Security Certificate Issues Disable All Oculus Rifts [Updated] March 9, 2018 Leave a comment 970 Views This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Update (3/8/2018): Oculus has issued a software update to address this problem, which you can download from their website. Once you’ve downloaded and applied the ... Read More » tweet
Facebook Announces Oculus Go, a $199 Standalone VR Headset October 12, 2017 Leave a comment 963 Views This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Oculus was started as a PC-focused virtual reality platform before Facebook acquired the company, but it has since ventured into mobile VR with the Samsung ... Read More » tweet
Oculus Working With Qualcomm on Wireless Rift, Slashes Price in Half July 16, 2017 Leave a comment 1,011 Views A new report claims that Oculus is working with Qualcomm to design a headset that won’t require tethering to a PC or phone, and will sell for as little as $ 200. This standalone headset would be a huge step ... Read More » tweet
Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus, has left Facebook April 2, 2017 Leave a comment 1,203 Views After six months of radio silence on the issue, Facebook has announced that Palmer Luckey is leaving the company. Luckey, who has made no social media posts since September 23, ran into trouble after being financially linked to Nimble America, ... Read More » tweet
Oculus slashes Rift prices as sales sag March 3, 2017 Leave a comment 1,156 Views There’s been good news on the VR front of late, but precious little of it is coming from Oculus. Earlier this week, Sony announced it was closing on one million VR headsets sold since the launch late last year. Sony has ... Read More » tweet
Oculus unveils AMD-powered VR-capable $500 PCs, debuts ‘asynchronous spacewarp’ tech October 12, 2016 Leave a comment 1,096 Views At its Oculus Connect event today, Oculus announced a new set of $ 500 systems designed for fast, smooth VR at a much lower price point. When the Oculus Rift launched this year, Oculus’ official minimum recommendation was an 900 ... Read More » tweet
Oculus debuts new touch controllers at $199, initial reviews are positive October 8, 2016 Leave a comment 1,095 Views Ever since the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive debuted, the Vive has had one significant feature that the Rift lacked: handheld controls. While not technically necessary for VR gaming, as many games default to an Xbox controller, the Vive’s support ... Read More » tweet
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey confirmed as anonymous backer behind pro-Trump memes September 26, 2016 Leave a comment 1,192 Views Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR who sold the company to Facebook in 2014 for $ 2 billion, has been confirmed as the major financial backer behind a pro-Donald Trump group called Nimble America. Nimble America, in its own ... Read More » tweet
New Oculus update adds Facebook integration, real-names policy September 17, 2016 Leave a comment 1,489 Views Ever since Facebook bought Oculus several years ago, there’s been fears that the social media company would begin requiring mandatory Facebook integration or would otherwise hijack the VR headset in some way. Oculus’ new 1.8 software update doesn’t make that ... Read More » tweet
Oculus clears its backlog, all Rifts to ship within 2-4 days July 13, 2016 Leave a comment 1,091 Views Earlier this year, Oculus announced that it would have to delay shipping out its next-generation VR headset due to an unspecified component shortage. This delay, combined with the fact that it shipped limited numbers of headsets to retail while pre-order ... Read More » tweet