Turtle Rock’s Steve Goldstein believes the console game industry lacks risk takers
I’ve formed a lot of opinions about the game industry over the years. And I recently got the chance to spout them in a...
Oculus is pumping up support for its developer site
Facebook wants to get better at helping its Oculus Rift developers. The virtual reality division of the social-networking behemoth announced today that it has...
Vreal CEO Todd Hooper on the joys of VR livestreaming
Todd Hooper has shown up early at the virtual reality party. He started Vreal in Seattle to create a livestreaming platform for streamers to...
Vive outsells Rift — but mobile and console VR outsell both
The high price and lack of must-have content is still holding back the sales of top-end virtual reality systems for PC. SuperData Research, a...
More than 5% of Facebook’s workforce deals with AR and VR
Two pieces of information from Facebook sources have given us new insight into the division of labor inside the social media giant. Words spoken by...
Facebook shuts down its Oculus Story Studio team
Facebook is getting out of the narrative-based VR experience business. Oculus VR content boss Jason Rubin revealed today that the company is closing its...
Oculus will skip E3 2017: It’s not you, it’s me
Attendees at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles will notice that a familiar structure has faded from the show’s sweeping skyline of corporate...
The reality of M&A for augmented and virtual reality
Despite Facebook’s blockbuster $3 billion Oculus acquisition in 2014, augmented and virtual reality has been too early stage for large scale mergers and acquisitions...
A (Palmer) Luckey’s Tale: Donald Trump, Chrono Trigger, and 100 grand
Here’s probably the first time someone had to write “Chrono Trigger” and “Donald Trump” in the same sentence. A Californian limited-liability corporation called Wings...
AltspaceVR founder wants to make virtual reality as accessible as the web
Eric Romo and his cofounders at AltspaceVR want to make virtual reality as pervasive and accessible as the worldwide web. AltspaceVR is leading the...