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Oculus Launches VR For Good in High Schools

VRScout

We have all seen how virtual reality can change gaming and entertainment forever with this immersive technology. There are creators like RYOT connecting supporters directly to a purpose in VR with their Pencils of Promise experience and Vrse transporting us into a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan through Clouds Over Sidra.

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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.

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Virtual Reality Journalism: Empathy through Technology

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Yup, you are reading this on a virtual reality blog, so indeed we are talking about just that! Immersive Journalism is rebuilding news events in a virtual world, so you can actually go in and experience the scene from a first-person view. Understanding leads to empathy, and empathy leads to action.

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NBA and Oculus Team Up For One Stellar Gear VR Experience

VRScout

But it works — especially since this is being shot entirely for virtual reality. Follow My Lead: The Story of the 2016 NBA Finals is narrated by actor Michael B Jordan and features the two teams going head to head in the NBA Finals back in June. If this seems a bit manic for you, it’s because it is.

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Sundance New Frontier Announces 2019 Line-Up

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Lead Artist: Teek Mach, Key Collaborator: Joel Douek, Andrew Sales) — In 2016, a young artist traded her paintbrushes for a headset and began inhabiting virtual reality more than the real world. When your body leaves the experience, your presence lives inside her ever-expanding virtual painting. Embody / U.S.A.

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Sundance Film Festival to Feature 18 VR & AR Experiences Next Month

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Key Collaborators : Joey Verbeke, Jordan Goldfarb, Ben Purdy, Peter Rubin, Eric Adrian Marshall. In 2016, a young artist traded her paintbrushes for a headset and began inhabiting virtual reality more than the real world. When your body leaves the experience, your presence lives inside her ever-expanding virtual painting.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

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You can’t really train for every scenario in the real world; in virtual reality — with these suits — you can now train in a really realistic way, for things that are very rare. Virtual reality puts on a headset and transports you to another world. I love that. That’s Six Degrees of Freedom.

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