Categories Posted inin Business Want to try out Oculus Rift? You'll have to brave the brats at Chuck E. Cheese's Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 21, 2014 3 min And a new cover story in Wired sheds light on the inside view of Oculus' fast growth and acquisition by Facebook. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business The post-Oculus boom: Survios raises $4M for free-moving virtual reality Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 19, 2014 4 min Survios is trying to assemble a complete virtual-reality system, giving you 360-degree immersion and control. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Why did Oculus VR join Facebook? Because consoles don’t reach a billion people Posted byby GamesBeat May 5, 2014 2 min As Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe weighed the decision to sell his hot virtual reality startup to Facebook, he asked himself, “Do we want... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Oculus VR continues to suggest that it’s the subject of a shakedown Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 5, 2014 2 min Facebook acquired Oculus VR for $2 billion, and now Skyrim publisher Zenimax is asking for royalties. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Oculus VR’s John Carmack: The Rift uses ‘zero lines of code that I wrote while’ at Zenimax Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 2, 2014 2 min The Doom co-creator defended himself and his company from accusations from his former employer. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: Walking the line with unpopular video game causes (update) Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 2, 2014 4 min The dispute between ZeniMax and John Carmack over the Oculus VR technology isn't easy to figure out. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Doom co-creator John Carmack under fire for allegedly taking ‘proprietary technology’ to Facebook’s Oculus VR Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 1, 2014 3 min Zenimax says it owns key technology that makes the Oculus Rift work since Carmack developed it while still an employee of id Software. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Riding on virtual reality fever, Virtuix raises $3M round for Omni VR treadmill Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 24, 2014 2 min The Facebook-Oculus deal has validated the VR market. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The next contraption for your makeshift holodeck comes in July: A $500 VR treadmill Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 10, 2014 2 min If you preorder from this point forward, however, you won't get it until September. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: Virtual-reality startups like Survios are moving into Oculus Rift’s slipstream Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 4, 2014 5 min Survios is a young company, but it is already getting a lift less than two weeks after Facebook's stunning $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR. Continue Reading 5 min