Oculus Connect 2017
With Facebook’s 💰, Oculus Is Fending off Old Enemies, Former Friends, and New Foes
Blink and you might have missed it—a lot has happened in the VR landscape in the last few months. At Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new...
Hands-on: ‘Windlands 2’ Gets a Change in Tone with the Addition of Co-op Combat
Windlands (2016), the high-flying exploration game from Psytec Games, is getting a sequel next year that's looking to alter its predecessor's formula with the addition of co-op adventuring as well as combat. We got a hands-on with the newly revealed game...
Hands-on: ‘Red Matter’ is an Adventure Puzzle Set in a Wonderfully Weird Pseudo-Soviet Dystopia
Red Matter is an upcoming story-driven VR adventure puzzle game, first revealed at Oculus Connect, that puts you in a retro-futurist world that borrows elements from the Cold War-era and teases them out to an interesting logical conclusion.
Created by Madrid-based...
Developers Can Now Request Oculus Go Dev Kits, Could Have Headsets As Soon as Next Month
The new Oculus Go standalone headset was revealed yesterday at Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference. According to Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack, developers could have their hands on the $200 standalone mobile headset as soon as next...
Oculus Connect 4 Day 1 Roundup: Oculus Go, Rift Price Drop, New ‘Santa Cruz’ Prototype, and...
The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. This included new standalone VR hardware, a new price for...
Ubisoft’s Multiplayer Arcade Shooter ‘Space Junkies’ Is Heading into Closed Beta in Early 2018
Ubisoft today announced that Space Junkies, the multiplayer arcade VR shooter, is going into closed beta in early 2018. We got a chance to go hands-on with a more developed prototype of the game at this year's Oculus Connect, and while...
‘Echo Arena’ FPS Expansion Announced and More ‘Lone Echo’ Teased
Ready at Dawn's single player sci-fi adventure Lone Echo (2017) already has its multiplayer mode, the much beloved sports game Echo Arena, but the studio says it's bringing out a new first-person shooter multiplayer mode called Echo Combat, and also an...
Oculus Rift + Touch Bundle Gets Permanent Price Cut to $400
Following their highly successful Summer of Rift Sale, Oculus have announced a permanent price cut of the Rift headset and Touch controller package to $399. The new price was revealed by Hugo Barra, Oculus' Vice President of Virtual Reality at...
Oculus to Talk “Breakthroughs in Spatial Audio Technologies” at Connect Conference
Oculus Connect 4, the company's fourth annual developer conference, is set for October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California. There, Oculus will share with developers some of its latest research and developments, including what's coming to the company's VR Audio...
