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

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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