Oculus Rooms Gets ‘Boggle’, More Hasbro Classic Games ‘Coming Soon’

May 22, 2018 | FRΛNK R.

Oculus first announced that it partnered with Hasbro to start bringing several classic board games to the Oculus platform back at Facebook’s F8 developer conference. As of now, Boggle is Hasbro’s first game to officially arrive for free in Oculus … Read More

Oculus Adds DLC Support for Mobile Store, Rift Support ‘Coming Soon’

May 21, 2018 | FRΛNK R.

Oculus has introduced beta support for DLC (downloadable content) for its Mobile VR platform, allowing developers to be able to now offer new content in the form of free or paid DLC for games and applications that already exist on … Read More

Oculus and ESL Announce VR League: Season 2 with $220K Prize Pool

May 18, 2018 | FRΛNK R.

Last year Oculus, in partnership with ESL and Intel, launched the VR Challenge League, the world’s first large-scale VR esports event. After a successful premiere season, Oculus has announced that it has once again teamed up with ESL to bring … Read More

Oculus’ Matt Conte: ‘We Don’t Want Exclusivity. We Want VR to Thrive’

May 12, 2018 | FRΛNK R.

At last month’s Reboot Develop conference, Matt Conte, Head of Development Engineering at Oculus, offered valuable insight to developers in attendance on what it takes to succeed in this current VR market, in particular, when it comes to platform exclusivity.

According … Read More

Oculus Research Is Now Renamed to ‘Facebook Reality Labs’

May 7, 2018 | FRΛNK R.

Today, Oculus announced that it is rebranding Oculus Research, the R&D division of the company, to Facebook Reality Labs (FRL). The announcement was made by Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash in a post on his personal Facebook page.

In his post … Read More

Oculus ‘Events’ for Rift Now Rolling Out to Public Test Channel

May 7, 2018 | FRΛNK R.

Oculus announced that its Rift SI version 1.26 has started rolling out to its Public Test channel, which is an opt-in pre-release version of the Oculus software for users to test ahead of the full public rollout.

Aside from the … Read More

Oculus’ Next-Generation Hand-Tracking Technology Uses Artificial Intelligence

May 4, 2018 | FRΛNK R.

At Facebook’s F8 developer conference this week, Oculus shared a glimpse at some of the work being done internally on advanced hand-tracking, powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that can track and learn to recognize hand patterns in real-time to bring … Read More

Oculus ‘Half Dome’ Prototype Offers 140-Degree FOV and Varifocal Displays

May 3, 2018 | FRΛNK R.

During Facebook’s F8 developer conference this week, Oculus unveiled a new prototype headset that the company has been working on internally, called ‘Half Dome’, which is a ‘Rift-like’ HMD that features some major advancements like a 140-degree field of view, varifocal … Read More

Oculus ‘React VR’ Framework is Now Rebranded to ‘React 360’

May 3, 2018 | FRΛNK R.

During the annual Facebook F8 developer conference this week, Oculus announced the rebranding of its React VR open-source JavaScript framework to the new name of React 360.

React VR was launched in April last year with the goal of creating … Read More

NextVR and Oculus Partner to Bring Live VR Events to ‘Oculus Venues’

May 2, 2018 | FRΛNK R.

NextVR, the industry leader specializing in broadcasting live events in virtual reality, announced a new partnership with Oculus to bring live VR events to Oculus Venues, the company’s upcoming social app that will allow people to connect with together with … Read More