $100 smartphone-powered headsets like Samsung's Gear VR or Google's Daydream.
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The Oculus currently ships with an Xbox One gamepad and a small remote, both of which can be used to navigate inside VR. Oculus Touch controllers are available for preorder on Oct.
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It's still unclear what the future looks like for the ragtag group of incredibly talented creators at Oculus Story Studio without Oculus, but the group detailed that they'll be sharing more soon.
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ZeniMax also claims that Carmack—who would later go on to join Oculus as its CTO when his contract expired—contributed stolen intellectual property to the Oculus team's core tech upon joining.
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But Bethesda is owned by ZeniMax Media, which in May 2014 sued Oculus (and parent company Facebook), saying it illegally took computer code, trade secrets and more to create the Oculus Rift.
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Oculus has added Google Chromecast support to the Samsung Gear VR headset, so users can stream virtual reality experiences to their TV using a new cast button on the Oculus mobile app.
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The mini-experience, which clocks in at around 90 seconds or so, will be available tomorrow on the Oculus Video app through the Rift, or the Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus.
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Samsung shipped at least 5 million units of the Oculus-powered device in its first year of sales, while high-end headsets like the Oculus Rift sold in the hundreds of thousands.
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While Oculus has been very aggressive with their $199 starting price for Oculus Go, it will be interesting to see where the pricing moves for whatever "Santa Cruz" ends up being called.
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The vast majority of people will see these photos on other phones, but you can also view them on the Oculus Go VR headset's web browser, or Firefox on the Oculus Rift.
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Virtual reality developers have threatened to pull support for Oculus as long as Luckey is involved with the company, and Oculus representatives have been pleading with developers to stay on the platform.
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So today it launched "Oculus for Business," which lets companies buy $900 Oculus Rift bundles in bulk with enterprise-grade warranties, a full VR commercial license and access to dedicated customer support.
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Thankfully, like the Oculus Go, the Rift S comes with a new type of lens that helps reduce the flared "god rays" that was often an issue on Oculus' first-gen headset.
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"While this helps prevent piracy from people who didn't buy an Oculus Rift, it doesn't do anything to prevent piracy from those who did buy an Oculus Rift," Libre VR told Motherboard.
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Opening up the Oculus Connect 5 keynote with some announcements, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that its newest headset, called Oculus Quest, will be released in the spring of 2019 for $399.
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It's unclear right now whether those devices would encase an iPhone, like Samsung and Oculus' Gear VR and Google's Cardboard, or be a standalone unit like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.
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The PlayStation VR isn't nearly as powerful as Oculus or Vive (a fact very apparent for something like EVE: Valkyrie, an Oculus launch title that was also being shown at Sony's event).
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An Oculus update posted today quietly removes a feature that blocked Oculus software from being played on other headsets — something that the community has been up in arms about for a month.
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Based on the wording of the Terms of Service, a creative developer could make a piece of interactive artwork that Oculus could then use for an Oculus ad without the artist's permission.
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She said it was her first major industry event and she was excited to meet one of Oculus' cofounders — she had gotten her start in VR development using the Oculus Rift DK2.
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Oculus is also working on equally cool motion and finger tracking controllers called Oculus Touch, but in no way can guarantee to developers that every Rift owner will have access to them.
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Oculus head of VR hardware Michael Hillman Oculus head of VR hardware Michael Hillman Hillman worked in senior engineering and design roles at Apple where he worked on products like the iMac.
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Luckey sold Oculus to Facebook in 2014, and after his controversial split with the social network, Luckey brought a throng of engineers and product designers from Oculus VR with him to Anduril.
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But a demonstration of the new Oculus Voice feature, from a user who first surfaced the feature on Reddit, shows the ability to handle a number of Oculus Home functions beyond search.
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In early 2014, before Oculus Rift had even made it to the mass market, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was spotted trying out the Oculus Rift in Stanford University's Human Computer Interaction Lab.
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Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe said at Re/code's annual Code conference in May that the whole Oculus package would be "in the $1,500 range," but things haven't gotten more specific than that.
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Facebook-owned Oculus is banking on the Quest — a self-contained $399 headset with the same basic features as a high-end, PC-powered Oculus Rift — as a potential breakthrough moment for VR. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called it "the foundation of a new generation of VR" and the final product in Oculus' first generation of headsets.
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Mark Zuckerberg announced the news at this year's Oculus Connect conference, saying it's a way to reach his next goal for Oculus: getting one billion people in VR. The Go headset was rumored ahead of Oculus Connect, and it's not a commercial version of the Santa Cruz self-contained headset prototype that was announced last year.
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People Are Pissed at Oculus For Changing Up Its DRM RulesWhen it released the Rift DK1 in 2012, the Oculus team was seen as the little startup darling that…Read more ReadReleased in April, a third-party app called Revive allowed VR games purchased from the Oculus store to be playable on a competitor's headset, the HTC Vive.
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First Amazon UK leaked the price and ship date of the new Oculus Touch controller in the UK, Now we know the price and ship date in the US.The controllers, which Oculus has been promising for a couple of years now and delayed when shipping the Oculus Rift back in April, will cost $200 and ship December 6.
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Oculus&aposs Cord-Free VR System Is About to Be Controller-Free, TooThe Oculus Quest has been out for a few months, and while Mark Zuckerberg told the crowd at Oculus…Read more ReadHand tracking typically requires lots of cameras and or motion sensors and it can be clunky or affect the performance on slower devices.
