June 20 // MLB: Atlanta Braves @ Toronto Blue Jays // 9:37 am PT. Oculus Venues , the social app that allows ‘thousands of users’ to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today. MORE
said Morgan Godat, Executive Producer at CCP Atlanta. CCP Games today announced Sparc, a unique virtual sport only possible in virtual reality. In Sparc, players connect online to compete with each other in fast and fun full-body VR gameplay. MORE
Atlanta, Lenox Square Mall. Atlanta, Perimeter Mall. Haven’t been able to make it to any of the big gaming expos (or you don’t know anyone with the $3,000 AR headset)? MORE
The large custom-built structure was designed and built by My Friend’s Nephew, an Atlanta-based creative advertising and design studio. Zaxby’s is taking an interactive HTC VIVE experience on tour to tailgaters across the country. MORE
Atlanta 2017. While most video games possess some semblance of an economy, even if that’s just trading bottle caps for heavy artillery (as in Fallout’s perversion of the barter system ), online games and competitions under the eSports banner take the concept so much further. MORE
Unfortunately for Sparc, CCP has since shut down the Atlanta-based branch tasked with creating, selling off their Newcastle branch in charge of EVE: Valkyrie (2016) as well. MORE
said Morgan Godat, Executive Producer at CCP Atlanta. CCP games, the developers behind EVE: Valkyrie, have revealed their next made-for-VR title Sparc, a futuristic TRON-esque sports title for HTC Vive, PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift & Touch. MORE
June 20 // MLB: Atlanta Braves @ Toronto Blue Jays // 9:37 am PT. Your ticket to live social events in VR is here. You can now watch live concerts, sports, and comedy shows with friends in VR. MORE
Rosenthal says the company already has exclusive partnerships with 229 airports, including Paris, Dubai, Shanghai, Singapore, and Atlanta. Traveling through Terminal 4 on your way to, or through JFK International? MORE
Partnering with Atlanta-based animation studio TRICK 3D , MAWF provided the company with an audio recording of a conversation between Zayden and his mother in which he is asked to describe how he imagined Saturn to look. MORE
“When available for consumers, AT&T customers will be among the first to experience [the Magic Leap product] in select AT&T stores in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, with more markets to follow,” AT&T said. MORE
In 2016, straight out of high school, Jak Wilmot started one of Atlanta’s first VR animation studios – Disrupt. In 2016, straight out of high school, Jak Wilmot started Disrupt, one of Atlanta's first VR animation studios Click To Tweet. MORE
CCP is stepping back from VR and has closed it Atlanta office responsible for Sparc and is selling its Newcastle office responsible for Eve Valkyrie. Today there was a significant restructuring to CCP games, known in the VR world for the excellent EVE Valkyrie and Gunjack games. MORE
The post CCP Shuffles EVE: Valkyrie Senior Programmer to Work on “cutting-edge VR” in Atlanta appeared first on UploadVR. Experiences gaming CCP Atlanta ccp games CCP Newcastle EVE Valkyrie htc vive oculus rift PlayStation VR Sigurður Gunnarsson MORE
” That conclusion meant that, last year, CCP closed down its Atlanta studio, developer of multiplayer VR eSport, Sparc, and sold its Newcastle studio, best known for its work on EVE: Valkyrie, to Sumo Digital. CCP Games’ annual fan event, EVE Fanfest, is taking place in Reykjavik, Iceland this week. MORE
NextVR will be partnering with Live Nation to broadcast a live performance by the artist and DJ collective Thievery Corporation as they perform in Atlanta, Georgia. The live performance takes place in Atlanta, GA at the Tabernacle venue on Dec. MORE
Follow Lichter Filmfest on social media: Atlanta Film Festival Date: April 13 - 22 Now in its fourth decade, the Atlanta Film Festival—one of only two-dozen Academy Award® qualifying festivals in the U.S.—is The 2016 Atlanta Film Festival was first open for virtual reality. MORE
