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

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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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Varjo Promises “Human-Eye” Resolution With VR-1 Headset

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Alongside its proprietary 20/20 eye tracker and 60-PPD Bionic Display with “human-eye” resolution, the VR-1 also features support for a large helping of photorealistic virtual workflows, including Unreal Engine, Unity, Autodesk, VRRED, PREPAR3D, ZeroLight, and VBS Blue. Weight: 605g (905g w/ headband).

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

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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. The Auggie Awards for XR Technology. This year’s AWE USA is taking place on May 27-29.

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Sandbox is Building an SDK so Anyone Can Create for Its VR Attraction Platform

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Sandbox operates a number of VR locations in major cities across North America as well as Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, and Jakarta. Sandbox’s locations make use of a few technologies that developers likely don’t have, such as the company’s haptic guns and its multi-camera motion capture system.

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VR/AR Association Holds Virtual Summit Dedicated to the Metaverse

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During this panel too, Reyes spoke of blockchain technologies as the link not just between virtual worlds, but between virtual worlds and the physical world to create true interoperability across immersive platforms. SuperWorld is not just a technology company, but a movement of people who want to be in our community,” said Lotlikar. “We

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Immerse Lauds XR for Upskilling Anglo American Workers

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Major corporations like Accenture, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, and others have adopted immersive learning tools to train their staff at scale and on the fly. Symonds has worked in XR training for over ten years and focused on spaces where immersive technologies can empower learners.

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Flatline VR Brings Near-Death Experience To Life

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Jon Schnitzer has been waiting 16 years for virtual reality technology to evolve to this point. 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.