HTC's price cut came in response to
Oculus announcing a series of price cuts for the Rift.
Oculus announced the pre-order start date Monday, stating on its blog that details like price and start date would be kept under wraps until pre-orders began.
All we know is that
Oculus announced first, got dev kits out first, and is ahead in terms of the technical attributes of their VR headset.
Timing in with the launch of the consumer Rift headset, and updates to its Rift and Platform SDKs,
Oculus announced that it wouldn't restrict developers to just its store — opening up the way for Oculus and Gear VR titles to be sold through outlets such as Steam, which will also offer titles for Valve's competing headset, the HTC Vive.
Exclusivity has been a sore subject in the VR community ever since
Oculus announced plans for its own store, and it was no surprise that shortly after launch, modders released a hack called Revive to make Rift - exclusive software playable on the HTC Vive.
In the build up to E3 2014,
Oculus announced a new publishing division, building a roster of exclusives — including the Mario - like platform fun of Lucky's Tale from Words With Friends creator Paul Bettner and Polish bullet - time simulator Super Hot — that were all playable.
On the company's blog
Oculus announced, «We're thrilled to announce Oculus Connect, a developer conference that brings together engineers, designers, and creatives from around the world to share and collaborate in the interest of creating the best virtual reality experiences possible.»
Oculus announced they will be putting on their first developer conference - Oculus Connect.
A couple of days ago,
Oculus announced that Half - Life 2 now has official support for the Oculus Rift, albeit in an early beta form.
Oculus announced their upcoming partnership with Microsoft!
Microsoft and
Oculus announced a close partnership at last year's E3, but we haven't seen much out of it just yet.
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Oculus announced a lot of cool stuff at its developer conference today, like a set of new streaming apps, including one for Netflix that's available now.
It's wise, though, for HTC to bring a wireless option to its headset;
Oculus announced the Oculus Go headset last year, which doesn't require a wire or smartphone.
While
Oculus announced two new headsets that might get closer, called Oculus Go and Santa Cruz, they're not out until 2018.
Not exact matches
While Luckey initially raised capital for his company through a massive crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, his company hit its stride in 2014 when Facebook [fortunes - stock symbol =» FB»]
announced that it had acquired
Oculus VR for $ 2 billion.
The most recent example, of course, came on Tuesday, when Facebook
announced a $ 2 billion acquisition of the virtual reality startup
Oculus VR, but it's just the most recent in a string of Facebook's recent buyout offers, from it's failed $ 3 billion bid for Snapchat to its jaw - dropping $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.
Facebook today
announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire
Oculus VR, Inc., the leader in immersive virtual reality technology, for a total of approximately $ 2 billion.
«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post
announcing his company's purchase of
Oculus.
The homepage for the website of Pebbles
announces the acquisition, stating that «joining
Oculus will help advance our vision building immersive experiences and revolutionizing digital human interaction.»
With its new, upgraded gear
announced on Monday, HTC is aiming for the corporate market (rival Facebook
Oculus has signed up Farmers Insurance to use VR gear for training claims adjusters).
Facebook - owned
Oculus will most likely showcase its latest version of Rift, Samsung will present its Gear VR, Sony will show off its PlayStation VR and HTC is expected to
announce the latest breakthroughs for its Vive.
Such mobile - phone operated VR headsets are less powerful than more expensive versions like Facebook's (fb)
Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, or Samsung's recently
announced HMD Odyssey VR headset, which must be tethered to personal computers to operate.
On Tuesday,
Oculus made good on its promise by
announcing that the first batch of «
Oculus Ready» computers would be available for preorder starting Feb. 16 at 5 a.m. EST..
Facebook
announced the
Oculus Go in October for release early this year.
This afternoon, Superhypercube developers Kokoromi and Polytron
announced that they're canceling
Oculus support for Superhypercube, which was upcoming.
Facebook
announced it was shipping its
Oculus Go VR headset on the first day of the conference.
In March 2014, Zuckerberg
announced that he would buy
Oculus VR for more than $ 2 billion, and suddenly the question of what is possible now was not so hard to predict.
