A year after Facebook announced a way for people to play Oculus Rift games on the standalone Quest headset, it’s preparing to bring Oculus Link out of beta. The feature will be available more broadly sometime this fall.If you connect your Quest to a…
After Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe left the company late last year, TechCrunch reported a shift in strategy from developing a "Rift 2" to a more lightly-refreshed "Rift S" VR headset. Now UploadVR cites code found in the…
Virtual reality offers all manner of immersive experiences, including short films, but gaming is where VR really shines right now. So, if you have a gamer in your life who seems to already have everything, consider giving them some of the VR g…
In May during its F8 conference, Facebook announced that it was working on a feature that would take a typical 2D picture and make it appear three-dimensional when posted in the News Feed. Now, it’s beginning to roll out 3D photos to everyone, allowi…
The virtual reality adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s The Great C is now making its way to VR headsets after debuting at the Venice Film Festival. It will be available for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive as soon as October 9th, but PlayStation VR owners wi…
Oculus Quest owners will have an exclusive Star Wars VR series to look forward to this spring: Vader Immortal. We only got a brief glimpse of it during the Oculus Connect 5 keynote today, but it looks like it’ll place you on Mustafar, the volcanic pl…
The Oculus mobile app is no longer just a companion to the Oculus Go — an update to the app for Android and iOS has introduced Rift support that lets you manage your VR experience away from your PC. You can link up with friends, find events …
Amid a string of announcements at Connect 5, including the standalone Oculus Quest headset, Facebook revealed some updates to the Rift Core 2.0 platform, which it said is moving out of beta in early October. It’s available on the Public Test Channel…
Mozilla’s headset-focused web browser is finally ready for your cranium: Firefox Reality is available for HTC Vive, Oculus and Daydream devices through their respective stores. The software is designed from the start for AR and VR hardware, with an i…
The VR community’s biggest annual event, Oculus Connect, is just over a week away, and as you’d expect from the tech in question, you won’t have to actually be there in order to enjoy proceedings. The company will livestream key OC5 moments in Oculus…
Immersive virtual reality experiences can make learning a lot more fun for students and for anyone visiting places like museums. It’ll take work to get to a point where they’re widely used as a teaching tool, though, and Oculus is taking a leaf out o…
British developer Ninja Theory is bringing its critically acclaimed Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive later this month. The new version will be available as a free update for anyone that has already bought the game on Steam…
A VR adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Great C” is headed to the Venice Film Festival, Variety reports. First published in 1953, the story centers on a human tribe living in a post-apocalyptic world set in the future. Each year, the tri…
When Oculus upgraded its system software to Rift Core 2.0, currently in beta, it added a redesigned Home experience, multitasking for apps and windows in Dash and mirrored Oculus Desktop monitors. These are heavy-resource features, according t…
Enchanting adventure Moss might have launched as a PlayStation VR exclusive, but developer Polyarc has confirmed it won’t be tethered to Sony’s console any longer. It’s finally available on both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive for $30.
Last year Disney revealed that a Marvel VR game is on the way for Oculus headsets, and things have been fairly quiet since. Marvel Powers United VR will allow for four-player co-op as gamers take on the roles of various heroes in the Marvel un…
In the past, we’ve seen hotel rooms and even entire hotels specifically designed for those who prefer the orange glow of de_dust2 to a sandy beach. But Alienware’s new gaming suite in Hilton’s Panama City location might well be the easiest place yet…
An eagle-eyed Redditor may have just discovered that Oculus Rift is now supported in the latest stable version of Google Chrome. You’ll have to do a little menu legwork to set it up by tracking down a setting in Chrome’s flags, but the browser can su…
Hand-painted VR animation isn’t new. Oculus developed Quill, a 3D painting package for the Rift, back in 2015 for its now defunct Story Studio. It was released to the public in Dec. 2016 and updated with a slew of filmmaking features three months ago…
The avatars in Facebook’s social VR environment, Spaces, could use some work: they have a flat, cartoonish look, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find one that really reflects your look. Accordingly, Facebook is giving these avatars a makeover. The ne…
The avatars in Facebook’s social VR environment, Spaces, could use some work: they have a flat, cartoonish look, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find one that really reflects your look. Accordingly, Facebook is giving these avatars a makeover. The ne…
If you own an Oculus Rift, good news: It should work as normal again. The Facebook-owned division was caught off guard yesterday when a number of headsets suddenly stopped working. The problem — much to Oculus’ embarrassment — was an expired securi…
