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VR Experiences to Introduce Your Family to Virtual Reality Over Thanksgiving

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The turkey is in the oven, the cranberry sauce is in the can, and your VR setup is in the box ready to be shown off to the family at Thanksgiving. Oculus Video : Load up a movie and toss your Uncle Ted in for his own private cinema. Within : Let’s face it – most 360 video is crap.

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VR’s Stunning Filmmaking Makes a Big Impact at First Ever World Humanitarian Summit

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The first ever UN World Humanitarian Summit was held in Istanbul, Turkey this week, and VR was there to help make an impact. Gear VR co-creator Samsung Electronics brought several of its mobile VR HMDs along to the event, showcasing a total of nine VR films that were made in partnership with the UN itself.

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The DxE and Condition One investigation into Whole Foods "Cage Free" Eggs is one of the best directed VR Horror films yet.

Cats and VR

I recently ran into a Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) member who was on the streets of Berkeley showing people a recently released investigation in partnership with 360-degree virtual reality company Condition One into an American Humane Association certified Whole Foods egg supplier.

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR, Rift and Touch

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Experience the world of Hard Enduro with this app featuring a number of 360° videos from the Red Bull Hare Scramble at the Erzberg Rodeo 2016 in Austria. On a starlit beach in Turkey you meet a Syrian family about to embark on their second perilous attempt to cross the sea to Greece. Red Bull Hard Enduro VR (FREE – Gear VR ).

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‘We Wait’ Is The First BBC Production For The Oculus Store, And It Is Free

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But We Wait is a first for the British broadcaster which saw the BBC Connected Studio collaborate with legendary Bristol-based animation studio Aardman Digital – the makers of Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep – to produce a dramatization of the dangerous journey Syrian migrants take from Turkey to Greece on smuggler’s boats.

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