The clues are piling up that the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will not launch in retail by the end of the year. Speaking on Facebook's most recent quarterly earning call, the company's chief ...

Minecraft creator, Markus 'Notch' Persson has withdrawn his support of Oculus Rift in the wake of the company's acquisition by Facebook for $2bn (£1.2bn). "I definitely want to be a part of VR, but I ...

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Before yesterday I'd never strapped on an Oculus Rift. I'd read about it, sure—the new, now Facebook-owned VR headset that is set to "change entertainment forever." Or something. But yesterday was my ...

A model wears the Oculus Rift headset while playing a game with the included Xbox One wireless controller. Source: Oculus VR Oculus, the Facebook-owned virtual reality company, is pitching its first ...

$400 million in cash plus $1.6 billion in stock ─ the price Facebook is paying to acquire Oculus, maker of the Rift VR googles ─ is synonymous with bribery. Oculus’ hallmark phrase “Designed for ...

A little over a month ago, Facebook announced they were buying the maker of the Oculus Rift headset for upwards of $2 billion. Now suddenly another company claims it's their technology that make the ...

VR gaming wouldn't be where it's at now without the designer of the Oculus Rift, Palmer Luckey. Luckey left Meta (then Facebook) in 2017, three years after Oculus VR's buyout. While he works in ...