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Meta, NBA Open 180-Degree Live VR Sports on Meta Quest

XR Today - Virtual Reality

With the partnership, Meta will offer immersive live games with 180-degree video. This is a huge leap forward from last season’s five immersive games. With Worlds, the NBA-themed metaverse space will also provide rewards, games, and exclusive immersive content to encourage online interactions.

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Art Through Lenses: VR Experience Explores the Life and Work of Baroque Painter Artemisia Gentileschi

ARPost

Today’s technology has paved the way for an immersive, interactive kind of storytelling that puts the audience front and center of a story and creates an entirely new perspective that can help add depth to the narrative. XR in particular has enabled spatial immersion for viewers. See Also: Animate Your Storytelling Time With AR Apps.

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Seeing the Realities of War Through AR

Tech Trends VR

VR is often called the “ empathy machine ” referring to the medium’s unique ability to make you see things from the perspective of another through sheer power of immersion. We hope the story told through this immersive app will give people new insights into the realities of war,” says Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC. “It

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SXSW 2023: Highlights and XR Experiences That Push the Boundaries of Storytelling, Music, and Technology

ARPost

Attendees from around the globe also got the chance to immerse themselves for a couple of days in the fantastical world of the SXSW XR Experience. While SXSW 2023 was primarily in-person, attendees were also engaged with the XR Experience World through VRChat and other online immersive events.

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Sundance 2021 Will Host Its New Frontier Program In VR

VRScout

This week organizers revealed the 14 selections making up this years’ New Frontier showcase, a portion of the festival dedicated entirely to immersive media. This series of animated documentary shorts in AR for smartphones, tablets and social media platforms, explores that relationship. 7 Sounds – U.S.A.

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Making Noise in VR

Tech Trends VR

At one such event, Helen Pankhurst, Emmeline’s great-granddaughter had the opportunity to try it on and was enthusiastic about how the immersive medium really helped to bring out her ancestor’s story: “You’re asked not just to look but to use your mind and your voice. VRScout (@VRScout) December 12, 2018.

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Spatial Computing at SXSW 2020; Is This the Year of XR?

Robert Scoble

CHANGING THE IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING WILD WEST. DIRECTING IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE FOR THE MR STAGE. HOW CAN WE MOVE AR BEYOND JUST BEING A TECH DEMO? IMMERSIVE DESIGN AT FALLINGWATER. MULTIPLAYER AR LESSONS IN THE STREETS & CLASSROOM. READY LEARNER ONE: EXPLORING THE AR & VR FRONTIER.