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

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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. Key Collaborator: Oculus VR for Good. Key Collaborator: Liam Young.

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FORM Is An Abstract VR Puzzle Game With An Actual Story

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. “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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Prolific VFX Artist Kevin Mack Brings Surrealist Sculpture to Life in ‘Blortasia’

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Kevin Mack is a digital fine artist and prolific visual effects designer known for his work across films such as Fight Club (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001) , The Fifth Element (1997), and What Dreams May Come (1998) for which he won an Oscar.

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‘Loading Human: Chapter 1’ Review: Forgettable Memories

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The game’s control schemes work well, fortunately making the slow travel around the game’s antarctic setting somewhat more tolerable. With the Move controllers acting as your hands, you can point one forward and hold the top button to walk. Those issues are fewer when you play with the standard DualShock controller.

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A Brief History of VR

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In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications. In 1991, the first cubic immersive room dubbed ‘the cave’ was developed by a PhD student in her thesis. Two years later, in 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR company for 2 billion USD.

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Review: ‘Downward Spiral: Horus Station’ is a Visual Feast, But Skimps on Story & Gunplay

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Available On: Steam (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PC), PSN (Summer 2018 on PSVR/PS4). Reviewed On: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift. There are no dynamic hand poses, which is entirely forgivable for a game that supports many motion controller styles, but it still suspends any belief that you’re actually grabbing onto something.

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‘Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter’ Is Fast, Frenetic, and Fun FPS Action With Full Locomotion

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” Releasing seemingly out of nowhere, Croteam and Devolver Digital have arrived to not only bring Serious Sam into VR once again, but also to deliver on the wishes of intrepid early adopters of immersive VR headset technology. The original Serious Sam game, known as Serious Sam: The First Encounter , released back in 2001.

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