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AUGUST 3, 2019

Applications are now open for the fourth annual Oculus Launch Pad , a program designed to help empower developers and creators from diverse backgrounds. ” Launch Pad 2019 is slated to begin on September 22nd, 2019 and starts with a two-day boot camp in San Jose, California. .” Image courtesy Oculus.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Oculus Connect 6 is fast approaching, and while today is technically the last day for registration , you can still follow along with the company’s annual developer conference next week both in and outside of VR. Oculus Venues, Image courtesy Oculus. SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Content Library Tops 100 Games & Apps.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Sanzaru Games, a California-based video game development company, has been acquired by Facebook, the company announced on Wednesday. The studio has produced a number of games over the past decade, the most recent examples including Spyro 3 Reignited and Asgard’s Wrath.

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JUNE 22, 2020

Oculus Studios announces yet another addition to their team of veteran developers. In an official Oculus blog post published earlier today, the company revealed its acquisition of Ready at Dawn Studios , the team behind hit VR titles including Lone Echo , Echo Arena , and Echo Combat. Image Credit: Ready at Dawn Studios.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

As expected, Oculus today announced both the price and shipping date of its Oculus Touch position tracked controllers for the Oculus Rift. Oculus revealed the news at its keynote speech for the Oculus Connect 3 developer conference in San Jose, California.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

Oculus Connect 4, the company’s fourth annual developer conference, is set for October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California. There, Oculus will share with developers some of its latest research and developments, including what’s coming to the company’s VR Audio SDK.

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MARCH 2, 2019

Valve Knuckle controllers bring a new level of detail to this physics-based adventure game. Their was even a brief tech demo showcased during the 2018 Game Developers Conference that further fueled hype around this insanely detailed experience. . I mean, sure, you could say those tiny robot critters look somewhat like Headcrabs.

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JUNE 16, 2018

When Oculus Go hit shelves in May with a starting price of $199, it not only brought in a new era of affordable VR, but also launched a fresh way for people to spend time together – all through an app called Oculus Rooms. The potential of Oculus Go doesn’t stop there either. For Jones, VR isn’t new to him.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Roller and David Cole, the California-based company has spent the last 10 years working to perfect the immersive live streaming format. Information has been scarce since, though a recent leak may have just given us our first look at one of the devices’ first games. Founded in 2009 by D.J. Image Credit: NextVR.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This week Cartoon Network Studios dropped the first trailer for its upcoming VR game, Cartoon Network Journeys VR. Cartoon Network Journeys VR will be available free on SteamVR and Oculus on October 1st. The post Cartoon Network VR Game Has You Following Reggie Watts Through A Trio Of Cosmic Journeys appeared first on VRScout.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Oculus will provide headsets and training to three new pilot locations alongside a fresh helping of educational VR content. Oculus Education continues its ongoing streak of generosity with the expansion of its educational pilot programs to Taiwan, Japan, and Seattle. BREAKING BOUNDARIES IN SCIENCE.

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APRIL 28, 2020

UnnamedVR launched back in 2019 as an open-ended sandbox game that let explore a virtual mansion and play a bunch of short mini-games, including basketball, darts, and archery. Other than the name change and the fact that it is now free to download, Shelter in Place is the same exact game that launched this past November.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Disney theme parks located in Florida and California are a mere 14 acres on what’s supposed to be an entire planet. Anyone who has been to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge leaves wanting more. While it’s fun to fly the Millennium Falcon, build a lightsaber, or drink some blue milk, you leave thinking about what stories… Read more.

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JULY 16, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This weekend you can choose from a heart-pounding driving game to some relaxing entertainment. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (7/16/16). GAMES: Dirt Rally ( Oculus Rift – $59.99).

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JULY 5, 2018

The Virtual Reality League is an ESL Gaming organization partnered with Oculus that oversees eSports tournaments for online VR multiplayer games including Echo Arena , The Unspoken , and Sprint Vector. Image courtesy Insomniac Games. However, at this point in time we have no new updates planned for the game.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The company announced that Oculus will be backing out of GDC over similar concerns. Facebook’s decision to cancel F8 comes on the heels of news that Oculus would be backing out of this year’s Game Developers Conference over similar concerns. The company will instead make a series of digital announcements remotely.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is investing billions for hardware creation, and it is going to move 4,000 employes working on AR hardware in a new venue just built in California. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. This has been a great week for all Oculus Quest users and developers. Other relevant news.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

The next wave of athletic training takes place in a computer simulation, as companies such as STRIVR Labs , EON Sports and Beyond Sports help players prepare for games through VR technology. Davis Webb, the quarterback of Stanford rival California, trusts his Oculus headset as much as his helmet when it comes to game preparation.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

District Court for the Northern District of California declined the FTC’s request to block Meta’s acquisition of Within. During Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2018, the firm emphasized the importance of being utterly ubiquitous in killer VR apps, a core arguing point of the FTC investigation.

