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Felix & Paul Studios Secures Multi-Million Dollar Financing for Next Location-based VR Experience

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Felix & Paul have been pioneers in the VR space since the release of early 360 films Strangers and Zarkana.

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Disney Animation Studios to Debut Its First VR Short Film Next Month

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Walt Disney Animation Studios, the group behind animated classics like The Little Mermaid (1989), The Lion King (1994), and newer blockbusters like Moana (2016) , is set to debut its first VR short film next month at the SIGGRAPH 2018 conference in Vancouver. Image courtesy Disney.

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The Future Group Raises $20 Million to Blend Real-world Video With Virtual Worlds

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The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. with experience using game-oriented technologies in The Matrix films. Above: The Future Group’s Jens Petter Hoili (left) and Bård Anders Kasin.

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Director of ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ is Making a Live-Action VR Horror Series, Releasing Halloween 2017

Road to VR

Veteran horror director Alexandre Aja , known for his work on The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Pirahana 3D (2010), and Horns (2013) , is teaming up with Oculus and VR production studio Future Lighthouse to create a 360 live-action horror series entitled Campfire Creepers that takes you into long-forgotten childhood fears.

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Hello Kitty Visits The Real World In Her New AR Mobile Game

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$50 billion dollars … That massive success is due in large part to Hello Kitty appearing on everything from comic books and school supplies, to food trucks, cafés, fashion accessories, clothing, films, TV, pretty much everything and anything. Hello Kitty has been creating smiles worldwide for almost 45 years.”

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Former Altspace CEO Eric Romo joins Facebook as Director of Product for Social VR.

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Eric Romo, who founded AltspaceVR in January 2013, will be moving to the role of Director of Product at Facebooks’s Social VR team, the group behind Facebook Spaces. Eric joins a talented team filled with experts from the worlds of gaming, film, art, design, engineering, research, and more.

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From Facebook moms to TikTok teens, how Minions became cool again

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Minions: The Rise of Gru , the latest installment in the Despicable Me Cinematic Universe (DMCU), has many of our FYPs looking like a suburban mom's Facebook page circa 2013. The tag "Gentleminions" has over 170 million views on TikTok. But in the five years since the Minions movie came out, their original Gen Z audience has grown up.

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