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JUNE 19, 2024

This week at AWE 2024, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey spoke briefly about a new XR headset he’s developing. During a panel discussion today at AWE 2024, he offered just a bit more, saying the headset’s design is “being driven by military requirements, but also going to be used for non-military stuff.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A remastered turn-based strategy game initially developed for Oculus Go and Gear VR. Platforms : Quest (reviewed on Quest 3) Release Date : November 21, 2024 Developer : Coatsink Price: $9.99 With a world that is as engaging as it is dark, what's here feels like a polished experience that finishes far too soon. The Facts What is it? :

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MARCH 4, 2024

Meta announced it’s finally closing the door on Oculus accounts by the end of the month, which means all users with old Oculus IDs will either need to migrate to a Meta account or lose access to purchased content, achievements, friends list, and more. You may not realize it yet, but believe me. These are the good old days.”

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MARCH 19, 2025

Meta says it funded over 100 VR & mixed reality titles that shipped in 2024, as well as over 200 currently in "active production". Oculus Studios consists of the seven acquired studios building VR and MR games: Beat Games, Camouflaj, Sanzaru Games, Downpour Interactive, BigBox VR, Armature, and Twisted Pixel.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Onward hasn’t been abandoned, although it has seen fairly light updates in the year since the studio released its big ‘Mercenary’ update, which brought to the game in February 2024 a PVE mode and various graphic tweeks. Now, Downpour Interactive is set to launch its 2.0

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Probably if I had tested it at the Oculus Quest 2 times, I would be here saying that the passthrough of the Varjo is the best I have ever tried.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

More info Some news about content Border Bots VR lets you become a human border agent tasked with ensuring robots have the necessary clearance before entering the city Relaxing city builder Islanders is going to get a VR version soon Cloudhead Games revealed the new 2023–2024 roadmap for Pistol Whip to celebrate its 10th anniversary.

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MAY 2, 2024

While Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a range of “specialized” third-party headsets running its OS, and consequently having access to its store of XR apps, former Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack says we shouldn’t expect cheaper VR headsets than Quest as a result.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Meta this week announced Oculus Publishing Ignition, a “multi-million dollar” fund aimed at newly formed XR studios. The company says it plans to fund up to 20 teams before the end of 2024. Those teams will receive three Quest 3 headsets and cash to build their ideas into prototypes over the course of six months.

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MAY 1, 2024

Developed by Meta’s Camouflaj and Oculus Studios, and created in partnership with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC, Batman: Arkham Shadow is little more than a teaser trailer for now, appended with a “late 2024” release date.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

As of today, developers can no longer support the original Oculus Quest in their store app updates, ending their ability to still support it. Four Years Ago, Oculus Quest Redefined VR Four years ago Oculus Quest launched, redefining the VR industry forever. UploadVR David Heaney Our article from 2023.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Facebook Deprecates Proprietary Oculus APIs In Favor Of OpenXR Facebook will deprecate its proprietary Oculus APIs in favor of industry standard OpenXR. OpenXR Toolkit was discontinued in 2024, as Bucchianeri encourages developers to integrate its features inside their apps.

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JULY 23, 2024

Two short years ago, Quest’s content store was simply called ‘Oculus’, making for one of the last holdouts of Oculus branding after Facebook rebranded to Meta in 2021. The mobile app eventually got the rebrand too, renaming it from ‘Oculus’ to ‘Meta Quest’ in August 2022.

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JUNE 7, 2024

Following the release of Batman: Arkham Shadow ‘s teaser trailer in May, developers Camouflaj and Oculus Studios today revealed we’re in for an epic battle to prevent the “Day of Wrath,” set to take place on the Fourth of July. Developed by Meta’s Camouflaj and Oculus Studios, and created in partnership with Warner Bros.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Meta is gearing up for Meta Connect 2024 on September 25 and 26 for its next set of major updates in VR and AR technology. The event has been held late in each calendar year since 2014, first as Oculus Connect , then as Facebook Connect , and since 2022 as Meta Connect.

