Gear VR Surpasses One Million Active Users in April, says Oculus

May 11, 2016 | FRΛNK R.

The Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus achieved a major milestone in April by surpassing more than one million active users, according to an official Oculus blog post on Wednesday.

At a recent press event in San Francisco on Tuesday, … Read More

Oculus Rift Coming to 48 Best Buy Locations, starting May 7th

May 2, 2016 | FRΛNK R.

Today, Oculus has announced plans to offer free in-store demos of its consumer Rift virtual reality headset at 48 Best Buy locations across the U.S., starting on May 7th, with more retail locations coming later this summer.

“For many, this … Read More

UMD Begins Construction on the Brendan Iribe Center

April 30, 2016 | FRΛNK R.

The University of Maryland broke ground this last week as construction begins on the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation, made possible by a $31 million donation back in late 2014 by Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, a former … Read More

Minecraft Arrives for Gear VR on the Oculus Store

April 27, 2016 | FRΛNK R.

Today, Oculus officially announced the release of the highly successful game franchise, Minecraft for the Gear VR on the Oculus Store.

Bringing Minecraft to virtual reality was a project in the works for quite some time now. Oculus CTO John … Read More

Oculus’ Palmer Luckey Responds on Reddit to Criticism of Past Comments

April 26, 2016 | FRΛNK R.

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is known to publicly speak his mind and is no strange with defending himself from the internet when perhaps he may change his stance on a Rift-related issue or has his words taken out of context. However, with … Read More

Oculus Condemns Homebrew ‘Hack’ to Run Exclusive Rift Games on HTC Vive

April 14, 2016 | FRΛNK R.

Yesterday, it was reported that a homebrew software called Revive made it possible for Oculus Rift exclusives like Lucky’s Tale and Oculus DreamHack to run on HTC Vive headsets. Well, it did not take long for the team at Oculus to … Read More

Oculus Rift Exclusive Games ‘Hacked’ to Run on HTC Vive

April 13, 2016 | FRΛNK R.

With the recent launch of the Oculus Rift a few weeks ago, consumers who purchased the $599 headset have a pretty strong lineup of exclusive titles to look forward to on the Oculus platform. However, a new third-party software is about … Read More

Oculus Rift Pre-order Customers Facing Month-Long Shipping Delays

April 12, 2016 | FRΛNK R.

For many early adopters who pre-ordered the Oculus Rift, it appears they will be waiting much longer than expected. After Oculus announced delays for its highly-anticipated VR headset due to an “unexpected component shortage,” customers with pre-orders are now seeing … Read More

Senator Al Franken Questions Oculus over Privacy Policy Concerns

April 9, 2016 | FRΛNK R.

There’s been some recent controversy surrounding the Oculus Rift and its new privacy policy, which revealed Oculus will have access to collect data on the way users interact with its Rift headset. Now, it appears some of those privacy concerns have reached their … Read More

Oculus Privacy Policy Raises Data-Mining Concerns

April 6, 2016 | FRΛNK R.

When it was first announced that Facebook was acquiring Oculus for $2 billion two years ago, it initially sparked a knee-jerk reaction within the VR community that raised some privacy and data mining concerns. Since then, Oculus and Facebook have … Read More