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Amazon Launches ‘Prime Video VR’, Commits to Building up VR Video Library

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Amazon today announced the launch of Prime Video VR on Oculus Quest, Go, and Gear VR. In addition to bringing the entire Prime Video catalog onto the headsets, Amazon is also for the first time adding VR content to its Prime Video library. The app is available on Oculus Quest , Go , and Gear VR for free.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

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I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. Or Unreal if that’s your language.

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Facebook to Focus on WebVR and Social VR with 7 Sessions at F8 Conference

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The company’s annual two-day event is dedicated to exploring the future of Facebook’s family of apps and services (including Oculus), and how businesses and developers can leverage them. In the last 12 months, the Facebook brand has become increasingly visible and involved with the Oculus subsidiary. Wednesday, April 19.

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VR Video Study Finds Netflix, Hulu Preferred Over 360 Apps And More

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“What you don’t hear much about is what users like and don’t like about today’s VR video apps.” ” To test reactions to 360 video, Fishbowl used 10 apps: Littlstar, Jaunt, Oculus Video, Wevr, Sky, Netflix, Within, Hulu, Discovery VR, and VRideo.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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YouTube tells you where people are looking in your 360 videos AND embraces 180 degree video, Google’s 180 degree camera, the Meta-Cookie project gets weird and alters your taste, and Intel leans into sports in a big virtual way…. It turns out that 75% of people watch only the front 90% of 360 videos.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.13): iPhone 12 adds depth camera, StarVR One is back to the market and much more!

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This integration is still very rough, and so: It works only with Oculus and WMR headsets (because it requires an OpenXR-compatible runtime); It just lets you see your model , not also modify it. And this is possible because they both have big cash cows: Oculus has Facebook’s advertisement, and Valve has the Steam game store.

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‘Dynamic Spanish’ Aims to Teach You Spanish in VR, Kickstarter Now Live

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At top speed, the creators say the course should take around 35 hours, although they recommend a slower pace, and studying all of the materials and taking one or two lessons each week.

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