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As for the lower tier, Facebook is looking for production budgets that fall somewhere between TV and digital shows, similar to the shows on Verizon's go90 service, one person said. Sounds pretty good, but then you also remember Facebook billionaire board member Peter Thiel's political controversies of the past year, and that Oculus (now owned by[...]

Oculus Co-founder Palmer Luckey is leaving Facebook Luckey is the credited inventor of the Rift virtual reality headset Facebook purchased Oculus in 2014, making Luckey a Facebook employee According to a report at UploadVR, today is Luckey's last day on the job at Facebook. This change comes about a year after Luckey hand-delivered the first Oculus Rift to[...]

So, remember when I said the story about previous employers suing Oculus wonderkid Palmer Luckey for essentially being fake might be one of the biggest stories in years? Well, it just took the most bizarre turn. It The Daily Beast has revealed the guy has been financially supporting Nimble America, a pro-Trump organisation that gets its aggresively anti-Clinton[...]

As spotted by GameInformer, that lawsuit has been amended with some pretty direct accusations about Oculus, Palmer Luckey and John Carmack There is a lot to it, so I'll try and just hit the important parts for you. The lawsuit now says that John Carmack copied 'thousands of documents' to a USB before he left the[...]

The earliest buyers will begin to receive their order this week, if they haven't gotten them yet. And founder of the Oculus Rift, Palmer Luckey decided to do a really cool thing for the very first person who ordered one He went all the way up to Alaska to deliver the headset to that buyer, Ross Martin,[...]

Of course, you can run the likes of Civ 5 on a Macbook pretty well, but there are few who are going to be trying to get Rise of the Tomb Raider running at 4k 60fps. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey rather brashly pointed that out in a recent interview with Shacknews too If asked if the[...]

I don't believe the $599 price to be obscene, especially as this seems focused on a slow roll out of the tech, but the noise online has been loud, that's for sure. Well, Palmer Luckey, the Rift's creator, thinks the headset is very well priced On Twitter, responding to the criticism, he said: To reiterate, we are[...]

Although, I don't think many people would have guessed that the technology developer would be teaming up with Harmonix to make Rock Band VR. It was all announced with this little skit which shows the dev team, including Palmer Luckey training to be rockstars with DragonForce It also showed a tiny bit of footage of what[...]

The internet has been abuzz over the last 24 hours with the most recent cover of Time Magazine which features Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey I'll just thought I'd share it incase you missed it, because you're going to see this in memes all over the place over the next few days. Eesh Who ever designed[...]