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10 “Metaversities” Are Opening Across The US This Fall

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The final three will be announced this May according to Engage: Morehouse College New Mexico State University South Dakota State University Southwestern Oregon Community College University of Maryland Global Campus University of Kansas School of Nursing West Virginia University. Muhsinah Morris, associate professor at Morehouse College.

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100-Year-Old Man Reacts to His First VR Experience

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But recently, at Intel’s campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, Becker added another big experience to his life: VR. So what did he try after getting strapped into an HTC Vive? Fortunately for us, Intel filmed the experience so we could see firsthand what a man who has been alive for the entire past century makes of this new technology.

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HTC is already killing it in 2017 with a rad showing at CES including the Vive Tracker. Also who in the hell is dotdotdash?

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HTC has kicked off 2017 by showcasing new Vive accessories and services at CES that will lay the foundation for VR in 2017 and beyond. The company showed off a video featuring Portland, Oregon VR design studio dotdotdash, one of the first developers to use the Vive Tracker. HTC has finally addresses it with the Vive Deluxe Audio Strap.

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‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now

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Whether or not you’re in the narrow band of ‘solar eclipse totality’ that’s making its way across the continental United States on Monday, August 21st, Google Earth VR has seen a recent update that will let you experience the rare event from the comfort of your own HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. image courtesy NASA.

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Play ‘Hoover Junkers’ for Free This Weekend on Vive & Rift, Single Player Campaign Now Live

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Stress Level Zero’s Hover Junkers (2016) was one of the first room-scale multiplayer shooters to land on the HTC Vive. Now the game boasts a single player campaign, dubbed ‘Junk Road’, which departs from the multiplayer action by taking its cues from the classic game Oregon Trail, but set it in the Hover Junkers world.

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‘Hover Junkers’ is Getting a Single Player Mode, Here’s the Teaser Trailer

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Multiplayer first-person shooter Hover Junkers from developer StressLevelZero was a popular launch game for the HTC Vive, built from the ground up for VR and motion controllers, using hovercrafts as moving platforms on which to shoot, an innovative way of traversing large maps while reducing the chances of nausea.

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Building The VR Experiences And Worlds of the Future

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Pallister leads Intel’s virtual reality (VR) project lab in Hillsboro, Oregon. Assisting Intel’s original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, from Microsoft to HTC and Oculus, Pallister works closely with the underlying solutions making VR possible. Image Credit: Michael O’Donnell/VentureBeat.

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