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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

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Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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Mars 2030 Brings Red Planet To VR Next Month

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Developer Fusion Media Group this week announced that Mars 2030 will be landing on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR (PSVR) in July, with non-VR versions also available on both PC and PS4 too. The game uses position-tracked controllers like Oculus Touch, the Vive wands, and PlayStation Move.

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‘Industrial VR’ Is Like ‘Google Earth’ For Iconic Engineering Sites

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Using the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, users visit a series of iconic and gigantic industrial zones, like Hoover Dam, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, and an oil rig and inspect them in minute detail. It’s a VR documentary of sorts in which you have control over what you see and learn about.

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nReal AR glasses hands-on preview

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nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. Controller. nReal glasses work with a 3DOF circular controller. Me trying the nReal glasses for the review.

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9 Must Have Skills To Become An AR/VR Developer (With Course Recommendations)

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Concepts like loops, control-logic, OOP principles like inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, etc should be at your fingertips before moving forward. The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK. Get a good grasp on any one of these languages. In VR, there is an SDK for each VR headset. The HTC Vive headsets have its own SDK.

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Meet Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR

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As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. In college, I studied a lot of things, including biomedical engineering. Read on for the full interview.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.20): Oculus Quest goes AR, Oculus Jedi may be like Valve Knuckles and much more!

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Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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