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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!

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Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR. Top news of the week.

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Oculus Launches VR For Good in High Schools

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We have all seen how virtual reality can change gaming and entertainment forever with this immersive technology. Students will receive everything they need to create 360 videos for VR, including a Samsung Gear VR, a Galaxy S6, Ricoh Theta S 360 cameras, access to editing software, and VR film mentors.

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HTC To Unveil VIVE Flow Business Edition Goggles

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The devices are set to train, work, collaborate remotely, and enhance classroom interactions for its users across sectors, including education, healthcare, and many others, HTC VIVE explained. HTC VIVE announced on Tuesday it will expand the availability of its VIVE Flow compact VR goggles with a novel Business Edition version.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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FACEBOOK KEEPS PUSHING THE VIRTUAL ENVELOPE. Starting with its $2B acquisition of Oculus in the spring of 2014, Facebook has continued to build out its virtual reality strategy in a big way. 360 videos were implemented into your Newsfeed over a year ago, and 360 photo functionality was instituted over the summer.

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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

VRScout

Zuckerberg is well aware that he has a big role to play in educating people about the changes coming as immersive technologies mature—and he is certainly taking this task very seriously. For many, the 360 ° video of his daughter’s first steps was the first 360 ° video they ever watched. Virtual Reality.

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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. Now this is where things get really interesting.

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Top 8 Media Using 360° Videos for Immersive News Stories

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Immersive media is a collective term that incorporates 360-degree video, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and volumetric capture (includes both CGI and 3-D scanning). Marcelle Hopkins, the executive director of virtual reality at NYT, shared some of his team's insight in an interview with Digiday.