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Texan Pilots Use Oculus Go For In-Flight Navigational Guidance

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Thankfully, John Nagle and John Paul Sommer, co-founders of Texas-based AR & VR contract development and consulting company Thrust Vector, have begun utilizing VR technology inside the cockpit to assist in real-time navigational guidance. We have been asked, wouldn’t AR be a better base technology to use for this?

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Judge Calls For End Of ZeniMax/Oculus Legal Battle

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The year started out with ZeniMax Media taking Facebook-owned Oculus to court over an alleged theft of technology. A jury eventually ruled that Oculus must pay ZeniMax $500,000,000, but that wasn’t the end of things — ZeniMax wants more. One of the biggest stories of 2017 for the VR industry is also one of its longest.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Snapchat AR, Hulu VR with friends, Zuck, Valve, as well as the investment and funding wrapup, plus much more… 1. Oculus recently integrated your Facebook profile with your Oculus profile so that you can meet up with your real world friends and hang out in Oculus Rooms, which look like beautiful floating islands in the virtual sky.

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2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof

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VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. Tipatat is a General Partner of the Venture Reality Fund investing in early stage VR, AR, and AI companies. Oculus proved that VR was more than a product when they officially released numbers about their ecosystem last September at Oculus Connect 6. for developers.

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Oculus and Kaleidoscope Announce DevLab VR Art Incubator

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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. Successfully funded projects will go into production in early 2017 and will be available on the Oculus platform. Michael Catalano. Nick Pittom. Patrick Juarez.

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$4 Billion ZeniMax v. Oculus Verdict Could Come as Early as Today, Here’s What You Need to Know

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This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute which could cost Facebook $4 billion. Here are three key issues that could drive jury deliberations: 1.

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Beloved former Nintendo prez craps all over Facebook and the metaverse

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At this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, Fils-Aimé took the opportunity to completely unload on Mark Zuckerberg's social media conglomerate, now known as Meta, while speaking with Emily Chang of Bloomberg. He also says Facebook Portal , Meta's video calling device, "wasn't a big idea."