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‘Iron Man’ Director Jon Favreau’s First VR Project ‘Gnomes & Goblins’ Looks Delightful

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The latest convert to virtual reality is Jon Favreau, a Writer, Director, Producer and Actor you will almost certainly have encountered – unless you happen to have sworn yourself off all motion picture based entertainment for the last 20 years. “I went over to Wevr and tried out theBlu on the Vive.

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Sinespace launches VR beta

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Now, users who own an Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or a Windows Mixed Reality headset can explore the platform in immersive virtual reality. Sinespace , a virtual world platform from OpenSim co-founder Adam Frisby, launched its virtual reality beta last week and reports 20 percent weekly user growth. Sean O’Callaghan.

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What Hollywood’s Biggest Directors Think Of VR

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Last year Roth posted a picture of himself using an early HTC Vive developer kit, joking that he loved the experience so much he might stop making movies altogether. Abrams is both excited and cautious of VR tech, though, knowing just how immersive it can be but also the strain it puts on long-form entertainment. So, who knows?

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Creature To Manage $1 Million Indie VR Fund From SideQuest

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Funding VR's Indie Expertise Back when the App Store for iPhone was coming together in 2008, the $200 million " iFund " was announced and managed by venture capitalists who offered equity deals to developers at a critical time in the development of mobile phones as a computing platform.

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‘Project CARS 2’ VR Review – An Ambitious Sequel With Serious Potential

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Publisher: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment. Available On: Steam (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive). Reviewed On: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive. Surprisingly, ‘off-track’ detection is, in many places, as strict as iRacing (2008) , but the slow-down penalty that follows is far too easily cleared, resulting in some questionable lines.

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My Strange Head: Part of another’s feeling world

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My Strange Head was created by Cassandra De Klerck, who has been designing and developing virtual worlds since 2008. Using an HTC Vive and a gaming PC, the viewer enters Nick’s studio, where he explains why he feels that those around him do not understand him. Image Source: Cassandra De Klerck.

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How to Take In-Game 360 Screenshots with Nvidia Ansel (with Full List of Compatible Games and User Guide)

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Its plot hinges on a slight rewrite to the background story and overall premise of 2008's Mirror's Edge and focuses on protagonist Faith Connors' origin. Announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015, the game was developed primarily by Ubisoft's studio in Montreal, and released worldwide on February 14, 2017. Mass Effect: Andromeda.

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