This year’s Oculus developer conference — Oculus Connect 5 — was chock full of hardware, software, and games announcements, including foveated rendering, visual improvements, and YouTube VR; casting on Oculus Go; and a new Star Wars experience. One of the undoubted highlights was Rift Core 2.0, which enters the public test channel…Read More Source: Facebook...
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Oculus Go gets foveated rendering, visual improvements, and YouTube VR
Alongside other announcements today at its Connect 5 event, Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus announced a number of new additions to its Oculus Go standalone VR headset: several new visual rendering features that will improve optical quality, as well as YouTube VR support. Most interestingly, the headset will receive the ability to perf…Read More Source: Oculus...
Face Your Fears 2 for Oculus Quest hands-on — Jump scares are frightening in VR
PREVIEW: Face Your Fears 2 is one of the titles coming for the Oculus Quest wireless virtual reality headset in the spring. And it checks off the box for a horror game with a lot of jump scares. The sequel to the 2016 Oculus Rift VR title Face Your Fears is under development at Turtle...
Oculus CTO John Carmack hopes VR will connect people across the globe
John Carmack had an apt opening line in his Oculus Connect 5 keynote speech today in San Jose, California. “A long-term vision can be a rug you sweep your current shortcomings under,” said the chief technology officer at Facebook’s Oculus division. He proceeded to talk for 90 minutes about a lot of small details about...
John Carmack: Oculus Quest will end up competing with Nintendo Switch
During his keynote today during the Oculus Connect 5 event, chief technology officer John Carmack said that he believes that the upcoming Oculus Quest headset will have to compete with Switch, Nintendo’s hit home console/portable system. Oculus Quest is coming out this spring, and it will serve as a middle ground between the Oculus Rift...
Oculus CTO Carmack plans microSD and low-power support for Go, more for Go 2
During a freewheeling day two keynote speech at Oculus Connect 5, Oculus CTO John Carmack spoke about a number of technical and design challenges the company confronted with Oculus Go, as well as new features that will come to the standalone headset platform and plans for the upcoming Oculus Quest. The first half-hour of Carmack’s...
Watch the Oculus Connect 5 John Carmack keynote live
Yesterday was the first day of Facebook’s annual Oculus Connect developers event, and it delivered on quite a few hardware and software announcements: Oculus Quest and Oculus Go updates, plus new software announcements. Today is Oculus CTO John Carmack’s day to shine, and you can watch it live online! Today’s second keynote starts…Read More Source: Watch the...
Sinespace pursues the ‘Second Life of virtual reality’
Linden Lab created the memorable virtual world Second Life in 2003, and it’s still going today. But even as Linden Lab tries to create its Sansar virtual spaces for VR, another rival has emerged to compete to be the place for do-it-yourself creators in VR. Sinespace is billing itself as a massively multiplayer online sandbox...
Oculus Quest hands-on — The untethered Dead & Buried is a completely different game
Dead & Buried was one of the finest multiplayer games on the Oculus Rift when it debuted in 2016. But the Wild West gunslinger shooter had limited mobility, with only two players squaring off against another two in a fairly tight arena. But today, Facebook showed a demo of its new Oculus Quest virtual reality headset at the...
Vox Machinae takes giant robot multiplayer combat into VR
If you like the sound of clanking metal in your virtual reality games, then Vox Machinae just might be your thing. The VR game for the Oculus Rift was very noisy when I tried it out at a recent Oculus event, and developers can check it out for themselves at the Oculus Connect 5 conference this...
