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New games, new products and platform improvements all feature in the Oculus keynote for its fourth Connect event
Read More »Oculus Connect 4 round up: Rift drops to $399 and new headsets are coming
Opinion: VR isn’t dead yet!
One year ago, Sean Cleaver spent upwards of £450 on Sony’s newest technological toy. Critics and consumers may be a bit cold on the tech now but he still believes that there is much to celebrate
Read More »‘Now’s the time to drive people into high-end VR,’ says Oculus’ Jason Rubin
When Oculus temporarily dropped the price of its Rift + Touch bundle to £399 to kick off its Summer of Rift sale at the start of July, there were plenty of critics who saw it as another desperate attempt to drum up sales. After all, it had only been four …
Read More »Oculus preparing cheaper $200 Rift successor
VR will make a big stride towards the mainstream in 2018 when Oculus releases a $200 standalone VR headset. That’s according to Bloomberg, which says that the new headset is designed to bridge the gap between cheaper entry-level smartphone based VR and high-end headsets that plug into PCs. Not only …
Read More »Batman: Arkham VR is coming to Vive and Rift
Rocksteady’s popular PlayStation VR launch title Batman: Arkham VR will be arriving on other virtual reality platforms later this month. The game will be released on both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on April 25th. The motion controllers for both systems will be supported. Arkham VR differs from Rocksteady’s other …
Read More »Oculus says its developer funding is ‘kickstarting the entire VR industry’
The debate about Oculus exclusivity and its backing of developers continues with Oculus arguing that its actions are of benefit to the entire VR sector. HTC recently voiced stern criticism of Oculus’ model, which sees developers receiving funding in return for releasing games exclusively on Oculus Rift. Oculus VP of …
Read More »HTC VP: I disagree with Oculus’s strategy a lot
The VP of global VR for HTC has slammed VR rival Oculus for its walled garden approach to VR content. Joel Breton told GameSpot that HTC has an internal policy to encourage its development partners to release their titles on as many platforms as possible. Oculus, in contrast, has come …
Read More »Carmack strikes back in Oculus-Zenimax legal merry-go-round
Id Software co-founder and Oculus Rift co-designer John Carmack is suing ZeniMax for allegedly missing payments. The legal situation between ZeniMax and Oculus is torrid, to say the last. ZeniMax was awarded $500m in damages last month over a trade-secrets breach, but has since gone on to try and halt …
Read More »Facebook to close 200 Oculus Rift demo stations in the US
200 Oculus Rift demo stations are to be closed at Best Buy stores in the US, according to the Business Insider. The website reports that Facebook ordered the closure of its VR corners due to store performance,” according to an internal memo. An anonymous Best Buy worker told BI that …
Read More »ZeniMax awarded $500m in Oculus lawsuit
The ZeniMax vs Oculus trial is coming to an end as the jury awarded ZeniMax $500m (around 394m) after they found Oculus violated a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). ZeniMax initially asked for $4bn ($2bn in compensation and $2bn in damages) but the jury decided against it as Oculus was found not …
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