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WellTown Is A VR Experience Built For An Entire City

VRScout

WellTown , however, is more than fun games; it’s also an experience designed to showcase how incredibly beautiful the city truly is in hopes of sparking a increase in tourism. Tourism has benefited very well from VR experiences. WellTown is a remarkable and innovative approach to tourism. Image Credit: WellingtonNZ.

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MetaVRse Launches Canada's First Full Service Virtual Reality Agency

Cats and VR

With over one million active monthly users of the Samsung GearVR, millions of Google Cardboard units and high-end Oculus Rift and HTC Vive pre-orders, Smithson believes that brands that are early to develop unique and engaging content for VR and will have a huge advantage over their competition.

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Photorealistic VR Tour ‘Nefertari: Journey to Eternity’ Takes You Deep into a 3,000 Year-old Egyptian Tomb

Road to VR

While the 360 video below is actual footage captured from within the tomb, VR users are treated to a decidedly more realistic version, replete with textured walls that appear so real you might actually be able to accidentally chip away the 3,000 year-old paint. Image courtesy Experius VR.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.01): HoloLens 2 may come in September, Oculus may commercialize a multiplayer LBVR solution, HP Reverb is back and much more!

The Ghost Howls

There are both 360 video experiences and interactive CGI ones. HTC Vive is supporting 6 experience showcased there, among which shines Inory , that accompanies the viewer on a spiritual journey. Namakura says that choosing a character outside of your own identity can risk turning into what she calls “identity tourism.”>>

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5 things Marketing and AD Agencies need to know about Virtual and Mixed Reality

RealVision VR

This is especially evident at tourism and real estate events. The HTC Vive headset is in the lead. 2D 360 does have it’s place though, in transporting people to such places such as the Grand Canyon or the great outdoors. 1: Sell to an already captive audience. 2: Build for Room-sized Virtual Reality.

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Top 37 VR Film Festivals to Attend in 2018

VeeR VR

Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. The last date to submit your 360 video films is September 27, 2016. In this forum, four separate stations use four different devices to show the many ways VR is being used in film, gaming, tourism, marketing, art and more.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: There’s VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there’s also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that. They’re going to sell you 360 video. HTC VIVE sold a couple million.

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