The Oculus Quest 2 comes at a precarious time. The world is still gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic and people are still seeking escape from the hellscape happening all around us. If ever there was a ...

Legendary programmer and former Oculus CTO John Carmack doesn’t think Meta’s developer incentive structure is healthy for the Horizon Store ecosystem, calling it “wasteful churn.” The News While ...

The single biggest impediment to virtual reality taking off in the mainstream is the cord. Whether it's Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or even (my personally beloved) PlayStation VR, having a tail of braided ...

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Relax, gamers. Not only will Oculus still be able to fulfill its ambitions, but the Facebook acquisition will also prove a landmark moment for the impending ubiquity of virtual reality. Nick Statt was ...

Fresh off the v28 firmware rollout and introducing features like Air Link and 120Hz support, Oculus has revealed what's next for the platform. Among the latest features is a live overlay, which let ...

Facebook-owned Oculus, makers of the popular virtual reality headsets, announced several accessibility improvements in a blog post published late last week. The update brings the device’s software to ...

Facebook's acquisition of Oculus was vetted in a matter of days, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in testimony on Tuesday. Amid pressure to leapfrog mobile phone giants Apple and Google, Facebook pushed ...

Two years ago, Facebook-owned Oculus quietly began demoing a prototype of a stand-alone VR headset codenamed Santa Cruz. Unlike the Oculus Rift, this prototype didn’t need to be wired to a PC to work.

Oculus Quest builds sensors into the headset itself, with four cameras arrayed around the edges of the visor. Those cameras do double-duty, tracking both the space you’re in and the revised Touch ...

Oculus stopped selling its entry-level virtual reality headset on Tuesday, the Oculus Go. Usually this kind of announcement would be met with nostalgic retrospectives and beers poured on the floor.

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