Facebook opened preorders for the Oculus Quest and Rift S yesterday, with an initial shipping date of May 21. After one day of preorders, the website now provides an estimate of May 24 in the USA- indicating that the first three days worth of stock have sold out. Orders placed early yesterday still show a...
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Rift S Hardware Review: A Simplified PC VR Headset Focused On Easier Setup And Lowering Cost
Facebook and Valve support VR for different reasons. Valve’s Steam storefront is the dominant digital distribution store on personal computers. Virtual reality creates new markets for content which Valve can sell to PC owners via Steam. Facebook’s relationship to people is reliant on platforms controlled by other companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft. VR offers...
Creed: Rise To Glory Quest Review – Fighting On The Ropes
The Oculus Quest is, despite what your heart may desire, not a wireless Oculus Rift. The launch lineup is shaping up to include a lot of the Rift’s best titles, but many of them have been downgraded or adapted to fit onto the standalone Oculus Quest. Creed: Rise to Glory is a great example of...
Dance Central VR Review-In-Progress: Grooving To The Music
Dance Central VR was one of the real stand out demos that I tried at GDC last month. When I walked into that hotel suite and put on an Oculus Quest headset to be treated to the latest VR music experience from Harmonix, I was certainly excited. Now that I’ve had some extended time with...
AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today
Matt Miesnieks Contributor Matt Miesnieks is a partner at Super Ventures. More posts by this contributor Why the YouTube of AR won’t be YouTube The product design challenges of AR on smartphones The martial arts actor Jet Li turned down a role in the Matrix and has been invisible on our screens because he does not...
Facebook Updates Spark AR with Windows Support & New Features, Instagram AR Arriving This Summer
Two years ago, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the F8 Developers Conference keynote with augmented reality and the introduction of Facebook’s AR camera platform, now known as Spark AR. Since then, Facebook has faced an avalanche of controversy on its approach to user data, so augmented reality took a back seat to...
New Oculus Touch Review: A Slight Step Back As Oculus Headsets Go Forth
Oculus Touch’s new revision is born more out of necessity than opportunity. 2019 sees Facebook’s VR hardware make the jump from outside-in positional tracking, which uses external sensors, to an inside-out system that instead has sensors mounted on the device. You can see the tech employed in the new Oculus Rift S and Oculus Quest...
Four VR Games Compared Side-By-Side On Rift And Quest
Oculus Quest, Facebook’s new standalone VR headset, is arriving in just a few weeks’ time. Facebook is pushing its latest device as an all-in-one VR system that will enable Rift-quality experiences. And it’s true that Quest’s inside-out tracking, for the most part, brings great PC VR titles to mobile. But to get there, developers have...
Apex Construct Quest Review: A Port Worthy Of This Enjoyable Adventure
Apex Construct is one of the games I expected to have some troubles fitting onto Oculus Quest. That’s largely because the game is impressive even on a PC VR platform. Here’s what we had to say about the game last year: ” From the moment you begin it’s clear that this is a ‘full’ VR game....
Here Are Install File Sizes For Every Oculus Quest Game So Far
Now that the Oculus Quest review embargo is up, the flood gates have basically been opened. The Quest is officially launching on May 21 and you can pre-order a headset for $399 starting today. You can read our full review of the device right now and take a look at the giant list of all...