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Oculus Rooms, previously available on Oculus' Gear VR, is a social app you can use to engage in VR activities with friends (think games, music, and movies, but with your friends in VR).
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Oculus VR is thanking the original backers of its Kickstarter project, which introduced the virtual reality headset to the world in 2012, by giving them each a final version of the Oculus Rift.
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Oculus VR's trumpeting of the Oculus Rift's upcoming pre-order date seems a little premature for excitement, but it could mean virtual reality fans have headsets in hand in less than a month.
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The Oculus Rift S is a refresh of the 2016 Oculus Rift; it's not a "Rift 2," but an upgrade that replaces the old Rift's tracking cameras with more convenient inside-out tracking.
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Oculus helped create the current VR wave by raising millions of dollars for its debut Oculus Rift headset on Kickstarter, and it's helped fund production of many well-known VR games and films.
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On the developer side, all of those launch titles that Oculus has been pushing for months are going to turn into the Xbox controller-toting ugly stepsisters that Oculus keeps behind closed doors.
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In 2014, right after Mark Zuckerberg publicly announced his plans to acquire Oculus, ZeniMax filed its lawsuit only against Oculus, and warned Facebook of the potential legal problems associated with acquiring the company.
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Interestingly, it looks like the bundles will ship earlier than the standalone Oculus kits, as the bundles ship to select countries beginning in April while the standalone Oculus device won't ship until July.
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Oculus has to explain why people should pay more money for experiences they could get on the cheaper Gear VR, even if Oculus is promising better performance in the all-in-one device.
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Oculus announced a self-contained headset called the Oculus Quest, but even there, rumors suggest it scrapped a higher-end device — and its former CEO Brendan Iribe left the company for nebulous reasons.
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That's a contrast with competitors Oculus and Sony, which have portrayed their VR headsets as mass-market entertainment devices — although Oculus also provides headsets to companies like Walmart for training and other uses.
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The head of product management at Facebook's Oculus, Deng is working to ensure the Oculus Rift headset experience stays superior among a slew of other competitors just now getting into the VR game.
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YouTube doesn't mention supporting Oculus' new mobile device, the standalone Oculus Go. Users can now also party up with friends or strangers to watch and chat about videos together in a VR space.
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At least that was the response of scores of virtual reality fans, some of whom had followed Oculus founder Palmer Luckey since he posted the Oculus Rift development kit on Kickstarter in 2012.
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The free, user-made software allowed users to buy games from the Oculus store that were exclusive to the Oculus Rift and play them on competing virtual reality headsets like the HTC Vive.
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After getting an Oculus Rift development kit 1 headset by backing the Oculus Rift Kickstarter, Thompson began hosting a virtual reality talk-show originally called Virtually Incorrect, which was later renamed Gunter's Universe.
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It's been a bit more of a tossup between HTC and Oculus, but it appears as though Facebook's heavy price cuts to the Oculus Rift have moved the needle in the company's favor.
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This was the opening of Oculus Connect 21, the third annual gathering of developers working with the Oculus Rift VR headset, the parent company of which Facebook purchased in 2503 for $2250 billion.
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Gaming-oriented VR companies like HTC, Sony and Facebook's Oculus have opted for traditional handheld controllers on current generation hardware, but Oculus has already shown that it is experimenting with glove-like controllers.
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My 30 minutes or so today demoing the Oculus Go was one of the first glimpses I've had of a product from Oculus that is nearly ready to be purchased by normal people.
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In a blog post, Oculus content director Mike Verdu said the game will keep releasing across all platforms, and the studio won't prioritize Oculus headsets for updates or new content like music packs.
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Oculus has also kept quiet on Rift sales to date.
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Oculus is permanently dropping its Rift headset price to $399.
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Developers will start getting Oculus Go development kits in November.
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Games are at the heart of the current Oculus experience.
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Mooser says that the Oculus Rift does not interest him.
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Oculus' Go headset arrived this year to split the difference.
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Oculus confirms to me that this is an official acquisition.
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He's obscured by the Oculus Go strapped to my face.
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The Oculus Go will make you look like a dork.
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A map that features in Oculus' Wolves in the Walls.
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Oculus Core 2.0 is rolling out in beta in December.
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Oculus did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Oculus showed off the future of working in VR today.
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It bought Oculus Rift for $2 billion in March 2014.
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Like Oculus Quest, it will ship this spring for $399.
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Oculus is becoming a business play, and it's courting developers.
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Barra's statement fits with Oculus' standard line on the Quest.
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Who knows — one of them might be the next Oculus.
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She's referring to Inigo Quilez, a VFX supervisor for Oculus.
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BONUS: Hands on with the Oculus Rift's awesome Touch controllers
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A wireless Xbox One controller ships with the Oculus Rift.
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The VR experience will be available via The Oculus Store.
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This is going to be a huge launch for Oculus.
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You can't take VR selfies with the Oculus just yet.
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Oculus released the original Rift just over three years ago.
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Facebook's Oculus is launching a new VR headset in China.
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Here's what you need to know about the Oculus Quest.
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The Oculus Quest will support about 50 titles at launch.
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They looked like modified versions of the Oculus Touch controllers.
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King County Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion in 2014.
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The new reporting procedure is detailed in Oculus' help center.
