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Facebook Expects Coronavirus Will Have “additional impact” on Oculus Quest Availability

Road to VR

After being backordered by weeks in many regions, Oculus Quest is now “unavailable” from Oculus in 17 out of 23 regions where the unit is sold, including the United States, Canada, and much of Europe. Facebook says the Coronavirus outbreak is to blame. United States. Netherlands.

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Oculus Acquires Eye-Tracking Company The Eye Tribe

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The Eye Tribe , a Denmark-based eye-tracking startup, today confirmed they’ll be joining the ranks of Facebook’s Oculus VR. Both Oculus and The Eye Tribe today confirmed the acquisition with TechCrunch ‘s Josh Constine. Is The Eye Tribe staying exclusively within Oculus? Is there much of a difference?

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

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Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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Oculus Announces $300 Commercial ‘Go for Business’ Bundle, Pre-orders Now Available

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Oculus Go, the company’s recently launched standalone VR headset, is already on store shelves starting at $200 for the 32 GB version. The company is currently only shipping to the US, Canada, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.

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Oculus on Half Dome Prototype: ‘don’t expect to see everything in a product anytime soon’

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Besides the fact that Oculus is undoubtedly working on a second flagship PC VR headset, nothing is known about it thus far. ” In response, Mitchell had this to say: “[Maria Fernandez Guajardo, Head of Product Management, Core Tech at Oculus] covered a bunch of areas of long term research for us. Image courtesy Facebook.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark. Dania Academy of Higher Education, Denmark.

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