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‘Bigscreen VR’ To Host Live Q&A With Ready Player One Author Ernest Cline

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With the release of Ready Player Two —the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2011 science-fiction novel Ready Player One —just around the corner, social VR platform and VR theater experience Bigscreen VR today announced that it will be conducting a first-of-its-kind VR interview featuring series creator Ernest Cline.

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Sony, Facebook, Google, and Samsung Dominate VR, With Over 50% Market Share

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Samsung follows with another mobile headset (Gear VR). He launched the first browser-based Virtual World in 2008 for which he was awarded in 2011 by the Virtual Worlds community. .); neither company has a VR user base anywhere close to Sony’s, and their products are either at the low end or a bit too expensive.

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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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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

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It had a compelling reason to exist, which is why Microsoft directly competed against iPod Touch over the course of three device generations before eventually giving up the goat in 2011 and discontinuing the third-gen Zune. Many chalk it up to poor marketing, lack of brand cache, and not enough music to choose from.

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

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Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers. 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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Sketchfab Hosts 1 Million Online Scenes While Matterport Posts 250K Virtual Spaces

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Founded in 2011, Matterport is an immersive technology company built on mapping real places as 3D models. CoreVR will be available on Matterport Apps on Google Cardboard and the Samsung Gear VR with more platform options “coming soon.” ” Charles Singletary contributed to this report.

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