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Google Earth Lets You Explore the Planet in Virtual Reality

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Google Earth is now available for the HTC Vive. A lot of the groundwork had already been laid in previous versions of Google Earth, which originally went live in 2001. Thanks to virtual reality, that same sense of awareness and connection is available to all of us. It’s free. Go in blind. Feel all the feelings.

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Watch: Tobii Tease Unnervingly Effective Vive Eye-Tracked VR Demo Ahead of GDC

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We wrote just today that eye-tracking used inside virtual reality headsets, used to detect the gaze of the user, could play an extremely important part in making more realistic VR scenes at higher resolutions possible through the use of foveated rendering, but eye-tracking has important implications for a more human aspect of virtual reality.

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‘Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE’ Launches on Steam Today

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Croteam, the minds behind the Serious Sam franchise, has released its fourth Serious Sam -themed VR game: Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE (2017) for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Now available on Steam , Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE is a fast-paced shooter serving as a prequel to the original Serious Sam: The First Encounter (2001).

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Take a VR Tour of Aech’s ‘Ready Player One’ Garage With Friends

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Based off the 2011 science fiction novel of the same name, the story follows unlikely hero Wade Watts in the dystopian future of 2044 as he searches for the immensely valuable “easter egg” hidden within a virtual reality universe known as the “Oasis.”. Ready Player One (2018) Tye Sheridan as Wade Owen Watts/Parzival.

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BISim tells us how XR is relevant for the Army

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Military simulations are one of the fields where virtual reality has always been an important technology , even before that VR had its new renaissance in 2012. BISim was founded in 2001 in Australia as part of Czech-based Bohemia Interactive Studio (makers of Arma and Dayz). haptics suits ) or does a VR headset suffice?

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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. Even the platform below your feet shifts in color and shape. ‘Blortasia’ on Steam.

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Flatline VR Brings Near-Death Experience To Life

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Jon Schnitzer has been waiting 16 years for virtual reality technology to evolve to this point. The creator, director and producer of Flatline VR has been fascinated by real-life accounts of near-death experiences since first meeting a friend in 2001 who lived to tell the story of leaving his body, only to return to Earth.