Facebook, the social media platform that had long passed being cool and hip with the kids, purchased a virtual reality hardware company, Oculus VR, for $2 billion. At that point, Oculus VR had ...

The so-called "Knuckles" controller doesn't look much different ... SEE ALSO: Is video really the future of VR? The Oculus Touch and HTC Vive "wands" do a great job of tracking hand gestures ...

To be fair, Oculus Rift, from Gear VR co-developer Oculus, didn’t originally offer controllers, either. Now they have Oculus Touch and the world seems so much brighter. The same is true with the ...

When Facebook's virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift, launches in early 2016, it'll come with an Xbox One gamepad: A standard game controller. But gamepads are a poor solution for interacting ...

and both the Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR make frequent use of gamepads. The Oculus Rift will ship with an Xbox One controller, which will be the primary method of using the system at launch.

With an Oculus Quest virtual reality headset pulled down over his face, Spike used the VR controller in his hand to guide the necessary cuts to the wires. The seated audience of instructors watched ...

[WayneKeenan] wrote a proof-of-concept virtual reality system that used a Raspberry Pi and an Oculus Rift. It was about a thousand lines of Python and with a battery pack it was even portable.

VR has been slow to catch on with the general public; it’s expensive, and there’s been a need for some tech knowledge and accoutrements to participate. The Quest might be the system that ...

Oculus VR, the team behind the Rift virtual reality headset, has acquired the Carbon Design Group, best known for its work on the Xbox 360 controller. Carbon Design also helped design the Xbox 360 ...

A federal judge halved a $500 million jury verdict against Facebook-owned subsidiary Oculus VR on Wednesday, concluding there is no proof of actual damages for false designation of origin regarding ...

As the Oculus Rift finally gears up for consumer release in early 2016, the Facebook-owned company’s most prominent developer and technologist is experimenting with new ways to improve VR ...