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Oculus Announces ‘Wilson’s Heart’, a Twilight Zone-style Psychological Thriller for Touch

Road to VR

Oculus today announced a new exclusive, Wilson’s Heart , a first-person psychological thriller slated to arrive on Oculus Home in 2017. The game uses Oculus Touch controller so you can examine clues and manipulate in-game objects naturally. Wilson’s Heart is the studios first foray into VR development.

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Facebook’s Quest to Kill the Smartphone

VRScout

When Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, we didn’t have Android or iOS, but the mobile phone market was well established — think Blackberry, Motorola, and Nokia. That is why Facebook has ploughed billions into VR through Oculus, maker of the Rift headset, and why Facebook is building its own AR hardware.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

The digitization was accomplished in 2004 with generous support from the Andrew W. The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. He was very impressed and offered us direct access to executives of Oculus, who helped us in various ways to develop our VR applications. Keep strict control of the intellectual property.

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Mega-roundup of Facebook Connect 2: all the news in a single place!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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