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Oculus CEO Steps Down to Head PC Division, Founder Palmer Luckey to Shuffle Too

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In a post to the company’s official blog , Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe confirms he’ll be stepping down from the company’s top position to head the new PC VR group. Brendan Iribe was one of Oculus founding team members back when the company formed in 2012. At present, that leaves Oculus without a executive head.

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Respawn Bringing Medal of Honor Series Exclusively to Oculus VR

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And it is all thanks to Respawn who is working on bringing their own take on the game to Oculus VR headsets. Ever since its 2012 hiatus, Medal of Honor has languished and is almost forgotten except by those gamers who really know their quality WWII games. But it looks like Medal of Honor is coming back and in VR no less.

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Respawn Bringing Medal of Honor Series Exclusively to Oculus VR

VRGames

And it is all thanks to Respawn who is working on bringing their own take on the game to Oculus VR headsets. Ever since its 2012 hiatus, Medal of Honor has languished and is almost forgotten except by those gamers who really know their quality WWII games. But it looks like Medal of Honor is coming back and in VR no less.

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Best VR Graphics Cards for Rift and Vive

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To be clear too, there are cheaper GPUs out there capable of rendering an acceptable VR experience but in our opinion, the selection below is where you want to be aiming to ensure you’re getting the most from your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive VR headsets. Check Amazon for NVIDIA GTX 1070 prices. Check Amazon for AMD Radeon 580 prices.

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‘Ready Player One’ Book Sequel Coming November 24th

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It’s already available for order on and available for pre-order on Amazon , both in Kindle and hardcover format. Another big endorsement: Palmer Luckey, Oculus founder and inventor of the Oculus Rift, liked the novel so much that in the early days all Oculus employees received a copy of the book.

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Hypergrid hits record high as share of OpenSim users

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OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. That grid’s share of all active OpenSim users has fallen from a high of 40 percent in the summer of 2012 to its current low of just 15 percent. Help OpenSim by shopping on Amazon. Logicamp recovers after malware attack.

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Sofa Sports and the Rise of Live Gaming

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However, there’s a precedent for adding some of those elements already – Slots Million has an entire VR casino with 1,000 machines to play while Oculus launched their own Casino VR Poker as a multiplayer version of the popular card game that includes functionality for bluffing and player chat.

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