Oculus News
Oculus Fights ZeniMax’s Injunction Demands in Court, Judge Calls for End to Legal Battle
June 21, 2017 | FRΛNK R.After being awarded $500 million earlier this year in its lawsuit against Facebook-owned Oculus, ZeniMax Media was back in court wanting more.
ZeniMax had filed an injunction shortly after the trial to block the sale of any Oculus hardware and … Read More
Oculus Kicks Off ‘Summer of Rift’ Sales Event with Discounts Up to 60% Off
June 17, 2017 | FRΛNK R.Oculus announced it has officially kicked off its Summer of Rift sales event, which features discounts up to 60% off a wide selection of Rift and Gear VR titles on the Oculus Store from June 17th through July 5th—so if you’re … Read More
Oculus 1.16 Update Adds New Home Environment, Mixed Reality Capture
June 16, 2017 | FRΛNK R.Oculus is starting to roll out its latest update to the Oculus Rift software version 1.16, which adds a fresh new environment to the Oculus Home, support for mixed reality capture, as well as some additional features to improve the … Read More
Oculus Announces 2017 Creators Lab Participants and Advisory Board
June 15, 2017 | FRΛNK R.Oculus has kicked off its 2017 Creators Lab Summit by announcing the selected participants for this year’s program. As part of the Oculus VR for Good initiative, the Creators Lab aims to bring new voices to the field of virtual … Read More
Oculus, Intel and ESL Team Up to Bring Virtual Reality to eSports
June 13, 2017 | FRΛNK R.At E3 2017, Intel announced a partnership with Oculus and the ESL to launch the VR Challenger League, an eSports competition dedicated to competitive virtual reality gaming—featuring Oculus Rift titles Insomniac’s The Unspoken and Ready At Dawn Studios’ Echo Arena.
Oculus Brings Rift to 90 California Public Libraries for Free Access to VR
June 8, 2017 | FRΛNK R.Oculus has announced that it will donate 100 Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets and Oculus-Ready PCs to 90 different libraries throughout the state of California as part of a new pilot program.
The program will roll out over the next … Read More
Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey’s New Startup Is Developing Advanced Border Surveillance Technology
June 5, 2017 | FRΛNK R.It’s been over two months since Oculus founder and Rift creator Palmer Luckey left parent-company Facebook. Now, it’s revealed that Luckey’s new venture is a startup company focused on developing advanced surveillance technology that could be used along the U.S. … Read More
Oculus Adds Chromecast Support for the Gear VR
June 1, 2017 | FRΛNK R.Oculus has announced that it is adding Google Chromecast support to the Samsung Gear VR headset, which makes it easier for users to share their virtual reality experience inside the Gear VR with friends by streaming it to a TV.
Nearly Every New Rift Owner Has Bought Touch Controllers, says Oculus
May 30, 2017 | FRΛNK R.Back in March, Oculus made an aggressive move to its pricing strategy when it lowered the cost of both the Rift headset and Touch motion controllers in an effort to increase mainstream adoption of its hardware, which new data recently shared … Read More
Oculus’ First Employee Chris Dycus Leaves the Company
May 25, 2017 | FRΛNK R.Chris Dycus, a hardware engineer at Oculus, announced in a recent Facebook post that he will no longer be with the company. This is particularly significant because Dycus was actually the very first employee outside of the founders to help … Read More
