Facebook closes Oculus demo stations
No one interested
Facebook is closing around 200 of its 500 Oculus Rift virtual-reality demo stations at Best Buy locations across the US.
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.
Barra was poached by Facebook
Try and make something happen with VR
The bloke credited with helping sorting out Xiaomi was poached by Facebook where it is hoped he can do something with Oculus.
Heartbeat data to be used to authenticate wearable devices
A login method for cars, doors, PCs and everything else
Over the past few years, the concept of using heartbeat data to encrypt information and authenticate personal and enterprise users has been gaining consideration as an alternative to expensive, computationally-heavy encryption techniques unsuited for wearable devices.
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.