Adobe has bought the Oculus Medium VR app. This is a step towards the company’s creation of a new line of 3D tools.

The path to the heart of the mass consumer for modern VR technologies is still closed. This was stated by the creator of the Oculus Rift Palmer Lucky (Palmer Luckey) in his blog.

Quarterly sales of virtual reality helmets exceeded 1 million devices for the first time. Such a number of VR headsets were implemented in the third quarter of 2017.

At least 9 virtual reality games have earned over $1 million each in the Oculus Store app store.

Sales of Windows Mixed Reality helmets from Microsoft may overtake Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets this quarter, according to Stephanie Llamas, vice president of the SuperData analytics company.

Palmer Lucky, one of the founders of the Oculus Rift VR project, announced that he has created a new company related to virtual reality.

The share of owners of the Oculus Rift VR headset in August increased by 8.1% compared to the previous month and reached 43.8% of the total number of owners of virtual reality helmets among Steam users.

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.

Sony has sold 915 thousand Playstation VR kits since the start of sales in October last year and has come close to fulfilling its own plan of 1 million devices sold within six months.

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.

Virtual reality headsets have almost ceased to be sold. This is reported in a study conducted by Valve Corporation.

Too much is expected from virtual reality. This segment of the industry will develop, but not as rapidly as predicted, – says the expert of the analytical company Robert W. Baird & Co.

A platform for creating VR applications has been launched. Its developers are the Argentine Voxelus team founded by industry veterans. According to the authors, the platform will allow anyone to create games for virtual reality.

A virtual reality helmet has appeared on sale, which Samsung, together with Oculus Rift, introduced back in September. Gear VR Innovator Edition can be purchased from Samsung’s online store for $199.99. To use the helmet, you will need a Galaxy Note 4 phablet that plays the role of a display.

A link with information about a free engine for game developers for Oculus Rift appeared a few days ago on the official Unreal Engine 4 website. 

At the moment when Samsung introduced its virtual reality helmet, created in conjunction with Oculus and supporting work with the Galaxy Note 4, it became clear that this niche, at least, would hook the mobile industry. The news about the expansion of the strategic partnership between Unity and Oculus only strengthens our suspicions.

Samsung has begun expansion into the world of virtual reality: together with Oculus, the company introduced the Gear VR helmet.