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HTC Vive owners can now get social with Oculus Rift friends in Facebook Spaces

The virtual social hangout originally launched on the Oculus Rift, Facebook Spaces, is now available on the HTC Vive virtual reality headset.
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Bag some high-end VR this holiday season with the $350 Oculus Rift deal

The Oculus Rift is back on sale at its Black Friday price, meaning you can pick one up with motion controllers for as little as $350.
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Oculus adds desktop functionality and revamps Home in Rift Core 2.0 update

Oculus has launched the beta of its Rift Core 2.0 update, which adds a host of new features and user interface tweaks.
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‘Settlers of Catan’ board game fans can sign up for the ‘Catan VR’ beta

Experiment 7 officially opened applications for the closed beta for Catan VR, a virtual reality adaptation of the board game.
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Go spacewalking as an astronaut with a new VR experience for Vive, Rift

Rewind and the BCC finally made generally available a spacewalking experience for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift called Home -- A VR spacewalk.
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PlayStation VR dominates third-quarter VR headset sales

The PlayStation VR headset sold more than twice that of the Oculus Rift in the third quarter of 2017, also easily beating out the HTC Vive.
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Oculus Rift drops to its lowest price ever for Black Friday at $350

The Oculus Rift VR headset is now at its lowest price ever, dropping to $350 with Touch Controllers in the Black Friday sale.
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A Facebook news feed in VR could help make the technology mainstream

Native React VR support may soon be coming to the Facebook news feed, with Oculus now testing an early iteration of the integration.
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Oculus React VR takes you behind the scenes of ‘Jumanji’ and the British Museum

Oculus React has announced its first round VR projects, and they include offerings from Sony Pictures and the British Museum.
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‘Top Gun 3D’ to be first movie shown in Paramount’s Virtual Reality cinema

Paramount and Bigscreen are co-developing a virtual reality cinema experience and will debut it with a showing of Top Gun 3D.
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Oculus Rift vs. Oculus Go — is it still better to be tethered to a PC?

In the battle of the Oculus Rift vs. Oculus Go which headset comes out on top? Do you really need a big gaming PC for decent VR?
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VR and pose: How to take a screenshot in VR with the Oculus Rift

Digital Trends has compiled a step-by-step guide on how to take a screenshot in VR with the Oculus Rift.
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The ZephVR blows air in your face, which might actually make VR better

The ZephVR kickstarter is now live and you can pre-order one of the face-blowing accessories for $50, if you get there quick enough.
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Horror movies don’t scare you? See if you can handle these VR freak-outs

Digital Trends has put together a list of the scariest virtual reality experiences from across multiple VR platforms and developers.
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Everything we know about the Oculus Go virtual reality headset

The Oculus Go requires no phone, PC, or cords. The stand-alone VR headset launches for $200 in early 2018. Here's everything we know so far.
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Here is everything we know about Respawn’s Oculus Rift VR shooter

Respawn has partnered with Oculus Rift to make a realistic war game for VR that appears to put players in the trenches of a historical war.
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VR objects are coming to your Facebook news feed with ‘3D posts’

Interactive 3D posts are coming to your news feed, as part of a general expansion of Facebook's Spaces VR hangout platform's utility.
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Not enjoying a VR experience? Oculus now offers refunds for software

Many digital purchases through Oculus are eligible within 14 days of purchase and the content has been engaged with for less than two hours.
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The $400 Oculus Rift promotion makes a dent in the battle with the HTC Vive

Oculus' Summer of Rift promotion has helped the headset chip away at the HTC Vive's dominance among Steam users.
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Step into the world of virtual reality with our top 4 VR headset deals

If you're looking to try out virtual reality, we picked out four VR headset deals on top-rated models – including DT's all-time favorite.
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Zooculus rift — lab animals get their own virtual reality system

FreemoVR monitors the movements of common lab animals like mice, zebrafish, and fruit flies, and projects environments onto a screen.
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Want to be the best VR gamer? You need lots of room to move around

Having a larger room-scale space for VR may raise your game and make you more likely to claim high scores.
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‘Lone Echo’ review

In our Lone Echo review we discover a game that gets closer to capturing zero-gravity movement than any VR title we’ve played.
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‘Marvel Powers United VR’ Review

Marvel Powers United VR does a pretty great job of letting you feel what it's like to wreck bad guys with superpowers.
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Medium update brings VR sculpting to the multiplayer masses

Medium's 1.2 update has introduced a new way to collaboratively sculpt anything you like with a friend, sharing your creaitons as you go.
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Will a $200 Oculus Rift stand-alone system push VR into the mainstream?

Also today: Uber teams up with the Russians, and it's the end of the line for an iconic American muscle car.
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You won't need a PC to use the next Oculus VR headset, coming in 2018

Oculus is working hard to create a $200 stand-alone VR headset that will slot in between smartphone options and its own Oculus Rift.
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Facebook Live now lets you broadcast in VR using the Oculus Rift ‘Spaces’ app

Oculus Spaces app now supports Facebook Live video from within the VR environment, making it easy to broadcast to Facebook friends.
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Virtual reality study could help teach self-driving cars ethics

Researchers have been using virtual reality technology to help unpack the kind of moral questions self-driving cars will have to answer.
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Oculus bundles Rift headset and Touch controller for $399

Oculus will offer its Rift headset and a Touch controller for the bargain price of $399 for the next six weeks.
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Palmer Luckey pledges $2,000 a month toward the development of ReVive

Palmer Luckey has pledged $2,000 per month to ReVive, a project that makes Oculus Rift exclusives compatible with the HTC Vive.
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Dungeons and Dragons arrives in virtual reality, but not like you would expect

Wizard of the Coast published Dungeon Chess for the Oculus Rift and Gear VR headsets, a multiplayer chess game based on Dungeons and Dragons.
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Web sling around NYC in ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ VR experience

The teaser trailer reveals some of the gameplay aspects and it captures the essence of what you love about Spidey.
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Psychological thrills, obsession at heart of Transference,’ Ubisoft’s VR game

During Ubisoft's E3 2017 show, the company finally provided a glimpse into Transference, a virtual reality thriller from Elijah Wood.