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How we traveled back in time with virtual reality

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we released a virtual reality documentary called “Surviving 9/11”. in virtual reality. For a virtual reality documentary, it’s a different story. There are virtually no footage archives or libraries of 90s VR media to browse, and for a simple reason: in the 1990s, there were no 360° cameras.

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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. Listed below are the 25 finest companies working on virtual reality that provide outsourcing and insourcing development.

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Google Earth Lets You Explore the Planet in Virtual Reality

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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. The post Google Earth Lets You Explore the Planet in Virtual Reality appeared first on VRScout.

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‘Blacktop Hoops’ is Like ‘NBA Street’ in VR, Coming to Quest 2 & PC VR Next Year

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Blacktop Hoops is an upcoming multiplayer streetball game that puts you on realistic amateur courts where you chain together epic moves that all look straight out of NBA Street (2001). The game was designed with the most realistic basketball mechanics ever built for virtual reality.

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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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Virtual Reality: An Extension of the Self ?

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In his book, Defying Reality: The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution, David M. Virtual reality has the potential to fundamentally change our perceptions and notions of the self, and consequently, the definition of what it means to be human. Virtual Selves, Real Persons: A Dialogue Across Disciplines.

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Cold VR: Running On Instinct Is How To Play This Cool Steam Demo

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In 2001, the release of Max Payne from Remedy Entertainment changed everything. Some of my favorite games over the years have been the ones that allow for the manipulation of time. COLD VR - SUPERHOT Comparing COLD VR to SUPERHOT OK, so let's get this out of the way up front.

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