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| 25.11.2021 | Black Friday Deals: Oculus Quest 2 Headsets Are Up For Grabs Plus $50 Gift Cards | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 25 November 2021, 12:11 am
Black Friday deals keep popping out in various stores as people seek multiple discounts on select items. For those who want to elevate their virtual reality (VR) experience, Oculus Quest 2... |
| 23.04.2021 | OCULUS VISIONTECH, INC.
Oculus Raises 3 Million USD to Grow Forget-Me-Yes(TM) Sales | Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 23, 2021) - Oculus VisionTech Inc. (TSXV: OVT) (OTCQB: OVTZ) (FSE: USF1) (the "Company" or "Oculus"), is pleased to announce, that it has closed a non-brokered private... |
| 04.02.2021 | Oculus cofounder’s Mountaintop raises $5.5 million for shooter game | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
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| 20.03.2019 | Oculus Launches Rift S: $399, Fewer Cameras, Higher-Res Lenses | Three years ago, Oculus and HTC launched their first VR headsets and kicked off… the slow, gradual rise of VR technology in gaming? Yeah. It’s not the most dramatic headline. But today, we’re getting a look at what Oculus’ second-generation... |
| 28.01.2019 | 5 years after its Oculus investment, a16z leads a new VR startup’s $68M Series A | Sandbox’s magic happens in a largely empty room. The gear mounted onto the walls (VR headsets, PC backpacks and tracked toy assault rifles) gives more than a little indication that there’s more afoot, but nothing really clicks until your te... |
| 26.09.2018 | Oculus Announces New Quest Standalone VR Headset at $399 | Earlier this year, Oculus announced the Oculus Go, a $199 standalone headset intended to drive VR experiences to people without the need for wires or smartphones. Today, the company followed up that announcement with a second, more expensiv... |
| 11.10.2017 | Facebook announces $199 ‘Oculus Go’ standalone VR headset | Onstage at Oculus Connect 4 in San Jose, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new mobile headset called “Oculus Go.”
According to Zuck, “it’s the most accessible VR headset yet;” it starts at $199 and it’s going to ship early next year. ... |
| 11.10.2017 | Oculus Rift with Touch Bundle Gets a Price Drop to $399, Officially | The Oculus Rift is now getting an official price drop from $499 to $399. This is going to be the “regular” price for the Oculus Rift + Touch bundle that the company has been selling for about a year now. This puts it at about $200 below wha... |
| 11.10.2017 | Oculus Announces New Standalone ‘Go’ VR Headset, Costs $199 | During the company’s fourth developer conference today, Oculus announced the latest device to join its VR headset lineup, the Oculus Go. Compared to the company’s other option, the two big selling points on offer with Oculus Go is its porta... |
| 06.10.2016 | Oculus Touch launches December 6 for $200 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Oculus Touch controllers will ship on December 6 for $200 and will include a sensor for detecting your movements in virtual reality... |
| 16.03.2016 | Oculus takes multiplayer VR to the Wild West with Dead & Buried’s saloon gunfight | Oculus VR has a fun game on its hands with Dead & Buried, a wild west game where you engage in a saloon gunfight in virtual reality.
Above: The friendly ghost in Dead & Buried.
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| 16.03.2016 | Oculus takes multiplayer VR to the Wild West with Dead & Buried’s saloon gunfight | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Oculus VR has a fun game on its hands with Dead & Buried, a wild west game where you engage in a saloon gunfight in virtual reality... |
| 05.03.2016 | How to make a virtual reality game before the market even exists (hint: you don’t) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 05.03.2016 | How to make a virtual reality game before the market even exists (hint: you don’t) | Oculus VR is only a few weeks away from releasing the Rift headset. And while that kicks off high-end virtual reality on PC, it’s the end of an uncertain journey for developers building games for these devices.
