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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In a video posted to Reddit yesterday, developers Dr. Beef and baggyG—the same team responsible for bringing Half-Life , Quake , and Quake 2 to VR via the Oculus Quest—teased the arrival of another classic franchise on standalone headsets. Image Credit: iD Software. Rip and tear, until it is done.”. Can you guess the game?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

“I tried we had a conversation with the powers that be at Id Software, and I even offered to personally guarantee a million dollars in sales if they would allow Team Beef to sell full versions of the classic titles officially on the store,” Carmack says in an X post.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The Oculus Quest just keeps getting better. Yesterday Oculus announced the rollout of their 13.0 software update, revealing a sprinkling of new features and enhancements heading to the standalone VR headset this week. will continue rolling out on Oculus Quest headsets throughout the week. Feature Image Credit: Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2020

Today I woke up to read this letter from Oculus, sent to me because I’m a developer: Hello, Today, we announced our plans to sunset Oculus Go as we focus on driving forward the future of VR with 6DOF platforms like Oculus Quest. Goodbye Oculus Go. Image by Oculus).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Facebook today announced a partnership with Zoom Video Communications to bring the company’s popular teleconferencing software program to Horizon Workrooms , marking a major milestone for the recently released VR co-working platform. Horizon Workrooms launched this past August on Oculus Quest 2 headsets.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Originally released in 2003 on Windows, this brilliant piece of software allows players to run Nintendo Gamecube and Wii console games on their Windows, macOS, and Android devices. Last year a user going by the name Pixelacos on YouTube posted a video of Dolphin running natively on an Oculus Quest headset.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

When Facebook announced that they were bringing native hand tracking to the Oculus Quest back in September during Oculus Connect 6 , attendees gleamed with excitement. A big factor will be Oculus’ roadmap for tracking improvements and third-party release rollouts, which will hopefully get clarified soon.”

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VRScout

APRIL 14, 2021

Update v28 is an absolute game-changer with new features such as wireless Oculus Link functionality, updates to Infinite Office, and more. Announced yesterday in an official Oculus blog post , the Oculus Air Link expands on the existing Oculus Link software introduced back in 2019. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Because of his work, he finds himself working every day on XR headsets in professional settings, and he was one of the first people to share a photo of the Oculus Quest 2 For Business on my Linkedin feed. Here you are my chat with him about Oculus For Business! What are the advantages that Oculus For Business has given you?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Recently Facebook has released experimental passthrough APIs for Oculus Quest 2 , letting developers create augmented reality apps for this virtual reality headset. Now what happens is that: If you try to record your Passthrough Home environment (or other kind of system screens employing AR) via Oculus-related tools (e.g.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 25, 2021

Oculus Quest software v32 is now rolling out to users, and includes a few things aimed at improving Oculus Move, app gifting, friends lists, and file syncing for local headset media. Facebook & Oculus Combined Friends. Oculus Move tweaks. Here’s a quick rundown of the changes coming to v32.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Originally released in open beta on Oculus Quest headsets via SideQuest and the App Lab, developer realities.io inc has officially launched its VR jigsaw puzzle experience Puzzling Places on the Oculus Store alongside a handful of improvements designed to take your puzzle-solving experience to the next level. Moving forward, realities.i

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2024

The news is prompting significant discussion within the XR industry, including from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey. What eventually became the ‘Quest’ headset and ‘Horizon OS’ platform from Meta started when the company bought a VR startup called Oculus back in 2014. Hopefully it isn’t too late.”

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Separate from the main Quest store, Oculus App Lab gives developers an official ‘unlisted’ and uncurated means of distributing Oculus Quest apps. So far Oculus has stayed true to that promise, having no qualms about hosting a Quest app that’s literally just a cube.

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VRScout

MARCH 31, 2021

Those familiar with Facebook’s Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets know that you can easily stream VR gameplay to your personal Facebook profile. Today we’ll be discussing one of the easiest, cheapest, and most comfortable ways of live-streaming Oculus Quest/Quest 2 gameplay to any platform in high definition.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2023

A spokesperson for the company has confirmed with Road to VR that Quest 3 will continue to support Oculus Link (also known as Quest Link) and Air Link. Oculus Link allows users to plug Quest headsets into their PC via USB-C to interface with the Oculus PC software.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Oculus brand will be phased out, with the Quest product line becoming Meta Quest. The Oculus brand, which has existed alongside the company’s other products, will be phased out in order to allow the company’s metaverse and XR efforts to be positioned under Meta as the parent brand. Image courtesy Meta.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2021

