24 Facts About Oculus VR

Oculus VR partnered with Samsung Electronics to release the Gear VR accessory for Samsung Galaxy smartphones in 2015.

In March 2016, Oculus VR released the first consumer version of the Rift headset.

Oculus VR ceased operating as an autonomous subsidiary of Facebook in 2018, and became a brand of Facebook Technologies, LLC —a subsidiary that includes other Facebook-developed hardware such as Portal.

The Oculus VR team was later amalgamated into Facebook Reality Labs, a business of Facebook dedicated to VR and AR.

Facebook subsequently announced that it would change its corporate name to Meta, and the Oculus VR brand was replaced on current and existing products by the "Meta" and "Horizon" brands.

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Under Facebook ownership, Oculus VR products have been increasingly integrated with Facebook and its social networking platforms: since October 2020, all new users, and any user of Facebook-produced VR hardware released since then must log in with a Facebook account in order to use their headsets.

Support for standalone Oculus VR accounts was announced as ending in January 2023, although in October 2021 it was stated that "new ways to log into Quest that won't require a Facebook account" were being developed.

Oculus VR announced that the "dev kit" version of the Oculus VR Rift would be given as a reward to backers who pledged $300 or more on Kickstarter, with an expected shipping date set of December 2012 .

Oculus VR has stated that this move is for their employees to be closer to Silicon Valley.

In May 2015, Oculus VR acquired British company Surreal Vision, a company based on 3D scene-mapping reconstruction and augmented reality.

In October 2017, Oculus VR unveiled the standalone mobile headset Oculus VR Go in partnership with Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi.

In September 2018, Oculus VR became a division of a new structural entity within Facebook known as Facebook Technologies, LLC Facebook announced in August 2018 they had entered negotiations to lease the entire Burlingame Point campus in Burlingame, California, then under construction.

Oculus VR was expected to move to Burlingame Point when development is complete.

Oculus VR stated he would remain involved with the company as a "Consulting CTO".

In 2018, Oculus VR became a division of Facebook Technologies, LLC, to create "a single legal entity that can support multiple Facebook technology and hardware products" .

Facebook stated that users would still be able to control sharing from Oculus VR, maintain a separate friends list within the Oculus VR platform, and hide their real name to others.

Oculus VR has not stated whether ads will appear only in applications or in the Oculus Home experience as well.

Oculus VR teased a "high-end" mixed reality headset codenamed "Project Cambria".

In 2014, Samsung partnered with Oculus VR to develop the Gear VR, a VR headset accessory for Samsung Galaxy smartphones.

At Oculus VR Connect in September 2015, the Gear VR was announced for a consumer release in November; the initial model supported the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S7 product lines, as well as the Galaxy Note 5.

Unlike the Oculus VR Rift, the Go is a standalone headset which is not dependent on a PC for operation.

Unlike VR systems such as Cardboard, Daydream, and the Oculus VR co-developed Samsung Gear VR, it contains its own dedicated display and mobile computing hardware.

Oculus VR Go was declared end-of-life in June 2020, with software submissions to end in December 2020, and firmware support ending in 2022.

Oculus VR Story Studio was an original animated virtual-reality film studio that existed between 2014 and May 2017, which launched three films.