One of the earliest games due... |
| 01.03.2015 | Samsung and Oculus refine Gear VR, and make it work with new S6 phones | BARCELONA, Spain — Samsung and Oculus Rift (now owned by Facebook) said today they have made some refinements to their codesigned Gear VR Innovator Edition virtual reality headset, and have made it compatible with Samsung’s new Galaxy S6 ph... |
| 01.03.2015 | Samsung and Oculus refine Gear VR, and make it work with new S6 phones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
BARCELONA, Spain — Samsung and Oculus Rift (now owned by Facebook) said today they have made some refinements to their codesigned Gear ... |
| 18.02.2015 | Facebook Is Making Virtual Reality Apps | For those who feel they aren’t already immersed in the world of Facebook, the company is working on making the service a reality.
Well, a virtual reality.
According to Facebook head of product Chris Cox, the company is already building virt... |
| 13.02.2015 | The pen is mightier than the sword, but the computer is mightier than both | It’s official. In 2015, the keyboard has began to genuinely challenge the pen for dominance in the classroom.
With Finland having decided that it will no longer teach cursive handwriting in primary school, replacing it with typing lessons f... |
| 13.10.2014 | Google counters Facebook's Oculus buy with $500M investment in VR startup Magic Leap | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 13.10.2014 | Google counters Facebook's Oculus buy with $500M investment in VR startup Magic Leap | Not to be left behind by Facebook, Google is also getting into virtual reality.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based search and advertising giant is leading what could wind up being a half-billion-dollar round in Magic Leap, according to a repor... |
| 15.09.2014 | UMD lands its largest-ever gift: $31M from Oculus VR cofounder | Brendan Iribe dropped out of the University of Maryland after his freshman year. But his gift last week, the largest ever to the school by a single donor, is equivalent to tuition there for thousands.
The College Park university is using th... |
| 11.09.2014 | The MOOC Revolution That Wasn’t | Dan Friedman Contributor
Editor’s note: Dan Friedman is the co-founder of Thinkful.
Three years ago this week, Sebastian Thrun recorded his Stanford class on Artificial Intelligence, released it online to a staggering 180,000 students, and ... |
| 05.09.2014 | Samsung says its Oculus-powered Gear VR headset will cost $199 (phablet not included) | Update December 8: Samsung’s Gear VR is on sale now.
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Gear VR headset will cost $199, a Samsung spokesperson at New York Fashion Week told VentureBeat this evening.
Two days ago Samsung unveiled the Gear VR, a virtu... |
| 04.09.2014 | Will Samsung’s Gear VR trigger the virtual reality revolution before Oculus Rift? | Out of all the products that Samsung unveiled yesterday, it was the Gear VR — not the Note 4 or Note Edge — that intrigued me the most. At first I was a little bit skeptical, but as I started to interpret some hands-on impressions, and lear... |
| 03.09.2014 | Samsung reveals virtual reality headset powered by a smartphone | reader comments 96 with 56 posters participating
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| 03.09.2014 | An Inside Look At The Development Of Samsung’s Gear VR At Oculus With CEO Brendan Iribe | Oculus VR is the key platform partner behind Samsung’s new Gear VR, having co-developed the hardware and having built the Oculus Mobile software development kit and first party demonstration apps entirely in-house. The company’s foray into ... |
| 27.08.2014 | Hardware Crowdfunding: Where The Venture Dollars Flow | Matt Witheiler Contributor
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| 26.08.2014 | Facebook Hosts First Hackathon For Female Veterans | There are dozens of hackathons in Silicon Valley every month, but on Monday Facebook hosted one with a twist. Rather than the college-aged brogrammers that usually dominate the coding marathons, female veterans were the only participants at... |
| 21.08.2014 | Facebook offering cash bounty on Oculus bugs, Netflix creates Oculix service just for fun | Mark Hawver, Tech Times 21 August 2014, 03:08 pm
Virtual reality goggles are virtually here. Oculus VR, the company that is developing virtual reality headsets, has now released its second developer kit for its Oculus Rift headset.
