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Investors traded Facebook shares up 33 % in 2015, even as the company increased its costs to cover ambitious (and expensive) long term bets like virtual reality headset Oculus Rift, messaging app WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger.

ABC News in Los Angeles is reporting that one of the developers of the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift has been killed, Andrew Scott Reise was 33 when he was run down by a fleeing drug dealer suspect in a Dodge Charger on the intersection of Flower and MacArthur in Los Angeles in the midst -LSB-...]

When investors looked at virtual reality headset Oculus, for instance, it was still duct - taped together.

The pre-orders for the consumer version of the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift are on sale.

The virtual - reality headset Oculus Rift could be used in the manufacturing industry to examine virtual models, while Google Glass could give surgeons hands - free access to information and allow them to create video records of their actions in case of malpractice suits.

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With the launch of Oculus» Rift virtual reality headset becoming available later this month and HTC's Vive due in April, SXSW is hosting a separate three - day event focused on the new technology and its possibilities.

Oculus is the leader in immersive virtual reality technology and has already built strong interest among developers, having received more than 75,000 orders for development kits for the company's virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift.

One of the features that sets Oculus Rift apart from other virtual reality headsets is its lightweight display screen and overall emphasis on comfort that allows for long play sessions.

An Oculus blog post stated Pebbles would be joining the hardware engineering and computer vision team of the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, «to help advance virtual reality, tracking, and human - computer interactions.»

Though the company sells the Oculus virtual reality headset, it acquired its maker and didn't create the original product.

With that, he summarized a handful of new Facebook products like a new dating service, augmented reality and virtual reality gadgets like its new Oculus Go headset, and new ways to video chat with friends on the Facebook - owned photo sharing service Instagram.

There's been plenty of hype about virtual and augmented reality gaming this year with the recent arrival of first - generation headsets from Facebook's Oculus unit and smartphone maker HTC.

Next month, the company will launch the Oculus Go, a $ 200 standalone virtual - reality headset that runs on a Qualcomm (qcom) processor.

Some of the deals NewEgg previewed include a Oculus Rift virtual reality headset with controllers that will cost $ 350 instead of $ 400, making for yet another recent price cut for the Facebook - owned (fb) headset.

When most people think of virtual reality, they think of 3 - D gaming or Oculus, the maker of headsets that Facebook acquired for $ 2 billion.

The technology is closely related to virtual reality, in which people wear headsets like Facebook's (fb) Oculus Rift that immerse them into completely digital environments.

Two more virtual reality headsets are hitting the market from Taiwanese gadget maker HTC and Facebook's Oculus VR business unit.

The headset is a byproduct of a two - year collaboration between Samsung (SSNLF) and virtual reality pioneer Oculus (OCLS).

«Mark Zuckerberg's $ 2 billion acquisition, Oculus, a virtual reality headset, has the potential to be larger than Facebook,» Aziz predicted.

The biggest name in the latest batch of compatible products is the Oculus Rift, the Kickstarter - funded virtual reality headset whose creator was bought by Facebook for $ 2 billion.

Oculus, the virtual reality company Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion, said on Wednesday that over one million people have used the Samsung Gear VR headset in April, which indicates that consumer use of virtual reality technology is growing.

On the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset using the Touch controllers, you can reach out and grab objects and pull yourself through the game - world — often as you climb around on a spaceship.

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The Gear VR headset is the product of a partnership between Samsung and Oculus, the virtual reality company Facebook (fb) bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion.

In this edited interview with Fortune, Facebook's chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer discusses the new Go headsets, his views about VR's cousin technology, augmented reality, and the impact of relatively new Oculus chief Hugo Barra.

At a press event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Oculus's mobile head Max Cohen said the «one million people» number takes in account anyone who has seen a virtual reality video game, movie, or other related VR media on a Samsung Gear headset.

If people have the ability to watch virtual reality live streams from Oculus Rift users, they may be more inclined to purchase the headset and play with others in VR if the live streams are compelling enough.

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is expected to be available in early 2016; to kill time until then, the movies will be available to watch through Samsung's Gear VR.

In August 2012, 19 - year - old Palmer Luckey launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset for 3D video games.

Sales of high - end VR headsets including Facebook Inc's $ 599 Oculus Rift and Sony Corp's $ 399 PlayStation VR headset altogether will be about 300,000, reflecting supply constraints at Sony and the technological reality of Oculus and HTC Corp's $ 799 Vive: only about 6 million to 7 million computers globally can run the software, said Paul Lee of Deloitte UK.

HTC said it would continue developing its own phones, like the HTC U11, which it released earlier this year, as well as its Vive gear, a virtual reality headset that competes with Facebook's (fb) Oculus Rift.

With the $ 130 MergeVR headset launching this fall alongside the high - end HTC Vive VR headset, and the Oculus Rift device set for a Q1 2016 release ahead of the Sony Morpheus VR headset launch, the groundwork is being laid for consumer VR to become a reality.

In addition, Zuckerberg believes the company's Oculus virtual - reality headset represents the next way people will communicate with one another.

Virtual reality developers, newly energized by the release of Facebook's Oculus headset, have focused on gaming, but no «killer app» — must - have software that motivates someone to buy a device — has yet emerged.

Photographers take pictures of the new Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and touch input device following a news conference Thursday, June 11, 2015, in San Francisco.

Facebook acquired Oculus for $ 2 billion last year, a technology company which created the highly anticipated Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.

Last month, Facebook (fb) began taking preorders for its highly anticipated Oculus Rift Consumer Edition virtual reality headset for $ 599.

Facebook set tongues wagging when it paid $ 19 billion for instant - messaging startup WhatsApp last March, then followed it up a month later by shelling out $ 2 billion for virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR.

Anyone with a $ 99 Samsung (ssnlf) Gear VR headset can access the virtual reality fights for free via the NextVR portal in the Oculus store.

For the World Cup, Coke created a virtual reality experience in which users could move through a Brazil's Maracana Stadium locker room, go onto the pitch, and play on the field - all via the Facebook - owned Oculus Rift headset.

People are swarming the Oculus website to pre-order the Rift virtual reality headset, according to tweets from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey.

It feels nothing like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive virtual reality headsets, which completely surround you with worlds that don't exist.

Tech Review Virtual reality just became way more accessible with this new one - piece, $ 200 headset from Facebook's Oculus.

Zuckerberg also introduced a new virtual - reality headset, called Oculus Go, that debuted Tuesday.

That created a schism: Companies like Pebble, a smartwatch maker, and Oculus, a virtual reality headset developer, raised millions on crowdfunding sites from eager early customers and used that surge to prove that buyers wanted their fledgling products.

Mr. Zuckerberg also said Facebook's cordless virtual reality headset, Oculus Go, was now available for $ 199.

The big winners of Facebook's $ 2 billion deal to buy Oculus VR, a virtual reality headset maker, include a roster of elite venture capitalists who invested in the company early on.

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.

After the report's publication last night, developers of games for the Oculus Rift headset decried Luckey and pulled support of the virtual reality hardware.

Among its bets was Oculus VR, a virtual reality headset maker that was discovered early on by Lonsdale and Koo, who later joined the company's Series A and B rounds.