During Facebook's F8 developer conference today, human CEO Mark Zuckerberg
announced the availability of the
Oculus Go, the company's latest VR headset and its first standalone device for virtual reality that doesn't require a PC or smartphone.
Other games
announced as on the way include Superhot VR, currently available for HTC Vive and
Oculus Rift.
Today, Vertigo Games and Jaywalkers Interactive
announced that it will release Arizona Sunshine: Dead Man DLC for Vive,
Oculus Right, and Windows...
The company has just
announced a new app that is customized for Samsung's
Oculus - powered Gear VR platform.
Mark Zuckerberg
announced that the
Oculus Go is shipping today in his F8 keynote at 10 am PDT.
The Climb will take virtual free solo rock climbing to a new level on December 6,
announced developer Crytek today, with a major update that will deliver
Oculus Touch support as well as a whole new area to master called North.
This weeks stories:
Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey wants to make VR porn a reality, LG files a patient for a VR display that eliminates screen - dooring, Sonic Forces gets a price cut before the release date, A # 100 HDMI cable actually worth buying, HTC bundling Fallout 4 VR with the Vive, Sony
announce a new version of the PSVR, Samsung debuts the HMD Odyssey which is way better than the Vive, Halo goes VR, Plus the games we've all been playing — Plus the EGX 2017 podcast that was recorded in a car!
Today, the studio has
announced that the official launch date has been set for 24th May, with pre-orders now available through
Oculus Store.
The team has also
announced that the title will include
Oculus Rift support, making it one of the first newly - released, open - world fantasy titles to support the device (should the Kickstarter be successful next week).
Codemasters have
announced that they will be adding
Oculus Rift support to the PC version of DiRT Rally as...
Codemasters have
announced that they will be adding
Oculus Rift support to the PC version of DiRT Rally as soon as next week.
Yesterday
Oculus Rift
announced the US price and launch date of their much anticipated forthcoming headset...
NEW ZEALAND, Wellington, November 27, 2015 — Leading games publisher PikPok ® today
announced that their original game, Into the Dead ®, has launched on Samsung's new Gear VR, powered by
Oculus.
NEW ZEALAND, Wellington, March 10, 2016 — Leading games publisher PikPok ® today
announced that their original title Into the Dead ® will be available on
Oculus Rift releasing later this month.
Due to be released first on the
Oculus Rift, HTC VIVE and Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), Tiny Bull Studios and Surprise Attack Games have
announced... [Read full story]
p > NEW YORK — Fountain Electronic Labs is proud to
announce the release of the hottest addition to the award winning Virry family of merchandise, Virry Safari: Wild Encounters, accessible nowadays exclusively on
Oculus Rift for... Read more»
Stockholm, Sweden - Mar 20, 2018 - Following the successful release of the debut title Apex Construct for PlayStation VR, VR games developer Fast Travel Games
announced today that the immersive action / adventure, built exclusively for VR, is out now for PC players to enjoy through a simultaneous release on
Oculus Rift, HTC Vive & Windows Mixed Reality.
This weeks stories:
Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey wants to make VR porn a reality, LG files a patient for a VR display that eliminates screen - dooring, Sonic Forces gets a price cut before the release date, A # 100 HDMI cable actually worth buying, HTC bundling Fallout 4 VR with the Vive, Sony
announce a new -LSB-...]
Sony shook the gaming world when it
announced that it had been in development of it's own version of the
Oculus Rift; currently code named the Project Morpheus.
So when Facebook shocked everyone on Tuesday by
announcing it was spending $ 2 billion to buy
Oculus VR, a maker of virtual reality headsets, you knew game enthusiasts would have something to say about the deal.
The VR headset
Oculus Rift will ship with an Xbox One pad and adapter after it was
announced that a partnership between
Oculus and Microsoft had been agreed.
Today, Vertigo Games and Jaywalkers Interactive
announced that it will release Arizona Sunshine: Dead Man DLC for Vive,
Oculus Right, and Windows...