The studio intends to have 5 VR shorts released with the Rift at launch, including Lost, Bullfighter, Henry, Dear Angelica, and Kabloom.

Westaway, Luke (October 13, 2014). "Virtual reality and the silver screen: A match made in heaven". CNET . Retrieved September 7, 2015. Robertson, Adi (2020-09-16). "Facebook is discontinuing the Oculus Rift S". The Verge . Retrieved 2021-07-20. The Oculus Touch wasn't available when the Oculus Rift first launched. Most games that were in development at that time were designed with a controller in mind, so the initial run of Oculus Rift headsets shipped with alternate control methods.

As well as the consumer uses, the Rift has attracted significant interest from industry and professional spheres for productivity enhancement, visualization, and advertising.

Oculus has stated that the Rift is primarily a gaming device and that their main content focus is gaming. [61]

The Rift is an open platform, and thus developers do not need any approval or verification to develop, distribute, or sell content for it, and do not have to pay any licensing fees. The SDK, however, cannot be modified or reused for other purposes or hardware without permission. [51] You only need to take it off for the technology to recognize that it’s no longer being used. When it does this the lights will start giving off a gentle pulsing, letting you know it is still on. This is not the same as the warning colors or the charging colors that I’ll discuss a bit later. Eric Romo's AltspaceVR launches first VR social platform". Fortune. May 20, 2015 . Retrieved September 7, 2015. Existing games with a first-person or fixed-camera perspective can be ported to VR with some development effort. However, Oculus has stated that the best virtual reality experiences are those that are designed, from the beginning, for the Rift. [62] At Oculus's 3rd annual conference (Oculus Connect 3), it announced the new technology, called "Asynchronous Spacewarp (ASW)". This technology allows the Rift to compensate for the dropped frames. According to Oculus, ASW reduces the minimum specs of a PC to run the Rift without any judder.