Facebook adds new requirement for Oculus Quest sideloading
Facebook is requiring a new step to sideload content on the Oculus Quest standalone headset. The option to use “unknown sources” on Oculus Quest...
Oculus Connect becomes Facebook Connect, goes virtual on September 16
Goodbye, Oculus Connect — hello, Facebook Connect. Following last week’s controversial announcement that Facebook accounts will be required to use all future Oculus virtual...
AR/VR Weekly: the view from Oculus Connect 4
Last week was Facebook’s dog-and-pony show Oculus Connect 4: We got news on an upcoming $200 standalone headset, the next-gen Santa Cruz project, a lower price...
Oculus’ Nate Mitchell: VR ‘expectations got ahead of themselves’
Nate Mitchell is one of the Oculus co-founders and continues to be a key leader at Facebook defining the product strategy for VR going...
Oculus Connect 4: All the new games
Video games weren’t a big part of Oculus’s Connect 4 event today in San Jose. They took a backseat to things like the new...
Titanfall and Call of Duty veterans will bring a VR game to Oculus Rift in 2019 (update)
Respawn Entertainment, the development studio for EA’s blockbuster Titanfall sci-fi shooter series, said that it will create a VR game for the Oculus Rift...
Facebook Spaces will let you livestream 360-degree video from anywhere
Facebook Spaces, a social virtual reality space, is getting a few upgrades that make it a lot more social. Spaces will now let you...
Oculus opens Explore API to all Gear VR developers, coming to Rift in 2018
Oculus announced at its Oculus Connect keynote event today that its Explore API will be available for all Gear VR developers. The API will...
Improved Oculus avatars are coming to SteamVR and Daydream
Facebook said today that its Oculus avatar characters for virtual reality will be upgraded to be more realistic, and they will be available across...
Rift Core 2.0 is coming with new Dash and improved Home for Oculus devices
Oculus announced during its Oculus Connect 4 event today that Rift Core 2.0, the new built-in software user-interface programs for the company’s virtual reality hardware,...