Quest users and developers can use App Lab as an easy way to distribute and install experimental VR content from outside the Oculus Store. However, App Lab gives Quest users and developers an alternate non-Store avenue for Quest content. The Oculus Store is the official avenue for discovering and installing apps on your headset, with developers submitting pitches to Meta to have their content available on the store. Since launch, the Quest platform has operated much like a console, with a strict curation policy. building local research capacity to ensure decisions are evidence-informed, feasible, adaptive and equitable.Meta (formerly Facebook) introduced App Lab in 2021 - a new method of app distribution, allowing you to easily install non-Oculus Store games and apps onto your Oculus Quest and Meta Quest 2 (formerly Oculus Quest 2) headset.partnering with research centres, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.capacity building internally and with partners to ethically harness the application of behavioral sciences.creating a global research agenda for building a child-focused behavioural science evidence base.UNICEF Innocenti is helping the organization update its approach based on the latest evidence about human behaviour, applying a behavioural lens to identify, understand, and test solutions while scaling up the incorporation of experimental methods and implementation research in our programming. UNICEF has long played a leading role in social and behavioral change programming to help children and young people survive and realize their full potential. Emerging evidence from the sciences of human behaviour can provide actionable insights and practical methods to encourage decisions and habits that secure a better future for all children.

These decisions and actions are themselves influenced by habits, norms, and cues in the social environment that can influence or “nudge” people-for better or worse. Every day, the decisions and actions of parents, teachers, healthcare workers, community leaders, and policymakers profoundly affect children’s lives.

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