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John Legend Performs Live In VR To Raise Awareness Towards Mass Incarceration

VRScout

Fresh off their huge $30 Million funding announcement, virtual music platform Wave hosted an amazing live VR concert last week featuring GRAMMY award-winning singer-songwriter John Legend in an effort to help awareness and support for Legend’s FREE AMERICA campaign, with the goal of transforming the U.S. Image Credit: Wave.

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“It’s Time to Go Spatial”: Get Hyped for AWE USA 2020

ARPost

While events take place throughout the year and around the world, the main floor in America is in Santa Clara, California. Others will focus on XR technology in entertainment, including XR art, gaming, media, and location-based entertainment. This year’s AWE USA is taking place on May 27-29. creative director BC Biermann.

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Flatline VR Brings Near-Death Experience To Life

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Working with 3D Live Entertainment and Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 technology, Schnitzer is now able to give people an accurate recreation of one woman’s near-death experience through the power of virtual reality. The five-minute experience will make its debut at ScareLA on Aug. This was just the pilot episode,” Schnitzer explained.

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What Does the XR Industry Think about Apple’s Vision Pro?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

There was a demonstration of how you could use the headset to help you work and communicate with others, but there could have been more focus on this, instead of on the entertainment functions. Apple also presented the Vision Pro as a productivity tool, rather than simply entertainment hardware. Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

Go on reading, I bet you will enjoy this journey into the present and the future of location-based augmented reality entertainment. We also have a small office and a couple of people overseas in Europe and America. Hello Eido, introduce yourself to my readers! My name is “Eido Inoue” (in Japanese: ?????),

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The Right Time to Invest in VR, with MetaVRse’s Alan Smithson and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. Their market caps over $3-billion right now. And I think they're doing a fantastic job at that. Are they on VR?

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The Right Time to Invest in VR, with MetaVRse’s Alan Smithson and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. Their market caps over $3-billion right now. And I think they're doing a fantastic job at that. Are they on VR?

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