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Facebook Purchases Echo VR Developer Ready At Dawn

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Oculus Studios announces yet another addition to their team of veteran developers. In an official Oculus blog post published earlier today, the company revealed its acquisition of Ready at Dawn Studios , the team behind hit VR titles including Lone Echo , Echo Arena , and Echo Combat. Image Credit: Ready at Dawn Studios.

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Oculus Brings Rift to 90 Libraries in California for Public Access VR

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Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico. Public libraries provide safe, supportive environments that are available and welcoming to everyone,” says Oculus Education Program Manager Cindy Ball.

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AltspaceVR Offers Social Reach For Organizers In VR

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I wasn’t so much into gaming, so a lot of things are intimidating when you first go into VR. Reggie Watts was supposed to come on, and he had somebody opening for him,” said Joshua Young, founder and CEO of Design Reality PDX , a monthly Portland, Oregon networking event that regularly hosts panelists from the VR community.

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‘Hover Junkers’ is Getting a Single Player Mode, Here’s the Teaser Trailer

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The team recently posted a short gameplay teaser, showing a distinctly less frantic atmosphere compared to the game’s original multiplayer mode, with the full trailer and release coming in the next few weeks. The free 1.3 Junkroad’ update is due to launch within the next few weeks.

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‘FlyInside Flight Simulator’ Preview – A Promising Start in VR-native Flying

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FlyInside Flight Simulator isn’t hitting Steam or the Oculus Store yet though, as the company is launching beta access for both their free trial version and a paid ‘pro version’ first through their website starting today to get the valuable feedback and start building a community around the fledgling flight sim.

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Here’s How VR is Reshaping the Criminal Justice System

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Although the most common use for VR is still gaming and entertainment, the medium is also completely changing the criminal justice system from top to bottom. In the past half-decade, we’ve explored many interesting, entertaining, and educational use cases for VR.

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Building The VR Experiences And Worlds of the Future

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Pretty soon, real life will be stranger than fiction when it comes to bringing the great inventions of science fiction and games into technology. Pallister leads Intel’s virtual reality (VR) project lab in Hillsboro, Oregon. From 1998 to 2005, he served as games technical strategist at Intel. First Novel Prize.

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