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The first Santa Cruz prototype Oculus showed off in 2016.
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But over the years, Oculus has diversified its product lineup.
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Now, Oculus is telling him it won't ship until July.
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Down, down, down the price of the Oculus Rift goes.
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How will we integrate the virtual realities of Oculus Rift?
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Oculus, Facebook's VR company, also has an office in Shanghai.
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Oculus Go simultaneously solves both the price and complexity issue.
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All the construction in the area also affects the Oculus.
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Oculus' Rift Core 2.0 update is now available in beta.
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Everyone should get HTC vive and stay away from oculus.
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Facebook and Oculus have declined to punish or demote Luckey.
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Founders Fund was one of the first investors in Oculus.
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Oculus plans to ship the Quest next spring, for $399.
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That's where the superior Oculus software library comes into play.
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Is Oculus a bridge for Facebook more broadly in China?
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Xiaomi and Oculus have had a relationship for a while.
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This week, the first consumer Oculus Rift headsets are shipping.
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The Oculus edition offers multiplayer options, both cooperative and competitive.
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Included with the Oculus Go headset is a wireless controller.
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Oculus Go is especially engrossing for watching movies and videos.
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Facebook's Oculus VR headsets could show up at F8 2019.
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Disclosure: My wife works for Oculus, a division of Facebook.
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Oculus needs to do the same, and they already have.
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It'll also come with six games from the Oculus store.
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" The key word associated with the Oculus acquisition is "validation.
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Oculus was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion.
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Oculus Avatars in VR are also launching along with Touch.
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Today's Oculus Connect 3 keynote covered a lot of ground.
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Oculus Rift is now more dead than it already was.
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Oculus operates a hardware lab near Seattle, while its Internet.
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Still, Oculus executives say they are committed to Zuckerberg's strategy.
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Facebook currently sells its VR headset Oculus Rift for $599.
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Can it really compete with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive?
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Facebook Spaces launches in beta today on Oculus Rift + Touch.
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Facebook acquired Oculus for an estimated $3 billion in 2014.
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After 7 incredible years at Oculus / Facebook, I'm moving on.
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Heartening, because Santiago Calatrava's soaring Oculus now teems with people.
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Maybe as more people buy Oculus Go headsets that'll change.
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The heart of the mall is Mr. Calatrava's birdlike Oculus.
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But Oculus is not the only player in the space.
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The Oculus will be leased out as an event space.
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The #hulu VR app is now available on Oculus Rift!
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What to expect from Facebook's big Oculus Connect 5 keynote
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I think Oculus is gone, in the next 24 months.
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At Oculus, Carmack turned his attention to mobile virtual reality.
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Facebook sold its Oculus Medium VR development program to Adobe.
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Get the Oculus Rift VR bundle for $350 See Details
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The game is available on the Oculus Store for $29.99.
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This follows the departure of Oculus' founders and early executives.
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Oculus increasingly treats the $399 Quest as its flagship product.
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But a startup called Oculus was about to change that.
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The Oculus Rift earphones are best cleaned with antibacterial wipes.
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How to clean your Oculus Rift remote or touch controllers
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Oculus, he has said, could be a catalyst for that.
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The company's Vive headset competes with Facebook's Oculus VR product.
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The Oculus Connect keynote included some other news as well.
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You can buy the necessary PC from Oculus, too, though.
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So running video at Oculus sounds like a key role.
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The VR folks, including some from Oculus, interview her first.
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Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of 'Rift 2' headset I will say that the Rift S looks better in real life than it does on paper, but compared to the Oculus Quest and Oculus Go headsets, it still feels like Oculus is launching something below their own standards with the Rift S, and that their co-designer Lenovo ultimately made them a headset on-the-cheap that got the job done while lowering the build-of-materials costs.
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Oculus&aposs Cord-Free VR System Is About to Be Controller-Free, TooThe Oculus Quest has been out for a few months, and while Mark Zuckerberg told the crowd at Oculus…Read more ReadIt sounds like Facebook and Oculus drew a lot of inspiration from Spielberg's and Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, but Horizon is less about photo-realism with a side of uncanny valley, and more like a virtual cartoon world that inspires players to repurpose their Minecraft skills.
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Though Oculus confirms the deal, it did not share details such as the price, exactly who from the Eye Tribe team will be joining Oculus, or what will happen to Eye Tribe's existing users.
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But that jury didn't find Oculus guilty of trade secret misappropriation, and here, it will need to argue that Samsung was an accessory to Oculus' misconduct, not that it was directly stealing ZeniMax's code.
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Oculus announced a new VR headset called the Oculus Rift S this morning, and although we don't know when it will launch, all signs point to the original Rift getting phased out very quickly.
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While the tethered Oculus Rift gets a lot of the attention, mobile platforms like the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR and Google's Cardboard and Daydream headsets are the front line of the VR revolution.
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During its F8 developer conference on Tuesday, Facebook announced it is taking preorders for two of its new virtual reality headsets that were announced last year, the Oculus Rift S and the Oculus Quest.
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Oculus has introduced a softer shape with rubber straps, as well as a pair of motion controllers, which are equipped — like the existing Oculus Touch controllers — with infrared LEDs that those cameras can track.
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He stood to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the sale of Oculus to Facebook, he said in court in January during a trial involving a dispute between Oculus and a games publisher.
