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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

When Fable Studios premiered the first chapter of their Wolves in the Walls VR experience at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival , they introduced the world to Lucy, an AI-powered virtual being who could remember things you told her, ask questions, and even acknowledge your presence when you entered her virtual world. Image Credit: Fable Studios.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Blade & Sorcery , one of the most popular VR games currently available on PC VR headsets, has officially arrived on Oculus Quest 2 headsets in the form of Blade & Sorcery: Nomad. on Oculus Quest 2 headsets. The post ‘Blade & Sorcery: Nomad’ Available Now On Oculus Quest 2 appeared first on VRScout.

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MAY 29, 2019

Though I would love to let my birthday piggyback on that accomplishment, credit actually goes to Facebook-owned Oculus, which launched its Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S headsets on that day. Having participated in a VR tournament using this cutting-edge headset, I can honestly say that Oculus’ hard work is apparent.

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MAY 18, 2021

Hugo Barra, one-time head of Oculus and VP of Facebook Reality Labs partnerships, has announced that he’s left Facebook. Barra came to Facebook in 2017 from his role as Global VP at the China-based tech giant Xiaomi, replacing Oculus’ first CEO Brendan Iribe. Looking forward to sharing more soon,” Barra says.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

GORN (2019) , the single-player arcade battle simulator, is finally coming to Oculus Quest next week. Created by Free Lives , the studio behind Broforce (2015) and Genital Jousting (2018) , Gorn is officially headed to the Quest platform on January 28th, 2021. You can also grab Gorn on SteamVR headsets , Oculus Rift , and PSVR.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Facebook’s sixth annual Oculus Connect will take place September 25th & 26th at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA, introducing developers, content creators, and other VR fanatics to the latest advancements made by the Oculus team. Image Credit: Facebook / Oculus. Image Credit: Facebook / Oculus.

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APRIL 19, 2021

Right up front it should be said that there’s a number of different ways one could consider Facebook’s Oculus exclusive content ‘successful’ or not. Defining Scope. Twisted Pixel. The Mage’s Tale. Ready at Dawn. From Other Suns. Brass Tactics. Hidden Path. Marvel Powers United VR. Dance Central. Turtle Rock.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

John Carmack, legendary programmer and key player in the Oculus Rift genesis story, announced recently that he’s won a decisive battle within Facebook to finally release root access to Oculus Go, the 3DOF standalone VR headset launched in 2018.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

It was a little over a year ago when Facebook triumphantly announced that games and apps made for Oculus Go would live on in Oculus Quest. Legendary programmer and Oculus Consulting CTO John Carmack responded to one such complaint via Twitter , saying Go apps are indeed not supported on Quest 2.

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JULY 23, 2020

In Death: Unchained is now available on the Oculus Quest, bringing with it all the rogue-lite action you know and love from the original along with a few demonic twists. via the Oculus Quest Store. Procedurally-generated VR dungeon crawling at its absolute finest. I n Death: Unchained is available now for $29.99

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The Oculus Quest platform is in desperate need of some quality survival crafting games. Those familiar with the 2018 PC game Raft will feel right at home with OceanCraft. The post ‘OceanCraft’ Brings Aquatic Survival Co-Op To Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout. Try the free demo available free via SideQuest.

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MARCH 31, 2021

During an interview with Bloomberg this week, Facebook Reality Labs VP, Andrew Bosworth, said that Quest 2 has outsold all Oculus headsets combined, a significant milestone for a headset which has only been available for five and a half months. Here’s a quick timeline of Oculus headsets: Rift – March 2016. Go – May 2018.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Following the announcement in September that Facebook will discontinue the Rift product line in 2021 , it appears the company is gearing up for a final sendoff by offering its latest PC VR headset, Oculus Rift S, for just $300. Oculus Rift S headset. Oculus Touch controllers (2). Photo by Road to VR. What’s in the box?

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

Earlier this week, Caveman Game Studio, developer behind Contractors VR , launched the official standalone port of its popular team-based VR shooter on the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2, offering players yet another AAA military shooter centered around realistic modern warfare. Image Credit: Caveman Game Studio.

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JUNE 16, 2020

BigBox VR announced that its upcoming VR battle royale shooter Population: One is heading back into invite-only playtesting soon, this time focusing on Oculus Quest. The post ‘Population: One’ to Begin Invite-only Playtesting on Oculus Quest appeared first on Road to VR.

