In recent months, I've done a fair bit of complaining about the deficiencies of mobile virtual reality headsets like the Samsung Gear VR versus higher end options, but some of those complaints were ...

For a while, it looked as if Oculus wouldn’t stand in the way of users hacking Oculus games to run on other hardware. A recent Oculus software update, however, may have put the kibosh on that.

Facebook's acquisition of modern VR pioneer Oculus has always been a mind-boggling one. Naturally, the social media giant wants to leave its imprint on anything that can be remotely tied to being ...

An Oculus Go unlocked OS build was released today, courtesy of John Carmack. After a prolonged period of time and a whole lot of work in securing the rights to release the software, Carmack and crew ...

We've described the Oculus Quest as the best standalone wireless VR headset yet, but there was one feature missing from the system: the ability to plug the headset into a PC. That feature is coming, ...

Oculus has a new update out for its PC software that brings roomscale tracking with three sensors out of beta, making it an officially and fully supported way of tracking a VR user in 360 degrees. The ...

Since its launch last year, Oculus has kept tight control over the library of software on the wireless Quest headset, applying what the company called a “quality-first approach” to app approval. Today ...

Oculus Quest owners, your chance to dive into the world of PC-VR gaming has begun. The Oculus Home app on Windows PCs has just been updated to support the standalone Oculus Quest, two months after the ...

The cost of entry for virtual reality hardware has plummeted in the few short months since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in May. Back then, getting your foot in the door required a PC ...

Thanks." Rebooting the Oculus software, or the PC it's running on doesn't seem to be working at the time. So, if you had plans to spend your day jacked into the matrix, it sounds like you'll need to ...

This means, in many cases, you don’t have to buy your VR games from Oculus Home at all once you’ve installed the software to enable SteamVR compatibility. Oculus loses! Consider the strange case of ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. Carmack, ...