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APRIL 4, 2025

Their first publicly released VR tool was OculusKiller , three years ago, which makes Quest Link load directly into SteamVR, bypassing Oculus Dash. Combat flight sim DCS already supports eye-tracked foveated rendering, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is working on adding it in its current beta cycle.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

False — Boz (@boztank) December 1, 2024 The central claim reemerged today, in a far less extreme form, in a report from The Information which claims that Meta plans to offload much of its Quest hardware development process to Goertek in the future. But this isn't a change from how we've done business with them even as we scale it up. —

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APRIL 6, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” billion in 2024.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Meta announced it’s overhauled its aging PC software with a few new features, which should make using Quest for PC VR gameplay a little less 2019 and a little more 2024, as it now includes more modern features such as a higher refresh rate on Quest 3, longer playtime via Air Link, and broadened support for nVidia 4000 series GPUs.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These earlier designs seemingly first appeared in a 2022 Valve patent.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Hall-walkers at CES 2024 this week noticed a headset that looks awfully familiar. The company has created a number of ‘inspired’ headsets in the past, including its very Pico 4-esque A836, and Oculus Go-style AX139, making the EM-AX162 just another lookalike.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Meta plans a cheaper more “accessible” headset for 2024, according to a Meta roadmap leaked to The Verge. In 2018 the company released Oculus Go, a $200 standalone headset for seated use with no positional tracking, fixed lenses, and a basic rotational laser pointer remote.

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MAY 2, 2022

A report by The Information today, citing an internal roadmap, claimed that Meta is planning to release four new VR headsets by 2024. – – — – – Interestingly, the episode bears resemblance to something that happened in the early Oculus days , before the company was absorbed deeply into Meta.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

— Topgolf Pro Putt passed $1 million in sales, selling more than 50,000 units in the Oculus Quest app store. million in 2024 (with a pandemic dip in 2020). million in 2024. Regardless of the reason, Oculus gained key demand insights, which it now factors in to Quest 2’s supply-chain strategy. That correlates to 5.41

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Now, with the launch of Windows 11 2024 Update yesterday, those VR headsets have essentially been bricked. Microsoft revealed last year it had plans to pull the plug on support for its entire WMR platform on Windows.

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MAY 2, 2024

The historical moment of the launch of Quest 1 (Image by TechCrunch) Oculus Quest 1 launched in 2019 for $399. As for the sales, Meta is used to launch headsets at Meta Connect, so probably preorders can start in Autumn 2024 at Meta Connect. So I see Holiday 2024 as the trampoline for Quest 3.

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MAY 7, 2024

The Meta-owned studio Beat Games revealed the news via a post on X, maintaining that all multiplayer functionality will be pulled come November 2nd, 2024: Dear players, to focus our development efforts on our next projects within Beat Saber, we will no longer support Meta Quest 1 as of November 2, 2024.

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MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. This led to a growing importance of Oculus, until with the Quest it started dominating the market in a way no one was able to face.

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OCTOBER 12, 2024

The store lists the app's release date as 24 July 2024, three months ago, which may be the time it was uploaded to the store system. UploadVR David Heaney Between 2016 and 2021 Facebook invested hundreds of millions of dollars to ship a number of PC Oculus Rift blockbusters like Lone Echo and Asgard's Wrath.

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APRIL 20, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” billion in 2020).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

To put some numbers against that, Apple could inflect the market with a classic Apple Halo effect, and ARtillery projects almost 4 million AR glasses sold in 2024 (see below). billion by 2024. But it could have been worse… Mitigating these losses was Oculus Quest 2’s October launch, which created a strong Q4 surge for VR.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

billion in 2024, a 19.6 Thanks to the release of the Oculus Quest 2 , consumers are hopping aboard the VR train. Facebook’s investing heavily in the Oculus Quest 2, sacrificing margins to build market share and get more people into VR. VR revenue is predicted to grow from $4.98 billion in 2019 to $12.19 ”

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Zero Caliber 2 currently targets a 2024 release window on PC VR and the Meta Quest platform. Zero Caliber: Reloaded Review - Fantastic Gunplay Held Back By Design Issues Is this latest Oculus Quest FPS worth a look? Official mod support was also added for PvP maps, solo and co-op missions on both platforms.

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APRIL 26, 2024

reaction as the original Oculus Rift. Kalinowski was previously the Head of VR Hardware at Oculus for the consumer Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch, Oculus Go, Rift S, Oculus Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro. Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware claims they give the same "Oh my God, wow! I can't believe this!"

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APRIL 29, 2024

WoVR has been in on and off development for over the past ten years, as it was originally conceived on the original Oculus Rift DK1 back in 2013. “In January 2024 after a 4 year long hiatus we decided to restart development from scratch with everything we learned from creating XIVR,” the creators say.

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MARCH 21, 2024

The Ignition program from Oculus Publishing was announced at GDC 2024 "in light of [.] Oculus Publishing was established as Meta's brand for third-party publishing relationships at last year's GDC, confirming 150 titles in the works at the time.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Beginning on April 30, 2024, we will discontinue support for new Quest 1 apps. The company announced the news in an email to developers, seen below: Notice to Quest 1 Developers As we announced last year , we are implementing important changes to Quest 1.

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