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Gorillaz Debut Latest Album with Impressive 360 Music Video, How to Watch in Any VR Headset

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Fitting for Gorillaz, who are ‘virtual band’ consisting of four fictional characters, the group’s highly anticipated fifth studio album (and first since 2011), ‘Humanz’, saw the release of its first track (Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)) as part of an impressive 360 music video. How to Watch in 360 on a VR Headset.

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Sketchfab Hosts 1 Million Online Scenes While Matterport Posts 250K Virtual Spaces

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Sketchfab models can be viewed in VR with the appropriate headset, which effectively makes this platform the most varied immersive content provider on the Internet. Founded in 2011, Matterport is an immersive technology company built on mapping real places as 3D models. ” Charles Singletary contributed to this report.

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

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.” Lets be honest, the last few years have seen some pretty wild speculation from industry analysts whilst the excitement and hype surrounding the most recent renaissance in immersive technology has ridden high. SEE ALSO What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations.

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VR: Fad or Fiction?

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He built the first prototype of his VR headset in 2011 and announced it on Kickstarter in 2012. The sales of the other players on the VR market were pretty much flat across the year – the Oculus Rift (the PC tethered version), the Samsung Gear VR, the HTC Vive, and the Vive Focus showed limited sales growth.

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Skybound Entertainment and Delusion Producing VR Horror Series

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Delusion immersive theater experience announces partnership with Skybound Entertainment for new VR series. Immersive theater has become extremely popular in the last few years, particularly in New York and Los Angeles. Virtual reality offers a similar immersion. during 2011’s Halloween season.

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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

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In 2017, 343 Industries (in collaboration with immersive studio Endeavor One) gave the VR world its first official taste of Halo in VR with the release of Halo: Recruit , a brief demo apparently made to drum up interest in Microsoft’s Mixed Reality headsets which launched that year.

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Game Cooks Are Using Their Mobile Experience To Create ‘HOVR’ And Other VR Games

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Since 2011, they’ve released over a dozen successful mobile games on iTunes and Google Play, but HOVR for Gear VR is their first foray into virtual reality. They’re now keen to see how mobile VR can enhance immersion and engagement for the highly addictive casual games they specialize in making.

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