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JULY 19, 2021

Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 headset launched in October 2020 in two flavors: 64GB and 256GB. Notably, LDCL is an official partner retailer of Oculus, which may lend credence to the report. Note that “Go” is French for GB, which shouldn’t be confused with the now discontinued Oculus Go standalone from 2018.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

The internationally scattered team only came together in-person for a handful of weeks in 2018 to build and test the experience before returning to their respective corners of the globe for two years from prototype to polish. Explore the mysteries of Corpus Misty today on Oculus Rift for $9.99. Image Credit: VR Coven LLC.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Fujita, a DreamWorks Animation veteran, is also known for his work at the now defunct Oculus Story Studios on VR animated short films Henry (2015) and chapter 1 of Wolves in the Walls (2018), as well as a massive slate of VR animations , some of which you can see in the Theater Elsewhere app right now.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Facebook announced that, at the end of this year, it will officially retire Oculus Go, its 3DOF standalone headset. In early 2021, the company will also be making way for more apps on Quest with a new content distribution platform that will be separate from the Oculus Store. Oculus Go & Gear VR, Photo by Road to VR.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 was 10 million units, and the success of Oculus Quest 2 had an impact on the company that is providing [it].” The post Qualcomm: Oculus Quest 2 Shipped 10 Million Units Since Launch appeared first on Road to VR. “And I’ll point you out that this is already starting.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

The end for Oculus Go is nigh. The latest Oculus SDK (v19/1.51) no longer supports the company’s first true standalone VR headset. The company says in the SDK’s developer release notes that both Unity and Unreal Engine support for Oculus Go has officially been dropped.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Oculus, the company’s XR organization, is not directly mentioned in the suit, but it’s clear that the case’s outcome would have wide ranging repercussions for all of Facebook’s business segments. The post FTC Sues Facebook Over Alleged Monopolization – What it Could Mean for Oculus appeared first on Road to VR.

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JUNE 4, 2020

Schell Games, the studio behind I Expect You To Die (2016), today announced the critically-acclaimed VR spy game has generated over $2 million in revenue on the Oculus Quest platform alone. It was also one of the first to celebrate success as an early VR entrant, earning in 2018 over $3 million in revenue across all platforms. “We

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to the leaked documents, the VR port of RE4 is scheduled to launch May 2021 on Oculus VR. While it’s unclear which headsets the document is referring to specifically, based on the age of the now-classic third-person shooter, I doubt the game would have any difficulty running on the Oculus Quest platform.

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MARCH 19, 2025

Meta's CTO says he "loved and hoped to keep" the Oculus brand. "I This is very different than Oculus, a name I definitely loved and hoped to keep. Boz (@boztank) March 19, 2025 Meta, then Facebook, acquired Oculus in 2014 for almost $3 billion in total. No, I'll definitely tell the story some day.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

There were company-specific events like Oculus Connect and Unity’s Vision Summit. Since I started attending AWE USA in 2018, the conference has only grown and offered increasingly more interesting and valuable sessions, exhibitors, and networking. There were XR pockets within big tech conferences like CES, GDC, and E3.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Contractors (2018) , the team-based competitive multiplayer shooter, is finally available on the Oculus Store for Quest. The game, which has been available on the PC VR platform for two years now, first launched on Steam and then on Oculus Store for Rift, in the process generating user positive reviews across both storefronts.

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JUNE 12, 2021

Multiplayer RPG A Township Tale is coming to Oculus Quest on July 15th. The quietly developed MMO-like has been available in early access on PC since 2018 as developer Alta has honed a deep profession and crafting system. launching A Township Tale on Oculus Quest, bringing to life a fantasy we’ve had since.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Windlands (2016), one of the founding pioneers of modern VR gaming, has made the quiet leap to Oculus Quest this past week where it lives on to finally serve up its dizzying heights and grappling hook-based movement scheme to the standalone headset.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

” What Zuckerberg considers mainstream isn’t well-defined, however at Oculus Connect 5 in 2018, the company’s XR developer conference, he said that 10 million VR users was an important milestone for the company to reach in order to make a sustainable ecosystem for VR developers.

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MAY 15, 2023

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, appears to have insider knowledge of upcoming Apple XR headset, which is expected to be unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month. To Luckey, Apple’s hotly awaited entrance into the space is apparently “so good.”

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JULY 23, 2021

If you have an Oculus Quest headset, you can even watch a portion of this year’s events in VR. Available free on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, this nifty little app allows you access to hundreds of hours of Olympic content, from basketball and track & field to boxing and gymnastics, in immersive stereoscopic 360.

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MAY 2, 2024

Barra warns that, like the company’s first standalone headset Oculus Go, the novelty around casual content consumption will probably fade fairly quickly. Most users who bought Oculus Go completely abandoned the headset after a few weeks. Most users who bought Oculus Go completely abandoned the headset after a few weeks.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This week, we look at Apple’s moves across the spatial spectrum, Magic Leap 2, And Oculus Quest game sales among other items. We predicted in 2018 that the Apple XR device would probably be focused on media consumption – at first. It is coming soon to the Oculus store. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If you were hoping for the Rift-exclusive team shooter Echo Combat (2018) to eventually make its way to Quest after developers Ready at Dawn ported the zero-G sports game Echo VR , you’d better not hold your breath. “To put it simply, we are not working on bringing Echo Combat to Quest.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

So uou’ve just got a new Oculus Quest in hand, and you’re wondering what to buy after you’ve exhausted all of the best free games and experiences available on the standalone headset. Note : Don’t forget that you can also play Rift games with an Oculus Link-compatible USB cable and a VR-ready PC.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This week we cover a handful of new funding rounds, new Snap AR milestones and Oculus Quest sales Inflections, among other items. Arden’s Wake hits the Oculus Store. Finally, Penrose Studios’ award-winning narrative VR experience is available for the Oculus Rift for $7.99. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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