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JANUARY 16, 2025

Yoshida announced he was leaving Sony back in November, setting his retirement date for January 15th, 2025. At farewell party yesterday pic.twitter.com/hpiPWQIO1z Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) January 14, 2025 “Ive been with PlayStation from the beginning, and this is my 31st year with PlayStation,” Yoshida said in a PS blog interview.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The remake is set to launch in 2025, with wishlisting now open for VR enthusiasts eager to delve into the eerie atmosphere of this new adventure. Nevrosa Rescape is currently available for wishlisting, with more details expected as its 2025 launch approaches.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In a leaked memo, Meta's CTO told staff that 2025 will determine whether its hardware & metaverse division is "the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure". Here's Bosworth's leaked memo in full: 2025: The Year of Greatness Next year is going to be the most critical year in my 8 years at Reality Labs. 2025 is the year.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

The second key year is 2025. In 2025, China wants to be the worldwide leader of Virtual Reality. The post China shows its masterplan to lead Virtual Reality in 2025 appeared first on The Ghost Howls. SUPERDATA research for what concerns the mobile gaming market. P.S. Many thanks to the epic Tony of Vrool.cn

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JANUARY 10, 2025

And with what some are calling the ‘Android Vision Pro’, owing to its Android-based OS, Play For Dream seems to have turned some heads at CES 2025 this past week. Nope, but Play For Dream MR does. ” “It is quite literally an ‘Android Apple Vision Pro’ but the execution was excellent.

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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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JULY 13, 2020

Oculus has updated its UE4 Quest development tools so that developers can spend less time waiting and more time testing and iterating on their VR applications. SEE ALSO Oculus is (still) Covering Unreal Engine Royalties for $5M in Revenue Per-game Through 2025. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

Mark Rabkin (@mrabkin) January 20, 2025 Essentially, Rabkin is describinga rare and long-undetected bug in the read/write (R/W) file system used by the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) meaning it wasn’t a problem specific to Quest’s Horizon OS. Fixed bug and upstreaming.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

Attention Labs Attention Labs is a company working on “Real-time auditory focus” This is a concept that I have found fascinating since the time that Michael Abrash introduced it at an Oculus Connect some years ago. Let me explain this better by telling you what happened when we met Attention Labs.

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MARCH 19, 2025

These figures were revealed today at GDC 2025 by Meta's Director of Games Chris Pruett, during a talk where he also revealed that over $2 billion has been spent on Quest content to date, and monthly headset usage increased 30% in 2024. Pruett says Meta settled on 21 startups to receive funding from this venture.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

The launch of the glasses should then happen in Q3 2025. Following its release on the Oculus Store, were thrilled to bring this fast-paced space adventure to the Steam community. They should look like regular glasses or sunglasses, and weigh around 50g. Remember that this is a rumor, so take it with a grain of salt.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

The game currently supports Oculus Rift headsets, Quest Link, and Windows MR headsets on PC, though the Rift/Link version was delisted for new users in 2021. After arriving as a free update four years ago, that's also being removed on PS4 after March 2025, and the newly released PS5 version doesn't include PlayStation VR2 support.

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MARCH 26, 2025

But according to a Bluesky post from the head of the studio behind the remaster, Stephen Kick, a VR version "for Oculus" was canceled. We were originally developing the VR version for Oculus, but Facebook cancelled a ton of projects, which unfortunately included SS2VR.

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JANUARY 3, 2025

It’s the beginning of a new year, and I started thinking about the future of immersive realities for 2025 and beyond. There is one question that is recurring in my mind: with the possible advent of the standalone Deckard headset with inside-out tracking, is Lighthouse-based SteamVR tracking still going to be relevant?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The glasses, codenamed Orion, should be made to replace smartphones and are slated for a release date of 2023–2025, that seems very reasonable, considering that no present tech is able to create truly consumer AR. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! Games on Oculus Quest are selling really well. Other relevant news.

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JUNE 2, 2020

An update to Oculus developer tools has brought a handful of updates, including support for Quest hand-tracking in Unreal Engine 4. Oculus released controllerless hand-tracking on Oculus Quest as a beta feature back in late 2019. 2020 color space for Oculus Quest, and Rec.709 709 color space for Oculus Go. .”

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The first product from the partnership is reportedly slated for 2025, priced at around $2000. Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was manufactured and co-designed by Lenovo. In both cases, the headset bore the partner company's logo on the side as well as the Oculus branding on the front.

