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VR Restores The Notre-Dame Cathedral To Its Historic Glory

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The 45-minute interactive tour takes you back 850 years to explore the incredible architecture in its prime. Eternal Notre-Dame , a new VR experience developed by Orange and Emissive in association with the Mayor of Paris and the Church, returns the extraordinary edifice back to its former glory through the use of immersive technology. .

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Snapchat’s Latest Lens Studio Update Is A Game Changer For AR Creators

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This week Snapchat further deepened its commitment to AR technology with the release of a new update for Lens Studio, the companies official desktop app for the creation of AR ‘Lenses,’ which adds fourteen new “Landmarks,” as well as six additional Lense templates. 14 new landmarks and 6 AR templates make their way to the desktop app.

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Pico launches Pico Neo 3 Link: the first true Quest 2 competitor (in Beta)

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For the transition to a consumer device, Pico employees had to re-architecture the store, the paying system, the accounting system, the backend, the networking, the user interface, and all the rest to make it become a compelling consumer product. As for the content, the company aims at having more than 200 games on its native Pico Store.

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MID?M+ Cannes Event to Rally Music Industry with XR, Web3

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MIDƐM+ is set to return to Cannes, France to kick off the start of 2024. Some of the topics linked to immersive technologies include ‘Music in Gaming and Virtual Realities,’ ‘Music’s Worth in the AI Era: Progress or Downfall’, and many others.

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This Ultra-Rare Intel GPU Just Sold for $5,000 on eBay

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This lovely blue component, one of the only remaining reminders of Intel’s failed attempt at a discrete GPU, was purchased on eBay France for €4,650, or $5,234. Perhaps the only working prototype of Intel’s abandoned Larabee GPU just sold for more than scalped, pandemic-era AMD or Nvidia graphics card. Read more.

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Famous musician Jean-Michel Jarre to host a live VR concert on VRrOOm on Sunday

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“Virtual or augmented realities can be to the performing arts what the advent of cinema was to the theatre, an additional mode of expression made possible by new technologies at a given time,” predicts Jarre. . Also involved in the project are tech startups such as SoWhen?

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The 2017 Virtual Reality Conference and Expo Schedule

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2016 could be considered the official introduction of virtual reality to the world and many industries have either embraced the technology at varying levels or simply started paying attention to movements within the industry. Paris, France. Experiential Technology Conference & Expo (XTechExpo) // March 14th – March 15th.