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Meta Reportedly in Talks With Tencent to Bring Quest to China

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Facebook and Twitter have been blocked in China since 2009, but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is hoping to get back in that country with Quest, according to a Wall Street Journal report. In 2018, Meta (then Facebook) penned a deal with Xiaomi to release a Chinese variant of Oculus Go , sold by Xiaomi as the ‘Mi VR Standalone’.

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Apple Reportedly In Talks To Purchase VR Live Streaming Platform NextVR

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Founded in 2009 by D.J. NextVR is available now on Oculus Quest , Oculus Go , Oculus Rift , Gear VR , PSVR , and SteamVR. Another move towards the companies rumored AR/VR device perhaps? Roller and David Cole, the California-based company has spent the last 10 years working to perfect the immersive live streaming format.

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Coatsink, Veteran VR Studio of ‘Jurassic World Aftermath’ and Others, Acquired for up to $85 Million

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Coatsink is a British game studio and publisher founded in 2009. Though the studio doesn’t deal exclusively in VR games, about half of Coatsink’s work has been either fully self-developed VR titles or acting as a publisher on VR titles, most of which had the backing of Oculus Studios: Esper (2015). Onward (2016).

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Report: Apple to Acquire Live Event Streaming Company NextVR for $100M

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Founded in 2009, the Orange County-based startup broadcasts stereoscopic video of live sports and music to a wide swath of VR headsets, including Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift S.

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‘Bigscreen’ Brings Paid Movies to Social VR Platform, Showing Select 2D & 3D Films

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This week’s films include 3D versions of Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon (2017) and Ghost in the Shell (2017), and 2D versions of Star Trek (2009) and Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Bigscreen supports Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, and all Windows VR headsets.

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Oculus CTO John Carmack Sues ZeniMax For $22.5 Million In Ongoing Battle

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The ongoing legal drama between Oculus chief technology officer John Carmack and his former employer ZeniMax continues today with Carmack suing the company. Carmack’s lawsuit alleges he’s owed $22.5 We note that this is Mr. Carmack’s second complaint against ZeniMax. In the recently completed trial of ZeniMax Media Inc.

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John Carmack Offered A $1 Million Guarantee To Bring Team Beef's Ports To The Quest Store

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In a thread on X about the modding team's Quake 3 VR port, a fan tagged the former Oculus CTO and asked him to make the port "canon". But id Software was sold to ZeniMax in 2009, and ZeniMax was acquired by Microsoft in 2021. Carmack was a co-founder of id Software, and the lead programmer for Quake 3.

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