Oculus is today launching their ‘Expressive Avatars’ update on Rift and mobile VR; it’s a significant step up in realism thanks to a few additions including cleverly simulated eye models, lipsync, and ...

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The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset display is still without a release date, but early versions have already blown us away with the device's ability to immerse wearers in virtual worlds. But there ...

Despite being oft overlooked in the face of more attention-grabbing visuals, audio is an essential component to creating presence in VR. In a quest to create increasingly lifelike audio in VR ...

To start, Oculus and Microsoft have partnered up to ship a wireless Xbox One controller with every headset. The partnership also means that users will be able to stream Xbox One games to Oculus Rift.

Oculus announced yesterday it has acquired Surreal Vision, a startup which specializes in generating real-time, realistic 3D worlds. According to a blog post on the Oculus website, Surreal Vision is ...

Facebook Inc.’s Oculus virtual reality team today open-sourced the code behind its DeepFocus software that’s used to create more realistic visuals for VR headsets. The DeepFocus software first came to ...

With only a few days until the Oculus Rift starts shipping to consumers, the VR company has announced that its SDK for the Rift now supports Asynchronous Timewarp (ATW). It might not sound like much, ...

Respawn Entertainment might be going back to its historic stomping grounds. In virtual reality. A quick tease from the Oculus Connect stage revealed that the team that made Call of Duty is working on ...

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Audio can be just as important as visuals if you want to make true-to-life VR experiences. That's why Oculus has introduced changes to the Rift SDK that give developers the power to make spatial audio ...