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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Oculus promises its 16-foot fiber optic cable will provide the ideal PC VR experience on Quest. Last month, Oculus began rolling out the beta for Oculus Link , an exciting piece of software that allows Oculus Quest users to enjoy high-end PC VR games and experiences on their standalone headsets. Image Credit: Oculus.

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MAY 22, 2020

Facebook today announced that its Oculus for Business program is finally openly available. Facebook says that the Oculus for Business version of Quest works with major mobile device management programs like MobileIron and VMware Workspace ONE, making it easy to manage headsets through existing enterprise systems.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Echo VR (2017) , the zero-gravity sports game for Quest and Rift, has just started its second ‘Echo Pass’ season, which for a limited time lets players nab limited-time cosmetic rewards earned through playing matches. Image courtesy Ready at Dawn, Oculus. Here’s how that converts into actual cash. $5

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Native hand tracking, PC/standalone hybrid functionality, and new games confirmed for the Oculus platform. That’s a wrap on Oculus Connect 6. Oculus Link launches this November ; Oculus will be offering its own official USB-C cable as well. . Image Credit: Facebook.

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JULY 14, 2017

Since the bombshell price drop earlier this week by Facebook’s Oculus, a number of theories have emerged regarding the Rift’s temporary $400 price tag. Is Oculus preparing a second generation and hoping to clear stock?

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MAY 1, 2019

We learned that both the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S will be shipping to customers May 21st and that Viveport Infinity would be offering owners of either the recently-announced Valve Index or Oculus Rift S two free months of the popular game subscription service. Image Credit: Oculus.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Looking for an Oculus Rift S? Rift S stocks persevered up until just last week in the only remaining regions where you could order direct from Oculus , which included Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Taiwan. Now every supported country is out of stock, leaving only a few Oculus Quests in some last holdout regions.

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JULY 10, 2017

Oculus is giving the Rift & Touch their biggest discount yet for a six week-long sale. 400 will get you both the Rift headset and the Touch controllers, and a slew of bundled content. At the start of 2017, the Oculus Rift + Touch controllers cost $800, the same as the HTC Vive. Oculus Rift Review.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Oculus Quest continues to sell out, backorders pushed to mid-February. VR technology has absolutely dominated the 2019 holiday season as numerous major retailers—both physical and online—continue to sell out of 64GB and 128GB Oculus Quest headsets. . Image Credit: Oculus. While the software works with multiple USB 3.0

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

The sidebar allowed developers to prominently display the compatible headsets, input devices, and play area sizes for their games, and users could filter the store by clicking on these tags. Strangely, the ‘Tracked Controller Supported’ tag was kept and moved to the list of general features on each store page.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The big Oculus Rift Summer Sale may be officially over, which saw the Rift + Touch bundle temporarily slashed from $600 to $400 for a limited time, but for some reason the US Amazon site hasn’t reverted yet to the new $500 price tag, making now the very last time you’ll be able to get the deal. Included: Rift.

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MARCH 6, 2017

10 ] is probably the Oculus Rift’s biggest exclusive so far. He’s one of the developers behind Revive, a hack that allows Vive owners to play games available on Oculus Home, including exclusive Rift content funded by Oculus itself. Tagged with: Epic Games , htc vive , oculus rift , robo recall.

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MAY 10, 2017

The Oculus Rift has supported room scale VR, in which players can walk around a physical space and have their movements replicated in a virtual one, since the launch of its Touch controllers late last year. “This also means we’re planning to remove the experimental tag from roomscale support.” Currently 1.15

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JUNE 17, 2017

of Oculus Rift software is beginning to roll out to all Rift users, adding support for Mixed Reality capture, a redesigned interface for future updates and issue reporting, a new Home environment and multilanguage support. Oculus Home has also been given a new Cityscape environment, with the promise of more environments to come.

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Road to VR

APRIL 27, 2020

Thanks to Steam’s one-day ‘Alien Day’ sale, the landmark survival horror game Alien: Isolation is on sale for $2 , making for a 95% discount off the original $40 price tag. That’s without DLC however, which can be bought in its entirety in the Alien: Isolation Collection for $12.50.

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JULY 6, 2017

Germany-based customers looking to snap up a deal on Oculus Rift and Touch, the VR headset’s motion controller, are seeing one of the biggest price cuts thanks to German electronics retailer MediaMarkt. Normally costing €708 for both Rift and Touch, the special sale bundle has slashed prices to a total of €453.99

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

HTC has taken the wraps off its expanded Vive Cosmos VR headset product family, introducing new models to compete with the Oculus Rift S and its relatively low price tag. The new lineup features the HTC Vive Cosmos Elite, Cosmos XR, and Cosmos Play models, as well as modular faceplates for the front of the headsets.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2019

Oculus has finally revealed the price and release date for Defector , the upcoming Rift exclusive from Oculus Studios and Twisted Pixel. Along with the release date reveal, Oculus has offered a brief glimpse of new gameplay. Set for release on July 11th for $20, the game promises to deliver action-movie thrills in VR.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Oculus has announced Rift S, the headset’s fabled hardware refresh that brings with it a modest spec bump and a few other changes to the original Rift that the company hopes will appeal to new entrants in PC VR gaming. Just like its 2016-era namesake, you’ll need a capable gaming PC to run Rift S.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2017

Windlands (2016) is a first-person exploration game from Psytech Games , and as one of the first truly great titles to come to all major VR headsets, the temporary $5 price tag on Steam—down from its normal $20—is an absolute steal for what it offers. You can’t help but marvel at the grandiosity of the environment Windlands creates.

