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MARCH 9, 2017

The game originally appeared as a launch title for the Oculus Rift in March 2016. Drawing direct inspiration from pioneering real-time strategy title Herzog Zwei , AirMech started life as a free-to-play game on PC in 2012, where it has remained an open beta.

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MAY 23, 2017

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just two months ago. Palmer Luckey, circa 2012 | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe is leaving Facebook. Brendan Iribe was among the founding members of Oculus, and held the role of CEO from the 2012 inception of the company, through the 2014 Facebook acquisition, until the end of 2016 when he stepped down to head the PC division of Oculus as Hugo Barra took over as head of Oculus.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

In a post on X , the former Oculus CTO once again clarified his position on standalone and PC VR, a position he has held for more than a decade. In 2012, before he even formally joined Oculus, Carmack described his goal of a headset that would use "mobile phone hardware" and cameras for positional tracking with no wires.

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MAY 30, 2018

Oculus Venues , the social app that allows ‘thousands of users’ to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today. Oculus’ Code of Conduct is also in full force, with community moderators on-hand in Venues. May 30 // Vance Joy // 7:30 pm PT. August 27 // School Night!

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, recently published an article with his thoughts on what it will take for VR to reach the mainstream. Perhaps not coincidentally, the piece published on Luckey’s personal blog this week comes just after reported priority shuffling at his former company, Oculus.

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MAY 30, 2017

Oculus’ founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus, circa 2014 | Photo courtesy Oculus. The hardware will not change.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

million to their name, the company has reached arguably a more important milestone: they’ve surpassed the original Oculus Rift Kickstarter, becoming the top funded VR headset campaign in existence. Even though Pimax technically surpassed Oculus’ Kickstarter, historical context matters. image courtesy Pimax.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Robin Hunicke, executive producer on Journey (2012) and now co-founder of game studio Funomena , is creating a visually rich new Oculus Touch title that wants to be played by anyone and everyone. The game launched in 2012 as a PS3 exclusive and went on to set the record as the fastest selling game released on the PlayStation Store.

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MAY 10, 2017

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just two months ago. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey on stage at Oculus Connect 2015 | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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JUNE 22, 2017

The year started out with ZeniMax Media taking Facebook-owned Oculus to court over an alleged theft of technology. A jury eventually ruled that Oculus must pay ZeniMax $500,000,000, but that wasn’t the end of things — ZeniMax wants more. One of the biggest stories of 2017 for the VR industry is also one of its longest.

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MARCH 10, 2018

Quill , Oculus’ VR painting and drawing tool, recently saw a major update which added animation tools to the software, allowing users to create animated sequences directly in VR. A resident artist at Oculus has taken to the tool to show the incredible potential of drawing and animating in VR.

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MAY 21, 2020

Spaceteam VR is now available on Oculus and SteamVR headsets, offering players a colorfully chaotic cooperative experience that takes heavy inspiration from Sleeping Beast Games’ original 2012 mobile game of the same name. Spaceteam VR is available now on Oculus Quest , Oculus Rift/Rift S , and SteamVR for $19.99.

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JUNE 9, 2018

Mojave will launch publicly in the Fall as a free update for Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, as well as 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro models with recommended Metal-capable graphics cards.

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JULY 31, 2019

Back in 2012, a starry-eyed young entrepreneur called Palmer Luckey announced a new and improved head-mounted display that would be better than pretty much everything on the market at the time, and affordable for gamers to boot. He built the first prototype of his VR headset in 2011 and announced it on Kickstarter in 2012.

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APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. Bleszinski in the Oculus Rift Kickstarter video | Photo courtesy Oculus. Bleszinski indeed believes in the technology.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

” Now Rotu announced that Ionia is launching on September 23rd and will support Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR headsets via Steam and Viveport. Ionia brings the player to a magical forest filled with music-inspired creatures and puzzles.

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JULY 10, 2018

Dubbed TOKYO CHRONOS , the VR visual novel game is targeting HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR. Lead by Kazuma Miki, a producer behind VR-centric anime series Sword Art Online (2012), TOKYO CHRONOS is said to offer users a VR visual novel mystery adventure that blends visual animation with a comic book-style UI.

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JUNE 30, 2019

Students do need to own an Oculus Rift or Rift S headset in order to attend the course, and there’s a tuition of $2,495 to consider. For those who struggle with the price of tuition or an Oculus Rift or Rift S headset, Axon Park is partnering with VR First to offer a “needs-based” scholarship program.

