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‘Operation Apex’ Takes You to the Great White’s Delicately Balanced Ocean Ecosystem, Now Available on Vive

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Operation Apex is a direct sequel to ‘Great White Sharks’, an educational experience that’s featured in one of the most viewed 360 videos on YouTube at 26 million views. Curiscope created Operation Apex under the guidance of South Africa-based research and conservation organization Oceans Research.

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Get A Glimpse Into Conditions Filmmakers Braved To Create ‘ClimbEverestVR’

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Media has always been a bridge to experiences we wouldn’t otherwise be able to see, whether via text, video, or photography. 360-degree media have given us dynamic looks into many different settings that may even be dangerous, but what of the people exploring in those dire conditions?

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.26.11): Half-Life: Alyx revealed, Oculus Link out, XBox not considering VR and much more!

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South-Africa startup Eden Labs has created an interesting design for VR headsets needed in public installations to show 360 videos. News worth a mention. Image by Eden Labs). The Eden Snacker shows an interesting design for public VR installations.

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The 2020 Sundance Film Festival Is Absolutely Stacked With Experimental Immersive Media

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The feeling of weightlessness combined with 360 visuals of outer space gives the sensation that the user is floating effortlessly through the cosmos. According to Frilot, the project–referred to as Spaced Out –is just one example of the incredible 360 VR content still being produced.

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I Am Because of You Is Impactful VR Created On A $10,000 Budget

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I Am Because of You was put together in Africa with only $10,000 and we chatted with Ben Bernstein, the director of the film, along with Impact’s VP of internal relations Emily Anderson about how they managed.

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This ‘Snackable’ Headset Aims to Make VR More Approachable to the Public

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That’s where South Africa-based EDEN Labs wants to change things up with its enterprise-focused VR headset platform, the Eden Snacker. And let’s face it, most everyone on the planet is a VR newcomer at this point, meaning you’ll need an attendant to handhold users the entire way through.