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SIGGRAPH 2019 Conference Will Feature Four World-Premiere VR/AR Experiences

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Beach Body Bros – While showcasing Oculus Medium as a production-ready sculpting tool, Beach Body Bros takes you on a ridiculous musical journey through a world of pure muscle, intense strength, and stupid greatness. Neural AR: Immersive Augmented Reality With Real-Time Neural Style Transfer. In fact, it is full of sound.

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African Americans in virtual reality

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Not only does the film feature some impressive uses of immersive virtual reality — check out Shuri driving a car via a remote virtual interface in the clip above — but you can also become Black Panther in Marvel Powers United VR for the Oculus Rift. Documentaries. Watch the 360-video below, or in your favorite VR headset.

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Tribeca Film Festival’s Virtual Arcade Steps Up VR Game For 2018

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OBJECTS IN MOTION AR CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR. Objects In Motion AR Closer Than They Appear is a celebration of both the 21st and 19th century. Originally a critically acclaimed theatre piece, this intuitive installation tasks you with using an AR headset to explore a cardboard maze filled to the brim with archaic objects.

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Suzanne Borders says it all on being a female entrepreneur in XR

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I have not had a ton of negative experiences with people in particular in AR and VR. I feel I definitely had some problems in other tech areas, but not AR/VR. Where I’ve had problems within the AR/VR community is getting funded. These are the kind of tweets for which I love following Suzanne on Twitter.

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NewImages, Cannes, Tribeca Join Forces In Unprecedented Collab

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Cultural institutions in France are in a unique position to receive public funding for projects, but Swierczynski is also going where no festival has gone before, creating relationships with institutions in Ecuador, Kenya, Sudan, Morocco, and South Africa, just to name a few.

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Upgrading VR Storytelling

Tech Trends VR

My Africa is a project by Conservation International to educate audiences about Reteti, a community run Elephant Sanctuary in Kenya, working to save elephants, reknitting an ancient coexistence between people and wildlife. She also regularly writes for Fast Company, Ars Technica, Quartz, Wired and others. Click To Tweet.

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