Virtual reality is getting social, according to an Oculus announcement. While this new functionality is not Snow Crash‘s Metaverse, it does offer a way to find friends who also happen to own the ...

The Oculus Quest recently gained support for over 40 Oculus Go and Gear VR games. It also gained the ability to use several Oculus Go and Gear VR apps. These additions almost double the number of ...

Virtual reality news has more or less quieted down over the past months but that doesn't mean it's far from gone. While its application in other industries have yet to be realized, it continues to ...

The Oculus Quest's game library continues to expand. Recently, the Oculus Quest gained the ability to play compatible Oculus Go and Gear VR games. This update brought dozens of new titles that you can ...

John Carmack has offered a "eulogy" for the Gear VR, Oculus and Samsung's trailblazing mobile VR headset. Carmack, Oculus VR's chief technology officer, admitted it was "time for me to give a bit of a ...

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 ...

Google started the idea of using a smartphone as the heart and soul of a VR headset and others immediately jumped on the prospect of an affordable VR system for the masses. That included Samsung who ...

In perhaps the only unsurprising moment during the saga of Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, Oculus has pulled support for the one-time flagship device from its Gear VR headset. Although a ...

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Oculus stopped selling its entry-level virtual reality headset on Tuesday, the Oculus Go. Usually this kind of announcement would be met with nostalgic retrospectives and beers poured on the floor.