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LookSee molecular viewer for Quest VR headsets
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Put LookSee on Meta App Lab store so sideloading is not needed #12

Open tomgoddard opened 10 months ago

tomgoddard commented 10 months ago

There is a pretty involved process to submit LookSee to the Meta AppLab store. Tom Skillman said he did it for one of his research (astronomy?) apps so it is not out of reach. The AppLab is not the official Meta store and has less stringent requirements and the apps don't appear in Meta Store search results unless the exact application name is searched for. But instructions could easily link to the AppLab LookSee page.

This AppLab submission process will probably take a few months and should be started soon since it greatly lowers the barrier to researchers setting up LookSee.

tomgoddard commented 10 months ago

This is in progress. I have created a prerelease app for LookSee on App Lab, and I think it meets all the requirements. The main stumbling block is we need to create a verified organization for our lab at the Meta Oculus developer site and the verification requirements are things like a business license or giving personal info like drivers license. I've contacted Meta developer support to see how to create an organization for a university lab.

tomgoddard commented 9 months ago

Meta support said they can only handle business license organization and personal ones and that university labs always use personal organizations. I won't give my drivers license personal info to Meta so I plan to get a San Francisco business license -- cost is $54 for a year. I bet it is only needed for verification and I can let it expire after that. Not sure what the business name should be. Right now the LookSee app is owned by my Fine Raccoon unverified organization and it does not look like there is any way to transfer an app to another organization other than asking Meta support to do it. So I may want to stick with Fine Raccoon. Should think if this business will be used for any other apps and perhaps use a more meaningful business name. Probably it would not be permissible to use UCSF in the name.