Virtual Reality

Today at Oculus Connect 6, Facebooks annual event that does its best to convince the world why VR is still a thing, the company announced Horizon, a giant virtual reality playground where users can build their own worlds, create and play games, or just social…

Respawn Entertainment is having itself quite a year. While the Titanfall games were always critical darlings, those giant robots were never the commercial success the former Call of Duty devs were surely hoping for. However, this year theyve given us the smas…

At today’s Oculus Connect 6, Facebook has announced that it’s working on augmented reality (AR) glasses. Details were sparse about what these new AR glasses could do — or what they would look like, but Facebook did confirm that they are part of its push for m…

Two years ago, Oculus announced a radical departure in how they were funding virtual reality developers. Instead of partnering with a ton of upstart teams looking to explore the medium and help fund their low-budget pursuits, the company would be pursuing few…

The Johnson & Johnson Institute said that training surgeons using Oculus virtual reality headsets is paying off in big ways, and it hopes that such training will be available worldwide to all surgeons in the future. Sandra Humbles, vice president of glob…

Oculus says it's surpassed $100M in revenue in the Oculus store, with Zuckerberg noting that 20% of that revenue was for Quest titles sold in past four months (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)

Angela Lang/CNET When you hear about virtual reality, whether or not you've ever used it, you probably think of video games that transport you to a far-off space ship, or to an underwater cavern, or some mythical dungeon. Ready Player One, or Black Mirror. S…

Facebook unveils Horizon, a VR massive multiplayer world coming in 2020, and will shut down existing VR experiences Facebook Spaces and Oculus Rooms on Oct. 25 (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Facebook has pumped billions into virtual reality and it may be a long way from making that investment back, but it is making a little money. Onstage at Oculus Connect, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company had surpassed $100 million in revenue in the O…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote at the VR developer conference Oculus Connect. Angela Lang/CNET Facebook is still betting that virtual reality will be the next big computing platform and part of that plan involves getting developers to cre…