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‘We Wait’ Is The First BBC Production For The Oculus Store, And It Is Free

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But We Wait is a first for the British broadcaster which saw the BBC Connected Studio collaborate with legendary Bristol-based animation studio Aardman Digital – the makers of Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep – to produce a dramatization of the dangerous journey Syrian migrants take from Turkey to Greece on smuggler’s boats.

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You Can Now Visit Athens With a Little Help from VR

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The company’s latest release for Greece features photorealistic, archaeologically correct reconstructions of all of the most famous buildings of ancient Athens, and can be experienced by downloading it on all major VR platforms, including the Apple App Storefor iOS, Google Play for Android, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. University of the Aegean, Greece. image courtesy VR First. Universität Heidelberg, Germany.

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