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Halo Treats Xbox's Sci-Fi Franchise Like the Space Opera It's Always Been

GizModo VR

With all the video game shows and films we’re expected to get in the near future, not many have the strange baggage that the TV adaptation of Halo does. Microsoft’s flagship shooter was first announced to be getting the TV treatment back in 2013, and has been in development for nearly a full decade—which is to say… Read more.

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Jaunt Launches New App and Content for Windows ‘Mixed Reality’ Platform

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Jaunt has become a leading provider of software and integrated hardware to the industry since they were founded in 2013, yet their main drive is pushing the boundaries of VR as a creative storytelling medium. Collisions premiered jointly at Sundance Film Festival and at the Davos World Economic Forum, the first VR work to be presented there.

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

Cats and VR

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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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." The film was heavily circulated, covered extensively across media and news outlets when it released.

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Here Come The Holograms

VRScout

To promote the film Marjorie Prime volumetric capture start-up 8i captured star Jon Hamm (an AI character in the movie) and has just now made him available to everyone via their free Holo smartphone app. 8i previously unveiled the Jon Hamm hologram at the 2017 Sundance International Film Festival.

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Over 20 Use Cases of Smart Glasses, VR Headsets, and Smartwatches at Airports

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Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. That year, SITA worked with Helsinki Airport to explore visualizing airport operations with the Microsoft HoloLens. Such VR entertainment could transform the cabin experience.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

VR also dominated the pop culture, featuring prominently in films like “Johnny Mnemonic,” “Lawnmower Man” and “Virtuosity.” It’s easy to see how, in the early 1960s, such a system could be viewed as a logical next step beyond the film and television of the day. They were slick, they were robust.

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