Oculus News
Judges Announced for the Oculus Mobile VR Jam 2015
April 2, 2015 | FRΛNK R.The upcoming Oculus Mobile VR Jam 2015 starting on April 13th, is set to challenge developers to create the most innovative, immersive mobile VR games and experiences for the Samsung Gear VR headset, which Samsung developed in partnership with Oculus.
Oculus Share Hits Milestone with 2 Million Unique Downloads
March 29, 2015 | FRΛNK R.Oculus has once again reached a significant milestone, and this time it’s with its Oculus VR Share platform—an online VR marketplace that allows developers to publish and share their own Oculus-ready games and experiences with the world to discover and download … Read More
Oculus’ Michael Abrash Explains How Virtual Reality is Reality
March 27, 2015 | FRΛNK R.On Thursday, Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash took to the stage at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco, to demonstrate that not everything we believe is real.
During his keynote presentation, Abrash, referenced ideas from the 1991 sci-fi film, The … Read More
SXSW 2015: Oculus VR Panel Taking Questions from Fans
March 12, 2015 | FRΛNK R.This year’s South by Southwest (SXSW 2015) festival event in Austin, Texas is gearing up to bring an impressive number of virtual reality sessions, and workshops from some of the industry’s top hardware companies, and gaming studios currently developing for the VR platform.
John Carmack ‘The Dawn of Mobile VR’ GDC Video Available Now
March 6, 2015 | FRΛNK R.During GDC 2015, CTO of Oculus John Carmack took to the stage to share his thoughts and opinions on the direction of virtual reality, specifically in regards to the future of the mobile VR platform. The video of the session … Read More
Oculus Releases Audio SDK Preview for Developers
March 5, 2015 | FRΛNK R.During the 2015 CES in January, Oculus VR revealed its own integrated headphones to its latest ‘Crescent Bay’ prototype headset, along with demonstrating its newly licensed 3D positional audio technology from RealSpace 3D, which allows users to experience an entirely new sense of immersion within the … Read More
Oculus Plans to go ‘Full Consumer’ on Gear VR Later this Year
March 4, 2015 | FRΛNK R.At the Game Developers Conference 2015 in San Francisco, Oculus CTO John Carmack revealed that Oculus and Samsung will strategically forge a full-on consumer push for the Samsung Gear VR later this year.
“We have a plan, we have a … Read More
Samsung Announces new Gear VR for Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge
March 1, 2015 | FRΛNK R.Samsung has officially announced an updated version of its Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ headset to work with both newly announced Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge smartphones.
The new Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ will still be fairly similar to … Read More
Oculus Mobile VR Jam 2015 Offers $1 Million in Prizes
February 25, 2015 | FRΛNK R.Today, Oculus VR has announced that it will be hosting its own Mobile VR Jam 2015 event that offers developers $1,000,000 in cash prizes for the most innovative VR games and applications developed specifically for the Gear VR Innovator Edition—which … Read More
Don’t Expect VR Input from Oculus at GDC 2015, says Luckey
February 22, 2015 | FRΛNK R.If you expected Oculus to reveal its own VR input solution during GDC 2015 next week, then you may want to set your expectations back to reality.
According to a comment posted on the Oculus Subreddit, Luckey directly responded to … Read More