Facebook envisions future VR/AR hardware with Cambria and Nazaré projects
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is working on futurist virtual reality and augmented reality projects, dubbed respectively Project Cambria and Project...
Facebook launches gaming fan groups to grow player communities
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Fan Groups, an improved Facebook Groups experience for creators and their communities on Facebook Gaming. Gaming...
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...
The DeanBeat: Consumer VR is making snail-like — but steady — progress
We are all waiting for the predictions of Mike Abrash to come true. The head of Facebook’s Reality Lab believes virtual reality has the...
Facebook Horizon is Oculus VR’s Roblox-like social space
Facebook introduced its latest social platform at its Oculus Connect 6 developer conference today. Horizon is a shared VR world for Oculus Quest and...
Palmer Luckey: I left Facebook enraged, but Zuckerberg is VR’s top backer
Though the exact circumstances of Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey’s March 2017 departure from Facebook have remained somewhat ambiguous, he’s now talking openly about...
How Facebook plans to boost augmented reality with Spark AR
More than a billion people have interacted with Facebook’s Spark AR augmented reality platform. But that might mean that we’ve all had cat faces...
Oculus Rift: The inside story
Among journalists, no one has gotten inside the story of the Oculus Rift as much as Blake Harris, who has just published The History...
Blake Harris talk — How ‘The History of the Future’ almost didn’t happen
Blake Harris is a historian of the video game wars. His first book — Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that defined a...
Facebook’s esports dreams face the privacy PR nightmare
It’s no secret that Facebook’s mishandling of consumer data has landed it in hot water. This forced the social-media behemoth’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg a...