Beat Saber is now an Oculus studio after Facebook acquisition (update)
Facebook is acquiring Beat Games, the studio responsible for virtual reality megahit Beat Saber. That is a VR music game where players must hit...
Facebook starts selling replacement Oculus Rift S cables
Is your Oculus Rift S cable twisted beyond recognition? Facebook is now selling a replacement cable — but it’s pricey. The Oculus Rift S...
Facebook trains AI to generate worlds in a fantasy text adventure
Procedurally generating an interesting video game environment isn’t just challenging — it’s incredibly time-consuming. Tools like Promethean AI, which tap machine learning to generate...
Oculus Link beta hands-on: How Quest might kill Rift S for wired PC VR
It’s easy to see the almost limitless sales potential of a VR headset that can operate fully on its own or switch to become a...
Oculus and Unity offer new intermediate-level guide to making VR games
Facebook’s Oculus and Unity Technologies are offering a 20-hour intermediate guide to building a VR game. The new guide is designed to introduce people...
John Carmack moves to ‘consulting CTO’ role at Oculus
John Carmack is stepping down from his full-time position as chief technology officer at Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality division. Carmack said in a Facebook...
Apple delaying AR glasses until 2022 would be bad for XR, but no shock
Years ago, an Apple loyalist claimed the company was being unfairly criticized for delaying products that had been widely reported to be on the...
Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau interview — Bouncing back to fast growth
Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau has been doing some victory laps in recent quarterly earnings calls. The maker of social mobile games like FarmVille, Merge...
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook is focused on noninvasive brain interfaces for VR
In a leaked transcript published by The Verge, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed his thoughts on brain-computer interfaces and their potential integration with Facebook’s VR and...
How ILMxLab built the Vader Immortal: Episode II virtual reality experience
I can never get the folks at ILMxLAB to acknowledge that their Vader Immortal virtual reality experience is actually a game. They call it...