This pla... |
| 19.07.2014 | Immersive Infections | Adam Kujawa Contributor
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| 09.07.2014 | RakNet acquisition opens up exciting world of possibilities for Oculus VR | Vamien McKalin, Tech Times 09 July 2014, 08:07 am
Oculus VR, the company behind the Oculus Rift, and the company that was bought out by Facebook for $3 billion, has acquired software startup RakNet to add certain features like chatting and ... |
| 07.07.2014 | Oculus Debuts Oculus Connect Developer Conference, Acquires RakNet And Open Sources Its Tech | Oculus made a couple of announcements today, including the acquisition of middleware game-network technology provider RakNet, which powers cross-platform voice chat, SQL logging, secure connectivity and more for a number of indie companies ... |
| 07.07.2014 | Oculus VR announces conference to help developers make the best Oculus Rift experiences | Virtual reality is the next frontier of gaming, and Oculus Connect is the upcoming event that will school developers on the best practices for conquering that frontier.
Facebook’s Oculus VR revealed today that it will gather with developers... |
| 03.07.2014 | How to build a virtual reality system – in your living room | Virtual reality is no longer the expensive, cumbersome exercise it once was. Google Cardboard, launched at last week’s Google I/O conference, is a no-frills, cardboard frame that, when used with open software, transforms a smartphone into a... |
| 30.06.2014 | Universities Look To Oculus Rift To Lure Students To Campus | When you hear “Oculus Rift” you think games, but it looks like virtual tours are becoming a new category to the uses for the virtual reality device.
Founders of YouVisit, a virtual tour company, Taher Baderkhan, Abi Mandelbaum and Endri Tol... |
| 24.06.2014 | Oculus VR now owns the company that designed the Xbox 360 controller | Facebook’s Oculus VR is spending some cash to get a company that is great at building products people love.
The virtual-reality company now owns Carbon Design Group, which is best known for creating the Xbox 360 controller. Oculus announced... |
| 24.06.2014 | THE NEWS WRAP: Third party developers get a platform on Nest | The smart home company Nest is opening its platform to third party developers who want their networked gadgets to interface with Nest’s products.
Most of the functionality will centre on the Nest platform’s ability to tell other apps whethe... |
| 22.06.2014 | Control VR Opens The Door To Virtual Offices | Control VR is a startup which has created a wearable system that captures precise motion data for virtual reality applications. On its Kickstarter page (which has raised $388,000, or more than 150% of its goal with 13 days left to go) the m... |
| 18.06.2014 | The Gear VR headset could be Samsung’s first move into Virtual Reality? | There are rumours that Samsung is working on a virtual reality headset, and we might know the name according to a filed application with the US Patent and Trademark Office, for the trademark Gear VR. We don’t need any prizes to guess that V... |
| 14.06.2014 | How Oculus VR is starting to change the direction of gaming (interview) | LOS ANGELES — Virtual reality gaming startup Oculus VR returned to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show this week in Los Angeles as a real, competitive platform in the emerging VR game business.
It’s been just two ye... |
| 10.06.2014 | Oculus VR Has Hired Jason Rubin, A Naughty Dog Co-Founder, To Lead First-Party Game Development | Oculus VR today confirmed that it has hired Jason Rubin to lead first-party game development. This comes less than a week after the company announced that it has poached Jason Holtman from Valve to lead the creation of a platform for sellin... |
| 10.06.2014 | Augmented Reality Augmentation: Blippar Has Bought Layar | Some consolidation — or augmentation, if you will — in the world of augmented reality. Blippar — an image recognition platform used in digital advertising — has acquired Layar, an augmented reality platform used across different application... |
| 28.05.2014 | CENTR Cam Is A GoPro Competitor That Captures Everything Around You | While smartphones have decimated the point-and-shoot camera market, the emergence of GoPro as a $1 billion company has shown that there’s still an audience willing to pay for a device that can take great footage at big events or during outd... |
| 23.05.2014 | Could Oculus Be A Game Changer for Telemedine? | Photograph by Jeff Chiu/AP Phot
Facebook is known for making waves with new acquisitions, and one of the latest is no exception: Oculus, a virtual reality gaming company Facebook acquired for $2 billion that includes $400 million in cash an... |
| 19.05.2014 | Vrban: virtual reality urban planning from Brooklyn dev | A tool that allows users to explore and manipulate real urban environments for planning won last week’s annual Tech Crunch Disrupt Hackathon, and the project was built by Angel Say, who works in Red Hook.
