Oculus’s biggest event of the year, Oculus Connect 3, runs from October 5 to October 7. We expect to hear big announcements at the developer conference, not least of which includes the price and release date of the Oculus Touch motion controllers.

Oculus Connect is Oculus’s annual developer conference. The company pools together its resources and the wider VR development community to showcase the latest innovations in the VR space. In the past, the conference showcased the latest prototypes and games under development. Now that the Rift is out in the wild, this year’s conference should be more about showing off finished, or near finished software, rather than prototype experiments. In short, we expect OC3 to be more in line with E3 than previous Oculus Connect events.

By the time you read this, day one of Oculus Connect will have already begun. The first day likely won’t be exciting for the general public. You won’t find a live stream (unless you find someone streaming it through Facebook or Periscope) of the first day. Oculus is reserving that time for developer workshops and game demos.

Oculus Connect 3 - Day 1
9:00 AM	Registration	The Hub Until 7:00 pm
9:00 AM	Help Desk	Concourse Until 7:00 pm
10:00 AM	Introduction to Gear VR Development with Unity	211C Until 1:00 pm
10:30 AM	John Carmack Live App Reviews	Executive BR 210E Until 3:00 pm
11:00 AM	Demos	Hall 1 Until 9:00 pm
3:00 PM	Introduction to Unreal VR Workshop	211D Until 6:00 pm
4:00 PM	Minecraft: Breaking the rules of VR	Executive BR 210E 1 hour
4:00 PM	VR for good: The social impact of empathy in VR	Executive BR 210H 1 hour
4:00 PM	Getting funded for your first VR title	Executive BR 210F 1 hour
5:20 PM	Bring your 360 Videos to life with spatial audio	Executive BR 210F 1 hour
5:20 PM	VR filmmaking: What we know now	Executive BR 210H 1 hour
5:20 PM	Making Arizona Sunshine: Cutting and Polishing a VR Gem	Executive BR 210E 1 hour
6:30 PM	Welcome Reception	Hall 3 Until 8:30 pm

Day 2 is what the world is waiting for. The opening keynote presentation, which is undoubtedly when Oculus will reveal all there is to know about Touch, is scheduled for 10:00 am Pacific on October 6. The keynote is the only presentation that the public can take in live. Oculus promised to discuss the long-awaited Touch controllers at the event, and we expect to hear everything; the games that support the motion controllers, the cost of the hardware, and the date that you can pick them up and play with them in your home.

Oculus Connect 3 - Day 2
8:00 AM	Breakfast	Hall 2 Until 10:00 am
8:00 AM	Registration	The Hub Until 7:00 pm
8:00 AM	Help Desk	Concourse Until 7:00 pm
10:00 AM	Opening Keynote	Grand Ballroom Until 12:00 pm
12:00 PM	Lunch	Hall 2 Until 2:00 pm
1:00 PM	Demos	Hall 1 Until 10:00 pm
2:00 PM	Elevate your VR experience with ambisonic audio design	Executive BR 210E 1 hour
2:00 PM	Art in VR: The creative potential of Quill and Medium	Grand Ballroom 220B 1 hour
2:00 PM	The evolving landscape of PC VR game design	Grand Ballroom 220C 1 hour
2:00 PM	Lightning Tech Talks: Your Guide to the Oculus Social Platform	Executive BR 210H 1 hour
2:00 PM	Building a content ecosystem for customers and developers	Executive BR 210F 1 hour
3:20 PM	Under the hood of the Rift SDK: Building for Touch	Executive BR 210E 1 hour
3:20 PM	Designing for comfort in VR	Grand Ballroom 220C 1 hour
3:20 PM	Going cross-platform: Taking your VR game from PC to mobile	Executive BR 210F 1 hour
3:20 PM	Lessons learned: Developing mobile VR games	Executive BR 210H 1 hour
3:20 PM	WebVR: Create Portable VR Experiences on the Web	Grand Ballroom 220B 1 hour
4:40 PM	Creating social presence in VR	Executive BR 210E 1 hour
4:40 PM	Solving the First Person Shooter in VR	Executive BR 210H 1 hour
4:40 PM	Failure Workshop: Things that didn’t work	Grand Ballroom 220C 1 hour
4:40 PM	360 video, live action and rendered: Tips from the trenches	Executive BR 210F 1 hour
4:40 PM	Oculus Mobile SDK Update	Grand Ballroom 220B 1 hour
6:00 PM	What's New in Unreal VR	Executive BR 210H 1 hour
6:00 PM	Designing Touch	Executive BR 210E 1 hour
6:00 PM	A look inside VR games from a QA Perspective	Executive BR 210F 1 hour
6:00 PM	Amplifying the experience: Music in VR	Grand Ballroom 220C 1 hour
6:00 PM	Profiling VR Games and Applications for Optimum Performance	Grand Ballroom 220B 1 hour
7:00 PM	Closing Reception	Hall 3 Until 10:00 pm

Following the keynote, attendees of the conference will have an array of developer workshops, such as “Designing for VR Comfort” and “Failure Workshop: Things That Didn’t Work.” Day two is also filled with game demos from 1 pm until 10 pm.

Day 3 is a short day. Game demos start bright and early at 9 am PT, and workshops begin at 10 am. Day three’s workshops include “Accelerating Your VR Applications with NVIDIA VRWorks” and “The Making of Dead and Buried: The (almost) Port-Mortem.” John Carmack will round out the event with an hour and a half long closing keynote that starts at 1:30 pm.

Oculus Connect 3 - Day 3
9:00 AM	Registration	The Hub Until 2:00 pm
9:00 AM	Help Desk	Concourse Until 2:00 pm
9:00 AM	Demos	Hall 1 Until 3:00 pm
9:00 AM	Breakfast	Hall 2 Until 11:00 am
10:00 AM	Beyond gaming and film: Bringing experiences to VR	Executive BR 210E 1 hour
10:00 AM	Education and VR: Changing the way we learn	Grand Ballroom 220B 1 hour
10:00 AM	The secrets of building great multiplayer games in VR	Grand Ballroom 220C 1 hour
10:00 AM	Accelerating Your VR Applications with NVIDIA VRWorks	Executive BR 210H 1 hour
10:00 AM	Introduction to Gear VR Development with Unity	211C Until 1:00 pm
10:00 AM	VR: Storytelling's New Frontier	Executive BR 210F -8580 minutes
11:20 AM	Advanced Interaction Concepts for VR Using Tracked Controllers	Executive BR 210F 1 hour
11:20 AM	The Making of Dead and Buried: The (Almost) Post-Mortem	Executive BR 210H 1 hour
11:20 AM	Creating a safe environment for people in VR	Grand Ballroom 220B 1 hour
11:20 AM	Social VR: A conversation with Mike Booth	Executive BR 210E 1 hour
11:20 AM	Best Practices using AMD’s LiquidVR and introducing AMD’s Project Loom Real-time 360 video stitching	Grand Ballroom 220C 1 hour
1:30 PM	Closing Keynote with John Carmack	Grand Ballroom Until 3:00 pm