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APRIL 28, 2020

Realities.io , the team behind the photogrammetry-based VR experience Realities (2016) , today released a prototype version of their latest creation, a 3D VR jigsaw puzzle game for Oculus Quest called Puzzling Places. “The game design, sound design, and environment design were all built around reinforcing that concept.”

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JANUARY 26, 2018

You can experience the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in entirely new ways. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games is getting a big technology boost when it opens on February 9th in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games will have a “different approach,” according to Blake Rowe, Implementation Manager for Intel Sports.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Narcosis is one of those VR games that I’ve been writing about pretty much as long as I’ve been writing about VR itself (just over three years). In fact, the survival horror game made its debut at the 2014 Game Developers Conference (GDC). Tagged with: honor code , htc vive , Narcosis , oculus rift.

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JULY 7, 2020

This is the time of the year gaming journalists across the world migrate to Los Angeles California to experience, uncover and enjoy what the games industry has been working on. Below you will find some of the titles that have seen major updates or have been revealed (updated).

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JULY 12, 2016

Save the date for Oculus Connect 3, coming to San Jose, California, October 5-7! more than 50 technical talks and opportunities to experience new Oculus hardware and content. oculus.com/en-us/blog/announcing-oculus-connect-3-and-rift-availability-update/ Applications open to attend OC3 at 9am PST, August 2. https://www3.oculus.com/en-us/blog/announcing-oculus-connect-3-and-rift-availability-update/

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Parents and waiting participants can follow along with the VR content their kids and friends are experiencing inside by viewing on HP Chromebooks, and play on HP’s Omen Gaming Laptops located outside the venue while they wait. SEE ALSO Walmart to Launch Nation-wide VR Training Program with Over 17,000 Oculus Headsets.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

By challenging developers to come up with and build concepts in a small amount of time, game jams are a great way of testing out innovative new ideas for VR games. Now Oculus and Kaleidoscope are borrowing that concept and seeing what some of the industry’s breakout artists will do with it.

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JUNE 23, 2019

Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. It will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on September, 25–26th. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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APRIL 11, 2019

Schell Games, makers of I Expect You to Die (2016) , have announced their hit spy-themed puzzle game is going to be a day-one launch title for Quest. Initially debuting as a demo on Oculus Rift developer kits in 2015, I Expect You To Die went on to become one of the industry’s most successful games to date.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Let’s dive in… Apple says Epic’s Fortnite lawsuit is a marketing stunt to revive ‘flagging interest’ in the game. The trial begins next month in California. The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Whether for gaming, education, or therapy, setting up higher-quality experiences makes the technology more effective for users. Moreover, it’s compatible with HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , and Windows Mixed Reality. Skip Rizzo of the University of Southern California developed the treatment program for veterans with PTSD.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This week Sense Arena launched a partnership with live sports company AEG and professional NHL franchise the LA Kings to bring the VR training platform to both junior and professional Kings’ players at the LA Kings Training Center in El Segundo, California, marking the company’s first LA-based partnership. “We

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MARCH 6, 2017

In addition to a new explorable location, the software has been overhauled to support forward rendering and improved support for Oculus Rift and Touch. The limited selection of scanned environments is now being expanded, with a major update that adds 6 spots in California’s Death Valley, combined with new, atmospheric audio.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

The California-based company recently started shipping its first development kit for a device that doesn’t follow the user’s eyes, but instead reads facial motion in the mouth, chin and cheeks and replicates them on a VR avatar. 38% of developers also intend to use the tech for social VR experiences, and 25% for gaming.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Similar to existing arcade-style racing games, the VR track is riddled with various power ups to obtain and hazards to avoid. Power-ups, such as as speed boosts, also affect the mobility of the vehicle; so when a player drives over a speed boost marker in-game, their vehicle speeds up in the real-world.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Their platform for virtual concerts featuring avatars has garnered big interest in a post-COVID world and they’re betting big on immersive personalized experiences at the cross-section of gaming and entertainment. Their Oculus app allows real-time collaboration without ever leaving your home. Guest Post.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Vive Studios is launching its first game today as well: Arcade Saga. ” This model is much more similar to a traditional console or video game publisher. ” UploadVR had the chance to speak with Breton at the Vive X offices in San Francisco, California.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

The expo itself takes place in Anaheim, California on August 23-25. In case you haven’t heard, Star Wars Vader Immortal is a three-part VR “narrative adventure” and Oculus exclusive available on Rift and Quest. The panel is scheduled for Friday, August 23rd at 2:00 PM. Keep an eye on the schedule here.

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