Articles about Oculus VR
Oculus is a subsidiary of Facebook. The division of the company is responsible for producing headsets and other hardware for virtual reality experiences. Oculus products include the Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest series. The company was originally founded in 2012 by Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov, and Nate Mitchell. The company's first product was the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality gaming headset launched as a Kickstarter campaign. The campaign was a smash hit, raising $2.4 million, 10 times the original goal value of $250,000. Facebook acquired Oculus for $2.3 billion in cash and stock in 2014. In late 2018, Oculus was spun into a separate division within Facebook under Facebook Technologies. In August 2020, Oculus Connect was rebranded as Facebook Connect and Facebook's team dedicated to AR and VR hardware design was renamed Facebook Reality Labs. Oculus products are expected to play an important role in bringing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of a metaverse into existence.
04 Oct 2021
TechnologyFacebook and major social media platforms owned by it—WhatsApp and Instagram—have suffered a major global outage on Monday night.
05 Aug 2021
TechnologyA creepy new experiment from the people at Facebook Reality Labs has us thinking harder about CEO Mark Zuckerberg's new Metaverse idea.
20 Dec 2019
TechnologyFacebook, the biggest social network on the planet, is looking to take on Google with its own operating system.
29 Sep 2019
TechnologyThe last week of September was full of hardware launches and interesting feature upgrades from leading tech giants.
18 Sep 2019
TechnologyAfter developing a bunch of Oculus-branded VR headsets, Facebook is shifting gears into the arena of augmented reality (AR).
22 Jul 2019
TechnologyAs VR continues to go mainstream (with game, gyms, and spas), Facebook is doing everything it can to establish its footprint in the arena.
14 Mar 2019
TechnologyIn a major surprise, Facebook's entire family of apps, including WhatsApp and Instagram, appears to have gone down for some users.
25 Sep 2018
BusinessKevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of photo and video sharing network Instagram, have decided to quit.
08 Mar 2018
TechnologyAll of Oculus's Rift headsets faced several hours of downtime after an expired certificate apparently soft-bricked all the Rift VR headsets.
24 Jan 2018
TechnologyFacebook has come up with a new way of measuring time. Just like hours, minutes and seconds, there's now a new unit of time called "Flicks" invented by Facebook's Virtual Reality team.
09 Jan 2018
TechnologyIn a surprise move, at the ongoing CES, Facebook's Oculus VR has announced a partnership with Xiaomi for building standalone VR (virtual reality) headsets.
23 Dec 2017
TechnologyAfter raising about $2 billion in the last four years, augmented-reality company Magic Leap finally has a product to show.
12 Oct 2017
TechnologyFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Oculus VR's new mobile headset called "Oculus Go" at the Oculus Connect 4 event.
12 Apr 2017
TechnologyIf you are from the 21st century, you are on social media, so it is inevitable that companies are now more focused on Facebook advertisements than ever.
