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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Oculus Connect today where he announced that the Oculus Store has now sold over $100 million worth of content to date. Zuckerberg maintains that the Oculus Store—which provides content for Rift, Quest, Go, and Gear VR—has topped $100 million USD combined.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

As expected, Oculus today announced both the price and shipping date of its Oculus Touch position tracked controllers for the Oculus Rift. Oculus revealed the news at its keynote speech for the Oculus Connect 3 developer conference in San Jose, California.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Oculus has confirmed that a number of VR eSports tournament finals are officially headed to Oculus Connect 5, the company’s annual developer conference. Competing for a total cash prize pool of $120,000, tournament hopefuls will descend upon San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center on September 26th – 27th.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

Oculus Connect 4, the company’s fourth annual developer conference, is set for October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California. There, Oculus will share with developers some of its latest research and developments, including what’s coming to the company’s VR Audio SDK.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Oculus today announced it will offer an immersive livestream during the company’s annual Oculus Connect developer conference, including coverage of the opening keynote and several VR esports championships hosted during the event. 10AM PT: Oculus Connect 5 keynote. 10AM PT: Oculus Connect 5 keynote. September 27th.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

With the Oculus Connect 2016 developer conference just around the corner, the company has finally posted the full schedule of sessions and confirmed that the conference will be livestreamed in VR thanks to NextVR. Oculus has finally published the full schedule for the event which runs from October 5th to 7th. Have something to share?

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

We’re already expecting at least one big game reveal at Oculus Connect 3 this week, but it looks like another is on the way. Ready At Dawn, the developer behind 2015 PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886 , just teased that it will be revealing a new VR game at the developer conference in San Jose.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

McNeill has quickly and decisively established himself as one of the premiere game developers working on the Oculus platform with successful games on both the Rift and Gear VR, such as puzzle game Darknet and real-time strategy game, Tactera. In the case of Skylight , it takes a more hybrid approach.

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JULY 12, 2016

Save the date for Oculus Connect 3, coming to San Jose, California, October 5-7! more than 50 technical talks and opportunities to experience new Oculus hardware and content. oculus.com/en-us/blog/announcing-oculus-connect-3-and-rift-availability-update/ Applications open to attend OC3 at 9am PST, August 2.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Oculus Connect 3 Registration. There’s also a student/academic pass available at $99.

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JULY 5, 2018

The Virtual Reality League is an ESL Gaming organization partnered with Oculus that oversees eSports tournaments for online VR multiplayer games including Echo Arena , The Unspoken , and Sprint Vector. Image courtesy Insomniac Games. However, at this point in time we have no new updates planned for the game.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

America’s National Hockey League today announced a new VR video experience, captured during last weekend’s NHL All-Star Game, which is now available via the NextVR app. The event was hosted last weekend in San Jose, CA, and marks roughly the halfway point of the NHL season.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The list of high-quality games that will be free when Oculus Touch releases in December just grew by one. Today, Oculus announced via a blog post that Dead and Buried , the highly anticipated multiplayer shooter, will be free with Touch at launch. Any one of these games could easily have been a full-price exclusive title.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Harmonix , the studio that popularized the rhythm-accessory video with Guitar Hero and now continues the tradition with Rock Band , are today announcing a new music-based gaming experience for the Samsung Gear VR. SingSpace was a surprise addition to the demo room of the Oculus Connect 3 virtual reality convention in San Jose.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

On stage at Oculus Connect 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that Oculus is developing a new, standalone, wireless VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. SEE ALSO HoloLens Inside-out Tracking Is Game Changing for AR & VR, and No One Is Talking about It.

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MARCH 20, 2020

After a string of cancellations by larger vendors amid the worldwide coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), this year’s annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) was postponed. The city of San Francisco, where GDC was set to take place, also issued a state of emergency only a few days prior.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

Oculus Connect 4 is just a few months away; the developer conference returns to the San Jose convention center on October 11th – 12th. There’s not much here that points us towards what Oculus might reveal at the show, but there are definitely more than a few sessions you shouldn’t miss. Personally?

