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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy.

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Owlchemy Labs, founded in 2010, has raised $5 million in seed funding from Capital Factory, Qualcomm Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, HTC and The Venture Reality Fund. 4) The first employee hired to work on the Oculus Rift at Oculus VR — the virtual reality headset company Facebook paid $2 billion for — is quitting. Read more here.

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What to Expect From VR at VRDC and GDC 2017

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Just like last year, they will run essentially concurrently again in and around the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. What to Expect from Oculus.

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‘Google Earth VR’ Launches For Free To Let You Fly Around The World

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” Google Earth turns all of this data into completely explorable, scalable 3D immersive worlds for the HTC Vive VR headset. The app is available now for free on the HTC Vive. There are around 175 cities with full, 3D data, and over 600 ‘urban cores’ as well.”

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Can Virtually Live Replace Pay Per View Television?

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Last year, he got the call to move to San Francisco and take over the reign over the company, and build relationships with different franchise owners. We started development using Oculus Development Kits (DK1), and our breakthrough came when we started to show our code on DK2’s with different business leads. That I was crazy.

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12 Can’t Miss VR Talks You Have To See At GDC 2017

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Filling up the halls of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, GDC has been a big event for the VR industry over the past few years, but it is seeing something of an explosion this year, which runs from February 27th – March 3rd. Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). Room 2011, West Hall. Room 3022, West Hall.

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How to Take In-Game 360 Screenshots with Nvidia Ansel (with Full List of Compatible Games and User Guide)

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It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. A virtual reality version for Oculus Rift system was published in November 2016, while HTC Vive and Oculus Touch versions were released on March 22, 2017.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. Academy of Art San Francisco, USA. image courtesy VR First. Carleton University, Canada.

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