This week, the official Oculus Rift Twitter account tweeted out a GIF of an ornate, mystical door, and it’s apparently a new game from Sanzaru Games.Read More
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Facebook reorganizes Oculus to further its long-term VR goals
Facebook isn’t done shaking up its strategy for Oculus. TechCrunch has learned that Facebook reorganized its augmented and virtual reality teams this week to focus on areas of technical expertise, rather than specific products. The company acknowledged the change in a statement, saying that they were “internal changes” that shouldn’t affect end users or developers. […]
Oculus talks the controller tracking limitation of Quest
Oculus Quest, the latest VR headset from Facebook, enables full six degrees of freedom (6DOF) tracking for both head and hands using the company’s new inside-out system called Insight. This brings the standalone headset closer to Rift-quality tracking than ever before, but it’s still not perfect. Gabor Szauer, Developer Relations Engineer at the co…Read More
ProBeat: Oculus Connect 5 taught me Facebook Live still sucks
OPINION: As part of our Oculus Connect 5 coverage this week, we sent Dean Takahashi to the event in San Jose, California while the broader VentureBeat team supported him remotely by watching the livestream. Unfortunately, just like last year, Oculus chose Facebook Live. And just like last year, it was a poor experience. The day […]
Carmack compares Oculus Quest hardware power to last-gen game consoles
Any excuse to reuse this image of Carmack is a good one. (credit: Oculus VR) SAN JOSE—In a wide-ranging and occasionally rambling unscripted talk at the Oculus Connect conference today, CTO John Carmack suggested the Oculus Quest headset was “in the neighborhood of power of an Xbox 360 or PS3.” That doesn’t mean the Quest, […]
Oculus CTO John Caramack reveals what’s next for Oculus Go
Oculus CTO John Carmack is known for giving an unfiltered speech on day two of Oculus’ annual Connect conference, and this year is no different. Today, he talked extensively on the trials and tribulations of making Oculus’ latest slate of standalone headsets, and more intriguingly, gave a sneak peek as to what expect in the […]
The Facebook Effect Hits Oculus: In VR, Other People Are Everything
At Oculus’ annual developer conference, everything from the demos to the keynote language reinforced how important VR is to Facebook’s long-term efforts. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bac0d5af8a2e62d0bd5c489/master/pass/Zuck-Oculus-1041178462.jpg
Oculus’ $399 Quest to Take VR Mainstream
Facebook’s Oculus division wants more people in VR. The Quest, its new high-powered stand-alone headset, takes a flying leap in that direction. https://media.wired.com/photos/5babc8da80ec002859e56ad0/master/pass/quest_front.jpg
Oculus Quest has Rift-quality VR without the wires
Hugo Barra, Oculus’ head of VR, said earlier this year that the standalone headset is the key to mass adoption of VR. And in 2018, the company is doubling down on that claim. A few months ago, Oculus released its first standalone headset, the Oculus Go, an affordable phone-free alternative to Samsung’s Gear VR. Today, […]
‘Star Wars’ VR experience ‘Vader Immortal’ will debut on Oculus Quest
Oculus Quest owners will have an exclusive Star Wars VR series to look forward to this spring: Vader Immortal. We only got a brief glimpse of it during the Oculus Connect 5 keynote today, but it looks like it’ll place you on Mustafar, the volcanic planet that houses Vader’s lair. The three episode series will […]
