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Oculus Quest Enterprise Edition Brings Standalone VR To Businesses

VRScout

Yesterday, Facebook unveiled a slew of new details surrounding the next generation of its VR hardware line-up. The company taking time during their F8 developer conference to reveal an official price tag for the enterprise-grade edition of the Oculus Quest. Image Credit: Oculus. Image Credit: Oculus.

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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

ARPost

Their Oculus app allows real-time collaboration without ever leaving your home. Because their platform showcases life-like avatars, they typically hire for “holographic” roles that include 2D/3D design and engineers that have both AR/VR software experience and AR/VR hardware experience. The New York Times (Research & Development).

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‘Oculus Launch Pad’ Is Silently Populating The VR Content Pool

VRScout

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. The majority of our team consists of USC students. .’

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Report: Meta is Considering Physical Stores to Sell Its Vision of the Metaverse

Road to VR

A New York Times report maintains that Meta has been planning its own retail stores that aim to eventually span the world. The report cites people with knowledge of the project in addition to internal company documents shared with The New York Times.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together.

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Oculus Go Has Arrived and It’s a Big Deal

VRScout

The $200 Oculus Go is the most accessible VR headset today. But now the Oculus Go is finally here and it’s a big deal, especially for the millions of iPhone users out there who up until today have had limited options to get into VR. Starting today, the Oculus Go standalone VR headset is available for purchase for $199.

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Rec Room & Looking Glass

AR Insider

This week, we look at Looking Glass’ latest hardware, New avatars at Rec Room and lots of new funding. The new new game studio pulled in an astonishing $113M Series C to produce what the company calls “massive interactive live events,” or MILEs. Two New Harry Potter VR Experiences Coming to New York Store.

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