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Facebook has been pretty hands-off when it comes to providing VR solutions for enterprise, although that may be changing with the entrance of bonafide enterprise versions for both Oculus Quest and Oculus Go.

As first reported by Variety, Facebook recently published a job listing for an Oculus software engineer that details the company’s plans to launch enterprise versions of Go & Quest sometime this year.

“Starting with VR, we are building an Oculus Go and Oculus Quest Enterprise edition expected to launch in 2019,” the listing states.
“This effort encompasses everything from hardware integrations, software platforms, enterprise-developer ecosystems and SDKs, SLAs, and more.”

While far from revealing, a company spokesperson confirmed with Variety that the upcoming enterprise edition products will be part of the company’s existing business offerings.

The job listing goes on to put emphasis on augmented reality as well, saying the company is looking for someone to “create the technology that makes VR and AR pervasive and universal.”

Oculus already sells both Rift and Go for Business, although these offer little more than a few extras such as commercial licenses, commercial warranties, “preferential” customer service, and some bits and bobs like extra facial interfaces and sensors (for Rift).

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Some of the listed job duties may portend greater enterprise services coming from Oculus though:

• Design and develop enterprise features into Oculus mobile VR system applications
• Design and develop VR frameworks to enable enterprise use cases such as corporate training
• Ensure security and privacy concerns remain a top priority and are identified and addressed
• Work with external developers innovating on future-of-work experiences

To make matters more interesting, HTC recently announced their enterprise-focused Vive Focus Plus with 6DOF controllers. At the time it was a bit of a stretch to call it true competitor to the similarly-kitted Oculus Quest based on the fact that the companies were targeting different market segments. With Oculus’ parent company Facebook eyeballing enterprise too now, that might change here fairly soon.

We hope to learn more soon—possibly at GDC 2019 later this month—although the company could equally use F8 2019 (April 30th – May 1st) as a potential venue for further announcements. We still don’t know exactly when the $400 Oculus Quest is set to launch. Either venue fits into the company’s quoted launch window of spring 2019.

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ESL & Oculus Announce Esport’s VR League Season 3, Biggest Prize Pool Yet

ESL, the world’s largest esports organizer, and Oculus announced that season three of the VR League will kickoff on March 24th. A prize pool, which is touted as the league’s largest yet, tallies a total of $250,000.

VR League is bringing two new games to the competition this season: Ready At Dawn’s Echo Combat and Ubisoft’s Space Junkies. Last year’s mainstays Echo Arena and Downpour Interactive’s Onward are also returning, making for four total games featured at this season’s tournaments.

Survios’ Sprint Vector and Insomniac Games’ The Unspoken have booth been retired from competition this year.

VR League: Season 3 will have weekly cups in both Europe and North America, and terminate in an offline Grand Finals event at Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, UK. Check out the full season three schedule here.

“2019 will be a huge year for VR gaming with the launch of Oculus Quest and Season 3 & 4 of the VR League,” said Christopher K. McKelvy, head of esports at Oculus. “This year will be Oculus’ biggest investment in esports yet. We’re adding new games, more broadcasts and a bigger prize pool.”

The opening showmatch took place yesterday between last season’s finalists, hosted at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice. You can check out the full showmatch below:

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HTC is Giving Away 1 Month of Viveport Infinity for Free

Viveport Infinity, HTC’s unlimited Netflix-style game delivery service for Vive & Rift, is set to launch on April 2nd. To celebrate, the company is giving a one-month free access code to anyone who fills out a quick user survey.

You just have to answering three questions and provide a valid email address, and HTC promises to send out a 30-day free access code which should arrive via email on March 20th.

Here’s some of the fine print to the offer. Yes, it looks like you’ll need a credit card and to cancel the free trial before automatic billing happens:

• Code must be redeemed by April 15, 2019.
• If you cancel the subscription during the 1 month trial period you will not be charged, and you will lose access to VIVEPORT Infinity content that you accessed during the trial period once the trial ends.
• Unless you cancel the subscription during the trial period you will automatically be charged a monthly subscription fee a month after the end of the trial period, and each month thereafter until you cancel your subscription.
• If you redeem the code before April 2, 2019, you will be charged a monthly subscription fee of $8.99 per month through the end of 2019 or until you cancel your subscription.

The service boasts over 600 games for unlimited download for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift users alike. Like PlayStation Plus, HTC is also including exclusive member discounts and free to-keep titles too.

In addition, HTC announced that Viveport Subscription members with active pre-paid memberships will be getting a free upgrade that will give them Viveport Infinity access at no extra cost.

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