Ever wanted to run in virtual reality without smacking into a real wall? You’ll have a chance shortly. Survios has revealed that its VR foot racing game Sprint Vector launches February 13th for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR. The sci-fi run…
Virtual reality and augmented reality are all over the North American International Auto Show floor. Chevrolet, Ford, Honda, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen are all using the tech to show off their latest cars and concepts. During the industry pr…
If you want evidence that VR is maturing as an entertainment medium, you just got it. CityLights just bought the rights to Spheres, the three-part VR black hole series written by Eliza McNitt and produced by Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, for…
After permanently slashing the Rift and Touch combo price to $399/£399, Oculus is at it again. With Christmas fast approaching, the VR headset bundle is now the cheapest it’s been since Black Friday, at $379/£369. (Heads up that Amazon UK…
It’s crazy to think how far VR has come over the past few years. While the technology made its big consumer debut in 2016, with the launch of the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR, we also spent plenty of time anticipating their arrival. It pr…
Today, Oculus announced that its Rift Core 2.0 VR interface, as well as its redesigned companion desktop app, are available in beta through a free software update — you just need to opt into the Public Test Channel if you haven’t already. This is th…
Virtual reality headsets were once so expensive that they would have only made suitable gifts for early adopters and serious gamers. By now, though, prices have dropped across the board, and there are enough compatible games that we’re willing to rec…
If you happen to have an Oculus Rift headset and want to try its big interface makeovers, you won’t have to wait long. As promised, Oculus has confirmed that both its Rift Core 2.0 VR interface and the companion desktop app redesign will be availabl…
Sarah Rothberg is obsessed with the bright-red silicone sponge she bought at Sur La Table. As a sponge, it’s worthless — it’s too flimsy to be abrasive, and you can forget about it absorbing liquid — but when you rub its tiny bristles together the…
PlayStation VR hit the market with a bang in October 2016. It debuted at $400, without the PlayStation Camera or motion controllers. By February, Sony had sold 915,000 headsets — far surpassing the combined number of HTC Vive and Oculus Rift …
Pixar dropped the trailer for its next film Coco two months ago, and with any release by the much-lauded studio, eyes turned toward what masterpiece it would spin out next. But they’ve got something else suitably modern to help promote the movie: A V…
Oculus’ virtual reality avatars are clever stand-ins, but they have a few glaring problems: most notably, you can’t see them outside of Oculus’ own platform. Thankfully, they’re being set free. Oculus has revealed that the avatars will have cross-pla…
That summer sale on the Oculus Rift and Touch combo must have paid dividends. Oculus has announced that the price of a Rift and Touch combo has permanently dropped to $399 in the US. That still isn’t trivial, but it’s inexpensive enough that you can…
Mark Zuckerberg wants virtual reality to be less isolating, so Facebook is working on “Venues.” Think of them like VR social spaces where you can meet up with friends to watch concerts like the ones Live Nation is pumping out. Venues make a lot of se…
Guess what today is? If you said “Oculus Connect 4 keynote day” you were right. You also probably knew what day it was before reading this post. But I digress. Assuming you aren’t in San Jose for the event, you’ll need a place to watch it come 1 PM E…
Three years ago, Oculus made the source code for the Oculus Rift DK1 open to all. Now, with the fourth Oculus Connect on the horizon, the company is doing it again with the Rift DK2. It has released the Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2) to the publ…
Buying games and apps digitally is less risky when there’s a solid refund policy in place. Apple offers refunds for purchases through its iTunes app store and Microsoft has a self-service system. PC distribution portal Steam allows for refunds within…
Google announced today that it’s adding Street View to the Google Earth VR experience. With a new update, users can check out Street View images from 85 countries provided by the Street View team as well as pictures shared by others from around the w…
Oculus Rift’s next big exclusive — Arktika.1 — from the team behind the Metro shooters will be released October 10th. That’s right, over a full year after its debut at Oculus Connect 3, folks at home will finally be able to give the motion-controll…
Oculus Rift’s next big exclusive — Arktika.1 — from the team behind the Metro shooters will be released October 10th. That’s right, over a full year after its debut at Oculus Connect 3, folks at home will finally be able to give the motion-controll…
Oculus recently slashed the price of its Rift and Touch bundle by almost $100. The Facebook-owned virtual reality firm was hoping it would seal the deal for buyers considering a leap into the world of VR. But, HTC quickly followed suit with a …
I was standing in a makeshift room at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital with a couple dozen people. Some of them were young children battling cancer, others were family and friends there to spend time with them. There was a hand…