As promised, Facebook today introduced its new 128GB version of the Oculus Quest 2 headset for $300, entirely replacing the 64GB base model launched in October last year. You’ll find the 128GB model offered direct from Oculus , as well as from official partners including Amazon , Best Buy , Target , and Adorama in the US.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Oculus Quest just got its v32 software update last month which brought changes to file syncing, friends lists, and a few other things. Guardian, the playspace boundary for Quest, may be getting a facelift and a name change to go along with an upcoming feature, which could arrive in Quest’s upcoming v33 software update.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

But there is a solution that can solve some of these problems, that lets you log in on multiple Oculus Quests that you own, without using any real Facebook account (for now), if the only thing that you want to do is sideloading applications. This solution is called Oculus Test Users: let me show you what they are and how you can use them.

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2023

Virtual Desktop has collaborated with Qualcomm to integrate the company’s Snapdragon Game Super Resolution, a software enhancement squarely targeted at increasing the wireless streaming quality and latency of PC visuals to Quest 2.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2025

Mark Rabkin, Meta Vice President of VR/MR, took to X to explain why some Quest users were left to deal with spiraling boot loops on Christmas Day, forcing Meta to pause its latest v72 software update and ship affected users fresh units while it figured out the problem.

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VRScout

JULY 18, 2021

Titles like Kingspray Graffiti VR and SculptVR allow you to try your hand at more unique forms of modern art, while more recent experiences, such as Painting VR on Oculus Quest, offer hyper-realistic simulations of more widely-accepted genres. Feature Image Credit: Sunset Division.

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VRScout

JANUARY 20, 2021

A short video shows VR music production on the Oculus Quest 2. Legendary electronic instrument manufacturer Korg this week unveiled the Korg Gadget-VR , a new music-making app for VR headsets that allows you access to a range of professional synthesizers, electronic keyboards, and software in a virtual studio settings.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2021

Niantic announced today that long-time Oculus employee Dan Morris, Head of Developer Relations, is joining as the company’s new Director of Developer Relations as Niantic ramps up its Lightship AR platform, which aims to bring to third-party developers the same ‘world scale’ tech that enables Pokémon Go.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

The change comes just in time for Oculus developers, as the company recently announced it’s fully moving open to the OpenXR standard for VR development going forward. OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making hardware and software more interoperable.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2021

Compatible with major VR headsets—including the Oculus Quest, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR—the Yaw2 is compatible with 20 popular VR games via the Yaw VR Game Engine app. Image Credit: Yaw VR. Image Credit: Yaw VR. There are also several hilarious stretch goals, such as a Grandma Rocking Chair and gyro-balancing cupholder.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2023

John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, is known for giving his unfiltered thoughts on almost every aspect of the XR industry. “Far and away the smallest and lightest PC VR headset.”

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Road to VR

JANUARY 12, 2022

Oculus Quest headsets now account for nearly 44% of all headsets used on Steam, and this clearly hasn’t gone unnoticed by Valve. Last year the company updated SteamVR to improve the reliability of the software when used with both wired and wireless Quest headsets. Today the company released SteamVR Beta 1.21.5

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The company turned to The Leadership Network and Oculus (from Meta) to implement a new Virtual Reality solution. Together, TLN and Aptiv decided to build the lean training content on the Oculus for Business platform, by Meta. The Oculus for Business ecosystem also offered access to an easy-to-use headset solution.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Yoshida pushed for affordable pricing and a strong content lineup to support the PSVR launch in 2016, positioning the headset as a more accessible entry into VR compared to the pricier PC VR systems like the HTC Vive and original Oculus Rift, whichrequired high-spec PCs to run.

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VRScout

JUNE 23, 2020

Over the past few years, Grzegorz Bendarski has been hard at work on WalkinVR , a unique software program designed to help make VR games more accessible to those with physical disabilities by allowing them to adjust the orientation, position, and motion range of their motion controllers to address their specific needs. Image Credit: 2MW.

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Road to VR

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. Unquestionably.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2021

This has been a very bad piece of news for Virtual Desktop that now should compete for its most requested feature with a software that is integrated into the runtime of the Quest 2 and is also completely free. Oculus Move is the fitness tracker of the Oculus Quest. Here you are the short answers that he has provided me.

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VRScout

AUGUST 30, 2021

ByteDance’s purchase of Pico marks the companies first foray into VR, potentially putting it in direct competition with Facebook’s Oculus platform. So, why is this acquisition such a big deal exactly? According to the IDC, Pico VR was the third-largest headset manufacturer in the first quarter of 2021. Image Credit: TikTok.

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