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App comparability for the new Oculus Go includes everything available in the Samsung Gear VR library, but critically, there was no mention if the Go will be able to play full Oculus Rift apps.
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Oculus VP of Content Jason Rubin told me in a phone interview, moving forward, Oculus will develop with the built-in Insight tracking system since both the Rift S and the Quest use it.
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There is a lot more to choose from inside an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, and even on Samsung's Galaxy Gear, a comparable piece of casual VR hardware powered by software from Facebook's Oculus.
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The experience was the very first version of Oculus Maximus, one of the hundreds of small, crude, and often prescient games that were submitted to the very first Oculus Rift game jam in 2013.
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An update to Oculus Home is apparently prepping for Touch's arrival by enabling users to connect multiple Oculus camera sensors to enhance movement tracking and give developers access to highly precise room-scale setups.
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On Wednesday, the Oculus founder pledged to donate $2,000 per month to the developer of the software Revive, a program that allows HTC Vive users to play Oculus exclusive titles built for the Rift.
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He stood to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the sale of Oculus to Facebook, he said in court in January during a trial involving a dispute between Oculus and a games publisher.
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However, Oculus says it's working with AMD to support "as many of their cards as possible," and it plans to add support for additional GPUs by the time Oculus Link is out of beta.
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Ross Martin, a software developer in Anchorage, Alaska, received a special delivery at his job on Saturday morning: The first Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, hand-delivered by Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey himself.
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Earlier this week, Oculus Rift announced a $600 headset for retail, outraging many because the headset combined with an Oculus-ready computer would bring the cost of experiencing virtual reality as high as $1,500.
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Analysts estimated that Oculus Rift and HTC Vive sales each numbered in the hundreds of thousands as of earlier this year, although sources have said Oculus' summer sales put it closer to a million units.
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YouTube VR launches today for the Oculus Go YouTube is launching its once Daydream-exclusive virtual reality app on the Oculus Go mobile VR headset today, Adi Robertson writes, after announcing its plans in September.
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In terms of app support, the Oculus Go has a catalog of over 1,000 available apps and is compatible with the same apps that run on the Samsung Gear VR (made in partnership with Oculus).
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The last thing anyone expected from virtual reality was the ability to create things that can live in the real world, but that's exactly what Oculus delivered last week with the release of Oculus Medium.
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Luckey remained out of the public eye until January, when he testified in a trial over whether Oculus—and Facebook—had stolen trade secrets from ZeniMax, a company that previously employed Oculus CTO John Carmack.
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Katz was pictured alongside Oculus founder Palmer Luckey in a 2013 Wired story, and was called "an an integral part of the team that developed the Oculus Rift headset," in a Times Of Israel profile.
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Supported by the Oculus Launch Pad program, and with historical backing from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, which provided archival resources, I Am A Man is now available for free on Oculus Rift.
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It was all about what you'd expect, save for one notable absence: Palmer Luckey, the 24-year-old founder of Oculus VR, the company that makes the Oculus Rift headset, was nowhere to be found.
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Oculus offers another classroom VR option with new pilot program Oculus is giving launching "educational pilot programs" in Taiwan, Japan and Seattle, Mariella Moon reports, seeding Rift and Go headsets to libraries, museums, and schools.
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Oculus Rift users might already have options like Steam and Oculus' own store to shop from, but at least the new compatibility gives users more options to surf through and places to do comparison shopping.
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And one of the free launch titles (for preorders) available today on Oculus is called VR Sports Challenge – and essentially attempts to do for Oculus what Wii Sports did for the Wii ten years ago.
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Oculus: Facebook doesn't plan on making much profit from its Oculus hardware in the next few years—instead it's focused on building content and software and making virtual reality tech as widely available as possible.
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"Oculus and its founders have invested a wealth of time and money in VR because we believe it can fundamentally transform the way people interact and communicate," an Oculus spokesperson told CNBC before Tuesday's proceedings.
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Oculus VR – Seventh and Eighth Annual Crunchies Winner Arguably no device has had a greater impact over the last few years than Oculus, the headset that looks set to bring virtual reality into the mainstream.
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Since buying the virtual reality company Oculus, maker of the Oculus Rift, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it very clear that the acquisition wasn't simply an experiment, but an investment in the company's future.
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The Oculus Rift still isn't coming until the end of March, but Oculus has announced a preorder date for bundles that will include the company's VR headset and a PC that's certified to run it.
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A year ago, Microsoft and Oculus seemed to have a tight relationship: Oculus shipped its headset with an Xbox One gamepad, and Microsoft announced that you'd be able to play Xbox games on your Rift.
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He revealed the headset during the Oculus Connect 4 developer conference on Wednesday, Facebook's head of VR, Hugo Barra, said the headset features the next generation of lenses from the ones in the Oculus Rift.
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Once you've put the thing on your head, you're presented with a simple UI, called Oculus Home, which allows you to browse apps in your library and the Oculus store, where you can download more.
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The feud between Oculus and ZeniMax Media is opening up once again, this time with the CTO of Oculus, John Carmack, suing his former employer for earnings that he claims are still owed to him.
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On the other hand, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey previously said that players could mod games in order to play them on "whatever they want" as long as they buy the games from Oculus' online store.
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He also apologized for "negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners," in response to negative comments from people on his Facebook page, and six months later he was out of Facebook — and Oculus.
