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6 Ways Top Winemakers and Merchants Are Utilizing Virtual Reality

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The wine industry is also awakening to this fact, with multiple winery virtual reality solutions and studios on the market. Napa Valley is north of San Francisco, with more than 400 wineries in its wine region, whose Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys worldwide fame. Creating multi-sensory experiences. By uSphere.

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How A Recession Could Boost VR Adoption

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Fast forward from 2008 to now. And the question that follows is stranger still: Could the thing that finally drives virtual reality into the mainstream be the next global recession? Let’s start with why games did so well back in 2008. For example, let’s say you bought Gears of War 2 in November 2008 when it launched.

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Using Experiential Design to Expand VR Presence Theory

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Dustin Chertoff has pulled experiential design insights from the advertising world to come up with a more holistic theory of Presence in virtual reality. In 2008, he was in graduate school and was dissatisfied with the major theories of VR Presence. ” Chertoff finished his Ph.D.

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Top 9 Creative Cases Where Universities Use Virtual Reality to Recruit Students and Assure Investors

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Virtual reality is creating new ways for universities to recruit students by integrating virtual tours into their admission marketing campaigns. It blazes the trail for virtual classroom and by transitioning from flat media to immersive experiences, offers a brand new perspective on the future of teaching. By Drone4us.

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Why Starbreeze Studio Is Pursuing A ‘Crazy’ Vision For Arcade-Scale VR

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And now the company is also expanding into virtual reality hardware with its StarCade headset. Today we have 550 people working for Starbreeze all over the world at eight offices – Stockholm, Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, India, Taipei, a little office in Barcelona, actually. It’s a public company since 2001.

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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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Set within a fictionalized version of the San Francisco Bay Area, the game is played from a third-person perspective and its open world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. 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.

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