Total Recall loses case against Oculus
Published in IoT
Monday, 13 March 2017 14:15

Total Recall loses case against Oculus


On a technicality

Total Recall Technologies (TRT) has had its lawsuit against Oculus VR and its founder Palmer Luckey tossed out of court on a filing technicality.

Oculus on the skids as injunction looms
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Friday, 24 February 2017 10:44

Oculus on the skids as injunction looms


Oculus going to be forced to make a settlement or suffer

Oculus could find itself in serious hot water as video game publisher ZeniMax Media which has won a $500 million verdict against it for unauthorised copying of computer code, has asked a federal judge to block Oculus from using the code in its products.

Oculus broke ZeniMax’s NDA
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Thursday, 02 February 2017 12:18

Oculus broke ZeniMax’s NDA


Court ruling a bit of a cow for both sides 


A Texas Court has decided that Oculus will have to pay half a billion dollars to ZeniMax because Oculus co-Founder Palmer Luckey failed to comply with a non-disclosure agreement he signed.

Zuckerberg quizzed over Oculus tech
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Wednesday, 18 January 2017 10:17

Zuckerberg quizzed over Oculus tech


We didn’t steal it, honest


Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has denied an allegation by a rival company that the virtual reality technology of Facebook's Oculus unit was nicked by a former staff member.

Nvidia releases new Geforce 376.19 Game Ready drivers
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Optimizations for Oculus Touch launch titles

Nvidia has released its newest Geforce 376.19 Game Ready drivers which bring all the necessary optimizations for Oculus Touch launch titles as well as a couple of other improvements and fixes.

AMD adds WHQL-certification to Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.1
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Brings official support for Oculus Asynchronous Spacewarp

AMD has released a WHQL-certified version of its earlier Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.1 drivers, which bring the same game optimizations as well as official support for the recently unveiled Oculus Asynchronous Spacewarp feature.

Asus GTX 1050 Ti Expedition pictured ahead of launch
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Coming on October 25th

We've now had a chance to check out the first picture of Asus' GTX 1050 Ti Expedition graphics card, leaked ahead of the rumored October 25th launch for both Nvidia's upcoming GP107-based graphics cards, the GTX 1050 Ti and the GTX 1050.

Mobile VR coasts on novelty
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Wednesday, 12 October 2016 12:00

Mobile VR coasts on novelty


Carmack calls for it to pull its socks up

Chief technology officer at Oculus, John Carmack, says mobile VR is currently "coasting on novelty" and developers need to be harder on themselves.

Oculus VR gets sound
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Monday, 10 October 2016 13:48

Oculus VR gets sound


Next level audio integration

Oculus VR has introduced new Oculus Earphones which it claims will give "next-level audio integration".

Oculus reduces Rift headset PC system requirements
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AMD teams up with CyberPowerPC for US $499 VR system

Both Oculus and AMD had some rather interesting announcements today with Oculus reducing minimum PC system requirements for its Rift VR headset thanks to Asynchronous Space Warp (ASW) and AMD jumping on that train with CyberPowerPC in creating a US $499 VR-capable PC.