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VR hype soars as Facebook buys Oculus | 10 Years Ago This Month
Sony and Facebook throw their wallets into the ring and virtual reality dominates the discussion at GDC 2014
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Meta reveals Oculus Publishing as Meta Quest Store revenues pass $1.5bn
The VR game division has financially supported more than 300 since its inception
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Meta's AR/VR segment made £2.2bn in 2021 despite record operating loss
Reality Labs' operating loss amounted to $10.2 billion last year
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Oculus halts headset sales in Germany
Facebook says it's a temporary move and will continue supporting existing owners in the country
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Sony reportedly increasing PS5 production to 10m units by 2021
Meanwhile, Facebook said to be ramping up manufacturing for Oculus devices
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Oculus Go headset discontinued
VR company will stop adding developers' apps and updates to Oculus Store this December, pledges to open up Quest distribution options
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Facebook acquires Ready at Dawn
Oculus parent picks up Lone Echo franchise studio to work on VR content
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More than $100m has been spent on Oculus Quest content
Ten games have earned more than $2m in revenue, including PolyArc's Moss and Cloudhead Games' Pistol Whip
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VR could seize its moment -- if the big players would cooperate | Opinion
VR has an opportunity to break out, but the mess of competing standards is holding back the whole sector
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More than 20 games have earned $1m in revenue on Oculus Quest
Oculus' portable headset has brought large numbers of new customers into VR, the company said
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Valve Index sales more than doubled following Half-Life Alyx announcement
SuperData: The Index sold 149k units in 2019, 103k of which were sold in Q4
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Facebook acquires Beat Games
Beat Saber developer joins Oculus headset maker to continue work on music VR games
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John Carmack moves to "consulting CTO" role at Oculus
Industry veteran will focus on AI, with Oculus now taking a "modest slice" of his time
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John Carmack wins Lifetime Achievement prize at VR Awards 2019
Oculus Quest crowned best hardware, while A Fisherman's Tale is declared best game
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The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: A tale of two Nintendos
Nintendo nails the Switch Lite but leaves people scratching their heads with Mario Kart Tour
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Oculus to be "more Microsoft than Apple" on VR software preservation
Oculus CTO John Carmack lamented that "every program I ever wrote for iOS is lost to the ages now"
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Oculus' John Carmack calls Gear VR "a missed opportunity"
CTO offered a "eulogy" for the mobile VR headset, saying its "days are numbered"
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Oculus adding hand-tracking to Quest
Oculus Connect 6 also sees VR-exclusive Medal of Honor, Facebook Horizon social VR, and Oculus Link for playing Rift games on Quest
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Oculus VR loses its head of mobile
Max Cohen left this month, after leading Gear VR, Oculus Go, and starting push toward Oculus Quest
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Nate Mitchell leaves Oculus
Mitchell becomes the last of the VR outfit's original co-founders to leave Facebook
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Oculus VP: "We believe Quest is the first VR hardware that has potential to become a viable medium"
Jason Rubin elaborates on and apologizes for roll out of recent game curation changes
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Facebook: $5m in Oculus Quest software sold since launch
VP of AR and VR Andrew Bosworth indicates size of the software market in Oculus Quest's first two weeks
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Facebook's VP of VR Hugo Barra steps down
Barra moves sideways as former director of product management Erick Tseng steps into his role
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Oculus: "It's no longer a burden to get into virtual reality"
Nate Mitchell and Jason Rubin discuss how a two-pronged approach with Quest and Rift S will finally bring down the barriers to VR
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ZeniMax, Facebook settle VR lawsuit
Mediation program results in undisclosed agreement between companies, dismissal of appeals