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The VR Job Hub: Love A New Job?

We’re already mid-way through February and Valentine’s Day has been and gone, but are you still in love with your current role or are you open to looking at potential pastures new? There’s all manor or roles out there relating to virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) available for you to apply for and in countries all around the world as well. Here’s a selection of current roles that you may want to check out

Location Company Role Link
Newcastle, UK Hammerhead VR Senior Developer Click here to apply
London, UK Oliver Bernard JavaScript Developer – Virtual Reality – React & Node Click here to apply
Mountain View, CA, US Udacity Content Developer, Blockchain (Contract) Click here to apply
Sydney, Australia Breaking Fourth Unity Environmental Artist for Futuristic VR Piece Click here to apply
Amsterdam/Eindhoven, Netherlands Accenture Internship Virtual/Augmented Reality Click here to apply
Groton, CT, US Automation Associates Limited Developer w/ VR experience Click here to apply
Los Angeles, CA, US Vulcan Inc Immersive Reality Intern Click here to apply
Redmond, WA, US Oculus VR Digital Design Engineer Click here to apply
Redmond, WA, US Oculus VR Graphics Engineer, Oculus Home Click here to apply
Redmond, WA, US Oculus VR Research Scientist, Physiology (PhD University Grad) Click here to apply
Redmond, WA, US Oculus VR Computer Vision Engineer Click here to apply
Menlo Park, CA, US Facebook Associate General Counsel, Oculus Sales & Marketing Click here to apply
Taipei City, Taiwan HTC Vive HR Business Partner, VR Click here to apply

 

Don’t forget, if there was nothing in this week’s feature that was a good fit for you, you can always double back and look at the previous edition of The VR Job Hub. Last week’s listings took in roles across the UK – and even a role working with us!

As always, if you are an employer looking for someone to fill an immersive technology related role – regardless of the industry – don’t forget you can send us the lowdown on the position and we’ll be sure to feature it in that following week’s feature. Details should to be send to myself at keva@vrfocus.com and also pgraham@vrfocus.com.

Check back with VRFocus next Sunday at the usual time of 3PM (GMT) for another selection of jobs from around the industry

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Udacity Launches a ‘Learn ARKit’ Course Created in Collaboration with Unity

With ARKit already baked into the mobile operating system of “hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads,” the massive potential install base means there’s plenty of reasons for developers to start making new augmented reality apps for Apple’s App Store. Now Udacity, the for-profit online education site that was spawned from free Stanford University computer science classes, has created a course that says will take you one month to complete so you can start making your own AR apps for iOS.

Students can choose to learn to develop AR apps using the Unity game engine, or using Swift in combination with SceneKit, Apple’s own 3D graphics API. Udacity maintains the Unity course, a result of a direct partnership with Unity Technologies, is “the fastest way to learn ARKit.”

Although Udacity offers plenty of free courses, the ARKit course costs actual money; $200 for either Unity or Swift versions. It’s however offered as a discrete course so there’s no monthly fees or tuition cost looming over your head.

The course is said to take about a month to finish if you study 5 hours per week, including video demonstrations and hands-on quizzes and projects. Udacity doesn’t have dedicated professors like university ‘distance learning’ programs, but to make up for the professor-student interaction they provide the opportunity to get detailed feedback from expert project reviewers, and also an online community that can provide real-time support.

Before starting, students need to be familiar with creating iOS applications using Xcode. Udacity provides its own course for beginning iOS develpers, but also stresses that you don’t actually need prior 3D development experience before taking the course.

Udacity offers two courses on VR Development for different skill levels, the lowest ‘Foundation’ course requiring no prior experience to start creating.

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Udacity offers VR ‘nanodegree’

Udacity, an online platform for college courses, is now offering a VR development course — with no previous programming experience necessary. The class costs $199 per month, and runs for six months. Those who...