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XR Travel Case Study in Focus: Qualcomm, Skylights and Alaska Airlines

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Virtual Reality headsets and AR apps offer an excellent way for people to experience an environment before purchasing a travel ticket. Qualcomm, Skylights, and Alaska Airlines are taking advantage of this fact to deliver premium in-flight entertainment to a new generation of travellers. Changing the Travel Experience.

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HoloLens Exhibit Teleports You to the Tundra of Arctic Alaska

VRScout

And Bell said their 85-year-old museum plans to feature more augmented and virtual reality exhibits in the future. ” Murmur: Arctic Realities will run from January to April at the Collins Gallery at Mystic Seaport in Stonington, Connecticut. .” You can watch a video of the debut in Anchorage below.

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Alaska Airlines wants you to wear a VR headset while you fly

Slashgear

Generally speaking, air travel is a pretty dull affair that is nonetheless a reality of life for a lot of people. Alaska Airlines announced today that is has a new way for some flyers to pass the time while they’re in the air, as it has outfitted some of cross-country routes with VR headsets.

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Shaun MacGillivray Chats About IMAX and VR Movies

ARPost

See Also: The Future of Virtual Reality Filmmaking. What films are you currently working on or have worked on that use mixed reality and virtual reality? Juanita: What kind of equipment and/or applications do you use for filming in mixed reality and virtual reality?

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More VR Game News From the Facebook Game Developers Showcase – Day 2 & 3

ARPost

The horror genre was pretty much made for virtual reality. Lies Beneath is a horror/survival VR game set in 1950s Alaska, coming to Oculus Quest on March 31, and Oculus Rift S on April 14. In Lies Beneath , we put lots of work into making those physical reactions work,” said Drifter creative director Brian Murphy. “

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Taking AR Walk in the Woods

Tech Trends VR

Stretching from Alaska through Canada and Scandinavia all the way to the Pacific coast of Russia, The unique ecosystem of the Great Northern Forest circles the planet and plays a vital role in preventing climate change. With AR, Greenpeace hopes to create greater empathy between us and forest ecosystems under threat.

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Lies Beneath is a new VR Horror From Gunheart Developer Drifter Entertainment

Peter Graham

This past week has already seen White Door Games announce the terrifying Cosmophobia and now another equally unsettling virtual reality (VR) horror has surfaced. The first is a tourist style ‘ Visit Slumber, Alaska ‘ site with a nice version about its history.