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Facebook Temporarily Halt Sales of Oculus Quest 2
The Oculus Quest 2 has proven to be an exceptionally popular gateway into the world of virtual reality. In terms of sales, the headset has proven to be a hit among consumers. Not just from the point of view that it’s good, but comparatively speaking, it’s quite affordable! – Following…
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Oculus Will Shortly Require a Facebook Account!
Back when Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014 (for a figure believed to be roughly in the region of $2BN), to date the two companies have (perhaps surprisingly) been run pretty independently of each other. It seems, however, that things in that regard are about to change quite significantly! How you…
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Oculus Go VR Headset To Be Discontinued This Year!
Releasing back in 2018, the Oculus Go VR headset was a very popular entry-level device for those wanting to try out the virtual reality experience while still keeping it within a reasonably sensible budget. Since it’s release, however, the technology has moved on quite a fair bit and, as such,…
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LA Noire is Coming Back to Consoles Including a VR Version
LA Noire – 6 years on! When LA Noire released in 2011, some people were impressed and some were disappointed. A detective game where one was tasked to find the clues and based on facial tics (utilising very high specification facial recognition) you had to determine whether the person you were…
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Windows Mixed Reality Headsets May Not Support Steam on Launch
Better to be late to the party than to miss it altogether? Microsoft has been caught napping when it comes to VR. Then again, it wouldn’t be the first time that they missed a trick. It is, however, often better to come late to something than not at all. Given…
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New Demo for Titanic: Honor and Glory Now Available—Adds VR Support
The third demo for Four Funnel Entertainment’s Titanic: Honor and Glory is now available for download. The game is powered by Unreal Engine 4 and is quite the stunning recreation of the doomed vessel. Players can experience what being on board is like without having to slog through the Leo…
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New Imaging Technology Allows the Oculus Rift to Run on Slower PCs
Virtual reality is fantastic but the hardware requirements of headsets are making it very difficult for people with lower-end hardware to enjoy this unique experience. Fortunately, at least as far as the Oculus Rift is concerned, there is some progress being made, as the Oculus Connect 3 event that took…
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Oculus Removes DRM Checks for Its VR Headsets
Oculus made a rather poor decision not too long ago in an attempt to prevent games released exclusively for its headset to be played on products such as the HTC Vive. The company implemented a DRM hardware check, which wasn’t received too warmly by the gaming community. It all started when…
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Oculus Waives Shipping Fees for All Past Orders
The Oculus Rift may have won the race to be the first VR headset to be available to consumers, but it hasn’t been so easy for Oculus due to the boom in interest for the VR headset. The Rift began shipping out to consumers on the 28th of March, but…
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Oculus Founder Delivers First Consumer Unit in Person
The founder of Oculus VR, Palmer Luckey, decided that he would deliver the very first consumer version of the Oculus Rift VR headset himself. The lucky recipient? Ross Martin, an indie developer from Anchorage, Alaska, who was the first person to pre-order the consumer Rift, which will be arriving at…
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Oculus Rift Launch Games and Prices Revealed
With the long-awaited release date of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset just around the corner, Oculus VR has finally announced the pricing for the entire launch-day lineup of games. The news was reported from Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2016, with Oculus making the big reveal on the third day of the…
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Elite: Dangerous Confirmed to Have Official Oculus Rift Support
Today, the Founder and CEO of Frontier Developments, David Braben, formally revealed in an interview with Ars Technica that popular space-sim, Elite: Dangerous, will have official support for the Oculus Rift. Elite: Dangerous was one of the first major games to include support for the Rift’s development kits, so this revelation…
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Oculus Rift Preorder Date Finally Announced
Fans looking forward to the Oculus Rift have been kept waiting a long time, but finally, Oculus VR has announced that pre-orders for the Rift will be opening on Wednesday 6th of January. While Oculus VR has announced the pre-order date for the device, however, they’re still keeping a…
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Oculus Touch Release Delayed
Originally planned to be released in the first half of 2016, Oculus VR have announced that they have pushed the release date of their unique VR controller, the Oculus Touch into the second half of 2016 with pre-orders being made available closer to the release date. In a blog post…
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Oculus Founder Thinks Cables Are a Major Obstacle for VR on PC
It looks like virtual reality might not become as popular on the PC as we have initially anticipated, at least according to Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey. Palmer had a few interesting things to say about the future of VR and about cables, which seem to represent the biggest obstacle in…
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