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SXSW Reviews vol. 2: Hands-on with AmazeVR, Beatday, and The Sick Rose

The Ghost Howls

I still remember when Amaze was a distribution platform for 360 videos … I loved the high quality of its videos and I also loved the team working there. Then the startup pivoted to VR concerts when it understood that the market for 360 videos wasn’t going to explode.

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Google Launches Social Awareness VR Initiative ‘Daydream Impact’

VRScout

Although there are a number of tools and strategies that can help drive awareness, there are few more effective than VR to help shine a light on important issues. The training also covers all the post-production work required to create the video and concludes with guidance on how to publish and promote the video.

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AWE 2022: Unity CEO talks about his vision of the metaverse

The Ghost Howls

The metaverse is not pre-recorded like a 360 video but is a world that is alive and reactive, where things are generated in real time. I then asked, “And what about the adoption of XR hardware?” At that moment, I was kinda lost: “what the hell do I do now??”

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Simula One aims at becoming your portable Linux VR computer

The Ghost Howls

What strategies have you employed to develop it? Can I launch some Linux VR games or 360 videos or something like that? We’re also planning to be reasonably open with our hardware to the extent that supplier laws allow. SimulaOS is able to handle external monitors (for non-VR usage). Is the project open source?

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SXSW 2022 CHAT WITH CHARLES SEGUIN: FIRST IMPRESSIONS, XR INDUSTRY AND EMERGING TECH

Digitalnauts

I managed to see “most” XR projects and companies and what they were showcasing (including some 360 videos, lidar scan with an artistic touch , AR and VR as well).?It There are also companies that create d their own hardware to capture their subjects to higher resolution. ANY DEAD ENDS?

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. This partnership is sure to make major waves and shake up expectations for mixed reality content as well as hardware.

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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

You may think that so they want to launch the PSVR 2 before the PS5, and it may be, but actually, if this device truly wants to be next-gen, it can’t be compatible with the rather old hardware of PS4. Personally, I think that at maximum they can announce that PSVR 2 will exist and will reveal some features. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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