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How To Watch The Gorillaz 360° Music Video On Any VR Headset

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When it comes to embracing new types of media and art, there’s no better music group than the world’s most infamous virtual band, the Gorillaz. The fictional 4-person alt rock group is famous for including inventive content with their albums, something fans have begun to appreciate almost as much as the music itself.

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Baobab Studios Raises $25 Million in New Funding Round

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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. SEE ALSO Comcast, Samsung, and HTC Join $6 Million Investment in VR Animation Studio 'Baobab'.

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AWE Asia-2023 Conference in Singapore from August 30-31

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We chose to host AWE Asia 2023 in Singapore not only because of its convenience for our diverse group of participants who join us from across the globe, but also in recognition of the growth of the extended reality industry in Singapore and across Asia. The press kit for the event can be found here.

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Celebrating the 2023 Auggie Awards and XR Prize Challenge

ARPost

The Auggie Awards have been recognizing XR since 2010.” The group won over Mutienliao , Oregon Shakespeare Festival , and Ferryman Collective. This is something we’ve been working on for a long time,” HTC China President Alvin Graylin said in accepting the award. We’re just so happy. We’re so excited to be recognized here.”

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From Brain-Computer Interfaces To Digital Humans: How These Technologies Are Bringing Us Closer To The Metaverse

VRScout

Brain-computer interface systems like Neurable’s VR game Awakening uses an electrode-laden headband, connected to an HTC Vive HMD, to track brain activity. While VR can be traced back to the mid- 20th century, it was only in 2010 that Palmer Luckey launched the Oculus Rift Kickstarter. Brain-Computer Interfaces.

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Here’s Each Of The 180+ Cars You Can Race In VR In Project Cars 2

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Developer Slightly Mad Studios has sparred no detail in bringing a realistic driving experience to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and that includes an exhaustive list of drivable cars, revealed today. M3 Group A (E30). R18 e-tron quattro. R8 (LMP900). R8 LMS Endurance. R8 V10 Plus. Continental GT3 (2015). Continental GT3 (2016).

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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund Takes Control of Magic Leap

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Moreover, the investment secures the Saudi Arabian PIF group with four out of eight seats on Magic Leap’s board of directors as of November 2022. Additionally, significant technology and extended reality (XR) firms like Google and AT&T have provided Magic Leap funding since the company’s debut in 2010.