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MAY 30, 2017

Since launching in December 2016 the Oculus Touch controllers have become an essential peripheral for any Rift owner, and Oculus’ latest data proves that. According to developer relations boss Paul Jastrzebski, nearly every Rift owner has purchased a pair of Touch controllers.

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MARCH 23, 2017

Today, Oculus is announcing the release of the latest software patch for its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. is bringing, according to a Community Forum post : Features: Public Test Channel: You can now enroll in our Public Test Channel program to receive pre-release builds (“beta” versions) of Oculus software.

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MAY 8, 2017

Oculus has had a few stumbles since it launched the Rift VR headset just over a year ago now. Early shipping issues plagued launch, and some high-profile figures like Rift creator Palmer Luckey have already parted ways with the company. Ultimately, that sets Rift up to win. Hope you saved your FREE clip!

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JULY 15, 2017

Oculus slashed the original price tag in half to $400 on the Rift +Touch bundle last week, but the company’s ‘Summer of Rift’ sale only lasts for six weeks, leaving the question on the table as to exactly how much the VR headset + motion controller bundle would return to once the sale is up.

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MARCH 21, 2017

But on the off chance that Jaunt, Oculus Video, Facebook 360, YouTube, Littlstar apps and many others don’t quench your thirst, HTC has its own solution – Vive Video. While it’s interesting that HTC has retroactively added Oculus support to Vive Video, it’s not too surprising.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 20, 2023

In April 2012, Oculus hit Kickstarter with the Oculus Rift developer kit , and the tech world whipped itself into a “this is the future” frenzy. And, $3,500 price tag aside , Apple’s Vision Pro takes the concept so far that it doesn’t even really use the VR nomenclature anymore.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Facebook’s Oculus VR team is announcing a new bundle for its Oculus Rift VR system. With it, customers can get a Rift headset, the Oculus Touch controllers, an ASUS VivoX PC , and four free games for the total price of $1300. ” Tagged with: The Unspoken Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Thinking of buying an Oculus Rift in the next few days? Reddit users have uncovered an upcoming Best Buy deal , offering $100 Oculus Store credit when you pick up the VR headset. 100 could get you a fair amount on the Oculus Store. Tagged with: best buy , Black Friday , deal , oculus rift , sale.

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JULY 20, 2017

Oculus has confirmed that Crytek’s The Climb is the platform’s best selling Rift game to date, and among a handful of titles that have grossed more than $1 million on the company’s VR storefront. The post Crytek’s ‘The Climb’ is The Best Selling Rift Game To Date appeared first on Road to VR.

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JULY 10, 2017

Starting today and running for the next six weeks, Oculus has announced that an Oculus Rift + Touch bundle will cost only $399. This is a huge (temporary) price cut from the previously established $598 tag, which was an approximately $100 price cut from the previous ~$700 cost that both ran most people.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Valve’s monthly Steam hardware and software survey is out again, and it appears HTC Vive is holding firm ground on the platform after Oculus Rift took majority market share in March as the most popular VR headset on Steam. There’s still a contingent of diehard Oculus DK2 owners still playing through Steam.

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JUNE 11, 2017

There’s no word yet on whether or not the titles might support the Oculus Rift, even unofficially through Steam — Bethesda parent company ZeniMax won a $500 million judgment against Oculus earlier this year in a case centered on Oculus CTO John Carmack’s work. VATS = another level.

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JULY 3, 2017

Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift. Though the new integrated support is only available for specific Rift applications MR gives content creators, advertisers, and more a chance to share VR in-person or online.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. While the price tag dropped during the Black Friday sales, it is still at 699€ in Europe (US $600) and requires at least some decent PC hardware to perform smoothly. Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Samsung Gear VR.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Four years after the original Oculus Quest headset arrived, the Meta Quest platform offers an impressive range of experiences that caters to all interests. We played on Oculus Quest 2, but it’s crossplay between Quest 1, Quest 2, and PC VR headsets with cross-buy on Rift and Quest. Looking for the best free Quest games and apps?

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It is understood that the headset aims to compete with the Apple Vision Pro, which comes with an eye-watering price tag of $3,499. Furthermore, Meta has struck several joint ventures with companies like Lenovo, Samsung, and Xiaomi for the company’s Oculus Rift S, Gear VR, and Oculus Go, respectively.

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JUNE 29, 2022

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