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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

You’ll use your remote to pan around the 360 video on your flatscreen (which is, admittedly, nowhere near to the experience in a headset), but this will also support live 360 video– which will probably be pretty cool to watch content like live concerts or sporting events. MICROSOFT’S UPCOMING MOTION CONTROLLERS.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service. Releasing a simple 360 video as a marketing ploy is old news these days, so it’s refreshing when companies embrace VR to enhance their experiential brand activations in unique ways.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

In 2014, Snapchat paid $15M for Vergence Labs, a company experimenting with augmented reality and whose notable product was Epiphany Eyewear – a stylish pair of smartglasses that could possibly lay the groundwork for an eventual Snapchat augmented reality device. Facebook Enables Native 360 Photos.

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VR Reader

ARVR

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. If you can’t be in a flight simulator, the next best thing would be video. The dynamic has changed since 2014.

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Jaunt Reveals Livestreamed Volumetric Video Solution for AR

Road to VR

Jaunt first cut their teeth on cinematic VR when they came out of stealth in 2014, not only producing some pretty high-quality 360 video throughout the years, but also a professional-grade 360 camera dubbed NEO.

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Investing in XR with GFR Fund’s Teppei Tsutsui

XR for Business Podcast

And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. So talk to us about them.

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Investing in XR with GFR Fund’s Teppei Tsutsui

XR for Business Podcast

And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. So talk to us about them.