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Expert View: Immersive Technology Investment Boosting Creativity

Tech Trends VR

The growth in VR/AR sector is set to increase following a new deal between the UK Government and the Creative Industries Council (CIC) to invest £33m in immersive technologies Click To Tweet. The investment is good news for the VR industry and proof that the government and CIC recognise the potential that the immersive tech space offers.

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XR Organizations and Initiatives for World Environment Day

ARPost

Further, earlier this year, OCAVU announced an Environmental, Social, and Governance program with partner EcoCart. Many of them are 360 videos on YouTube that can be experienced on other headsets or even on 2D screens. By the way, not all of these experiences require a Quest headset. Cycling the World With VZfit.

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U.S. Olympic Athletes Are Using Virtual Reality to Train for Events

Road to VR

Ski & Snowboard Association, the national governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding, announced a partnership with Menlo Park-based STRIVR Labs to use VR to help prepare for and recover from World Cup and Olympic events. ” Troy Taylor, High Performance Director at U.S.

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Top 8 Media Using 360° Videos for Immersive News Stories

VeeR VR

The Times’ arrangement with Samsung will wrap up at the end of 2017, and the Times will continue to produce 360-degree videos on a smaller scale after. For a little over a year, the Associated Press has produced 20 virtual reality and 360 videos across a broad range of topics. Associated Press. Al Jazeera - Contrast VR.

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Watch ‘Escape Code,’ A Neon-Soaked 360-Film About Our Cyberpunk Future

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

I don’t want to give too much away, but essentially Jonas (our hero) is a computer hacker, and accesses a government database that acknowledges the existence of aliens. He’s a hacker and unwittingly accesses a government database. UploadVR: What are some of the best 360-degree video projects you’ve seen so far?

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How the XR Community Celebrates Black History Month (Black Futures Month?)

ARPost

The 360° gallery uses desktop controls for looking around, but you can’t walk through the gallery like Virbela, you have to click arrows on the floor. Walls in the virtual museum are all dedicated to different fields like government, sports, and business. But, this isn’t a design and usability article.

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Now You Can Have ‘Dolphin-Assisted Therapy’ in VR

VRScout

The Dutch government provided a 50,000 euro ($59,000) grant to develop the waterproof VR goggles, which contain a Samsung smartphone mounted on a 3D-printed rig made of recycled plastic. The organization claims the treatments have helped people with conditions ranging from insomnia to arm pain.

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