Facebook R&D Modular Codec Avatar Lets You Make Goofy Faces in VR

The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox.  Email Address Facebook Reality Labs, the company’s R&D division, has been leading the charge on making virtual reality avatars realistic enough to cross the dreaded […]

Oculus’ Summer Sale has Begun for one Week Only

2020 has been quite the year with most people stuck at home looking for new ways to entertain themselves. Any sale is a good way to help in that endeavour so with the Oculus Summer Sale now in motion it’s a good time to expand that library of content for Oculus Quest or Rift S. […]

Facebook Researchers Show The Most Compact VR Optics Yet

Facebook’s VR research division is presenting prototype VR optics smaller than any we’ve seen yet for the annual SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference. The ideas behind the “holographic near-eye display” could one day enable VR headsets with sunglasses form factor- but for now this is solely research with limitations. Why Are VR Headsets So Bulky? The […]

Facebook To Stop Selling Oculus Go, Vows No More 3DOF Headsets

Facebook will stop selling Oculus Go this year as the company sharpens its focus on fully positionally tracked VR headsets like Oculus Quest. Oculus Go entered the market in 2018 as Facebook’s first standalone VR headset. Priced at $199 and pitched as a media viewer, Go transitioned VR developers supporting Facebook’s products from the earlier […]

Facebook Buys Developer Ready At Dawn

Facebook has announced that it has purchased developer Ready at Dawn, who’ve been working on multiple games in its Lone Echo VR series (shooter Echo Combat is shown above), and will continue to do so for Oculus, Facebook’s VR platform. Ready at Dawn worked with Sony properties like the God of War series before handling […]

Oculus for Business Officially Launched With Support Dedicated to Oculus Quest

During Oculus Connect 4 (OC4) in 2017, the company announced a new initiative called Oculus for Business, aimed at helping companies deploy virtual reality (VR) headsets at scale. It has been in closed beta since then, assimilating Oculus Go then Quest into the programme. This week the enterprise platform has been made generally available to […]

Oculus Quest & Rift S Anniversary Sales Begin on 21st May

It’s a special week for Oculus fans as the company is celebrating the first anniversary of the Oculus Rift S and standalone headset Oculus Quest. While a lot of the attention is on the latter, what owners of either device can look forward to are content sales in a few days. Oculus hasn’t yet specified […]

Facebook acquires Giphy to integrate with Instagram

(Reuters) — Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in a blog post on Friday. The cost, which Facebook and Giphy declined to disclose, was placed at around $400 million by news website Axios. […]

Facebook is Going After Animal Crossing Players Who Talk About Weeds

Weeds have long been an issue in the Animal Crossing series. Now we’re seeing just how problematic they can be, as Facebook cracks down on players innocently commenting on the unwelcome plant life. As we all know, the central goal of the Animal Crossing games is to develop a town/island you’re happy with. Some players […]