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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Makers of Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality and Job Simulator (which earned $3M in sales), it seems like Owlchemy will continue releasing the slate of original games already in their pipeline and will be able to distribute that content on platforms other than Google’s Daydream. MICROSOFT SHOWS OFF A NEW AR GLASSES DESIGN.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy.

AllThingsVR

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 2017 Virtual Reality Conference and Expo Schedule

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Game Developers Conference (GDC) // February 27th – March 3rd. Vision VR/AR Summit // May 1st – May 2nd. Crans-Montana, Switzerland. VR & AR World // June 13th – June 15th. Registration: Exhibitor | Attendee. VRDC – Virtual Reality Developers Conference // February 27th – 28th.

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Google Opens ‘Maps’ API So Devs Can Create ‘Pokémon Go’-style Games

Road to VR

During the Google Developer Day presentation at GDC 2018, Product Manager Clementine Jacoby and Engineering Lead Patrick Donelan at Google Maps presented the team’s progress in bringing their technology and data to game developers. Several ‘location-based’ AR games using Google Maps APIs and ARCore are coming to mobile devices this year.

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Meta has a sweet vision for VR, but it's a long way from reality for the rest of us

Mashable VR

Speaking to reporters from a room decorated with decals of California, Montana, and Hawaii (all states where he owns homes), Zuckerberg led a show-and-tell of Meta's VR research and prototyping. It will be a game-changer for the VR visual experience," says Abrash. On Thursday last week, Mark Zuckerberg planted a flag in the VR sand.

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Open House: Animation, Digital Art, and Computer Science Majors Invited to the Augmented & Virtual Reality Programme in Norway

EON Reality

Augmented and Virtual Reality are some of the fastest growing sectors of our economy. These technologies are spreading far beyond the gaming world and into business and education, where its being used to train employees and better educate students. Auditorium 3 Between 11:00 – 14:00.

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This Degree Will Actually Land You a Job and Prepare You for the Future

EON Reality

Graduates from EON Reality’s global network have career opportunities around the world in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality as well as the game industry, visual effects, and animation. Skills taught included: General knowledge in area of VR/AR projects. 3D Content Creation Process. Animation techniques for 3D interactive content.