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February 8, 2017 07:58 pm GMT

Oculus Rift gets voice-controlled search in VR

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One the most frequent requests from Oculus Rift users is the ability to search for apps on Oculus Home, a basic but missing tool in the Oculus virtual reality environment — until now. 

A new update, only available to some users right now, offers a search feature called Oculus Voice. 

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Currently, for most users, when you put on the Rift headset and open Oculus Home, you're forced to scroll through dozens of apps, page by page, a time-consuming process that doesn't encourage exploration of the Oculus store.

But a demonstration of the new Oculus Voice feature, from a user who first surfaced the feature on Reddit, shows the ability to handle a number of Oculus Home functions beyond search.  Read more...

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