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Quest 3 Is Now The 3rd Most Used Headset On Steam, Rapidly Approaching Valve Index

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Quest 3 was the third most used VR headset on Steam in January, surpassing Oculus Rift S and almost catching up to Valve Index. The data comes from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey. As we predicted it would last month, Quest 3 is now used more on Steam than the PC-native Oculus Rift S. UploadVR David Heaney

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Oculus announces the Oculus Start program to help aspiring developers during their VR creation journey.

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Oculus announced its new developer-focused program today to help grow the ecosystem. Oculus Start is a program created for VR application developers who are just getting started. Oculus did a survey of its developers and found that 50 percent are self-funded so this program will go a long way to help the VR ecosystem.

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The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into

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As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. Once the base becomes big enough, the platform becomes extremely interesting for marketers and advertisers.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.13): Lynx now aims at the consumer market, App Lab to enable DLCs, and more!

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Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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ByteDance-owned VR startup Pico strengthens ties with Qualcomm

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Despite being a leading VR brand in China, Pico is nowhere close to the scale of Oculus’s user reach or creator ecosystem. of the global VR headset usage in January, according to Steam’s survey. Oculus Quest 2 and Rift S together accounted for 60% of the market.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

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These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M Oculus Quest is sold out, and Coronavirus may make the situation even worse.

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The 300th XR Week Peek (2023.04.10): Meta innovates image segmentation, Chrome implements WebGPU, and more!

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I guess in my life I made the wrong job decisions… Learn more Praydog’s Universal Unreal VR Injector will automatically inject VR into many Unreal-based games. Here you can find an exhaustive list of them Learn more According to a recent survey, only 4% of American teens use VR daily. Oh no, wait… Funny link I have a big nose.