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Oculus to Donate Rift & Go to Learning Institutions Across Seattle, Taiwan, & Japan

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Oculus recently announced the’ll be expanding their educational pilot program by donating Oculus Rift and Oculus Go headsets to a number of educational institutions across Taiwan, Japan, and Seattle. The course will allow students from both schools to cooperatively create educational VR content for eventual use in the classroom.

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HTC Pushes Back On Reports of Declining Headset Sales

Road to VR

Despite supposedly slumpish hardware sales, companies like Facebook are throwing massive amounts of money at the next generation of VR, already having reportedly paid over $88 million in Seattle-area real estate this year alone for their new Oculus hub.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Axon VR Haptics – $5.8M : based in Seattle, WA and San Luis Obispo, CA, Axon VR garnered the biggest investment ever in a haptics company. Zero Latency – $7M : Melbourne, Australia-based Zero Latency will use its funding to set up new sites for its untethered multiplayer games in the the US and Japan.