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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said that he hopes to sell between 50m and 100m Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets over the next ten years. It needs to reach a very large scale – 50m to 100m units – before it will really be a meaningful thing as a computing …
Read More »The growth of Oculus
The VR company’s VP of product Nate Mitchell discusses the firm’s growth and how Facebook has affected the talent it is attracting and who it is looking to hire
Read More »Oculus Rift support added to Grid Autosport
Codemasters has added some experimental Oculus Rift features into its recent racer Grid Autosport. We’ve been tinkering with VR for a while now and have reached the stage where we believe it’s working pretty well, and as such, we’ve decided to allow you to experience it for yourselves,” the studio …
Read More »Experimental ‘Dexmo’ tech looks to give VR users a sense of touch
Dextra Robotics has unveiled a new peripheral of sorts for VR platofrms that would allow users to experience a sense of touch with virtual objects. Kotaku reports on the freshly unveiled hardware dubbed Dexmo, which apparently combines a VR controller with a motion capture rig specifically made for hands to …
Read More »Devs will be forced to give away their early Gear VR games for free, Oculus says
Oculus is planning to launch its virtual reality games portal without the means to pay for software. The result? Early titles for Samsung’s upcoming Gear VR headset will have to be given away for free because Gear VR titles won’t be available on Google Play or the Amazon App Store …
Read More »Luckey: VR will be relevant to everyone eventually
Virtual reality isn’t just for gaming, it’s for everyone – even if many people are yet to understand that. That’s the claim of Oculus founder Palmer Luckey who has told Cnet why he thinks that the technology really is going to change the world. I don’t think [some people] understand …
Read More »Unity reveals new dedicated Oculus add-ons
Firms expand partnership to encourage virtual reality game development
Read More »Oculus unveils Crescent Bay prototype
Headset offers higher resolution, lower latency and improved ergonomics
Read More »Oculus Rift Crescent Bay version revealed
Oculus has announced a new version of the Oculus Rift made for developers looking to finish commercial versions of their titles on the virtual reality platform. Dubbed Crescent Bay, the new VR headset was unveiled as part of the company’s Oculus Connect conference this past weekend in Hollywood, California. The …
Read More »Climax: Samsung Gear VR experience ‘superior to first-gen Oculus’
UK studio working on multiple projects for device
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