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Oculus Brings Rift to 90 Libraries in California for Public Access VR

Road to VR

Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico. Public libraries provide safe, supportive environments that are available and welcoming to everyone,” says Oculus Education Program Manager Cindy Ball.

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Intel Cuts Some R&D Positions in California to Reduce Costs

Anand Tech

In the end, Intel's long-term success depends on its R&D prowess and software is as important as hardware in Intel's business. As of now, Intel employs over 13,000 people in California, which is more than 12,000 in Arizona, but less than 20,000 in Oregon, two major manufacturing sites for the company.

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Demystifying Media

Tech Trends VR

Those were some of the questions I got to explore during a recent visit to the University of Oregon. Immersive technology is not about one type of hardware or experience. How can we use technology to tell compelling and worthwhile stories, engage audiences, and make a living in the bargain?

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The VR/AR Association Enterprise Forum 2022: What to Make of the Metaverse

ARPost

The hardware can be transitional, but so can the software. At least, that was the stance of Oregon Reality Lab Director Dr. Donna Davis in her talk “My Work Avatar: Harnessing the Power of the Metaverse for Marketing and Communication.”. We see phones and tablets as a transitional technology. Others don’t because they just never will.

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AltspaceVR Offers Social Reach For Organizers In VR

VRScout

Reggie Watts was supposed to come on, and he had somebody opening for him,” said Joshua Young, founder and CEO of Design Reality PDX , a monthly Portland, Oregon networking event that regularly hosts panelists from the VR community. It was the first time they did a large live show in a way that tested the multi-room ability.

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Building The VR Experiences And Worlds of the Future

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Pallister added, “It feels like the current set of hardware has tipped us over a point where people can feel a magical experience but it is really only just the beginning of the types of experiences depicted in those fictional works.”. Pallister leads Intel’s virtual reality (VR) project lab in Hillsboro, Oregon.

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Developing the Future of Mixed Reality

Tech Trends VR

For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley. The main question they’re asking themselves now is whether CIOs at Fortune 100 companies will want to invest in a start-up’s hardware solution or whether they’re by default going to go with a major player such as Apple or Microsoft. “I