Named vrban for “virtual reality + ... |
| 15.05.2014 | ANTVR Is An Open-Source, Cross-Platform Virtual Reality Gaming Kit | Products like the Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus have revolutionized the gaming landscape by making virtual reality headsets accessible to the average gamer, but they have a major drawback. Each are married to their platforms and only wor... |
| 14.05.2014 | Oculus + Kinect + Novo Nordisk = A diabetes education game set in a virtual patient’s body | It was unveiled in March at the Diabetes UK conference and for now is being demoed to healthcare professionals at conferences. But emotive said there has been discussion about the potential of the technology to engage younger, perhaps apath... |
| 13.05.2014 | HAXLR8R Demo Day 2014: Robotics and ‘Niche’ Products | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In the mere two years since Sean O’Sullivan and Cyril Ebersweiler founded the Shenzhen, China-based HAXLR8R hardware accelerator, a lot has changed. Technology prices continue... |
| 05.05.2014 | Oculus: Not A Single Line Of ZeniMax Code In Any Oculus Products | Oculus today responded pretty forcefully to allegations that John Carmack, the creator of Doom, violated his non-disclosure agreement with ZeniMax when he joined Oculus shortly before the company was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. Acc... |
| 05.05.2014 | Oculus VR Created A Research Group To Advance Virtual Reality | Oculus VR was recently all over the news because it was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. But Oculus VR is still operating independently and trying to figure out the future of virtual reality. Co-founder and CEO Brendan Iribe took the st... |
| 01.05.2014 | Doom co-creator John Carmack under fire for allegedly taking ‘proprietary technology’ to Facebook’s Oculus VR | Quake developer John Carmack’s breakup with Zenimax might end in court.
Id Software, the company responsible for classic shooters Doom and Quake, and its parent company, Zenimax Media, are accusing Carmack of inappropriately taking intellec... |
| 01.05.2014 | Doom co-creator John Carmack under fire for allegedly taking ‘proprietary technology’ to Facebook’s Oculus VR | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Quake developer John Carmack’s breakup with Zenimax might end in court.
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| 22.04.2014 | What does Oculus Rift have to do with cancer? For this grandmother, it was ‘so therapeutic’ | Here’s another addition to the list of potential health applications for Oculus Rift.
Last fall video game artist Pri Firstenberg got ahold of an early version of the virtual reality headset for her grandmother, who was dying from cancer an... |
| 14.04.2014 | How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) | The Santa Clara Valley was some of the most valuable agricultural land in the entire world, but it was paved over to create today’s Silicon Valley. This was simply the result of bad planning and layers of leadership failure — nobody thinks ... |
| 30.03.2014 | What Games Are: Virtual Reality, We Hardly Knew You | Tadhg Kelly Contributor
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| 28.03.2014 | If Facebook Used Oculus to Make a Virtual Reality Mall, This Is What It Would Look Like | No more getting dressed to go shopping — this is what it may look like to go to the mall. (via Chaotic Moon Studios)
Chaotic Moon Studios, the same guys that brought us CUPID the flying taser drone, put out a video this morning demonstratin... |
| 28.03.2014 | Valve’s VR Expert Michael Abrash Joins Oculus As Chief Scientist | After Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, many were worried that Oculus’ top talent — many of whom are industry/VR pioneers — would leave out of spite. Seems quite the opposite is happening.
