VRScout

JUNE 17, 2021

Oculus software update v30 introduces long-awaited features to accessibility, party chat, and Infinite Office. Earlier today, Facebook announced the rollout of its v30 on the Oculus Quest platform, which introduces a handful of highly-anticipated improvements as well as a few pleasant surprises. Image Credit: Facebook.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2023

A spokesperson for the company has confirmed with Road to VR that Quest 3 will continue to support Oculus Link (also known as Quest Link) and Air Link. Oculus Link allows users to plug Quest headsets into their PC via USB-C to interface with the Oculus PC software.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

One of the ongoing challenges in market sizing is to piece together clues to extrapolate things like unit sales and software revenues. For example, last week we estimated holiday Oculus Quest sales, and did a similar cumulative sales estimate in September. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro.

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VRScout

JANUARY 9, 2021

The Oculus Quest has developed quite an impressive library of standalone games and apps. From original titles such as Phantom: Covert Ops to PC VR ports like The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners , there’s pretty much something for everyone on the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Quest is available now beginning at $299.

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VRScout

JUNE 23, 2020

Earlier today, Facebook announced that they will no longer be accepting new game and app submissions for the Oculus Go as they begin to shift their efforts away from 3DoF VR in search of greener pastures, namely the Oculus Quest. On December 16th , the company will cease publishing new content entirely.

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VRScout

APRIL 14, 2021

Update v28 is an absolute game-changer with new features such as wireless Oculus Link functionality, updates to Infinite Office, and more. Announced yesterday in an official Oculus blog post , the Oculus Air Link expands on the existing Oculus Link software introduced back in 2019. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2023

Virtual Desktop has collaborated with Qualcomm to integrate the company’s Snapdragon Game Super Resolution, a software enhancement squarely targeted at increasing the wireless streaming quality and latency of PC visuals to Quest 2.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

John Carmack, legendary programmer and key player in the Oculus Rift genesis story, announced recently that he’s won a decisive battle within Facebook to finally release root access to Oculus Go, the 3DOF standalone VR headset launched in 2018.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Facebook today announced a partnership with Zoom Video Communications to bring the company’s popular teleconferencing software program to Horizon Workrooms , marking a major milestone for the recently released VR co-working platform. Horizon Workrooms launched this past August on Oculus Quest 2 headsets.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 11, 2024

id Software has been in direct contact with modding group Team Beef on the subject of potentially releasing their VR ports on the Quest Store. In response, Carmack wrote , "I got people at id Software playing the VR ports, and they are now in direct contact with @TeamBeefVR, so I am hopeful!"

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2021

Oculus Air Link is an integrated way to play PC VR games (on Oculus PC or SteamVR) wirelessly on Quest 2. This guide will show you how to activate the Air Link feature on both your headset and your desktop software. Oculus Air Link only supports Quest 2. Oculus Air Link only supports Quest 2. On Your PC.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Separate from the main Quest store, Oculus App Lab gives developers an official ‘unlisted’ and uncurated means of distributing Oculus Quest apps. So far Oculus has stayed true to that promise, having no qualms about hosting a Quest app that’s literally just a cube.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In a video posted to Reddit yesterday, developers Dr. Beef and baggyG—the same team responsible for bringing Half-Life , Quake , and Quake 2 to VR via the Oculus Quest—teased the arrival of another classic franchise on standalone headsets. Image Credit: iD Software. Rip and tear, until it is done.”. Can you guess the game?

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VRScout

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Well the holidays are just around the corner and what better present to give your family, friends, or even yourself than the Oculus Quest 2 standalone VR headset? Including the operating system and pre-installed software, the 64GB Oculus Quest 2 features roughly 50GB of free space. Is all that memory really necessary?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Michael Antonov, Chief Software Architect at Oculus, is due to speak at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference on April 18th about React VR, a framework that builds on Facebook’s React JavaScript library. This web-based framework allows easier creation of VR content that can run on VR headsets from the browser.

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JUNE 8, 2021

The latest Oculus Quest update, v29, added support for displaying smartphone notifications (currently iOS only) inside of your headset. The Oculus Quest v29 update only started rolling out last month, but if you haven’t used your headset or restarted it recently, you may not be running the latest version of the software.

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Road to VR

MAY 22, 2020

Facebook today announced that its Oculus for Business program is finally openly available. From the management software, IT can configure headsets, deploy and update apps, manage settings, and check the status of all headsets in the group. Now any business can purchase the $1,000 business-ready version of Quest.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2019

Record yourself in the virtual world with Oculus’ official MRC kit. Yesterday, Oculus launched its official set of Mixed Reality Capture Tools for the Oculus Quest, allowing users to record high-quality gameplay footage where real-world objects and people appear in VR. Image Credit: Oculus. Compatible USB or HDMI camera.