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MAY 14, 2018

In its first week, Beat Saber has sold 50,000 copies across Steam and Oculus, generating $1 million in revenue—a clear milestone of success for a game still in early access and made by a three-person indie studio. At $20 a pop, the game has generated around $1 million in revenue, before the 30% cut taken out by the storefronts.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

John Carmack, legendary programmer and key player in the Oculus gensis story, announced he’s left Meta, writing in a memo to employees that he “wearied of the fight” of trying to push for change at the highest levels of the company. ” Carmack demos an early Oculus Rift prototype at E3 2012.

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MAY 24, 2017

Chris Dycus, a hardware engineer at Facebook’s Oculus, has left the company he helped establish. Because Dycus (pictured above wearing an early version of the Rift) was Oculus’ first employee outside of founders like Brendan Iribe, Nate Mitchell, and the now-departed Palmer Luckey. Why is that important?

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a VR pioneer, Olivier JT has been working on Synthesis Universe as far back as 2012. Shortly after the success of the Oculus Kickstarter later that year, he decided that the only sensible development platform for the futuristic VR experience was the Oculus DK1. And so Synthesis Universe was born.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

From Other Suns has been one of the more anticipated Oculus titles since its announcement earlier this year. Today the co-op space survival game launched on the Oculus store priced at $40 , and a new launch trailer shows you what to expect.

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MAY 22, 2018

A new role, Operations, is also a part of the expansion, which essentially works like a miniature version of FTL (2012) by letting you allocate crew members to 10 different stations: thruster control, main engineering, torpedoes, shield generator, transporter room, astrophysics lab, computer core, phaser control, scanners, and sickbay.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve tested it with my Leap Motion Controller, the Oculus Quest, and a lot of scotch tape and I was very satisfied by the results.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In 2012, the search giant paid $12.5 HTC is still one of the only major players successful at actively targeting the commercial VR market, standing out among the Oculus Rift that just got a price cut of their own. billion for Motorola Mobility, a leading Android handset manufacturer. for under $3 billion.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

While many of Facebook’s properties retained their original branding, the “Oculus” brand, previously acquired by Facebook in 2014, adopted the new name. Is Meta Quest the Same as Oculus Quest? Oculus was initially founded in 2012 by a group of independent developers and hardware enthusiasts.

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MAY 26, 2016

In 2012, RYOT was founded as a small news desk with a mission to connect every news story with an action. There, he and David Darg teamed up on a pair of documentary shorts before co-founding RYOT in 2012. It’s because they know who they are and they give a s**t. This is their story, with pictures.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Following Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance earlier this week, Oculus founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe answered questions in the company’s ongoing legal battle with ZeniMax Media over the alleged theft of VR technology. Luckey got into the nitty-gritty details about the origins of the Oculus Rift and more on Wednesday.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The game is being published by Oculus Studios for Rift, which means it will be exclusive to the Oculus platform, and only officially available on the Rift (though with any luck it’ll play nice with the well known ‘Revive’ workaround ).

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JULY 24, 2019

Bigscreen supports HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows VR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Samsung Gear VR. Oculus Store ( Rift , Go , Quest , Gear VR ). Most recently, the platform hosted a free viewing of Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical film The Dictator (2012). Check out the links below to download.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

The well-funded and much hyped Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond suffered a pretty rocky launch, and never managed to gain the sort of sustained support either the developer Respawn Entertainment or Meta’s in-house publisher Oculus Studios were aiming for.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. CES 2013 however gave us the first glimpse of Oculus VR operating as a company.

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MAY 6, 2019

Since 2012, organizers of the festival have included VR and AR projects as part of their Virtual Arcade, a section of the festival where storytelling and VR/AR technology intersect. Image Credit: Bobby Carlton. In an interview with VRScout, Mixo said, “I wanted to tell this story about children, because they represent our future.”

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JUNE 27, 2019

“I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with VR since 2012 and contribute to the development of many innovative VR systems over these years. Must have access to VR ready PC and Oculus Rift or Rift S (hardware access scholarships available at selected destinations through partnership with VR First).

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JANUARY 21, 2020

0x10c was an ambitious sci-fi space and survival sandbox game project that Persson had been working on back in 2012, and after a demo of an early Oculus Rift prototype, he said he was “100% impressed and will make 0x10c compatible with it.” ” Unfortunately the game never came to fruition.

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