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Oculus and Facebook haven't given all the details of how it works on the Quest but we know it uses the 4 cameras on the Oculus Quest to take your hands without any additional hardware.
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Zenimax provided necessary VR technology and other valuable assistance to Palmer Luckey and other Oculus employees in 2012 and 2013 to make the Oculus Rift a viable VR product, superior to other VR market offerings.
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For example, the Oculus Rift retails for $599.99 at Best Buy.
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The old Oculus Home interface isn't going away, but it's changing.
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The Oculus Rift S is a bit of an odd one.
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Let's be clear: Oculus has 99 problems, but $599 ain't one.
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Oculus weirdly warns its users to ""remain seated at all times.
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At that price point, are people really going to buy Oculus?
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These reporting features will come to the Oculus Rift next month.
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Watch it above, in CNN's app or on an Oculus headset.
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Facebook's acquisition of Oculus just became a half billion more expensive.
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Oculus showed off a wide array of other new software today.
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As an Oculus Rift owner, I'm deeply tempted by the Quest.
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Oculus made these compromises to avoid changing the Rift's computing requirements.
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Also, Oculus and HTC have both announced new headsets for 2019.
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Oculus VR Stories have certainly been whiteboarded in an office somewhere.
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Oculus financed the film, but isn't saying how much it paid.
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The Xbox streaming app is available immediately in the Oculus Store.
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A third camera probably isn't necessary for most Oculus Store games.
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But after nine months, the Oculus Rift no longer feels incomplete.
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Oculus Touch controllers to cost £190 in the UK. Crikey. pic.twitter.
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Oculus Rift was sold to Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion.
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Oculus also hasn't announced how much the Touch controllers will cost.
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Medium is now available on the Oculus app store for $29.99.
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"Bedding Taylor Swift, every night inside the Oculus Rift..." he sang.
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Father John Misty should not be saying the phrase Oculus Rift.
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Facebook -owned Oculus is shipping its latest VR headgear from today.
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Also still in development stasis: the now Facebook-owned Oculus Rift.
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Maybe we'll see its next move at tomorrow Oculus Connect conference.
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The Oculus Rift has pretty strenuous hardware requirements to run it.
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The lower framerate on older Oculus Rifts was a huge culprit.
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Luckey denied his involvement and Facebook and Oculus had defended him.
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In Oculus Rooms, you can watch videos from Facebook with friends.
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Oculus is getting serious about non-gaming experiences in virtual reality.
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Oculus pre-order cancellations got me checking my email like pic.twitter.
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The Oculus Go's big draw isn't raw power or total immersion.
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The Oculus Go, built in partnership with Xiaomi, is aggressively nondescript.
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After all, Oculus explicitly stated that it probably wouldn't last long.
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To stay competitive, Oculus VR's main rivals have also cut prices.
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Oculus director Saschka Unseld has produced a work worthy of reference.
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Most, with the exception of Oculus employees, were happy to talk.
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This $199 magic price, though, will only get Oculus so far.
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The other statement comes from Oculus Head of Content Jason Rubin.
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And that's to say nothing of the dreaded "Oculus Face" effect.
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Today, Facebook's only notable consumer hardware product is the Oculus Rift.
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Oculus Rift pre-orders opened on the company's at 63 a.m.
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To use the headset, you'll also need an Oculus-ready computer.
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No details on whether Oculus developers will get any native love.
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It will soon come to the Oculus Rift store as well.
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Loss: The legal issues aren't over, bad press still haunts Oculus.
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Oculus Go review: Cordless VR is here and it's pretty dope
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Oculus Quest all-in-one VR gaming headset — £399 See Details
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Companies like Microsoft, Oculus and Eon Reality have tested out Sketchbox.
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Oculus financed the entire project through its VR for Good initiative.
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Facebook already partnered with Unity to support Oculus VR game development.
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"HTC and Oculus are good but not good enough," he says.
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That doesn't mean, however, the game is available on Oculus Rift.
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"There's architecture, there's automotive," said Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe to CNBC.
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Oculus carries some big power demands, so plan your setup accordingly.
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You can play Eagle Flight ($39.99) for Oculus Rift on Oct.
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Do you have any interest in creating an Oculus retail store?
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The "Gear VR Experience" is now free in the Oculus Store.
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The first Oculus Rift has shipped, deliveries begin Monday 3.28.2016. pic.twitter.
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My favorite VR experience for the Go is Oculus Rooms 2.0.
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They're the "sweet spot" as Zuckerberg also said at Oculus Connect.
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We saw Oculus Rift three years ago I believe at CES.
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The program costs $29.99 and requires Oculus Touch controllers to use.
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But with Oculus Connect coming up in October, anything is possible.
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To fix that Oculus has developed two systems: Timewarp and Spacewarp.
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Live stream: Oculus' live stream is available on YouTube and Twitch.
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Would my Oculus companions even notice what my avatar is wearing?
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The Oculus Rift will be sold with a $599 retail price.
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Now Oculus owner Facebook is providing some stats on its progress.
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Zuckerberg permanently dropped the price of the Oculus Rift to $399.
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Everyone at the conference was awarded a free Oculus Go device.
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Still, my actions were my own and do not represent Oculus.
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This became the prototype for Oculus VR, his highly lucrative business.
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I took over our AR/VR and Oculus team in 2018.
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Facebook unveiled its newest VR headset, the Oculus Quest, in May.
