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August’s Steam hardware survey results are now in, and the Oculus Rift takes its biggest leap over the HTC Vive yet. Last month’s survey showed less than a 2 percent difference in the use of the two leading PC VR headsets on Valve’s gaming platform, but that gap grew to just under 4 percent in August. Vive […]
Customers in the US and Europe have been able to place Oculus Go reservations for a while now, but European VR enthusiasts still haven’t received their headsets. That changes today as Oculus has officially opened online purchases and brought its device to over 300 physical stores across Europe, Canada and the UK. Oculus Go was […]
Oculus Studios is launching a virtual reality tour of the Anne Frank House, a home in Amsterdam where the famous author hid from the Nazi’s from 1942 to 1944 during World War II. I’ve seen the outside of Anne Frank’s house. But I never stepped inside. Now I could do see inside that place that […]
Last year Disney revealed that a Marvel VR game is on the way for Oculus headsets, and things have been fairly quiet since. Marvel Powers United VR will allow for four-player co-op as gamers take on the roles of various heroes in the Marvel universe like The Hulk, Captain Marvel, Deadpool or Loki. With Avengers: […]
At last month’s Reboot Develop conference in Croatia, Oculus encouraged VR developers in attendance to release their content on every platform, and not as exclusives to one headset. Matt Conte, the dead of development engineering at the VR specialist, said as much during his talk, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz. Talking about how to reach the bro…Read More
On Monday, Oculus chief scientist Michael Abrash posted this image of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testing something at what was formerly known as Oculus Research. Now, these tests take place at Facebook Reality Labs. (credit: Oculus) Nearly four years ago, Facebook paid roughly $ 2 billion to acquire the virtual reality company Oculus, yet since […]
We were disappointed to find out Oculus Go at launch doesn’t have any way for people outside VR to see what the person wearing it sees. Chromecast integration provides this feature on Google Daydream headsets, for example. It works incredibly well on a Daydream View to let someone in VR wirelessly share what they see to […]
Enlarge / Oculus’s latest headset prototype, the Half Dome, as revealed at the F8 Developer Conference. (credit: Facebook / Oculus) Oculus is only one day into the launch of a new, $ 199 VR headset, but the company has already begun hinting at the future of its higher-end line of Rift products. Wednesday saw Oculus […]
It looks like a patent detailing the VR glove that we saw Mark Zuckerberg wearing last year has now surfaced online. While the VR industry gathered at GDC last week, not one but two Oculus patents, originally filed back in 2016, were published online. Both describe haptic feedback gloves that use tendons that plug into an accentuator to […]
One of the very first things I did in Oculus Go was lean. I was playing Settlers of Catan at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and where the Experiment 7 studio demonstrating cross-play from Rift to Oculus Go. There was a person sitting to my right in VR, and I instinctively leaned to […]
