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Google’s VR Studio Owlchemy Labs Now Has Two Platinum-selling Titles

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Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio behind Job Simulator (2016) , announced the game’s sequel Vacation Simulator (2019) just went platinum, having now topped over one million units sold. The post Google’s VR Studio Owlchemy Labs Now Has Two Platinum-selling Titles appeared first on Road to VR.

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Google I/O: The New Google Lens Shows AR Potential

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Google I/O’s 2017 keynote kicked off with some exciting statistics, showing off just how impactful and widespread the company’s applications are. There are 800 million Google Drive users and 500 million active Google Photos users. Pichai followed this up with the announcement of Google Lens.

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Mark Zuckerberg Puts Hugo Barra In Charge Of Facebook VR, Oculus

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Tonight Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Hugo Barra will become the new head of Facebook’s virtual reality efforts, which includes leading its Oculus team. Co-founder Brendan Iribe recently vacated his role as CEO of Oculus to lead a PC-focused VR group. to lead Team @oculus. It seems fitting. So excited!”

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. Read more here.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.11): new Quest is in the works, Magic Leap may pivot to healthcare, and more!

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Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. 3D environment scans are in 2020 what pictures were in 2010.

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‘Mythica VR': VR LARP With D&D-style World Building Hits Kickstarter

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Provided the project reaches its $80,000 funding goal, the studio is aiming to release Mythica VR on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift/DK2, Google Cardboard and with future support for Google Daydream. Pledge $20 or more – The game on release, for PC with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, or iOS or Android with Google Cardboard.

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The New Age of Learning Science with Virtual Reality: A Literature Review

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Huang, Rauch, and Liaw (2010) found that highly immersive courses had a large effect on student motivation and attitude, giving students a more positive attitude towards the content of the course. Sun, Lin, and Wang (2010) also investigated how highly immersive environments impacted students in a virtual astronomy course.