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Zuckerberg: ‘One Million People Use VR Every Month’

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At last year’s Oculus Connect developer conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out at the start of the keynote speech for a brief few words. Zuckerberg again marched onto the stage in San Jose yesterday morning following a short introduction from Facebook CEO Brenden Iribe. He had a lot more to share.

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Google Bringing WebVR Support to Android Chrome in JanuaryWebVR.

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Google Bringing WebVR Support to Android Chrome in January WebVR is gaining significant momentum; last month the biggest players in the browse space came together to discuss the future of VR on the web at the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality.

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Google Launching WebVR Support for Android Chrome in January, Desktop to Follow

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There, Google said that the company soon plans to ship a public version of Chrome on Android with support for WebVR 1.1. It was there that Megan Lindsay, WebVR Product Manager at Google, announced that the company is working toward a public release of Chrome on Android that supports the latest WebVR 1.1

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An Inflection Point for WebVR and the Open Metaverse

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First, Nate Mitchell announced during his Oculus Connect 3 keynote that Oculus will be supporting the WebVR ecosystem with the React VR framework and a VR-enabled browser called Carmel. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

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At an event in San Jose, California, Facebook introduced its plan for augmented reality glasses, where users will be able to pull up a visual display on top of what’s actually in front of them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems.

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Oculus VP of Mobile on Santa Cruz Prototype: “Everything is self-contained”

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Facebook’s Oculus division opened its Oculus Connect event in San Jose, Calif., Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe introduced the company’s Oculus Touch controllers for the Oculus Rift headset. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe introduced the company’s Oculus Touch controllers for the Oculus Rift headset.

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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

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More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. Rachel Franklin, Head of Social VR, came on stage to announced Facebook’s first social VR app, Facebook Spaces , available now in beta on Oculus Rift.