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Masters of the Sun was basically finished when Oculus came in.
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ADR1FT is released on March 28 on Oculus Rift and Steam.
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Nosulus Rift is like an Oculus Rift, except for your nose.
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PT, Oculus was still trying to get the certificate issue resolved.
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You should definitely try it if you have an Oculus Rift.
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Watch out, Oculus and HTC as OEMs are coming after you.
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The Spaces product is launching in beta on Facebook's Oculus Rift.
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The consumer version of the Oculus Rift is shipping in March.
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The game is out on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive today.
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Download GIPHY World on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Steam.
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Starting April 12, Smorgasburg will expand to Oculus Plaza in Manhattan.
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Or they laid on their backs to view the oculus above.
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Oculus will probably be closed down in the next 24 months.
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I have the Vive controllers, the Oculus controllers and the Knuckles.
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But Valve is playing a different game than Oculus and Sony.
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If the Oculus Rift bundle caught your eye, you're not alone.
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Oculus also effectively introduced a new Quest-exclusive controller: your hands.
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Oculus is also getting a feature for organizing and attending events.
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Five years ago, Facebook acquired VR pioneers Oculus for $2 billion.
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But why would you want to factory reset your Oculus Go?
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Sometime very soon, Minecraft will be playable on your Oculus Rift.
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Oculus currently offers three headsets: the Rift S, Quest, and Go.
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" Horvath won an Emmy for an earlier Oculus film called "Henry.
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It will also be available for download on the Oculus Store.
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It will also be available for download on the Oculus Store.
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Facebook bought Oculus almost exactly two years ago, for $2 billion.
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Could VR or AR (Oculus) be a next phase of growth?
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Before filing suit, Zenimax lawyers contacted Oculus VR with those claims.
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Luckey left Oculus VR, now owned by Facebook, back in March.
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In a blog post yesterday, publishing director Chris Pruett wrote that Oculus is setting the standard for Quest apps "higher than we've ever enforced before," compared to standards for the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, or Oculus Go. Pruett says the move will give Quest owners a consistently good experience, while preventing developers from sinking resources into games that don't sell.
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Oculus first highlighted the product at Oculus Connect 3 this past October, where Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell demoed some WebVR content onstage at the developer conference, The company's blog post detailing the developer preview is appropriately mostly for the technically minded, with guides on getting started on WebVR, launching WebVR experiences and a load of sample content for devs to check out.
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Luckey also skipped out on last year's Oculus developer conference, where he had previously given a keynote talk, and didn't make any public statements when Oculus finally shipped its much anticipated Touch controllers in early December.
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Oculus executive Jason Rubin has said that the Rift S is designed to avoid seriously raising the Rift's price or adding "some sort of feature that breaks all the old stuff" and splits up Oculus' ecosystem.
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To give you a physical presence in VR, Oculus is using a stripped-down version of its Avatars feature, first announced back at Oculus Connect in October, that displays Parties participants as colored, semi-translucent heads.
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At least one millionaire with a vested interest in video games is leading the auction: Palmer Luckey, who co-founded Oculus VR, created the Oculus Rift, and subsequently sold his company to Facebook for $2 billion.
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The update will allow gamers playing the Windows 10 version of Minecraft to strap on an Oculus Rift headset and start walking around their created worlds using an Xbox One (or any other Oculus-compatible) controller.
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Wow; well, after a year of the Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch shifting from being $798 to $598 to $499 to $399 to $499, it will now indeed settle at $399 as the final bundled price.
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Motherboard reports that the latest update to Oculus' DRM shuts out a third-party patch called Revive, which allowed users to play VR games purchased through the Oculus store on other headsets, like the HTC Vive.
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In addition to being available as separate apps from the Oculus Store (like the recently announced YouTube VR), the three services are integrated with Oculus TV where they sit alongside the likes of Hulu and Showtime.
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Unfortunately you won't be able to share the viewing experience with friends, since this is a feature that's only available in the separate Oculus Rooms and Oculus Video apps, which don't support the new streaming services.
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The Oculus Rift Touch Controllers shipped with an adapter in the box that allows you to use the Rock Band controller in VR – and VR compatibility is limited to the PC and Oculus Rift at launch.
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The revelation that Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey is a Donald Trump supporter hasn't exactly gone unnoticed, and now two of the key players at Oculus have addressed the matter directly in a pair of statements.
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"I've only just tested this and I'm still in disbelief, but it looks like Oculus removed the headset check from the DRM in Oculus Runtime 1.5," wrote the developer, LibreVR, in patch notes for version 0.6.
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Initially, Sky will upload material to third-party platforms like Facebook 360, Oculus and (soon, the company tells me) YouTube 360, which will make it viewable using headsets like Samsung's Gear VR and the Oculus Rift.
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The 13-year-old game studio has created a total of four titles for the Oculus Rift, including "Asgard's Wrath" and "Marvel Powers United VR," both of which were at least partially funded by Oculus Studios.
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Those belonged to other game players and to David Yee, an Oculus executive producer on the game, which was made by an independent developer called Ready at Dawn and published by Facebook's now-shuttered Oculus Studios.
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"Oculus Venues is a bold move to provide profound social VR engagement and we are honored to deliver such an important part of this new product release from Oculus," NextVR CEO David Cole said in a statement.
