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‘The Secret Of Retropolis’: A VR Adventure Built In A Bunker

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A large part of this comes down to the new App Lab program , enabling anyone to sell their games on the increasingly lucrative Oculus Quest marketplace. Oculus App Lab allowed us to reach the standalone VR audience, even if it’s just the portion that checks for unofficial apps,” says Asaf. Image Credit: Peanut Button.

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UploadVR’s 2016 CES Party Brings All The VR Goodness To Vegas

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This will include: Over 20 VR demo experiences across the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PS VR, Samsung Gear VR, and Daydream by Google. The Fourth Transformation Book Signing with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. An HTC Vive VR headset. The main event kicks off on Friday, January 6th at 10PM PST.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. DOES APPLE HAVE 1000+ ENGINEERS WORKING ON AR IN ISRAEL? These virtual recordings were then used as references for the final CGI scenes.

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Sixense Still Won’t Say When Kickstarter Backers Can Expect Their Rewards

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Today, these capabilities come standard in the three biggest, high-end VR platforms: Oculus Rift with Touch, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. According to him, Sixense has a team in Israel and the company is spending $150,000-175,000 on research and development each month.

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Weekly Funding Roundup: Lightform gets $26 million, Vive X is investing in 30 startups, Facebook.

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Lightform is funded by Lux , Seven Seas , the National Science Foundation , and Steven LaValle (a former principal scientist at Oculus). HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia.

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ViveX Demo Day Batch 2 Featured 26 VR And AR Companies

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Today at an event in San Francisco HTC hosted a Vive X Demo Day for its second batch of funded company demos. To date Vive X has funded over 60 different companies with over $100 million and aims to continue its expansion into Israel soon in addition to locations in the U.S., China, and more. China, and more.

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Vive X: Here Are The 33 VR Startups HTC Vive Just Funded

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HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia. ” HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open an accelerator in Israel, joining locations in San Francisco, Beijing, Shenzhen and Taipei.

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