Join us Wednesday, September 16th, at 10:00 am PDT for a live stream of the Facebook Connect 2020 conference. We will be following and highlighting the latest Facebook developments in VR, AR, and related technologies. We’ve …
Read more Watch the Facebook Connect 2020 Conference – Sept. 16
Facebook Connect arrives this week – the rebooted Oculus Connect 7 conference that reflects the social media giant rebranding its work in virtual reality. We’ll be streaming it live here if we can, and there’s always …
Read more Facebook Connect Predictions – a New Oculus Quest, Social VR, and AR News
We all knew this change was coming and the rumors were flying at last year’s OC6 gathering in San Jose. Beginning in October, new Oculus users will be required to have a Facebook account. And for …
Read more Like it or not, Oculus will Force you to use a Facebook Account
We were expecting an Oculus Quest 2 in 2020 and only started having doubts when a global pandemic disrupted everything. But the latest rumors/news from the Nikkei Asian Review points to a fall release for the …
It wasn’t hard to see this coming. At last year’s Oculus Connect conference, the San Jose Convention Center was rife with rumors that the Oculus Go headset would be canceled. Nearly every presentation focused on the …
Read more Oculus Go Headset Discontinued – The End of 3DOF VR?
A report today from Bloomberg News provides details on Facebook’s effort to develop a new Oculus Quest VR headset. From our conversations at OC6, we were expecting to see a new Quest this year. But with …
Read more Facebook is Developing a New Oculus Quest VR Headset
It’s been out less than a year (debuting May 21, 2019), but it’s good to see the popular Oculus Quest back in stock. Both the Rift S and the Oculus Quest VR headsets have been almost …
Read more Oculus Quest Back in Stock – the Popular Headset Returns
An exciting bit of news surfaced today regarding a new VR distribution platform for the Oculus Quest. In a series of tweets, Chris Pruett, Director of Content Ecosystem at Oculus, discussed their curation policy and offered …
Read more A New VR Distribution Platform for the Oculus Quest?
It’s been an amazing year in virtual reality. As we look back at the best VR headsets for 2019, we see the Oculus Quest as the breakthrough device. We finally get full VR in a standalone, …
Oculus Quest hand tracking has finally arrived as promised at OC6, and we’re delighted. We had the opportunity to demo this breakthrough feature at the conference this fall. While it’s not perfect, it’s the future of …
Read more Oculus Quest Hand Tracking – A Major Breakthrough for VR
Few health organizations are as remarkable as the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, so it’s no surprise to see their VR memorials for child cancer patients. In the past 50 years, they’ve helped improve the childhood …
Read more St. Jude’s Moving VR Memorials for Child Cancer Patients
Sandbox VR is one of the latest players on the location-based VR scene. And we get the idea behind it – it’s easy to grasp when you’re living in cramped spaces in New York City. But …
Read more Sandbox VR Raises Millions from A-List Celebs but can it Succeed?
So much for Google’s Daydream VR platform. Initially a promising development in mobile VR, Google has officially killed it off. The new Pixel 4 phones won’t support it, they’ve stopped selling Daydream View headsets, and they …
As expected, there were no major hardware releases at Oculus Connect 6. But we didn’t lack for VR news. The major announcement was that hand tracking will come to the Oculus Quest headset. We can finally …
We’ll be out in California next week for the Oculus Connect 6 conference on September 25-26. With the speculation on Facebook’s AR initiatives and the next steps for the Quest standalone HMD, it promises to be …
If you’re still on the fence whether mobile VR can meet the standards of high-end tethered HMDs, just stop it. It’s time to come down. Vertical Robot’s port of Red Matter on Oculus Quest is a …
Read more Red Matter on Oculus Quest: Stunning Visuals Set a New Standard
Let’s face it. An infinite VR space is incredibly compelling. Especially when you live within the confines of a small 19th century New York City apartment. I’ve been playing with the proof-of-concept VR experience, Tea for God, …
Read more Plunge into Infinite VR Space with Tea for God in the Oculus Quest
The Oculus Quest is here, promising to be the next generation of VR. We finally get a mass-market headset that’s relatively low-cost, has 6DOF functionality and doesn’t need to be tethered to an expensive computer. Despite …
Google Tilt Brush on Oculus Quest is a perfect match for virtual reality. A free-form VR painting and design tool on a standalone HMD with six degrees of freedom. Last year, Facebook hyped the concept of …
Read more A Perfect Match – Google Tilt Brush on Oculus Quest
As CES 2019 comes to a close, we take a look at TPCAST’s wireless solution for VR headsets. The Chinese company originally made HMDs such as the HTC Vive wireless. Their second generation product will stream VR …
Read more TPCAST: a wireless solution for VR headsets at CES 2019
The new Oculus Quest VR headset has many features we’ve been waiting for but the most striking is the free-roaming VR experience. At the Oculus Connect 5 (OC5) conference, it was referred to as “arena-scale VR” – …
Collaborating and working in VR is a step closer to reality with the new Dream platform – but there’s still challenges to overcome before we get there. Multi-user platforms are surely in VR’s future and Dream would …
There was more than enough news to digest from the Oculus Connect 5 (OC5) conference this week, but the headliner was the Oculus Quest VR headset. Under the project name Santa Cruz, this has been the long-awaited standalone HMD to …