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But its power, as far as we know, is more on the level of a Gear VR. Though Oculus hasn't revealed how much Santa Cruz could cost, Barra still refers to the Rift as Oculus' flagship product.
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Finally, Facebook makes it clear that it, WhatsApp and Oculus (as well as Instagram) are all part of one company that it refers to as "The Facebook Companies", though WhatsApp and Oculus have their own data polices.
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Carmack, now the chief technology officer at Oculus, worked with Luckey while still employed by ZeniMax to privately demo an early prototype version of Oculus' Rift headset at the E3 convention in Los Angeles back in 2012.
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Ask them to pay $300 or more for cutting-edge technology, especially something as unproven as virtual reality that still needs more expensive hardware to work, and they balk (Oculus sold just 355,000 Oculus units in 4403).
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This check, which was introduced in a May software update a few weeks after Revive started making headlines in April, confirmed that an Oculus Rift was connected to the computer before users could launch an Oculus game.
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Facebook will spend over $3 billion over the next decade to help spread VR to the masses, Zuckerberg revealed in testimony in an ongoing lawsuit against Oculus by ZeniMax, the former employer of Oculus CTO John Carmack.
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Oculus is also adding two new social games: Social Trivia (pictured below) and Herobound: Gladiators, which allows you to "band together with up to four people to conquer goblins and demons in arena battlefields," according to Oculus.
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Thomason joined Oculus in 2016 as Head of Software, and assumed responsibility for its mobile VR products in December when Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe moved to a role overseeing PC-based VR and leaving the CEO position.
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In February 2017, a U.S. jury in Dallas ordered Facebook, Oculus and other defendants to pay a combined $500 million to ZeniMax, after finding that Oculus used ZeniMax's computer code to launch the Rift virtual-reality headset.
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As a part of the shutdown, Quill will continue to be available for download in the Oculus store, but will no longer be receiving updates, though Oculus may open the software's source code to third-party developers.
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On one hand, Oculus has spent a great deal of money and effort to publish games exclusive to the Oculus Rift, which is a good way to convince early VR adopters to buy it over the Vive.
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But intriguingly, you won't need to buy the company's own Valve Index — the company tells us the Oculus Rift, the Oculus Quest with the new Link cable, the HTC Vive, even Windows Mixed Reality headsets should work.
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You can reserve your very own Oculus Rift headset starting on Jan.
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"This is really a new communication platform," said Zuckerberg after acquiring Oculus.
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Only 200,000 high-end Oculus Rift headsets were sold globally (see chart).
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Oculus Rift and Samsung's Gear VR headsets have a 13+ age requirement.
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Both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive have finally shipped to consumers.
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The Oculus Rift S is real and arrives in spring for $399
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Christie Hemm Klok/WIRED Palmer Luckey has never used an Oculus Rift.
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We're also all excited to celebrate the arrival of the Oculus Rift.
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A standalone portable virtual reality headset from Oculus, maker of the Rift.
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The Oculus Go doesn't care if you're the coolest barista in Brooklyn.
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So what components are actually included in the Oculus Santa Cruz prototype?
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So, they'll do a thing with Oculus or Magic Leap or Twitch.
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The newest Oculus Quest headset looks pretty similar to its previous prototypes.
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Barra is transferring just before Oculus launches its new Quest mobile headset.
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But for now, Oculus won't be releasing this face-capture technology yet.
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Even Facebook-owned Oculus VR is experiencing issues related to the outage.
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Oculus has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into funding VR content.
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Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has created an autonomous battering-ram drone.
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Oculus did not immediately reply to questions about whether Katz remains employed.
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Microsoft is releasing its Xbox streaming app to the Oculus Store today.
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Oculus has 53 titles supporting Touch, ranging from $49.99 to totally free.
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And Oculus and Microsoft solidified their plans for Rift and Hololens, respectively.
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Transference will be supported on Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, and HTC Vive.
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Dear Angelica is currently available for free through the Oculus Rift's store.
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While Oculus and Facebook started quite distinct, the dividing lines are blurring.
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Oculus Quest, its latest VR headset, is facing shortages as a result.
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Oculus needs to lock-on to Xbox and create a meaningful partnership.
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It offers much more than the $199 Oculus Go from last year.
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Oculus was only possible because of such an extraordinary team and community.
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The experience is very similar to Oculus Touch and current VR experiences.
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Today, the future became the present with the launch of Oculus Rift .
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Can Oculus secure and maintain a stranglehold on the best VR developers?
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For example, today Oculus released a $6.99 virtual reality version of Minecraft.
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But first, Oculus will need greater demand and a bigger install base.
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There's the Oculus headset itself, which comes with headphones and a microphone.
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So, if I could afford it, should I buy the Oculus Rift?
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Still, Oculus is confident that games like Stormland can change the conversation.
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Oculus famously dropped support for the Mac just before shipping last year.
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Carmack left to become the chief technology officer of Oculus in 2013.
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Still, Luckey said Oculus remains the leader in the virtual reality sector.
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On Facebook's own Oculus platform, that browser is currently code-named Carmel.
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That's Dragon Front, a virtual reality card game coming to Oculus Rift.
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While Oculus is a different part of Facebook's business, it's still Facebook.
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Others require apps and special viewers like Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard.
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Palmer founded Oculus VR, which Facebook bought for $2 Billion in 2014.