Michael Abrash — the man largely responsible for le... |
| 26.03.2014 | Facebook Acquires Oculus VR for $2BN | Facebook (nasdaq FB) acquired Oculus VR, Inc., the developer of immersive virtual reality technology, for a total of approximately $2 billion.
According to an official statement, the transaction, which is expected to close in the second qua... |
| 26.03.2014 | Oculus Acquisition is a Rude Awakening For Kickstarter Backers | Build to improve the gaming experience, Facebook will try and push VR toward a social technology. (photo: Sergey Galyonkin, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Virtual reality developer Oculus Rift has been acquired by Facebook, and the company’s original backer... |
| 26.03.2014 | The superfast rise of Oculus VR: How it went from startup to $2B acquisition in 21 months (interview) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The most amazing thing about the short life of virtual-reality gaming startup Oculus VR is just how short it has been.
It’s been just 2... |
| 26.03.2014 | A Brief History Of Oculus | Less than two years ago, Oculus raised 2.5 million dollars on Kickstarter.
Yesterday, they were acquired by Facebook for $2 billion.
To write the words “A Brief History Of Oculus” is a bit funny — because really, the company’s very existenc... |
| 26.03.2014 | Keepin' it virtually real -- Facebook buys Oculus VR for $2 billion | It has been a day of purchases today. If Intel purchasing wearable tech outfit Basis was not enough, everyone's favorite social network (or something like that), Facebook has splashed the cash on virtual reality startup Oculus VR. In a deal... |
| 25.03.2014 | Zuckerberg paints a surprising future for Oculus VR: ‘The most social platform ever’ | Cut through the jargon and it’s slowly becoming clearer why Facebook decided to acquire virtual reality gaming company Oculus VR for $2 billion.
Shortly after the stock market closed today, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook said in a st... |
| 25.03.2014 | Facebook To Buy Oculus VR, Maker Of The Rift Headset, For Around $2B In Cash And Stock | Facebook has announced plans to purchase Oculus VR, the company behind the Rift headset, for around $2 billion in cash and stock. This includes $400 million, and 23.1 million Facebook shares. An additional $300 million earnout will be paid ... |
| 25.03.2014 | Facebook Buys Oculus For $2B, Betting On Virtual Reality To Replace Smartphones | Facebook is going virtual in about the biggest way possible. The social network will acquire virtual reality-hardware maker Oculus, creator of the acclaimed Oculus Rift headset, for roughly $2 billion. The deal apparently represents Mark Zu... |
| 25.03.2014 | Facebook purchases VR headset maker Oculus for $2 billion [Updated] | I'll use any excuse to break out this image again of gaming editor Kyle Orland.
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| 25.03.2014 | Confirmed! | In the realm of beautiful acquisition stories, someone posted on Reddit a month ago about a Mark Zuckerberg sighting at Oculus Rift’s offices. Today Facebook bought Oculus Rift for $2 billion.
“So no way to confirm this, but my friend works... |
| 25.03.2014 | Zuckerberg paints a surprising future for Oculus VR: ‘The most social platform ever’ | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Cut through the jargon and it’s slowly becoming clearer why Facebook decided to acquire virtual reality gaming company Oculus VR for $2... |
| 25.03.2014 | Facebook Breaks Out the Checkbook, Acquires Oculus VR for $2 Billion | About an hour ago Mark Zuckerberg posted on his Facebook wall that the social media giant will be breaking out the check book once again to acquire Oculus VR for a reported $2 billion. The Oculus VR team confirmed the news in a blog post au... |
| 20.03.2014 | Oculus Rift DK2 goes on sale for $350, features low-latency 1080p displays, more polished appearance | Obviously terrified of being squeezed out of the market by Sony’s Project Morpheus virtual reality headset, Oculus VR has announced the imminent arrival of its second-generation Oculus Rift dev kit: The DK2. The DK2 (Development Kit 2) is a... |
| 19.03.2014 | The New Oculus Rift Developer Kit Is Now Open For Pre-Orders | At this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, virtual reality wunderkind Oculus unveiled the second-generation of its much-buzzed-about hardware, the Oculus Rift. The second edition of the Oculus Rift VR headset, known as the ... |
| 19.03.2014 | Why Sony’s ‘Project Morpheus’ Is In The Right Place At The Right Time | Why, yes, Sony’s new virtual reality headset does bear a striking resemblance to the Oculus Rift, that scrappy upstart turned king of the virtual reality hill you’ve been hearing so much about.
