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‘Alien’, ‘Blade Runner’ Director Ridley Scott Launches VR Film Division

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is known for work on acclaimed films such as Alien (1979) , Blade Runner (1982) , Gladiator (2000) , Black Hawk Down (2001) , and more throughout his career as a director now going on 40 years. Scott and co. Jen Dennis to head RSA VR | Photo courtesy Jen Dennis.

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Meet UploadVR’s New Editor-in-Chief: Tal Blevins, Co-Founder of IGN Entertainment

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During his tenure there, IGN was spinoff from Imagine and Tal helped to co-found what is now known as IGN Entertainment: the number one games, entertainment and pop-culture media brand in the world. In 1999, Tal became IGN’s editor-in-chief before becoming its editorial director in 2001 and its VP and Publisher in 2006.

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Classic Game Moon Patrol Reimagined As An AR Experience

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Legendary video game hardware manufacturer Intellivision is making a grand return this year with the Intellivision Amico, a brand new console that promises to combine the nostalgia of late-70s gaming with modern technology. These retro titles will be available at an affordable price ranging anywhere from $2.99-$9.99.

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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

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They are all unabashed fans of science fiction, and yet they have to deal with the realities of where technology is. The company was originally founded as a startup within Google to explore the creation of new kinds of entertainment at the intersection of location, social, and emerging mobile devices.

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Top 25 Virtual Reality Software Development Companies

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Virtual reality is a groundbreaking technology that immerses people in any surrounding they want and allows them to gain experience that is impossible to receive in the real world. The core of the company’s expertise lies in VR app development and AR/MR technologies, VR tours, training and simulations, gamification, and product configuration.

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How the Peabody Awards finally, officially embraced video games 

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Yet it took until 2022 for Peabody — one of the most prestigious curators of excellent storytelling in entertainment, documentary, journalism, podcasting, arts, and more — to begin officially recognizing the medium through its own designated category. "As movie that accidentally invented the alternate-reality game.

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Baobab Studios Raises $25 Million in New Funding Round

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Cutler will be joining Baobab as chief technology officer (CTO). Original investors included Comcast Ventures, HTC and Samsung, but now join Horizons Ventures, Twentieth Century Fox, Evolution Media Partners (backed by TPG and CAA), China’s Shanghai Media Group, Youku Global Media Fund and LDV Partners. the second installment in the INVASION!