This site explores the fascinating new world of Virtual Reality also known as VR.
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) acquired virtual reality (VR) headset maker Oculus in 2014 at a price somewhere in the range of $3 billion, with hopes that VR would emerge as the next big computing …
Is Facebook Doubling Down on Virtual Reality?, by Keith Noonan Read MoreWhat is augmented reality (AR)? Augmented reality is the technology that puts virtual objects into the real world either through an AR headset or by using the camera on a phone or tablet. …
Facebook And Apple Are Serious About Augmented Reality, by Bernard Marr Read MoreEighteen months since its initial release, Oculus is delivering some major updates to its Medium “immersive sculpting tool” in a free 2.0 update that’s being released today. The artistic tool is one of …
Facebook’s virtual reality sculpting platform gets a 2.0 upgrade, by Lucas Matney Read MoreA federal court in Dallas on Wednesday halved the $500 million verdict that a jury ordered Facebook, its virtual reality unit Oculus, and others to pay ZeniMax Media, a video game publisher that …
US court halves $500 million verdict in Facebook’s virtual reality lawsuit Read MoreOculus Go, the company’s upcoming $200 standalone VR headset, doesn’t have an official release date yet, but a recent report from Variety contends Oculus will be launching Go at Facebook’s f8 developer conference this …
Report: Facebook to Launch Oculus Go Standalone Headset at F8 Developer Conference, by Scott Hayden Read MoreFacebook-owned Oculus wants game makers to buy into the future of virtual reality, but for some developers, creating content for a smaller audience is also a gamble. Despite all the hype surrounding the …
Facebook’s Oculus woos game makers as virtual reality faces hurdles, by Queenie Wong Read MoreThese are the quiet times. From April to June, tech’s biggest companies all held their annual mega-events, laying out their grand visions for the next 12 months or so. Facebook kicked it off in …
The smartphone is eventually going to die, and Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are racing to kill it, by Matt Weinberger Read MoreFacebook is working with partners like OTOY, Adobe, Framestore, Foundry and others to build out a new kind of camera system, tools and workflows capable of volumetric capture. The system should equate to …
OTOY Explains 6 Degrees of Freedom Video Workflow Developed With Facebook, by Ian Hamilton Read MoreFACEBOOK BELIEVES THAT video is the future. Not just any video, but immersive 360-degree video that approaches virtual reality. Of course, creating such video requires a very different breed of camera. So, a …
Facebook Unveils Two New VR Cameras With ‘Six Degrees of Freedom’, by Cade Metz Read MoreFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees virtual reality as a future computing platform that his company has a chance to own, though he admits it may take 5 – 10 years to bring it …
Facebook plans to invest more than $3 billion in VR over the next decade, By Lucas Matney Read More
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