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Why the Closure of Oculus Story Studio is Good News for VR Filmmakers

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Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. At the start of 2015, that made a lot of sense.

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Oculus’ New 360 Capture SDK Lets You Create and Share In-Game 360 Videos and Photos

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Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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Report: Leaked Email Reveals Facebook XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to accelerate its arrival’

Road to VR

An internal email reportedly sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to senior executives offers a glimpse into the strategic thinking behind the company’s feet-first leap into XR following the 2014 acquisition of Oculus. Facebook turned heads across the tech industry and beyond when it acquired Oculus for some $2 billion in 2014.

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Oculus and Kaleidoscope Announce DevLab VR Art Incubator

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Originally started in 2015 as a traveling VR film festival spanning 10 cities in North America, Kaleidoscope has really come into its own this year. Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus.

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Seeking Dawn Looks Like A Hugely Ambitious VR Shooter

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Plenty of news came out of Unity’s Vision Summit keynote talk yesterday, including a look at a hugely ambitious new first-person shooter (FPS) for VR headsets, Seeking Dawn. “We know we can make a conventional game in VR more immersive, but can we make it as fun?” It’s also set to feature co-op multiplayer.

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MSI To Announce $80,000 Prize Pool Winners for VR Contest On December 28

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In addition to the cash, winners will be awarded, “high-end hardware products such as the newest MSI GP62M VR gaming laptop, Aegis gaming desktop, Intel X99 motherboard, and GeForce GTX 1070 ARMOR 8G OC graphics card, as well as software license of Unity Plus as sponsored by Unity.” Innovation in VR Mechanics (30%).

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The Importance of Hand Tracking UX Design

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Circuit Stream , the company he works for, offers a full platform of AR/VR training and learning services to help people master immersive technology. Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. Table of Contents.