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MARCH 14, 2025

The Warsaw-based studio recently confirmed it's phasing out publishing VR titles once the next game from developer Incuvo, currently known as Project Bison, releases in Q4 2025. Project Bifrost will be the last published VR game, planned for Q4 2025. People Can Fly have decided to phase out its VR game publishing business.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Other announcements include a new story trailer for Alien: Rogue Incursion and Hitman World of Assassination being delayed until March 2025. Mare Oculus Quest Review: A Breathless Beauty Of A VR Game Mare’s arresting palette and mystic atmosphere help it soar, even if it uses the shoulders of ICO as a launchpad.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Together, Meta & Oculus headsets now make up exactly two thirds of SteamVR usage, with Valve in distant second at 14.5%. Valve has been working on a new headset for years now, though, and its controllers recently leaked , suggesting 2025 might just be the year it finally launches.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

between 2018 and 2025, as stated in a Valuation report. By 2025, it will grow at a CAGR of $571 billion. Facebook and Rising Metaverse Technology Facebook acquired a virtual reality development company called Oculus, which included the Oculus Rift. When the acquisition took place, it almost seemed silly.

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MARCH 15, 2021

In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. Now he accurately picked another number from his cylinder, and said they’re coming in 2025 , because “Apple has no AR glasses prototypes” at the moment. Other companies should take note….

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MARCH 4, 2025

If you see the classification, you notice that there are some issues, like the mention of the Oculus website, that is no more. Top news of the week (Image by Valve) Valve Deckard may be launched in 2025 for $1200 There is a new rumor about Valve Deckard, and for once it doesnt come from our usual source. MIXED) that are not mentioned.

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MARCH 21, 2025

It's one of the first titles to publicly appear from Oculus Publishing's Ignition program , a fund for small newly formed teams aiming to build games which are more mainstream than niche and broad in scope with compelling Quest 3 interaction mechanics.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

Liv further claimed this would be followed up by mass layoffs in the Quest segment of Meta's Reality Labs division in Q1 2025, as part of a shift away from VR to AR, which Bosworth also denied. Bosworth directly and publicly denied this in a reply on X.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

What’s exciting about HeadOffice.Space is that it is interoperable, flexible, and accessible across multiple platforms, with Mac, iOS, Android, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Quest support currently in development. 73% of teams will have remote workers by 2028 ( Upwork ).

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JANUARY 20, 2025

Mark Rabkin (@mrabkin) January 20, 2025 AOSP is the Android Open Source Project, the open-source core of Meta's Horizon OS that runs on Quest headsets, ext4 is the Linux file system that Android uses, and R/W refers to reading and writing from the file system at the same time. Bugs been in there 4 years but never been hit by us before Dec .

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APRIL 17, 2025

Thus it is that the enhanced PS VR2 edition of Resist has found something of a natural home, and while its unlikely that features such as eye tracking will make it across to other platforms, PC players have been asking whether the higher refresh rate might.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In a thread on X about the modding team's Quake 3 VR port, a fan tagged the former Oculus CTO and asked him to make the port "canon". I had some hope, but that was still too John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) February 10, 2025 Carmack responded by saying he "tried", and had a conversation with "the powers that be at Id Software".

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Fixed achievements going out of sync between game profile and Oculus profile. Batman: Arkham Shadow is available now exclusively for the Meta Quest 3 family, and it's bundled for free with new Quest 3 and 3S purchases until April 30, 2025. Fixed body misalignment issue when performing silent takedowns while crouched.

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APRIL 17, 2025

Cix has also repeatedly claimed that Meta stole his YUR idea with the introduction of Oculus Move, the fitness tracking feature which Meta ironically discontinued last month. Cix's criticism of Meta has verged into the realm of misinformation, though.

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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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MARCH 24, 2025

In 2012, Jonathan Coon backed the original Oculus kickstarter project and has a signed Rift DK1 to show for it. In 2025, Coon and a team of technology integrators developed a functioning 5,000-square-foot holodeck on a hilltop overlooking Austin, working through a collaboration between Pureblink , Agile Lens , and DBOX.

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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. I would wait a bit more, probably until the second half of 2025. Quest 3S could be a huge hit, and so you may transition in the first half of 2025, or it could have very disappointing sales, and so you may transition in 2026.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Back in the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2 days (circa 2014), the studio was already thinking about how to design games for VR motion controllers, despite no headsets on the market shipping with motion controllers until 2016. Cloudhead Games might be old-school as far as VR studios go, but it has always been forward-looking.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Samsung handled the hardware for Gear VR, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was manufactured and co-designed by Lenovo. All three headsets bore both the partner company's logo and Oculus branding. It's unclear how LG's brand will be incorporated in Quest Pro 2.

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MARCH 14, 2025

With the OpenXR Meta package now matching the capabilities of the Oculus XR plugin, developers can finally build their projects once and deploy them across multiple platforms without sacrificing the unique features of Horizon OS. Since diving into the OpenXR initiative in 2016, Meta has been quietly laying the groundwork for this moment.

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