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Facebook Cancels F8 Conference Over Fears Of A Coronavirus Outbreak

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Originally scheduled to take place May 4th through the 6th at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, Facebook states in an official blog update that it will be canceling the in-person element of the conference in order to remain inclusive to the many international developers who make their way to the event each year.

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FandangoNow Brings 90,000 Movies And TV Shows To Oculus Quest And Go

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Day One of Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA featured a bunch of exciting announcements for both the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S headsets. On top of standard movies and shows, you’ll also have access to hundreds of 3D films, such as Marvel and SONY’s Spiderman: Far From Home. Image Credit: Sony, Marvel.

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GDC Summer Coming to San Francisco in Early August

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Before the postponement, a litany of companies stepped back from GDC 2020 such as Epic, Microsoft, Unity, Sony, Electronic Arts, Facebook, and Kojima Productions. The city of San Francisco, where GDC was set to take place, also issued a state of emergency only a few days prior.

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‘The Order: 1886’ Dev Ready At Dawn Teases OC3 Reveal For New VR Game

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Ready At Dawn, the developer behind 2015 PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886 , just teased that it will be revealing a new VR game at the developer conference in San Jose. We’re already expecting at least one big game reveal at Oculus Connect 3 this week, but it looks like another is on the way.

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An Inflection Point for WebVR and the Open Metaverse

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And then on October 19th and 20th, there was a historic W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality where all of the major VR players gathered in San Jose to hash out the WebVR web standards for delivering VR and AR applications over the web.

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Facebook’s F8 2020 Developer Conference has Been Cancelled due to Coronavirus Outbreak

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” So while the in-person event will no longer be taking place in San Jose, CA, Facebook is planning to replace the main conference in other ways: “through a combo of locally hosted events, videos and live-streamed content.” ” More details will be released soon.

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Oculus VP of Mobile on Santa Cruz Prototype: “Everything is self-contained”

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Facebook’s Oculus division opened its Oculus Connect event in San Jose, Calif., But Sony, with PS VR, it’s a good system. You’re seeing that change with the new Sony and Xbox consoles. with big statements about its belief in virtual reality as the next generation of computer. I’ve tried it. Sometimes they do.

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