After its fast ascension powered by a healthy ... |
| 19.03.2014 | Oculus Rift Dev Kit 2 launches with 960×1080 resolution, lower latency | reader comments 83 with 49 posters participating
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| 19.03.2014 | Oculus Rift Gets A New $350 Developer Kit Which Improves On The Crystal Cove Prototype | Oculus has unveiled a Rift development kit to replace the first-generation one it stopped selling just last week, and the $350 developer hardware ups the game considerably over its predecessor. The new system is up for pre-order on the Ocul... |
| 18.03.2014 | Project Morpheus: Meet Sony’s Virtual Reality Headset For PS4 | Oculus Rift isn’t out yet, but Sony has its own ideas for enhancing the gaming experience with virtual reality.
At this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sony’s gaming subsidiary on Tuesday evening unveiled a virtual reali... |
| 14.03.2014 | Watch Thalmic Integrate The Myo Armband And Oculus Rift To Get Your Hands In The Game | Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs has a new demo video out for their upcoming Myo armband, a controller that uses the electrical impulses generated when you use your arms and hands to generate input for computing devices. This time, they’ve shown how... |
| 11.03.2014 | Oculus Rift’s First-Run Development Kit Is Sold Out As It Poaches Key Valve VR Talent | The Oculus Rift development kit is no longer for sale in most parts of the world, the company reports. The dev hardware for the virtual reality headset has been on sale since Oculus kicked off their Kickstarter campaign, and began shipping ... |
| 21.02.2014 | Will Eve: Valkyrie be the exclusive that Oculus Rift needs to take flight? (interview) | The developers at CCP Games, the maker of Eve Online, were so excited about the virtual reality goggles from Oculus VR that they made their own game in their spare time to run on the Oculus Rift. Their creation, the sci-fi dogfighting game ... |
| 05.02.2014 | Oculus Will Co-Publish EVE: Valkyrie, The VR Spin-Off Game From The Popular Space Sim | Oculus isn’t just supporting CCP Games from a distance in its creation of EVE: Valkyrie – the maker of the Oculus Rift VR gaming headset announced today that it will co-publish the game with CCP, making it an exclusive launch title when the... |
| 04.02.2014 | HopHacks: 3 winners from 27 teams at second Johns Hopkins hackathon | Nearly 180 students registered for the second HopHacks at the Johns Hopkins University, the 36-hour-long hackathon that concluded Sunday when 86 students split among 27 teams presented completed projects.
While the first HopHacks event was ... |
| 14.01.2014 | Oculus VR’s Brendan Iribe on the latest virtual reality prototype (interview) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Oculus VR, the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles, continues to lead a charmed life as it moves from an indie curiosity t... |
| 14.01.2014 | Oculus VR’s Brendan Iribe on the latest virtual reality prototype (interview) | Oculus VR, the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles, continues to lead a charmed life as it moves from an indie curiosity to a real gaming platform. The Irvine, Calif.-based company raised eyebrows again at the 2014 Internationa... |
| 10.01.2014 | 5 Gaming Trends To Watch In 2014 | ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year.
The year has only just begun, but there are already plenty of exciting hints at what the gaming industry has in store for 2014.
