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Facebook’s Quest to Kill the Smartphone

VRScout

Apple and Google beat the billionaire social media magnate to creating the smartphone — the dominant platform underpinning the Facebook network. When Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, we didn’t have Android or iOS, but the mobile phone market was well established — think Blackberry, Motorola, and Nokia. Snapchat’s Spectacles.

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Kim Nevelsteen wants to bridge different virtual worlds to create the Metaverse

The Ghost Howls

This is what also happens in Ready Player One, where Wade Watts can enter the portals of different games. I’ve been pondering solutions for a viable Metaverse since at least 2004. My PhD is in (distributed) pervasive games/applications and mixed reality. It is video game dependent. How did you create this?

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Top 37 VR Film Festivals to Attend in 2018

VeeR VR

Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. VR/AR/MR films, games, and interactive projects include a total runtime or viewing time of 40 minutes or less. Accepted projects will be exhibited in the JW Marriott on the 4th floor Tuesday, March 13 – Thursday, March 15, 2018.

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Mega-roundup of Facebook Connect 2: all the news in a single place!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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