Sentences with phrase «when oculus»

Oculus VR, a leader in virtual reality, shared some details on what fans can expect to see when the Oculus Rift launches in 2016 earlier today at event in San Francisco and Head of Xbox Phil Spencer joined their CEO... Read more

When the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive came out in 2016, we entered a new era of virtual reality.

Positioned at the $ 399 price point for just the headset, it was the cheapest high - end option available on the market at the time, especially when the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive were going for $ 599 and $ 799 respectively.

The plan is to release Darknet when the Oculus Rift launches, whenever that may be.

In September, those efforts were rewarded when Oculus awarded Ciess first place in the VR Jam, praising its «fluid and immersive VR interaction» and saying that it «is immediately accessible with a low learning curve, yet offers deep and addictive gameplay».

So when oculus / Scorpio work together that won't really affect me @tyler This is the map of availability for PSVR in Canada at ebgames stores.

September 2015 was when the Oculus Connect 2 event happened, and even while this is a developer event and the device not being available yet, it is a strong platform for announcements such as Minecraft coming to the Oculus Rift.

As one would expect, the price point of a device that will be able to totally emerge the user in a believable virtual world is going to be pretty steep when the Oculus Rift finally hits the marketplace.

Not sure if it's that worth it when oculus is already taking care of things.

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.

I feel like there's always such a sense of resistance when a new thing comes out, like Twitch came out, and we were all like, that's ridiculous, or Periscope or even all of the VR stuff with Oculus and Vive.

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.

When Zuckerberg showed up at Oculus's offices in Irvine to see a more advanced version of Oculus Rift, founder Palmer Luckey blew him off.

When users move the their heads, rather than having to wait for the headset sensors to catch up and orient the screen to a new position, the Oculus Rift has what's called «ultra-low latency» that tracks movements in real time to create a natural, fluid experience.

When CTO Mike Schroepfer showed off the Oculus game «EVE: Valkyrie» on stage, he didn't even mention the name of the game, much less the developer.

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.

When a phone is placed inside the Gear VR headset it takes the user directly into the Oculus app, which is basically a free app store.

The Oculus software goes to sleep when it's not on your head, which is handy and saves battery, and will automatically wake up once you put it on again.

Since 2012, the Oculus Rift has been the poster child for virtual reality — a status that was upgraded immeasurable last year when Facebook (FB) bought Oculus for $ 2 billion.

When Facebook snapped up WhatsApp and Oculus in a span of five weeks, for instance, it looked like a master stroke: a cash - rich juggernaut using its vast resources to assure long - term dominance, no matter what the future held.

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.

When will you blow our minds with Oculus VR?

Developers talk freely about supporting Oculus Rift and when they do, the queues are long and the intrigue high; at the Rezzed UK game show this year the question everyone asked was if you'd tried Rift.

When Facebook acquired Oculus for $ 2 billion, venture capitalists and rich angel investors reaped the rewards.

News of his support came during a time when very few figures in Silicon Valley were publicly showing support for candidate Trump, the most notable being Peter Thiel, an early investor in Facebook who started the VC firm Founders Fund, which backed Oculus, as well.

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

People often find it easier to fake positive emotions than negative ones, because they involve only two muscles: the zygomaticus major, which helps curl the mouth when we smile, and the orbicularis oculi that crinkles the skin around the eyes into crow's feet.

Wit might also be part of Facebook's virtual reality strategy, which got a big boost last year when the company bought Oculus Rift.

So I was intrigued when I received an invitation from the folks at Oculus, the virtual reality shop at Facebook, to test out the latest application for this booming technology: guided meditation.

When the y a dating headlines6 Apr 2016 Oculus Rift release date and price in the UK, plus Oculus Rift specs, and what it is like to use Oculus Rift.

The Oculus Rift headset contains a stereoscopic 3D screen; When worn We provide information about available 3d chat worlds and virtual life games for 18 + players.

Spend a few bucks on it when it's in a sale and you'll own one of the best Gear VR ports to come to Oculus Rift.

Having met Eric Darnell, known for directing Dreamwork's Madagascar films, and seeing him ecstatic about the creation of this Rainbow Crow series, you can't help but feel delighted as well when you put on an Oculus headset and see what they've built thus far.

I've only seen Hush and Ouija 2 thus far — it looks like Before I Wake has been delayed yet again — but I can say that when taken with his first two films, the moody Absentia and the excellent Oculus, Flanagan is already at the forefront of the new American horror revolution.

The increasingly promising Mike Flanagan («Oculus,» «Hush») was clearly a director - for - hire on this quickie sequel but, man, did they luck out when they hired him?

Oculus is a sloppy horror movie about a possessed mirror and the vengeance that a grown woman, whose family was destroyed by the mirror when she was a girl, attempts to wreak upon it.

And with all the competition with Sony, Oculus, Samsung, HTC and Valve in this space, that's when it's going to become cheap and available to everyone.»

When it was snatched up by Facebook, founder Palmer Luckey made it clear «a million times» that Oculus wasn't...

I would rather hear Microsoft bought the Oculus than facebook.Oculus is gonna be an ad fest now.We'll be lucky if it has a remote connection to gaming when facebook is done with it.

Maybe they can use some of the tech for VR controls in the future when MS decides to come out with a new system powerful enough to handle Oculus.

«Oculus has waited to release its hardware and software when it is ready.

Sony's Project Morpheus virtual reality headset has been in the works for a while, and whilst the original prototype looked very impressive when compared to offerings from Oculus VR (which were literally taped together), at the Game Developers Conference 2015, Sony unveiled the next iteration of the headset which looks and sounds even more impressive.

Kickstarter backers will get the Oculus Rift functionality for free when it rolls out via automatic update later this year.

Oculus is teaming up with CCP Games to give all customers a copy of Eve: Valkyrie for free when they pre-order its upcoming VR platform.

On the Oculus store alone, you get tons of games and when you add Steam VR games, you get EVEN MORE!

My gut feeling tells me that Valve will be a lot more cautious about getting in bed or sharing technical resources with Facebook than it has been about doing the same with Oculus when it was a startup.

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.

But on a whole, the Oculus Touch controllers offer unparalleled immersion when it comes to virtual exploration.

When Phil Spencer stood up on the Oculus press conference stage last year it formulated the beginning of a partnership between Xbox One and Oculus VR that we feel will go much deeper than a mere accessory bundle and a Windows 10 Xbox One virtual room experience.