"I hope I can harness all the crisis energy with the metaverse that's going on," said John Carmack, who has been serving as a consulting CTO for Oculus since 2019.

Luckey founded Oculus and sold it to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014. He wants the metaverse to be built, but says Facebook's current product Horizon is "not good." ...

The creator of Meta’s Oculus virtual reality headsets shredded Mark Zuckerberg’s version of the metaverse on Monday – arguing the platform is currently “terrible” and in need of an overhaul.

Meta's Oculus Quest 2 is one of the most accessible and affordable VR headsets currently available. Unlike many of its rivals, the wireless device runs apps and games natively and is easy to use.

The Oculus brand, which has existed alongside the company’s other products, will be phased out in order to allow the company’s metaverse and XR efforts to be positioned under Meta as the ...

That’s when he decided to purchase 10 Oculus Quest 2 headsets for his staff, who all work remotely, and see how they could all make best use of it: 45-minute meetings, occasional social outings.

Oculus is launching Horizon Home, a new social space for Oculus VR headsets. It will allow for more social gatherings and further Facebook’s ambitions in the “metaverse.” ...

At every turn, Zuckerberg’s VR-integrated metaverse looks way, way too ahead of its time (as seen here by its odd legless, goofy avatars, that do not seem conductive to Serious Business Work ...

If you’re inside the Metaverse using a VR headset like the Oculus Quest 2, you can communicate with others from a virtual environment of your choosing while represented by your digital avatars.

The metaverse is currently the “flavor” of the moment for hot tech topics. Facebook made a big splash a few weeks ago when it rebranded the company as Meta.

The Oculus founder, speaking Monday during The Wall Street Journal conference Tech Live, said of Horizon Worlds, Facebook's core metaverse product: "I don't think it's a good product." Luckey sold ...