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Instagram’s Kevin Systrom Talks Virtual Reality

VRWorld

Instagram story started on Stanford University where Systrom was studying, and Facebook gave him an job offer. After graduating Stanford, he joined Google as an ‘Associate Product Marketing Manager,’ working on Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Spreadsheets and other products. Instagram came out of a project called Burbn.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.09): New Half-Life: Alyx videos and details, coronavirus makes events go virtual and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The game appears fantastic : the graphics are high-level, the interactions are carefully studied to be natural (e.g. This week, the damn coronavirus has caused the cancelation of three super-important events: GTC (that will be substituted by the streaming of the sessions), SXSW and Google I/O. News from partners (and friends).

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