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Having a multi-billion-dollar company behind you means being able to deck out a large convention center in your logo.
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An Oculus Rift photo montage from Oculus Connect.Kyle Orland
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This guy just set up a standing, unauthorized demo for his product in the lobby. Apparently it's big in Germany.
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Oculus is trying to use the / symbol as identifiable branding for its annual Connect conference.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to spend part of his keynote speech explaining to the crowd that "Virtual reality is a thing now."
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"Why do you look like a young Justin Timberlake?"
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Oculus Head of Research Michael Abrash gave a heady, optimistic view of where VR technology will be five years in the future.
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Oculus CTO John Carmack couldn't walk down the hall of the 2016 Oculus Connect conference without being mobbed by onlookers. He was happy to hold court for long impromptu Q&A sessions.
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An Oculus Connect attendee tries out the company's new avatar-builder at last year's Oculus Connect.
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In the green screen room, you could generate a video that actually shows you standing in a VR environment (kind of like this).
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An attendee gets emotive working on a scultpure in Oculus Medium.
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In the future, this is what every business meeting will look like, more or less.
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If you thought playing Wii Sports made you look goofy, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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This guy looks like he's been waiting to pretend to be in a hockey brawl like this for his entire life.
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Oh, look, the first rose bud of spring.
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I took this photo of the Intel streaming "stage" mainly to highlight the new "from Facebook" branding included under the Oculus logo.
Instead, Oculus pulled out quite a few major reveals. The company announced a new, fully tracked wireless headset in the works and even let me try a prototype. The company helped justify Facebook's investment with a major avatar-driven social VR initiative. And then there's the new software technology that actually lowered the minimum specs for the Rift headset without touching the hardware itself.
The many keynote announcements and wide array of new software on display left a palpable buzz among the few-thousand attendees at the conference, almost all of whom were developers or true believers in the virtual reality future. Virtual reality might not be part of the computing mainstream yet, but walking around Oculus Connect, it was easy to believe that it could be in the not-too-distant future.
Listing image by Kyle Orland
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