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Nintendo Partners With Niantic for Multiple New AR Games, Starting This Year with ‘Pikmin’

Road to VR

Now the studio says it has entered into a partnership with Nintendo to develop multiple new AR titles , starting with the Pikmin franchise, which got its start in 2001 on GameCube as an RTS puzzle game where players command hordes of little plant characters.

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Tribeca Film Fest To Release VR Films On Oculus Quest & Go After Coronavirus Cancellation

VRScout

15 VR short films scheduled to debut at Tribeca Immersive will be available later this month on standalone Oculus headsets. “We founded the Tribeca Film Festival as a way to heal our community after the devastation of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. We were determined to overcome our fear and anxiety by joining together.

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Marco Magnano on XR Safety Week, journalism, and the meta…

The Ghost Howls

Immersive Storytelling & Journalism Day 2 – Dec 7. MedicalXR and Immersive Healthcare Day 5 – Dec 10. Around the year 2001, so at the beginning of high school, the Internet entered my life, and I discovered the Indymedia project, which was one of the most important independent media outlets in the world.

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PokerStars VR is Something New

Tech Trends VR

The world’s leading poker brand, PokerStars, has combined live and online poker in a truly immersive & social VR experience. Since it launched in 2001, PokerStars has become the first choice of players all over the world, with more daily tournaments than anywhere else and with the best online security Click To Tweet.

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C-Smash VRS Hands-On: This Could Be The Multiplayer Game PSVR 2 Needs

Upload VR

Developed alongside The Last Worker by Jörg Tittel and Wolf & Wood, C-Smash VRS is a passion project 22 years in the making, and 2001’s Cosmic Smash is arguably one of Sega’s most obscure games. Solo or not, your goal involves hitting colored pads across this room.

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Google Earth Lets You Explore the Planet in Virtual Reality

VRScout

A lot of the groundwork had already been laid in previous versions of Google Earth, which originally went live in 2001. They experimented with different ways to travel the globe in search of the right balance between comfort, immersion, and context. You can always plot a point on the small globe above your left controller.

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FORM Is An Abstract VR Puzzle Game With An Actual Story

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

. “FORM has similar themes to Obduction, but I like to call it 2001: A Space Odyssey meets The Room in VR,” writes a representative from the company in an email to UploadVR. My demo began in a research facility as I stood behind a control panel full of buttons, screens, and objects to interact with.

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