The hype around virtual reality has been building for years. On Monday, the Oculus Rift finally started shipping to folks who pre-ordered the headset for $600 — either in February when pre-orders ...

When the Oculus Rift made its Kickstarter debut in 2012, gamers were convinced that this could finally be the gadget that would make virtual reality take off. Now, two years and a $2 billion ...

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If you've ever been to a theme park or arcade that offered any virtual reality games, you probably noticed that they were mostly terrible. A lot of the VR headsets give the effect of having a small TV ...

The long-awaited virtual reality headset opens pre-orders today for $599, £499 or AU$649 and will ship this March. When his parents denied him a Super NES, he got mad. When they traded a prize Sega ...

When the Oculus Rift consumer edition virtual reality headset was first released in March 2016, it debuted alongside a portable alternative: the Samsung Gear VR. One required just a Samsung smartphone ...

The retail Oculus Rift will cost $599, Oculus VR announced today, and pre-orders for the virtual reality headset are now live on the company's website — although as you may have expected, a flood of ...

The specs are in, and they're big. The PC that consumers will need to power Oculus's imminent consumer VR headset will need to be predictably high-powered, but that doesn't mean it's out of reach.

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Facebook is officially killing off the Rift. The company showed off its latest headset at its newly renamed Facebook Connect online event today, but they also revealed that they would be ending sales ...

With a slew of updates on the horizon, the Oculus Quest ($399) is now a must-have purchase for anyone getting into VR. Today's Oculus Connect 6 keynote was jam-packed with major new features for the ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. For a ...