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What is Augmented Reality?
AR is an enhanced version of the real physical world with digital elements.
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What is Instagram Creative Labs?
This group created things like the infamous "Boomerang"
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What is Unity?
A game engine that uses C# and is the main one we use at Meta.
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What is Microsoft?
A company experienced with mixed reality and tracking technology with products like Hololens and Kinect.
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What is Mixed Reality?
MR is the term used to define the merging of real and virtual worlds to product new environments and visualizations.
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What is People Experiences?
Prototyping team, focused on building AR & VR Proof of Experiences of future product ideas
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What is Unreal Engine?
With version 5 revealed in April 2022 this engine uses C++.
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What is Amazon?
This company uses its own engine called Lumberyard. They also own Twitch a popular streaming website for gamers.
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What is Unreal Engine 5
UE5 is developed by Epic Games
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What is XR Input?
Create natural input interactions within mixed reality applications like hand-tracking.
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What is C++ and C#?
These 2 languages are the recommended options applicants can use during the technical screen.
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What is Electronic Arts (EA Games)?
This parent company acquired DICE who developed the Frostbite game engine. Using this engine they have created popular games like the Battlefield series.
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What is Extended Reality?
XR is a term referring to all real and virtual combined environments.
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What is Horizon?
Massive multiplayer VR world created by Meta where users have the ability to create their own world within it.
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What is a AAA (Triple-A) game?
Used to describe a game produced and distributed by a major publisher. Usually highly anticipated with a large budget behind it.
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What is Ultraleap?
Formed when Leap Motion and Ultrahaptics came together in 2019. Together they form one of the world’s most advanced hand tracking with the only haptic technology that creates the sensation of touch in mid-air.
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What is a Software Development Kit?
SDK is a collection of tools in one installable package.
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Who is Mike Durand?
Current Engineering Manager for Avatar SDK. His team is driving technology that enables customizable virtual representation and expression across a wide array of applications and platforms.
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What is the Metaverse?
A hypothetical iteration of the internet as a single universal and immersive virtual world. The successor to the mobile internet.
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What is Ready at Dawn?
Originally created by former members of Naughty Dog and Blizzard Entertainment this video game company was bought by Meta in 2020 and now makes VR titles for Oculus Studios.
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