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Gaming-Themed Atari Hotels Will Include VR And AR Entertainment

VRScout

Earlier today legendary video game company Atari announced that it is partnering with innovation and strategic agency GSD Group to develop a new chain of hotels centered entirely around both classic and modern gaming. We’re excited to be working on this project with such great partners and to bring a big win to Arizona.”

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‘Sense Arena’ is a VR Hockey Trainer That’s Being Adopted by NHL Teams

Road to VR

Improve your ability to read the release by watching interactive videos of players hooting at you. Sense Arena came up with an interesting solution to this problem by superimposing footage of real players shooting on the goal and then transitioning the puck from the filmed version to an interactive version just before it reaches the goal.

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UploadVR’s 2016 Game of the Year Winners

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

We teamed up with the prolific Christopher Sabat (the voice of Piccolo, Yamcha, and of course Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z as well as Roronoa Zoro in One Piece ) to record a video announcing each winner in every category. Arizona Sunshine. Best Immersive Film Winner: KÀ The Battle Within. Arizona Sunshine. Arizona Sunshine.

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Walmart Brings Tricked Out ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ VR Experience to Select Stores

Road to VR

Walmart is continuing its onward journey to think outside of the big-box with the help of VR, this time bringing 50-foot tractor-trailers to their megalithic parking lots across the US to let shoppers go head-first into a VR experience for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

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Mary Matheson speaks about storytelling in VR and the importance of 360 movies

The Ghost Howls

Lots of interesting insights, which you can find here below, either in the original video format or with a slightly-edited transcription. I’m also a professor of practice for Arizona State University , which is opening a new center in downtown Los Angeles actually. When you go and watch a film, often you’re there.

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VR & AR 2018: A Year In Review

VRScout

If 2018 is remembered for anything, it’ll be for the multiple high-quality animated VR films released throughout the year. Featuring an absolutely stellar voice cast including everyone from John Legend and Oprah Winfrey, to Constance Wu and Diego Luna, Crow: The Legend is arguably one of the most well-structured VR short films ever released.

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Welcome to Virtual Reality Ad Units

VRScout

USA Today launches branded VR news show with a 360° video ad. It’s what you might expect for 360 video news segment, letting you take off from the USS Eisenhower carrier, slackline in Arizona, and fly high in a hot air balloon for New Mexico’s annual festival.