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The Oculus founder's company seems to be filling a void left by Google when it didn't renew its contract with the Pentagon last year.

NEW YORK, March 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) announced today that it is celebrating International Women's Day and women all over the world by displaying a large-scale public art installation at the Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center in New York City. Starting March...

The social networking giant is following Microsoft, selling its Oculus Go and Oculus Quest headsets for "enterprise" customers.

Soundscape VR is the musical metaverse, a collection of audio-reactive social VR worlds available free on Oculus Home and Steam where you can meet up with friends across the globe to enjoy music,... (PRWeb March 05, 2019) Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/soundscape_vr_launches_major_virtual_reality_multiplayer_expansion_with_soundscape_universe/prweb16132229.htm

In the book The History of the Future, we get an inside look at Oculus VR, Facebook and all the politics and drama that go with them.

Commentary: When I first laid eyes on the Oculus Rift in 2013, it felt like the future. Five years on, VR is a promise unfulfilled.

The Oculus founder is unapologetic about building future military technology and thinks other tech giants should jump on board too.

Microsoft is beta testing a mixed-reality prototyping tool that works with Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets.

Brendan Iribe, who was Oculus CEO until 2016, is among a string of executives to leave the social media company.

The messy legal battle between Id Software co-founder and Oculus CTO John Carmack and ZeniMax is over. Carmack tweeted that his "personal legal disputes" had ended, with ZeniMax having "fully satisfied their sic obligations" to him. Consequently, t...

What if you could peek behind what’s in your photos, like you’re moving your head to see what’s inside a window? That’s the futuristic promise of Facebook 3D photos. After announcing the feature at F8 in May, Facebook is now rolling out 3D photos to add make-believe depth to your iPhone portrait mode shots.  Shoot one, tap the new 3D photos option in the status update composer, select a portrait mode photo and users on the desktop or mobile News Feed as well as in VR through Oculus Go’s browser or Firefox on Oculus Rift can tap/click and drag or move their head to see the photo’s depth. Everyone can now view 3D photos and the ability to create them will open to everyone in the coming weeks. Facebook is constantly in search of ways to keep the News Feed interesting. What started with text and photos eventually expanded into videos and live broadcasts, and now to 360 photos and 3D photos. Facebook hopes if it’s the exclusive social media home for these new kinds of content, you’ll come back to explore and rack up some ad views in the meantime. Sometimes that means embracing mind-bending new formats like VR memories that recreate a scene in digital pointillism based on a photo. So how exactly do 3D photos work? Our writer Devin Coldewey did a deep-dive earlier this year into how Facebook uses AI to stitch together real layers of the photo with what it infers should be there if you tilted your perspective. Since portrait mode fires off both of a phone’s cameras simultaneously, parallax differences can be used to recreate what’s behind the subject. How Facebook’s new 3D photos work To create the best 3D photos with your iPhone 7+, 8+, X or XS (more phones will work with the feature in the future), Facebook recommends you keep your subject three to four feet away, and have things in the foreground and background. Distinct colors will make the layers separate better, and transparent or shiny objects like glass or plastic can throw off the AI

Mark Zuckerberg announced the newest virtual reality headset today at the Oculus Connect 5 VR developer conference

Using Oculus Quest in a mixed reality demo, Facebook showed off a workplace scenario where real world objects are integrated into VR.

Oculus' Creators Lab regularly works with filmmakers under the VR for Good initiative to produce immersive experiences that "showcase the need for social change." Now, it's making three very timely projects available for download from the Oculus Vide...