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Peabody Awards Adds Immersive Media Category For VR & AR

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The legendary awards ceremony adds new categories honoring the best in digital and interactive storytelling. Since then, the program has expanded to include additional categories such as news, entertainment, documentaries, children’s programming, education, and public service. Image Credit: Peabody. “We

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The Second Annual Polys Awards Celebrate Another Year of WebXR

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The viewing options didn’t just grow, the number of categories also expanded from 11 to 17. A number of this year’s awards and honors were presented and/or decided by the awardees and honorees in the inaugural category during last year’s awards. These were social platform Somnium Space and cross-platform avatar creator Ready Player Me.

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Lynx Secures $4M in Series A Funding, Aims to Become “European Champion of Mixed Reality”

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Lynx, the French XR hardware startup known for crowdfunding the Lynx R-1 mixed reality headset , today announced it’s secured $4 million in its Series A round, led by social VR platform Somnium Space. As a part of the deal Artur Sychov, founder & CEO of Somnium Space, is joining the company’s board of directors.

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With Music In New Realities, We Can Go Deeper Together

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Yet, with all the hope promised by the “metaverse,” not only do these events fail to optimally leverage the innovation of VR, but they also fall short in using music to help create immersive social spaces for people to gather virtually where they feel connected to each other and their humanity. Music and… Miniature Golf?

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The 2023 Polys WebXR Awards Recap

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However, despite some new categories, the overall category list was shorter this year as a number of previous awards were combined. That includes some new categories reflecting the advancement of immersive technology even over the last few months. “We To be amongst this many pioneers and innovators in one space is amazing.

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How Many Consumers Have Tried Mobile AR?

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New data from Thrive Analytics and ARtillery Intelligence uncovers who’s using mobile AR apps, how often, and in what categories. The top mobile AR app category today is gaming, followed by social. Information from these studies is used by marketers, product managers, consultants, and other people working in the technology space.

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The 2021 Venice Film Festival Invades ‘VRChat’

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By logging into the popular VR social platform VRChat , festival-goers can explore a custom-made virtual event space where they can immerse themselves in this years’ offerings, chat with other visitors, and participate in a variety of live events. 1 special event from the “Out of Competition” category.

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