Enlarge Aurich Lawson / Facebook Our “Facebookening of Oculus” series continues today with the announcement of the Facebook Connect conference as a free, live-streamed event on September 16. You may remember years of “Oculus Connect” conferences, which focused on the company’s efforts in virtual reality and other “mixed reality” mediums. That conference is dead. It’s […]
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I Expect You To Die is an Oculus Quest hit, reaching $2 million in revenue
Schell Games’ I Expect You To Die is the latest VR title to celebrate huge success on Oculus Quest. The game, which launched on Facebook’s standalone headset last year, has sold nearly 100,000 copies on the platform, generating $ 2 million in revenue. In September 2018, over six months before Quest launch, I Expect You […]
Google spotlights more suspected Oculus VR gadget-scam ads
Fresh evidence that scam stores are exploiting Google’s Shopping service to appear at the top of its search results has been discovered by the BBC. Two sites offering hard-to-find gadgets at a discount were found to be using bogus checkout facilities that encourage customers to pay via a direct bank transfer. This prevents users from […]
Unplugged: Air Guitar uses Oculus Quest hand-tracking to turn you into a rock star
A video teaser popped up for a VR game on Oculus Quest that uses controller-free hand-tracking for a familiar musical experience similar to Rock Band and Guitar Hero. And it already carries the perfect name — Unplugged: Air Guitar. The game is a side project by Ricardo Acosta that he’s been working on at night. He […]
The best Oculus Rift games
The Oculus Rift had a tough go of it out of the gate. Delayed shipments and a sparse library of games made its first six months on the market rocky. Then, in late 2016, the delayed Oculus Touch controllers arrived, upping the quality of most games and giving players full motion control with each hand. […]
Oculus designer creates LED face mask to encourage social distancing
Facebook’s corporate mission is to “bring the world closer together,” but as the coronavirus continues to endanger lives around the world, one of the company’s designers has come up with a novel tool to keep people a little further apart. Operating under her fashion-technology brand Lumen Couture, Oculus design manager Chelsea Klukas has introduced a […]
Oculus Quest wishlist: 4 upgrades we want
The Oculus Quest standalone VR headset is an incredible device that’s redefining what virtual reality means. The $ 400 all-in-one released in May with some great games like Superhot VR and Beat Saber working with complete wireless freedom. Just set up your guardian boundaries wherever you are and start playing. By the end of the […]
Facebook ‘thinking about’ opening Quest to apps outside the Oculus Store
Facebook’s Chris Pruett gave details on the Oculus Store curation policy for Oculus Quest in a Twitter thread, along with teasing a potential official way for distributing Oculus Quest apps outside of the Oculus Store. The entire thread from the director of content ecosystem at Facebook’s Oculus is as follows: Focus on polish & quality […]
Oculus Quest’s hand-tracking drains just 7 minutes from headset’s battery life
The upcoming hand-tracking feature for Oculus Quest reduces battery life by just 7 minutes, according to Facebook. Hand Tracking was announced during the week at Oculus Connect 6, Facebook’s annual VR/AR conference. Releasing early next year, it will allow users to interact with the Quest menu and supported apps without using the Touch controllers. During the developer […]
Oculus announces plans to build augmented reality glasses
After showing someone awkwardly hold a smartphone up to have a video chat, the demo video transitioned to this: a chat where a distant friend appears in the same room. Most of the demo video revolved around alerts appearing in your normal world, like movie times and reviews. (This is similar to a Facebook reveal […]
Oculus Connect time machine: How well has Michael Abrash predicted VR’s future?
For the last half-decade at each Oculus Connect, Facebook’s top VR researcher presented an annual look at the future of the technology. The research-focused talk by Michael Abrash is a highlight of the annual conference hosted by Facebook and we’ll hope to see a similar update during Oculus Connect 6. Hired from Valve, Abrash built […]
Red Matter’s Oculus Quest sales eclipse its Rift sales in just 1 week
Sales of Red Matter on Oculus Quest have already surpassed the game’s lifetime sales on Rift, according to the developer Vertical Robot. The Rift version of the game launched 15 months ago. It currently has 172 ratings on the Rift store, averaging 4.4 stars. The Quest version is now at the No. 1 spot on the […]
Unreal Engine now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest and Go
The latest version of the Oculus Unreal Engine Integration adds support for Vulkan on Oculus Quest and Oculus Go. Unity told us they will add the same “later this year.” What is Vulkan? Vulkan is a low-level graphics API developed as a successor to OpenGL, which was originally released in the early ’90s. Vulkan was developed […]
Anne Frank House VR is now on Oculus Quest for free
Just over a year ago now Oculus and Force Field VR released a VR experience based around Anne Frank. The piece was released on Frank’s 89th birthday on Oculus Rift, Go, and Gear VR. And just after Frank’s 90th birthday passes, the app also arrives on Oculus Quest. Anne Frank House VR is now available on Facebook’s standalone […]
Facebook’s Jason Rubin: The state of Oculus Quest, Rift, and Go at E3 2019
At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this week in Los Angeles I played an early demo version of official 360-degree songs from Beat Saber and learned to steer a kayak in VR. Afterward, I went to get lunch with UploadVR senior editor David Jagneaux ,and we found Jason Rubin “VP of Special Gaming Strategies” at Facebook […]