SPOTLIGHT: Allison Lee, Developer Program Manager at Oculus on Launch Pad 2020

08/16/20 • 40 min

Zero to Start Podcast: VR development for beginners

Siciliana Trevino is excited to bring you her new Zero to Start Spotlight series featuring insightful conversations with VR creators and industry leaders about how you can break into VR, brought to you by Oculus from Facebook. Now in its fifth year Oculus Launch Pad is an essential VR developer program designed for promising content creators from diverse backgrounds. 2020 Applications are open until August 20th. Our first spotlight guest, Allison Lee, Developer Program Manager at Oculus tells us everything you need to know about applying to Launch Pad.
Allison also shares her perspective on VR design, resources like the free Unity Learn - Design, Develop and Deploy for VR course, beginner tutorial rites of passage like the Roll a Ball tutorial, how VR is made for this moment and what's on her quarantine playlist to stay on task.
Follow Allison on Twitter @AvLee_
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Happy Installing!
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FEATURED LINKS

Oculus Launch Pad 2020 Application
Oculus Launch Pad 2019 Scholarship recipients
Oculus Start Developer Program
Design, Develop, and Deploy for VR - Unity Learn
Unity Roll-a-Ball Tutorial - updated for 2020!

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Reading list

Virtual Vernacular by Sarah Bonser

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Quarantine playlist

Donny Benét on YouTube

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Oculus Launch Pad 2020 Application
Oculus Launch Pad 2019 Scholarship recipients
Oculus Start Developer Program
Design, Develop, and Deploy for VR - Unity Learn
Unity Roll-a-Ball Tutorial - updated for 2020!

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Reading list

Virtual Vernacular by Sarah Bonser

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Quarantine playlist

Donny Benét on YouTube

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Previous Episode

Build Succeeded: Display.land assets in Unity, the end of Bose AR + War of the Worlds, the start of High Fidelity 3D audio, Black Lives Matter

Our 7th episode finds us in another Mercury retrograde, over 100 days since Berkeley announced its shelter in place and reminiscing about Berkeley's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast last January.
Melanie takes a 3D scan of her garden using the Display.land mobile app by Ubiquity6 (which is now discontinued), succeeds in building her first Unity scene, although we get an app ID error when we try to upload her project file to her Oculus test release channel.
Happy Installing!
We recap:

Black Lives Matter
ARVR Women's 2018-19 Futurists in Residence
The end of Bose AR SDK and
Siciliana's War of the Worlds interactive podcast audio AR game
High Fidelity's new 3D audio meeting platform
Display.land volumetric capture mobile app - now sunset!

Community Shoutout

IIlya Szilak's Queerskins a love story launched on the Oculus Store

Featured links

Oculus Start Developer program
Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)
VIDEO: War of the Worlds Game Trailer - Quirkeley
VIDEO: Kent Bye demo of High Fidelity spatial audio
Download Unity Hub - Unity
Lifecycle of an Oculus VR app - Oculus
About Oculus Release Channels - Oculus

Quarantine Playlists

The Gamma

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Zero to Start Music by Melanie Mentzel and Leonard Sherman

Next Episode

SPOTLIGHT: Clorama Dorvilias, Product Manager at Oculus on new product releases and achieving success in VR

Stepping into the spotlight Clorama Dorvilias, Product Manager at Oculus shares her first ah-ha moment in VR, her previous experience building VR training solutions to reduce bias in education, new Oculus product releases, tips for aspiring VR product managers and her quarantine playlist. Happy installing!

Follow Clorama on Twitter @CreativeClo
Subscribe to Clorama's YouTube Channel
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