Bombora Publishing House has released the Russian book “Oculus. How to create the best VR company in the world and lose everything?“. First of all, this is the story of the rise and fall of the eccentric Palmer Luckey, the inventor of the Rift virtual reality helmet. But there is also a part about the sale of his company to Facebook Corporation. We talk about the volume and publish an excerpt from it.

Ads will appear in games for Oculus VR headsets. Facebook has announced that it will start testing creatives in the coming weeks.

The new Oculus Quest 2 VR headset does not support games for Oculus Go. We are talking about 66 titles, some of which were significant for the platform. For example, Land’s End from Ustwo Games.

Yesterday’s Facebook Connect conference was not limited to the announcement of Oculus Quest 2 VR glasses. Another news is that in a year and a half, the Oculus Quest library has accumulated several dozen projects that have earned from a million dollars or more.

Yesterday Facebook hosted the annual Facebook Connect VR/AR conference, which used to be called Oculus Connect. We have collected the main news of the event.

A couple of days before the official announcement, details about the new Oculus VR glasses leaked onto the Internet. Apparently, Oculus Quest 2 will receive a Snapdragon XR2 chip from Qualcomm and a resolution of “almost 2K for each eye.”

Facebook continued to rebrand. Three separate divisions — Oculus (VR), Spark (AR) and Portal (smart displays) — we started working under the general brand Facebook Reality Labs.

To use the Oculus VR headset, you now need a Facebook profile. Since October of this year, new users will not be able to create their own Oculus account, and support for old accounts will cease in 2023.

Facebook has abandoned another VR headset. Oculus will cease support and production of Oculus Go.

Facebook is suing the company “Eco” from St. Petersburg. The latter has owned the Oculus brand for five years and can produce video games, medicines and other types of goods under it.

Users have nothing more to expect from Samsung Gear VR. Facebook will stop updating headset software. In addition, from September 15, the Oculus Store will not appruvit new applications for Gear VR.

VR helmet owners have spent more than $100 million on app purchases in the Oculus store. This was announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) in the framework of Oculus Connect 6.

At GDC 2019, Oculus unveiled its new virtual reality helmet. The model is called Oculus Rift S.

Oculus has presented a new virtual reality headset Oculus Go. The device works without connecting to a smartphone or computer. The novelty was estimated at $ 199.

Oculus will close the Story Studio, which created the short VR films Lost, Henry and Dear Angelica.

John Carmack presented a software solution that allows you to increase the resolution in the Oculus Home content management shell for the Gear VR platform.

Oculus is ready to spend over half a billion dollars to support developers of VR applications.

Oculus has lowered the price of the Rift virtual reality helmet and Touch controllers.

The creators of the Oculus Rift virtual reality helmet will reimburse royalties to all Unreal Engine users whose games will be sold through the Oculus store. This became known at the Oculus Connect 3 VR developers conference held in San Jose.