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Arizona Sunshine 2 Review: Reanimating A Dying Genre In The Best Possible Way

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On a cold February evening in 2016, Arizona Sunshine changed my life. When my wife bought me tickets to an immersive zombie experience, I had no idea that I had unwittingly stumbled into a 30-minute interactive ad for the HTC Vive that culminated in an eight-minute session of Arizona Sunshine. Well, kind of.

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This Arizona University Is Letting Students Earn A Bachelors.

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This Arizona University Is Letting Students Earn A Bachelors Degree In VR An Arizona university is bringing back a long dormant Bachelor’s degree program allowing students the chance to major in virtual reality studies. The major you choose sets a tone for your life. But your parents will have to pay for the frame.

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

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Walk around yourself and study how you made or didn’t make your saves. In April the Arizona Coyotes, an NHL team based in Phoenix, AZ, announced it had signed a multi-year partnership to use Sense Arena in its training program. You will learn how to fill the majority of the new when facing shots. Shot Replay. Training Plans.

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Facebook Researchers Explore Mechanical Display Shifting to Reduce Screen Door Effect

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Researchers from Facebook Reality Labs and the University of Arizona published new work exploring the use of high-speed mechanical display shifting to reduce the so-called screen-door-effect (SDE) of immersive displays.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.19): Vision Pro is slated for January, Quest 2 is selling incredibly well, and more!

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More info Photorealistic graphics are not fundamental to having a good VR experience A new study has revealed that to make the user feel part of a VR world and feel connected with it, it is not fundamental to have AAA graphics, but it is more important to create agency for the user in the world and to foster emotions in him.

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A Look at OmniVirt’s Analysis of AR and VR Technology in Advertising

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About the Study. The analysis also mentioned the use of AR and VR by sports teams, including the Arizona Rattlers and Dallas Mavericks. Representatives of the company provided ARPost with a copy of the analysis, and it’s definitely worth taking a look at. See Also: 6 Brands That Use AR and VR Advertising Successfully.

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

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Taking part in this research project will enable us to expand our offering to students and help more learners benefit from these programmes” Conor O’Leary, who studies computing , explained that he had found the Bodyswaps technology “really useful.”