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Kids Bike Through Their Own Artwork In This VR Workshop

VRScout

As part of their commitment to mixing new media with conventional education while simultaneously making the 12 year old me insanely jealous, Play Lab’s If I Ride VR workshop uses virtual reality technology to give kids the opportunity to explore artwork they create themselves.

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Expert View: Immersive Technology Investment Boosting Creativity

Tech Trends VR

Such investment will be very much welcomed by the augmented reality (AR) and VR industry, because it is a vote of confidence in the businesses working hard to create more immersive experiences. The investment will primarily focus on virtual reality video games, interactive art shows and augmented reality experiences in tourism.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.23): Facebook launches Horizon Workrooms, Intel announces its graphics cards, and more!

The Ghost Howls

brainstorming vs workshop). Watch this cool 360 video about playing the Star Wars theme! (A It’s an effective solution to simulate real writing. The environment is very cozy, and the layout of the room can be changed to accommodate different kinds of meetings (e.g. Some XR fun. A bit funny, a bit cool) Funny link.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.27): Samsung may be working on a new headset, Half-Life: Alyx will ship on time and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The amazing project North Star , that aims at bringing affordable and opensource augmented reality to everyone , has just reached another milestone: it now has a SteamVR driver , so that you can use it with some already-existing SteamVR content. 2) More info (Number of 5G phones over time). Cool to know!

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Supporting Creative Storytelling in VR

Tech Trends VR

These projects have all graduated from the CreativeXR programme, which was created to encourage content makers to explore creative storytelling in immersive mediums such as Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality. When it launched in October 2017, over 1,000 teams registered their interest, with 250 submitting proposals for the Open Call.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is also used to substitute workshops and speeches usually employing Youtube Videos or Youtube Live Streams ; VR events , made in virtual reality in platforms like ENGAGE, Somnium Space, Mozilla Hubs, VIRBela, etc…. Thanks to BattleGroundsVR devs for the tip). Two creative XR things worth watching.

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Navigating the New Frontier of Extended Reality with Accenture’s Rori DuBoff

XR for Business Podcast

And extended reality is the term that we are using at Accenture, and I think across the industry others are also using this term “XR” to include virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D experiences; all different types of experiences that blend the digital and physical worlds, and work on extending your reality.