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Unity And Oculus Team Up on VR Course–John Carmack Leaves Oculus - xSicKxBot - 11-15-2019
Unity And Oculus Team Up on VR Course–John Carmack Leaves Oculus
<div><p>Two completely unrelated stories (beyond the Oculus commonality) in one today. First, Unity and Oculus have teamed up to launch an 11 part, 20+ hour course on all aspects of creating a VR game using the Unity game engine with the Oculus Rift SDK and hardware.</p>
<p>Details from the <a href="https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/11/13/level-up-your-vr-skills-with-a-free-new-course-from-unity-and-oculus/">Unity blog</a>:</p>
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<p>We’ve partnered with Oculus, to launch an extensive intermediate level course guiding you through all aspects of building a virtual reality (VR) game. As the VR industry continues to grow and mature, developers are asking more questions about making the switch to VR, and developers who already work in VR want to improve their skills. That’s why we teamed up with the experts at Oculus to build this comprehensive VR course, “<a href="https://developer.oculus.com/unity-learn-vr/"><b>Design, Develop, and Deploy for VR</b></a>”<b>.</b></p>
<p>In more than 20 hours of hands-on course content, you’ll learn about programming, user experience (UX) considerations for VR, optimization, launching your game and more. Twelve experts from Oculus and Unity give you in-depth lessons to help you build your own vertical slice (think, level of a game) of an escape room game. Plus, after you complete the course, you can submit your vertical slice for feedback from Oculus.</p>
<p>Even though this course is centered around creating a game, the principles and learnings apply to almost any type of VR content, whether you’re building practical business applications or immersive experiences as art or entertainment. You’ll find this course useful even if your interests go beyond making a game. </p>
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<p>The course is hosted on the <a href="https://learn.unity.com/course/oculus-vr">Unity Learn platform</a>. You can learn more about Unity learn <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qipYRdaNWZY">here</a>.</p>
<p>In additional Oculus news, John Carmack (of id fame) has announced he is stepping down as CIO of Oculus. His announcement came <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2547632585471243&id=100006735798590">via Facebook post</a>, excerpt below:</p>
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<p>Starting this week, I’m moving to a “Consulting CTO” position with Oculus.</p>
<p>I will still have a voice in the development work, but it will only be consuming a modest slice of my time.</p>
<p>As for what I am going to be doing with the rest of my time: When I think back over everything I have done across games, aerospace, and VR, I have always felt that I had at least a vague “line of sight” to the solutions, even if they were unconventional or unproven. I have sometimes wondered how I would fare with a problem where the solution really isn’t in sight. I decided that I should give it a try before I get too old.</p>
<p>I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence (AGI).</p>
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<p>Thankfully John is leaving Facebook before working on artificial intelligence! You can learn more about both announcements in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Wpig8-6ko">video</a> below.</p>
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