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PokerStars VR is Something New

Tech Trends VR

Players can come together from all over the world in a virtual card room where avatars not only interact around the game but can dress to impress, socialise, entertain and chat as if in the same room Click To Tweet. At this point, it’s worth explaining a bit more about exactly what PokerStars VR is. Poker is about interaction.

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The Mage’s Tale Review: A VR Dungeon Crawl RPG 30 Years In The Making

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

That adoration moved on to other series as time went on, but one game in particular that stood out to me in my youth was Wizardry 8 , released in 2001 when I was just 11 years old. The Mage’s Tale is available starting today, June 20th, exclusively for the Oculus Rift with Touch on Oculus Home for $39.99.

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Baobab Studios Raises $25 Million in New Funding Round

Road to VR

We are on the cusp of a storytelling revolution with this medium, and VR gives filmmakers the opportunity to develop immersive experiences and take audiences into the story like never before,” says Mike Dunn, President, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Fox Innovation Lab. the second installment in the INVASION!

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Weekly Funding & People VR/AR Roundup1) EntryPoint Raises.

AllThingsVR

3) ZeniMax Acquires Oculus Dev Escalation Studios Escalation Studios, the developer behind the VR port of Please, Don’t Touch Anything! Review: 8/10 ] and the Oculus-published Herobound: Gladiators, has been picked up by the publishing company, which owns game publisher Bethesda Softworks. Read more on Haptical. Read more on UploadVR.

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‘Loading Human: Chapter 1’ Review: Forgettable Memories

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The wooden acting by all involved doesn’t help either — the AI computer voice Lucy is the most entertaining and it is an artificial one like you have heard on dozens of sci-fi shows. Yes, the AI Lucy was fun at times, but an artificial voice cracking jokes and referencing the classic film 2001 does not make a game.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

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A Brief History of VR

VeeR VR

In 2001, SAS Cube created the first PC based cubic room that then led to the development of Virtools VR pack, a library pack add-on. It was also in 2010 that 18-year-old Palmer Luckey created the first prototype of Oculus Rift, the famous VR headset. Two years later, in 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR company for 2 billion USD.