Oculus is making hard shift away from its proprietary developer APIs in favor of OpenXR, an industry-backed project that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications. As of the latest ...

Oculus plans to further open up the mixed reality capabilities of Quest with new tools that will allow developers to build apps which more intelligently integrate with the user’s real room. In the ...

Pokémon Go creator Niantic is gearing up to recruit more developers to its next-generation augmented reality tools using its Niantic Lightship platform. And today it said it’s hired former Oculus ...

Oculus recently rolled out update 1.8 of the Oculus Developer Hub, introducing a handful of new features that simplify the lives of VR developers building content for the Oculus Quest platform. Oculus ...

Irvine-based Oculus VR Inc. on Monday announced another acquisition and plans to host a September developer conference in Los Angeles. The company said it has acquired game networking engine RakNet, ...

Kicking off the Oculus Connect conference in Los Angeles this weekend, Oculus’s Nirav Patel announced that the original Oculus Rift developer kit (DK1) is now fully open-source, with the exception of ...

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Facebook’s Oculus division has snatched up yet another popular virtual ...

Facebook's Oculus Quest virtual reality ads will no longer be tested in "Blaston," according to the game's developer. Tommy Palm, CEO of Resolution Games, said in a statement shared with The Verge ...

Oculus Quest 2 continues adding new features following its transformation into the Meta Quest 2, with the VR headset packing 120Hz support, Air Link for wireless PC VR streaming, and even a Lord of ...

A hot potato: Facebook's announcement that it would begin testing ads inside of Oculus Quest apps was met with the kind of heated reception one would expect. A barrage of criticism was aimed at ...

Put away your credit card — Oculus Rift isn’t going on sale this week. Virtual reality developers from around the world have assembled in Hollywood for the second Oculus Connect conference, and Oculus ...

Facebook is officially killing off the Rift. The company showed off its latest headset at its newly renamed Facebook Connect online event today, but they also revealed that they would be ending sales ...