Oculus Launch Pad 2020: Applications Now Open

Each year, Oculus Launch Pad supports promising VR content creators from diverse backgrounds as they iterate on their unique ideas and bring them to market. In this edition in our Oculus Launch Pad Q&A series, 2020 grant recipient Lou Ward spoke with us about his involvement with Launch Pad and how it helped shape his career and the development of Tinker, an interactive performance that utilizes real-time VR interactions to provide each individual with a unique narrative experience—one of purpose, one that endeavors to convey the profound mental effects of Alzheimer’s disease.

May was packed with several big blog highlights, including the release of v40 and the availability of the full set of Presence Platform capabilities that we revealed at Connect last fall. We also took a look at how Application SpaceWarp improves performace and how to optimize a PC VR demo for Meta Quest 2, followed by tips and tools to improve your development workflow and a look at the development process of recent Oculus Launch Pad program graduates. In case you missed one of the highlights, take a look back at our developer blog posts from May.

Each year, Oculus Launch Pad supports promising VR content creators from diverse backgrounds as they iterate on their unique ideas and bring them to market. In this edition in our Oculus Launch Pad Q&A series, 2020 grant recipients Megan Scott and Gerardo Hernandez spoke with us about their involvement with Launch Pad and how it helped shape their career and the development of Hey Pops!, a cooperative narrative VR experience where players step into the small town of Bluewoods, past and present, as siblings who work together to find the truth about their famous grandfather’s disappearance.