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‘Oculus Launch Pad’ Is Silently Populating The VR Content Pool

VRScout

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. Receiving funding was not only a blessing, but an incredible learning experience for me.

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Oculus & CHLA Bring VR Medical Training To Eleven New Facilities

VRScout

The advanced VR simulation expands to new medical institutions as Oculus & CHLA continue their push towards experiential education. The results have proven so successful that Oculus & CHLA will be launching the revolutionary program across eleven new medical facilities and healthcare providers across the U.S.

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‘Puzzling Places’ is a 3D Jigsaw Puzzle for Quest Featuring Stunning Photogrammetry Scans

Road to VR

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. One day, due to a Unity import error, the pieces of a scanned environment were scrambled around the scene.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.23): Facebook works on its OS, Oculus Link official cable released, Huawei VR glasses available, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

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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Spatial Beats: Apple, Epic & Tom Brady

AR Insider

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. Vitillo submitted a fully functional application which simply presents the user with a cube in a blank environment—and Oculus accepted it.

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BinaryVR Begins Shipping First Dev Kit For Facial Tracking Solution

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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. Developer kits cost $349 and also come with a Unity plugin SDK.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.09): Vive Cosmos probably on sale at €799, Kura reveals 150° FOV AR glasses, Oculus “Cablegate” and much more!

The Ghost Howls

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. Kura is a little startup in California that is working on a pair of lightweight AR glasses. It is highly probable that an HLVR game will be developed in the Source game engine, so a Unity game is not a possibility.

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