Oculus Connect 6
Cas & Chary Present: Nine Highlights from Oculus Connect 6
At Oculus Connect 6, we had the opportunity to try out many of the new things announced at the event, as well as check out the latest work by developers and creators working in the VR space. In this...
Hands-on: Quest Hand-tracking Will be Great for Casual Input, But Core Games Will Still Rely on...
Oculus finally revealed that Quest will get controllerless hand-tracking input. We got to test the feature at Oculus Connect 6 last week and came away impressed. Hand-tracking will open the door to a range of casual use-cases that will...
Stress Level Zero to Bring ‘Boneworks’ Universe Game to Quest Next Year
Announced at Oculus Connect 6 this week was a new title from Stress Level Zero, the studio behind Hover Junkers (2016) and Duck Season (2017). The game, which is said to arrive on Oculus Quest sometime next year, is slated...
Oculus CTO Explains Why “Gear VR’s days are numbered”
Oculus CTO John Carmack took to the stage at Oculus Connect 6 to give his patented stream-of-thought speech. Here, he gave what he called a "eulogy for Gear VR," as he detailed the failings, and some of the harder...
Oculus: ‘We’d Eventually Like Quest PC Tethering to be Wireless’
Today at Oculus Connect 6, CTO John Carmack dove into the work the company has done on Oculus Link, the Quest feature which will soon allow the headset to tether to PC to play Rift games. Today this requires...
Watch Oculus Connect 6 Day Two Keynote Livestream Here @10 AM PT
There was a massive haul of announcements yesterday (believe us, just look at our front page), and while today's keynote may not have any specific product reveals, where else can you watch legendary programmer and Oculus CTO John Carmack...
PC Tethering on Quest is a Huge Upgrade, Making Rift S a Tough Sell
Oculus today announced an upcoming PC tethering feature coming to Quest headsets in November. Oculus Link, as it's called, will let users plug into VR ready PCs and play games originally designed for Rift. Oculus is calling it "the...
Facebook: Users Have Bought Over $100M in Oculus Store Content to Date
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Oculus Connect today where he announced that the Oculus Store has now sold over $100 million worth of content to date.
Zuckerberg maintains that the Oculus Store—which provides content for Rift, Quest,...
Oculus Reveals New VR Headset Prototypes with Major Advances in Optics Form-factor
On stage at Oculus Connect today, Facebook Reality Labs Chief Scientist Michael Abrash revealed two new prototype VR headsets from the company, Half Dome 2 and Half Dome 3. Both headsets offer improvements over the original Half Dome prototype...
‘Facebook Horizon’ is a New Social VR App Coming to Quest & Rift Next Year, Trailer...
Facebook today revealed at Oculus Connect 6 a new social VR app, something the company calls "the first step into an ever-expanding world of connection and exploration." Although it's clear the announcement trailer isn't a 1:1 representation of how Horizon will actually...
Facebook Reveals Hand-tracking Update for Quest, Coming Early 2020
Oculus Connect 6 is starting today, and ahead of the festivities Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a video showing off some pretty nuanced hand interaction, something he says will be apart of his talk today. Now, we know that...














