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Facebook Cancels F8 Conference Over Fears Of A Coronavirus Outbreak

VRScout

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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GDC Summer Coming to San Francisco in Early August

Road to VR

GDC organizers say that many of the developer presentations that would have been given at the conference will be available for free online via YouTube and the free section of GDC’s video vault. 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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Facebook’s F8 2020 Developer Conference has Been Cancelled due to Coronavirus Outbreak

Peter Graham

” 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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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone from San Jose, California! And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. It seems that Sony is hoping for a Q4 release in time for the holidays, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that delays will bring the release to Q1 2023.

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

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Facebook’s Oculus division opened its Oculus Connect event in San Jose, Calif., You can have videos that are incredibly detailed, 6K videos that would take way too much space on your phone, but then we can do smart things about only streaming down the piece of it that the user is looking at right then. I’ve tried it.

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Best VR Headsets in 2018

VeeR VR

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. For those of you that will not be able to attend in San Jose, California you can watch the event live streamed in virtual reality on your Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR! Oculus Go ($199).

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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. It “felt” like to me that I was on Everest with him, and not in the San Jose Convention Center. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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