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VRScout

JULY 13, 2020

ID Software’s 2001 first-person shooter Return to Castle Wolfenstein is heading to the Oculus Quest with full 6DoF support thanks to the efforts of popular modder DrBeef. The post ‘Return To Castle Wolfenstein’ VR Port Heading To Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout. Image Credit: DrBeef, VR_Bummser.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The Oculus Quest just keeps getting better. Yesterday Oculus announced the rollout of their 13.0 software update, revealing a sprinkling of new features and enhancements heading to the standalone VR headset this week. will continue rolling out on Oculus Quest headsets throughout the week. Feature Image Credit: Oculus.

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Slashgear

JULY 21, 2021

Facebook’s acquisition of modern VR pioneer Oculus has always been a mind-boggling one. That said, it is taking some time for Oculus to add those social features to its Quest platform, but it’s finally taking a … Continue reading.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Facebook promised that tethering Quest 2 to a PC via Oculus Link would eventually support the headset’s full 90Hz refresh rate. With the latest updates to Quest 2 and the Oculus PC app, this is now a reality. In parallel, the company also updated the Oculus PC app to allow Oculus Link to run at 90Hz on the headset.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Originally released in 2003 on Windows, this brilliant piece of software allows players to run Nintendo Gamecube and Wii console games on their Windows, macOS, and Android devices. Last year a user going by the name Pixelacos on YouTube posted a video of Dolphin running natively on an Oculus Quest headset.

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Road to VR

MARCH 14, 2018

If you’ve used your Oculus Rift since the beginning of February, you likely already have a small surprise waiting for you in your account. Important to note : Oculus Store credit has shelf life of 12 months from the date it was posted to your account, so if you wait too long hoping for a sale, you may forfeit it entirely.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Facebook announced that the v25 software update for its Quest platform is set to include Facebook Messenger, which will be available to anyone who is logged into their Facebook account on either Quest or Quest 2. Additionally, users can also send private Oculus Party invites to make jumping into multiplayer games more simple.

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2021

brings improvements to error handling of Oculus Link and Air Link which is meant to improve reliability. Valve has committed to making Steam a hardware agnostic place for VR headsets, even going so far as actively maintaining the code that makes Oculus headsets work on the platform in the first place.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Facebook’s Oculus Connect 6 kicked off this morning with a slew of big reveals for the Oculus Quest standalone headset, one of the biggest being the reveal of hand and finger tracking. Hand-tracking for the Oculus Quest will be available in early 2020. Image Credit: Facebook. Image Credit: Facebook. Image Credit: Facebook.

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VRScout

MARCH 31, 2021

Those familiar with Facebook’s Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets know that you can easily stream VR gameplay to your personal Facebook profile. Today we’ll be discussing one of the easiest, cheapest, and most comfortable ways of live-streaming Oculus Quest/Quest 2 gameplay to any platform in high definition.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Oculus brand will be phased out, with the Quest product line becoming Meta Quest. The Oculus brand, which has existed alongside the company’s other products, will be phased out in order to allow the company’s metaverse and XR efforts to be positioned under Meta as the parent brand. Image courtesy Meta.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Oculus, the company’s XR organization, is not directly mentioned in the suit, but it’s clear that the case’s outcome would have wide ranging repercussions for all of Facebook’s business segments. The post FTC Sues Facebook Over Alleged Monopolization – What it Could Mean for Oculus appeared first on Road to VR.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

When Facebook announced that they were bringing native hand tracking to the Oculus Quest back in September during Oculus Connect 6 , attendees gleamed with excitement. A big factor will be Oculus’ roadmap for tracking improvements and third-party release rollouts, which will hopefully get clarified soon.”

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Having launched its pilot program on PC VR earlier this year, YUR is now officially making its software available on Oculus Quest. You won’t find YUR on the Oculus Store though, at least not yet. Investment, Releases Calorie-counting Software for Quest appeared first on Road to VR. Image courtesy YUR.

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VRScout

MARCH 16, 2019

Reports indicate Oculus’ next headset will make its debut later this month. In October of last year, a report by Techcrunch claimed that Facebook’s Oculus would be abandoning its plans of a proper Oculus Rift 2 in favor of minor hardware updates to the existing Rift headset. Oculus Quest / Image Credit: Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2020

Today I woke up to read this letter from Oculus, sent to me because I’m a developer: Hello, Today, we announced our plans to sunset Oculus Go as we focus on driving forward the future of VR with 6DOF platforms like Oculus Quest. Goodbye Oculus Go. Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2020

Did you know you can create your own mixed reality video on Oculus Quest and show off all your VR exploits to your adoring public? Oculus has published its own Mixed Reality Capture tool (MRC) to let you do just that. Oculus Quest. Compatible USB or HDMI Camera – Oculus suggests Logitech C920 or a GoPro.

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Road to VR

MARCH 7, 2024

Meta announced it’s overhauled its aging PC software with a few new features, which should make using Quest for PC VR gameplay a little less 2019 and a little more 2024, as it now includes more modern features such as a higher refresh rate on Quest 3, longer playtime via Air Link, and broadened support for nVidia 4000 series GPUs.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey left Facebook in 2017 to found his own defense technology company, Anduril Industries. The post Oculus Founder’s Defense Company Could Make Software for Battlefield-ready AR Headsets appeared first on Road to VR.

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