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Chess World Championships to Broadcast Live in 360 Video

Road to VR

The 2016 Chess World Championships are to set to be beamed to VR headsets everywhere in 360 degree video when they get underway this November. The Championship final is between Magnus Carlsen, the reigning World Champion from Norway, and Sergey Karjakin of Russia, the challenger and will take place this November in New York.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

It debuted in 2012 and later, became the world’s first consumer-ready headset in 2016. Barbados, South Korea, Norway, and Dubai have led the world in this new form of digital tourism with VR solutions. Some countries have even leveraged VR to receive embassy services and learn about their respective countries.

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR and Oculus Rift

VRScout

Travel to the amazing world of Norway without ever leaving your couch. This short film brings all of Norway’s majesty, from its scenery to its solar eclipses, right to you. Engage with local characters and virtual environments, solve puzzles and use your powers of observation to propel the storyline forward. Twelve players.

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PSVR 2’s First Top Download Chart Sees ‘Kayak VR’ & ‘Pavlov’ Outperform ‘Horizon Call of the Mountain’

Road to VR

In it, players race across lush, photorealistic environments including ice caves in Antarctica, tropical locales in Costa Rica, storm waters in Norway, and the stark canyons of Australia. There’s also to consider that it was the subject of a hardware bundle, however that included a voucher code and not a physical disk.

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The Virtual Arena: Educators Learn Their VR

Peter Graham

A system that took much of what had been achieved with mobileVR in 2016 and packaged it into a reliable and compelling solution for the education sector, becoming a world leader deserving much more recognition.

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Project Caliper: the journey of prototyping optimal controllers for VR

The Ghost Howls

This could explain why the Wand and Index motion controllers are still the only choices for SteamVR , despite the Vive launching to consumers back in 2016. The Global E-waste Monitor report says the UK generates 23.9kg per capita – compared with 26kg in Norway July 2020 Global E-waste Monitor 2020. Image by Rob Cole).

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This Degree Will Actually Land You a Job and Prepare You for the Future

EON Reality

EON Reality Mauritius and it’s customers have created hundreds of new direct jobs, several thousands of indirect jobs through EON Reality’s global distribution network , and plans to exceed that goal after the second year of courses during the 2016 – 2017 school year.