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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.11): new Quest is in the works, Magic Leap may pivot to healthcare, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. 3D environment scans are in 2020 what pictures were in 2010.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy.

AllThingsVR

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. Read more here. months away!

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‘Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter’ Is Fast, Frenetic, and Fun FPS Action With Full Locomotion

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Earlier this year, Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope released on Steam Early Access , as well as on Oculus Home, to deliver one of the most intense, high-quality, wave shooters we’ve seen in VR yet. The most accurate comparisons you could draw would be to that of the Duke Nukem, Unreal, and Quake franchises.

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Twist the Gears of a Massive VR Music Engine with Carillon

Leapmotion

Rob: Carillon was built within the Unreal Engine and uses the Open Sound Control protocol to connect motion and actions in the game environment with a music engine built within the Pure Data computer music system. Carillon was really built for VR: the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller are key components in the work.

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‘Robo Recall’ Review

Road to VR

If you own an Oculus Rift, it’s being brought to you absolutely free of charge. Publisher: Oculus. Available On: Oculus Rift (Oculus Touch Required). There are echoes of Rocksteady’s Batman combat, Platinum Games’ Vanquish (2010) , and even the recent Doom (2016) reboot. Robo Recall Details: Official Website.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

Established in 2010 by CEO Alex Schwartz, they have an impressive portfolio of titles as well as proprietary “Owlchemy VR” technology, which powers concurrent cross-platform development (which lowers creation costs). FROM DESTINY AND HALO TO POLYARC – $3.5M FOR VR GAME IN 2017. Sliver TV has raised $6.2M

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA.