Since the launch of the Oculus Kickstarter, we've been focused on building the best virtual reality platform. The original development kit was a strong starting point that showed the world a glimpse of presence, but its According to a report at Realscreen, the upcoming Conquest of the Skies is currently filming with a special eight-camera … Read more
I'm tremendously excited to join Oculus, and when I think back, it's astonishing how unlikely the path to this moment is. I've told most of the parts of this story before, but never all together, and the narrative, now spanning “For other games this percentage can be bigger, up to 90-95 percent of people just … Read more
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was 9 years old when the Sega VR headset graced the cover of Popular Science. Virtual reality in 1993 was a nascent technology with emerging products that let gamers wear a head-mounted display to battle pterodactyls at by Witney Seibold on April 11, 2014. Oculus is one of the damn scariest … Read more
"I woke up that morning and saw the announcement," Shuhei Yoshida tells us, remembering the day Facebook acquired Oculus VR. "And I was like, yeah!" Yoshida laughs and thrusts his arms in the air like an excited child. That's why when Cameron responded to a question on Saturday about making films using a virtual-reality device … Read more
“Oculus” has a $5 million budget and is the first micro-budget horror film for Relativity, which paid $2.5 million for domestic distribution rights at the Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Mike Flanagan, the film stars Karen Gillan 'Oculus' was released April 11 and critics are calling it the scariest movie they've seen in years! … Read more
Facebook's recent acquisition of Oculus VR for $2 billion validates Sony's own virtual reality headset, Project Morpheus, according to the President of Sony Computer Entertainment's Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida. Speaking to Polygon, Yoshida said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was 9 years old when the Sega VR headset graced the cover of Popular Science. Virtual reality … Read more
But I'm more concerned with what this means for video games—not just the type of video games we can expect on the Oculus now that a large social media company owns the technology, but also whether games will even be a priority on the device when all Little did the nearly 10,000 backers to the … Read more
I've seen a handful of technology demos in my life that made me feel like I was glimpsing into the future. The best ones were: the Apple II, the Macintosh, Netscape, Google, the iPhone, and – most recently – the Oculus Rift. US-IT-CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW-CES An attendee wears an Oculus Rift HD virtual reality head-mounted … Read more