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| 09.01.2014 | Oculus VR’s New “Crystal Cove” Prototype Is Kind Of Amazing | Oculus VR has been showing off a new version of its virtual reality technology at the Consumer Electronics Show. According to Vice President of Product Nate Mitchell, the “Crystal Cove” prototype features two big improvements — positional t... |
| 08.01.2014 | Pebble vs. Google Glass: Why The New May Triumph Over The Radical | Technology develops in fits and starts. It’s the reason we tech types make the manic pilgrimage to a convention center in Las Vegas every year to check in on it. It’s why software updates pop up on our phones every few months in increments.... |
| 06.01.2014 | Sony announces Oculus Rift virtual reality headset competitor | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Movie watchers and gamers who just like to enjoy their content alone may like Sony’s latest product: a virtual reality headset.
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| 14.12.2013 | Oculus VR Raises $75M in Series B Funding | Oculus VR, an Irvine, CA-based virtual reality technology company, raised $75m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, and Formation 8. In conjunction with the fu... |
| 14.12.2013 | Oculus VR’s Brendan Iribe on raising $75M and building the next-generation consumer virtual reality (interview) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Oculus VR, the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles, has had a whirlwind startup life that has taken it from an underdog of... |
| 13.12.2013 | Oculus VR Nets $75M In Series B Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz | Oculus VR has turned Kickstarter success into what is fast-becoming one of the most interesting startups in the US today. Following a $16 million series A round, the company has announced that they have now closed an additional round of fun... |
| 13.12.2013 |
Oculus VR Raises $75M For Virtual Reality Glasses In Series B
| Irvine-based Oculus VR announced last night that it has raised $75M in a funding round, a giant Series B for the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included Spark Ca... |
| 12.12.2013 | Oculus VR raises $75M round led by web browser inventor Marc Andreessen's VC firm to launch virtual-reality goggles | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Virtual reality goggle maker has raised a massive round of $75 million led by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen’s Andreessen Horowitz ve... |
| 12.12.2013 | Oculus VR raises $75M round led by web browser inventor Marc Andreessen's VC firm to launch virtual-reality goggles | Virtual reality goggle maker has raised a massive round of $75 million led by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen’s Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm to create a consumer version of its product.
The funding values Irvine, Calif.-based O... |
| 12.12.2013 | Oculus VR Raises $75 Million To Help Bring Virtual Reality Goggles To The Masses | The road to immersive virtual reality has been a long and strange one — it was fodder for wide-eyed futurists and engineers for years before it became painfully clear that the sorts of experiences we hoped for were limited by the feeble har... |
| 07.12.2013 | Take a Peek at a Few Key PrimeSense Patents that Apple Gained
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| 03.12.2013 | Amazon To Look Into Deliveries By Self-Driving Car | Just kidding.
But since Jeff Bezos is going to pull his April Fool’s Day jokes early for traffic, then so will we. Because quite honestly, ’twas the night before Cyber Monday, and all through the house, every creature was stirring, posting ... |
| 22.11.2013 | Doom’s John Carmack Leaves id Software To Focus On The Oculus Virtual Reality Headset | Video game legend John Carmack has left id Gaming, a company that he helped to found, to focus his energies on his role as the CTO of Oculus. It’s the end of an era, as Carmack wrote game franchises like Doom and Quake while at id.
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| 07.10.2013 | Artist Siggi Eggertsson Warps The Nordic Landscape Through A Digital Lens | Siggi Eggertsson is considered a design hero in his home country of Iceland. The elusive artist has won numerous prestigious awards, including the Art Directors Club Europe Gold for Illustration in 2012, and worked on a multitude of high-pr... |
| 26.09.2013 | Five developers you should follow on Twitter | One of the best things about Twitter is that it gives everyone a platform to connect with the world — including behind-the-scenes people like developers. While some developers use the social network to talk about industry stuff, others use ... |
| 18.09.2013 | Broadcom, Apple and Gaming Possibilities
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