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Amazon Is Working On ‘A Completely New VR Shopping Experience’

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Software Development Manager in Virtual Reality to work in its Seattle offices, according to a new job listing. The listing notes that experience with “Oculus Rift, Gear VR, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, or Google Daydream” is a bonus, so we’d expect this service to come to multiple platforms too.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending.

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Exclusive: Here’s How Fantastic Contraption VR Devs Generated More Than $1 Million

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It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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VR Gloves Go Mainstream with Ready Player One

HaptX

A couple months ago on a murky Seattle day, my colleague Andrew and I were at the HaptX office discussing the upcoming release of Ready Player One. A search on Google Trends reveals more searches for “VR gloves” than “haptic gloves.” bought the script to Ready Player One back in 2010, two years before the Oculus Rift Kickstarter.

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Getting — and Keeping — Your Attention in XR, with LumiereVR COO Alexander Haque

XR for Business Podcast

The example with Madison Square Garden, for instance, was they have a 90-minute tour within the venue. So what we did with Pacific Science Center was a really good example of that. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Alan: Got it. Alex: It does.

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Getting -- and Keeping -- Your Attention in XR, with LumiereVR COO Alexander Haque

XR for Business Podcast

The example with Madison Square Garden, for instance, was they have a 90-minute tour within the venue. So what we did with Pacific Science Center was a really good example of that. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Alan: Got it. Alex: It does.

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Getting — and Keeping — Your Attention in XR, with LumiereVR COO Alexander Haque

XR for Business Podcast

The example with Madison Square Garden, for instance, was they have a 90-minute tour within the venue. So what we did with Pacific Science Center was a really good example of that. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Alan: Got it. Alex: It does.