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Official VR Support Heading To ‘Microsoft Flight Sim’ This December

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During a live Q&A hosted on Twitch this past week, developer Asobo Studio confirmed that full VR support will be exiting closed beta and arriving on all PC VR headsets, including the HTC Vive, Oculus, Valve Index, and Windows Mixed Reality, this December as part of the free “Sim Update 2.” Image Credit: Microsoft.

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Facebook Actually Bought Oculus for $3 Billion (Not $2 Billion)

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Mark Zuckerberg gave testimony during a lawsuit with ZeniMax about the real cost of Oculus. The Facebook CEO knows exactly how much his company paid for Oculus, clarifying the higher purchase price at a Texas courthouse. ZeniMax alleges that Oculus created their Rift VR headset from misappropriated trade secrets.

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Facebook Actually Bought Oculus for $3 Billion (Not $2.

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Facebook Actually Bought Oculus for $3 Billion (Not $2 Billion) In Dallas federal court on Tuesday, Zuckerberg took the stand to testify in the intellectual property lawsuit between Facebook-owned Oculus and ZeniMax Media, a company that previously employed a number of Oculus employees, including co-founder Palmer Luckey.

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The Oculus Acquisition May Cost Facebook $3 Billion, Not $2.3 Billion

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Last week a lawsuit filed against Oculus and its management started its trial in Dallas, Texas. The plaintiff alleges Oculus CTO John Carmack abused his former position at ZeniMax to give intellectual property to Oculus when it was just a fledgling startup. ” It appears that the headline-making $2.3 Stay tuned.

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Here’s What We Know About ZeniMax v. Oculus VR

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Over the past two weeks, ZeniMax Media and Oculus have been duking it out in the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse in Dallas, TX, and we’ve been observing and taking notes. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, and Oculus founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe took the stand in-person from Jan. Because ZeniMax Media v.

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Here’s How VR is Helping Athletes Prepare for Games

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STRIVR boasts clients such as the Dallas Cowboys, Arizona Cardinals, New York Jets, the University of Arkansas, Stanford University and the Washington Wizards. Davis Webb, the quarterback of Stanford rival California, trusts his Oculus headset as much as his helmet when it comes to game preparation.

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NextVR Brings Its Live Streamed Events to Oculus Quest

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NextVR, the VR livestreaming event app, is now available on Oculus Quest for free, which is said to come alongside a new technology that promises clearer and sharper video rendering. The studio calls the new rendering technology ‘PAVE’, which is said to enable new features like enhanced in-experience graphic overlays (e.g.

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