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Discussion of new gaming exclusives is often a topic at Oculus Connect.
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How does your work interact with Facebook's VR headset, the Oculus Rift?
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For Oculus Rift owners, "Project Cars" and "Lucky's Tale" have received kudos.
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Disclosure: my wife works on the VR app store program at Oculus.
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The thing is, the Oculus Rift isn't exactly mass consumer product yet.
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After the wireless Oculus Quest, the cable feels more limiting than ever.
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We're nearing the end of Oculus' first-generation headset lineup, for instance.
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"Xiaomi is our hardware partner for launching Oculus Go globally," Barra said.
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First, while Facebook already announced the Oculus Go, it isn't shipping yet.
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Luckey has in previous years been a mainstay at the Oculus conference.
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Everyone in the audience has an Oculus Go. It's 200 bucks, right?
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So will Oculus be the engine behind VR's first mainstream breakout success?
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He was also an early investor in Oculus VR, another Unity customer.
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It's about the reason the company bought Oculus in the first place.
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Oculus told CNBC it's eager to respond in court to the suit.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated Palmer's title at Oculus.
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Oculus Touch controllers were used as part of the Social VR promo.
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Oculus also now produces hand controllers which will help the VR experience.
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In February, Google launched Tilt Brush support for Oculus Rift + Touch users.
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China's Xiaomi is partnering with Facebook's Oculus on two standalone VR headsets.
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Update April 12th, 1PM and 2:30PM ET: Added statements from Oculus.
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Worse, Oculus Rift's touch controls won't ship until later in the year.
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Nope, not the Oculus Rift, but maybe one day it will be.
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"We bought the Oculus team for a lot of money," Zuckerberg said.
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Samsung, with its Gear VR headset, is now a major Oculus partner.
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Now they have Oculus Touch and the world seems so much brighter.
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So far, there's no real "standard" price for an Oculus Rift game.
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But something about playing it with the Oculus' gamepad just felt wrong.
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More content will soon be added, including feature-length movies, Oculus said.
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Lots of people are angry about the Oculus Rift's $599 price tag.
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Oculus VR isn't the only the only company developing standalone VR headsets.
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Zuckerberg said, though, in later testimony that Facebook researched Oculus for months.
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Lastly, expect to see some updates from Facebook's growing Oculus VR business.
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There are four AR/VR unicorns already (Magic Leap, Oculus, Blippar, MindMaze).
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Custom PC manufacturer, Falcon Northwest, has joined the Oculus Ready PC program.
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We're seeing other steps in this direction with Oculus and HoloLens headgear.
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Oculus will also help Facebook develop its expertise in augmented reality (AR).
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As of today, Edge of Nowhere is available through the Oculus Store.
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Facebook and Oculus did not immediately respond to Motherboard's request for comment.
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Here's someone testing the Oculus Touch out with four trackers through SteamVR:
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So we asked Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe about all this, and more.
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Can these compact VR specs really compete with Oculus, HTC, and Sony?
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However, the Oculus shopping cart displayed May as the expected shipping month.
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As the creators of Oculus Maximus found, the reality is more complicated.
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The next big milestone for Oculus is Touch, its motion control system.
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Facebook dropped $230 billion to acquire virtual reality platform Oculus in 22012.
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Then yesterday, Oculus announced a few new features for their VR platform.
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VR sculpting tool, Oculus Medium, was released to the public last week.
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Oculus can use it even if you don't agree with its use.
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At 21, he sold Oculus to Facebook for more than $2 billion.
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Business Insider spoke to numerous VR developers at the Oculus Connect event.
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Play hundreds of games and exclusives already available in the Oculus store.
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Later this year, Oculus will release a pair of touch-sensitive controllers.
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Oculus advertises about 2 hours, which was pretty accurate in my experience.
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Get your credit cards ready because Oculus is celebrating Christmas in May.
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" He apologized for "negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners.
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Oculus, Samsung, HTC, and others have popularized sci-fi looking VR masks.
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He brings decades of hardware, manufacturing and supply chain experience to Oculus.
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The issue for Oculus today is that it's no longer an exclusive.
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This summer, Oculus will add the ability to watch content with friends.
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Correction: This article originally stated that Minecraft for Oculus Rift was free.
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A company called ZeniMax Media alleges Oculus stole parts of its technology.
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Both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets currently support SteamVR games.
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The jury found Oculus guilty of false designation and copyright infringement. 6.
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But Oculus Rift development kits have been in the wild since 2013.
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Wei, who joined Oculus in November 2015, left the company last month.
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Oculus did something similar with the first version of its VR headset.
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Brendan Iribe, a co-founder of Oculus VR, plans to leave Facebook.
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This collection, as an archive, offers an invaluable oculus onto black life.
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The organization will join Oculus Studios but will continue to operate independently.
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Save $50 on the Oculus Go Standalone Virtual Reality Headset (32GB) — $149
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So CTRL-Labs could serve as an interface to Oculus' alternate realities.
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The virus has also affected its ability to produce Oculus VR headsets.
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The publication also reported Facebook/Oculus would be avoiding GDC, as well.
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Facebook has permanently cut the price of its Oculus Go VR headset.
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Then came Facebook's most aggressive move, the acquisition of Oculus in 2014.
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It has released several versions of Oculus VR headsets over the years.
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But its Oculus branch lost a $500 million lawsuit involving copyright infringement.
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