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Oculus Connect 6 Announcements: Hand Tracking for Quest, Facebook Horizon & more

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Post date September 26, 2019
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At Oculus’ sixth annual Connect conference, the company made a couple of announcements during their keynote.

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Oculus announces their first standalone headset with 6DOF, Oculus Quest

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Post date September 26, 2018
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Oculus made a couple of announcements at their developer conference, Oculus Connect 5, including their most powerful standalone headset, Oculus Quest, updates to Rift and more.

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Oculus Rift drops to $499 CAD for the holidays

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Post date December 18, 2017
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Oculus has announced that the Rift and Touch combo is now $499 CAD ($379 USD) for a limited time.

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Oculus introduces their first standalone headset, Oculus Go

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Post date October 11, 2017
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Oculus made a few announcements at their developer conference, Oculus Connect including their first standalone headset, Oculus Go, updates to their Santa Cruz prototype and more.

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2017 News Virtual Reality

Oculus owes $500 million to ZeniMax

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Post date February 4, 2017
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A jury has awarded a combined total of $500 million in damages to ZeniMax Media.

While the jury for the case said that Oculus did not misappropriate trade secrets from ZeniMax, they did say that Oculus co-founder, Palmer Luckey was in violation of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that he signed with the company back in 2012.

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Oculus Rift, Now available for Pre-order

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Post date January 6, 2016
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The infamous Oculus Rift is now available for pre-order directly from Oculus’ site for the not-so low price of $599 USD.

newblog1.2 — Here’s what you get in the box

Even though the high price tag wasn’t revealed earlier, Oculus founder, Palmer Luckey did say a few weeks ago that the Oculus Rift would come at a premium but he did also say that VR will eventually become something that is affordable for everyone.

Reminder of something I have talked about before: VR will become something everyone wants before it becomes something everyone can afford.

— Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) December 24, 2015

Here’s to hoping he’s right.

Don’t forget to make sure you have a capable PC before you pre-order the Rift.

Here are the recommended specs:

graphics card: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater
processor: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
memory: 8GB+ RAM
output: Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output
input: 3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 port
operating system: Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer

The Oculus Rift will start shipping to 20 countries on March 28th 2016 and the Rift will be available in limited locations at select retailers in April.

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