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APRIL 11, 2019

Schell Games, makers of I Expect You to Die (2016) , have announced their hit spy-themed puzzle game is going to be a day-one launch title for Quest. Initially debuting as a demo on Oculus Rift developer kits in 2015, I Expect You To Die went on to become one of the industry’s most successful games to date.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We reported recently on the official Windows 10 version of the social gaming phenomenon Minecraft receiving Oculus Rift headset support. Now, Microsoft have stated that support for Oculus’ forthcoming Touch motion controllers will be added too beginning October 18th.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The company’s annual two-day event is dedicated to exploring the future of Facebook’s family of apps and services (including Oculus), and how businesses and developers can leverage them. In the last 12 months, the Facebook brand has become increasingly visible and involved with the Oculus subsidiary. Wednesday, April 19.

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JUNE 23, 2019

Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. It will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on September, 25–26th. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

With two big hardware launches, it was unclear quite what Oculus had in store for this week’s Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) event in San Jose. Needless to say, it really didn’t disappoint, with a new hand tracking feature coming next year for Oculus Quest as well as Oculus Link.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Coatsink , the studio known for VR games Augmented Empire (2018) and the Esper series, unveiled a new puzzle game at GDC 2019 this week that’s slated to be a day-one launch title for Oculus Quest. SEE ALSO Every Oculus Quest Launch Title Confirmed So Far. Image courtesy Coatsink. Image courtesy Coatsink.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Facebook’s Oculus division opened its Oculus Connect event in San Jose, Calif., Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe introduced the company’s Oculus Touch controllers for the Oculus Rift headset. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe introduced the company’s Oculus Touch controllers for the Oculus Rift headset.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

” So while the in-person event will no longer be taking place in San Jose, CA, Facebook is planning to replace the main conference in other ways: “through a combo of locally hosted events, videos and live-streamed content.” ” More details will be released soon.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Even though they’re not the only VR headsets on the market, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift attract the most attention and command the mainstream media presence. When announced, Oculus Rift launch price of $599 presented a main advantage over HTC Vive’s $799. Oculus Touch controllers to cost £190 in the UK.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

” Presented by: Colum Slevin (Head of Experiences) at Oculus, Félix Lajeunesse (Co-Founder & Creative Director) at Felix & Paul Studios, Yasmin Elayat (Creative Director) at Scatter, Eliza McNitt (Filmmaker and VR Director) who created Fistful of Stars. VR 201: Lessons from the Frontlines of VR Gaming. April 19th.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are used almost exclusively by serious players, from Facebook’s Oculus Quest in the U.S. Attendees stand in line to try out the new Oculus Quest Virtual Reality (VR) gaming system at the Facebook F8 Conference at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, on April 30, 2019.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Oculus is developing a new set of social and multiplayer tools which stand to make it much easier to directly connect with friends by treating games and apps more like actual places. Oculus is releasing new social tools in an effort to make this process much more smooth. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Game Developers Conference (GDC) - VRDC@GDC Date: March 19-23, 2018 Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA Check their passes and pricing for more information. IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Date: March 18-22, 2018 Venue: Stadthalle Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Check here for pricing.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Held from May 8-11th in Silicon Valley at the San Jose Convention Center, NVIDIA’s GTC 2017 session schedule is chock full of deep tech talks that we’re looking forward to. Here’s a number of others that have caught our eye so far from NASA, Oculus, Pixvana, OTOY, NVIDIA and Stanford’s Computational Imaging Lab.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Opening night at Spaces VR in San Jose, California. Silicon Valley got its first VBVR on Friday night with the opening of Spaces , which is located inside the Cinemark Theater in Oakridge Mall, and its new game “Terminator: Salvation VR.” Spaces is a VR game you play with three other players. The game play?

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. Quest hand tracking is perfect for slower experiences with light interaction. Image Credit: Facebook.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It seems Oculus plan to launch a higher-end mobile virtual reality headset for the masses.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, is here once again. Now in its fifth year, Oculus is expected to update the world on what’s next from in VR content and hardware. Taking place this week on the 26th & 27th, Oculus Connect 5 will be hosted in San Jose, CA.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he’s covered games for a twenty one of those years. To learn more, you can visit games beat dot com or venture beat dot com. Alan: How did you start… first of all, I guess you’ve been in the games world for a long time. So, thank you very much.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he’s covered games for a twenty one of those years. To learn more, you can visit games beat dot com or venture beat dot com. Alan: How did you start… first of all, I guess you’ve been in the games world for a long time. So, thank you very much.

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