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NFTs: Perspectives From AR & VR Stakeholders

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From art to business, the blockchain has enabled digital content to hold new value, with implications for the entire AR & VR community. I caught up with AR and VR industry folks from the UK, Europe, South Africa, to learn more about their views on the growing NFT scene and its potential impact. Demo here. .

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Celebrate The Women’s World Cup With New Snapchat AR Lenses

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To commemorate the occasion celebrated by sports fans all around the world, Snapchat is introducing brand new ways for you to immerse yourself in the excitement via a handful of new augmented reality (AR) experiences. The first two games alone had an attendance of 117,921 people. To help bring you closer to the game and the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.26.11): Half-Life: Alyx revealed, Oculus Link out, XBox not considering VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I have had terribly busy days with the launch of our game HitMotion: Reloaded that will happen tomorrow on Viveport M. We are incredibly excited, but also need some sleep. Alyx is a Half-Life game set between Half-Life 1 and 2 , in which you embody Alyx Vance. nReal launches its AR glasses devkits. Top news of the week.

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The 2020 Sundance Film Festival Is Absolutely Stacked With Experimental Immersive Media

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Since its inception, Sundance’s New Frontier programming block has featured an incredible lineup of experimental content, incorporating everything from AR, VR, and AI, to big data, biotech, facial recognition, and even rocket travel.

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This ‘Snackable’ Headset Aims to Make VR More Approachable to the Public

Road to VR

That’s where South Africa-based EDEN Labs wants to change things up with its enterprise-focused VR headset platform, the Eden Snacker. The Snacker isn’t meant for the sort of games you might normally think of when VR comes to mind like Beat Saber (2018) or Job Simulator (2016).

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Reading List: 50 Scifi Books Featuring AR and VR Technology

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It’s no accident that many people who appreciate VR and AR are also fans of scifi books, movies, and TV shows. If you’re looking to immerse yourself in books with significant AR and VR presence, this is the reading list for you. Ender’s Game , by Orson Scott Card. Brasyl , by Ian McDonald.

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WebAR: The Next Big Thing for Your Business

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In the decades since the first AR apps appeared, nearly all of them were standalone apps downloaded from an app store to a mobile device. Thus, it only makes sense for stores to add AR capability to their website, allowing users to see how the item will look in their home.