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Owners of pricey Oculus hardware could soon have their data harvested by the companys owner, Facebook, for use in more relevant content, including ads, UploadVR reported on Wednesday. The move comes as Oculus is adding a bevy of Facebook-powered social featu…

Since Valve officially revealed Half-Life: Alyx, many PlayStation VR owners have been wondering if a port of the game for Sony's VR headset was in the works. As it turns out, Push Square received an answer from designer Greg Coomer, who stated that "We believ…

The success stories of failed gaming startups that went onto strip elements of their infrastructure and pivot into wider markets like Slack has led plenty of game developers to “platformize” their tech to varying degrees of success. Teeoh is looking to creat…

If you expect to use the Quest frequently with your PC, you'll have a better cable option very shortly. Oculus plans to ship a 16.4-foot custom optical fiber cable that will deliver "maximum throughput" while giving you more freedom than most existing USB cab…

2 with 2 posters participating Let's fly through the skies with Oculus Quest hand tracking. (Be warned: this is a 360-degree video within a media app, not a hand-compatible VR game.) So long as you hold your hands in front of the cam…

The Oculus Quest is a standalone virtual reality (VR) headset that has become quite popular in recent months. It allows you to experience the wonders of VR without attaching long cables connecting it to your computer.The Quest relies on two controllers for in…

Welcome to TechCrunchs 2019 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? Were here to help! Well be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find our other guides right here. There have been holiday gift guides for VR for the p…

HTC Vive has released the Beta of VIVEPORT Streaming, which will give Vive Focus Plus or Wave Platform headset owners the ability to play PC VR games on their standalone devices. This also means that Oculus Quest owners will have access to the vast catalog of…

At its Snapdragon Boondoggle Summit in sunny Maui, Hawaii, Qualcomm today announced the launch of its XR2 platform, which it describes as the “worlds first 5G-supported extended reality (XR) platform.” The company’s older XR1 platform, which already power…

If nothing else, the new Snapdragon XR2 platform features a lot of firsts: Qualcomm says it's the world's first 5G-enabled extended reality system, which should allow for a new breed of experiences that rely on low latency, super-fast data connections. (Event…