The Oculus Rift S is a bit of an odd one. Three years after the Rift’s initial launch, Oculus has released a product that feels like a lateral move rather than a leap forward. It’s better in a few ways and worse in a few ways. After spending some time playing with it and spending […]
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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 bits of our October report with the release of the new Oculus Rift S. As we first reported, the biggest improvements to the Oculus Rift S are a move to the company’s […]
View More The Oculus Rift S is indeed real and arrives in spring for $399HP built a better version of the Oculus Rift
HP honestly isn’t generally a brand most associate with being at the cutting edge of new technologies, but the company’s new HP Reverb is probably the best PC-powered consumer VR headset out there when balancing price and feature set. It’s not only a big win for HP, but a big win for the Windows Mixed […]
View More HP built a better version of the Oculus RiftFacebook plans ‘enterprise edition’ of VR headsets
Facebook wants to sell more virtual reality headsets to businesses.
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.
The job listi…
Oculus co-founder shipping free Rift repair kits to users with VR headset audio issue
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey isn’t in the VR hardware business these days since getting canned by Facebook (he’s focused on smart border security at his new company Anduril), but he still wants people to like the product he helped design. A couple of months back he detailed some of the rather intricate mods he had […]
View More Oculus co-founder shipping free Rift repair kits to users with VR headset audio issueDaily Crunch: Facebook (possibly) considered buying Unity
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Facebook mulled multi-billion-dollar acquisition of gaming giant Unity, book claims Less than a year after making a $3 billion investment into […]
View More Daily Crunch: Facebook (possibly) considered buying UnityReferences to next-gen Oculus ‘Rift S’ headset reportedly found in internal code
After we broke the news in November that Oculus’s former CEO had left the company partially due to disagreements on the company’s PC hardware direction, including the cancellation of a high-end “Rift 2” in favor of a more iterative “Rift S” headset, new details are emerging that confirm Facebook’s directional shift for its flagship headset. […]
View More References to next-gen Oculus ‘Rift S’ headset reportedly found in internal codeOculus Quest is the savior VR needs
About five or six years ago, I walked into a booth at CES and tried a then cobbled-together and Oculus Rift development kit headset on for the first time.
The demo was crude and former Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was busy nerding out over graphic…
Ousted Oculus co-founder ‘fixes’ Oculus Go VR headset with custom modifications
You can fire him from Facebook and remove him from working on the Oculus VR technology he helped pioneer, but you can’t stop him from letting his inner geek run wild.
Ousted Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey is still very much the same boy who’s obsess…
Facebook settles Oculus VR lawsuit with ZeniMax
Nearly five years after announcing its acquisition of Oculus VR, Facebook is finally ready to put behind it the drama surrounding its founding. Gaming giant ZeniMax Media’s lawsuit against Facebook over the misuse of intellectual property related to the founding of Oculus VR has finally been settled. In a statement, ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman confirmed […]
View More Facebook settles Oculus VR lawsuit with ZeniMaxOculus co-founder reportedly claims he was ousted for his pro-Trump views
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey told CNBC in early October he couldn’t talk about his departure from Facebook, but said “that it wasn’t my choice to leave.”
When he left the company in March 2017, there was speculation it was due to Luckey’s donation…
Facebook reorganizes Oculus for AR/VR’s long-haul
Facebook is again looking to whip Oculus into shape for its 10-year journey towards making virtual reality mainstream. According to two sources, Facebook reorganized its AR and VR team this week from a divisional structure focused around products to a functional structure focused around technology areas of expertise. While no one was laid off, the […]
View More Facebook reorganizes Oculus for AR/VR’s long-haul