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VIVE Announces Live VR News Streams Instead of GDC Panels

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All last week Oculus announced their VR news through the Facebook Game Developers Showcase. While we can’t connect with you in person, we’ve got a full slate of live webinars coming in the next few weeks based on our GDC Developer Day Summit sessions.”. See Also: VR Headset Comparison of Vive Cosmos vs. Oculus Rift S.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.16): HTC launches Tracker 3.0, Facebook has 10,000 people working on XR, and more!

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In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. My friend Giambattista De Giorgis has published a book about learning how to develop AR/VR applications in Unity. It is intended for people with no development experience, so if you want to get started with Unity, this can be the book for you!

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VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk

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Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. Facebook, owners of VR giant Oculus, held their online alternative to GDC over three days last month. Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.20): Oculus Quest goes AR, Oculus Jedi may be like Valve Knuckles and much more!

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There won’t be a physical AWE, but there will be an online one, made through online webinars. Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. More info on my talk here: [link].

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9 Must Have Skills To Become An AR/VR Developer (With Course Recommendations)

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The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK. This course from the University of Michigan focuses mainly on developing XR apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal — Developing AR/VR/MR/XR Apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal Skill 5? In VR, there is an SDK for each VR headset. The HTC Vive headsets have its own SDK.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.03): VR adoption is rising, Lynx teases new MR headset and much more!

The Ghost Howls

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. Image by Oculus). There is not enough market yet.

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Zoom working on adding Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality to Meetings

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Zoom's fast ascent to $ 100 Billion was thanks to #covid, #zoom was the single most used platform for meetings, conference, webinars, virtual gatherings & events soon after the world went into a lockdown. Zoom has announced a partnership with Facebook’s #Oculus that will let users meet in virtual reality.