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How VR startups can survive the slow growth of 2017

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 12, 2017
21 min

While the throngs were attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we had our own GamesBeat event nearby at a breakfast sponsored by...

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Facebook adds speech recognition to Oculus Rift, Gear VR

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 11, 2017
2 min

Facebook today announced the launch of a voice search feature for its Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset and Samsung’s Gear VR headset. It’s...

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Oculus CTO John Carmack sues ZeniMax Media for $22.5 million

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 10, 2017
2 min

John Carmack’s legal fight with ZeniMax Media widened as the legendary game developer and current chief technology officer of Facebook’s Oculus division filed a...

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Oculus VR slashes Rift and Touch controller prices by $100 each

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
March 1, 2017
2 min

Virtual reality just got a little cheaper today for PC owners. Oculus VR announced this morning that it’s cutting the price of both its...

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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, in the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset as then-Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe looks on, in 2015.

Court order could hamper Facebook VR plans

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 28, 2017
3 min

(Reuters) – Facebook’s big ambitions in the nascent virtual reality industry could be threatened by a court order that would prevent it from using...

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Small mistakes led to a $500 million verdict against Oculus

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 2, 2017
6 min

Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus,...