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Epic Announce Android Daydream VR Support in Unreal Engine, Available Today

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Epic Games’ Kim Libreri today took to the stage at Google’s I/O conference to announce Unreal Engine support for the newly announced Daydream Android VR platform, what’s more is that it’s available right now.

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Plexus is a VR Glove With Finger Haptics & Multiple Tracking Standards, $250 Dev Kit Pre-orders Now Live

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Plexus Immersive Corp, a San Francisco-based startup, announced a pair of VR gloves that integrate haptic feedback and interface with multiple tracking standards, including SteamVR, Oculus Rift, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR. Compatibility : Unity, Unreal Engine, C++, C#, Python.

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MPC Launches VR Experience For The Nature Conservancy

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In the hopes of enacting meaningful environmental change rather than simply raising awareness for causes, the Nature Conservancy has launched a new experience for Oculus Rift and Gear VR. The real-time interactive experience dubbed “This Is Our Future” debuted October 6th at a Conservancy hosted event in San Francisco.

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The VR Job Hub: Sanzaru Games, Oculus & Niantic Labs

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Unreal Mobile Rendering Engineer. San Francisco, CA. Sanzaru Games. Click Here to Apply. London, UK. Software Engineer, React VR. Click Here to Apply. Menlo Park, CA. Product Marketing Manager, AR/VR Media. Click Here to Apply. Menlo Park, CA. Perception Systems Architect. Click Here to Apply. Redmond, WA – Menlo Park, CA.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy.

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The company, which also has offices in San Francisco, has raised $502 million in funding led by SoftBank, with previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Horizons Ventures also participating. He was hired in 2012 by founder Palmer Luckey directly; they were longtime friends before Dycus became the first Oculus employee.

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Unity Hires VRML Co-Creator Tony Parisi In Bid For VR Dominance

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Over the past year he’s served as Vice President of Platform Products at WEVR but, most recently, he was planning a San Francisco-based startup, FormVR. “We think that immersive technologies like VR and AR represent the next computing platform,” Parisi told the crowd at Unite.

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‘Robo Recall’ Behind-the-scenes: Insights and Artwork from Epic Games

Road to VR

He’s taking my call as he pounds the pavements in San Francisco between meetings at an industry conferece, so I have to contend with traffic and street sounds in the background. Shown during the debut of the Oculus Rift DK2, Couch Knights put players in the body of an avatar sitting in a contemporary room.

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