The developer’s team in Atlanta this week confirmed that Sparc will be coming to Sony’s headset first in Q3 of this year. CCP Games is going outside of its EVE universe for the first time ever later this year with Sparc , and PlayStation VR (PSVR) owners will get to try it first. It’s expected to hit both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift too, but it sounds like fans will have to wait either until the very end of the year of sometime in 2018 to get their hands on it. MORE
Speaking at VR Day Atlanta in January , CNN’s Head of VR, Ed Thomas, described VR and 360 video as a ‘reinvention of the news story telling process’. CNN has officially launched CNNVR, a new immersive journalism unit and virtual reality platform with CNN Digital. MORE
Feature Interview VR Sports adam kraver ccp atlanta ccp games e-sports esports virtual reality e sports virtual reality esports vr e-sports vr esports vr sportsWhat puts the ‘E’ in E-sports? MORE
First, Jeakins took his turn racing down a detailed digital version of the real-world Road Atlanta Raceway in Braselton, Georgia as it appears in Microsoft’s 2017 arcade racing video game Forza Motorsport 7. Real and virtual go head-to-head in this first-of-a-kind high speed duel. MORE
The augmented reality headset will be getting demo stations at AT&T stores in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco once it’s been launched for consumers, the company announced today. We’ll finally (finally!) have a chance to try out the much-anticipated Magic Leap One for ourselves via in-store demos in the future. MORE
April 11, 2017 – Charlotte Hornets at Atlanta Hawks – 7:30 p.m. NextVR has previously pulled in massive funding through big investment rounds, including $30 million and another 80 million , to continue live broadcasting in VR. MORE
Last year saw EVE Online developer CCP Games close down its VR-dedicated Atlanta studio , while Sony shut the doors of RIGS creator Guerrilla Cambridge just over a year ago today. Creative VR studio Future Lighthouse is set to close its doors nearly three years after its launch. Lighthouse, which was dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR storytelling (and wrote about its work on Upload late last year), worked on 18 VR productions over the past few years. MORE
The company is closing its Atlanta office and selling its Newcastle office, according to a report by the Iceland Monitor. The CCP Atlanta studio is being closed down and after 8 years my time with CCP is coming to an end… Now to figure out what to do next. In what can only be characterized as one of the biggest blows to the budding VR industry, CCP Games is shelving its VR efforts. MORE
SEE ALSO CCP to Shelve VR as It Shutters Atlanta Office, Sells Branch Behind 'EVE: Valkryie' in Newcastle. MORE
“The plan for the pitch was to fly to Atlanta, get Mike Lazzo from Adult Swim in a Vive. As noted in the review for Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality , the game’s developer Owlchemy Labs turned Job Simulator into the unofficial poster child of VR gaming. We gave Job Simulator an 8 out of 10 and, with Rick and Morty receiving an 8.5, MORE
Pulseworks , an Atlanta-based motion theater company, built the VR Transporter for the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian launched its first virtual reality attraction at The National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. MORE
Jewel Burks was Co-founder and CEO of the groundbreaking Atlanta-based visual search startup Partpic from 2013 to 2016, when the company was acquired by Amazon. Presenting 8 women founders in augmented and virtual reality. By Emily Friedman. MORE
A VR studio in Atlanta is being shut down, while another in Newcastle, UK, is being sold off. “In the coming weeks, CCP will undertake the following proposed measures: The closure of its Atlanta studio with VR development moved to London, the sale of its Newcastle studio, and the elimination of a number of positions worldwide. Developer CCP Games has significantly cut the time and money it is investing in virtual-reality based game s. MORE
said Morgan Godat, Executive Producer at CCP Atlanta. Do you remember the disc battle from Tron? Of course you do. Now do you remember Project Arena from CCP Games last year, the Tron-like versus game that resembled Tron’s disc battles? MORE
SEE ALSO CCP to Shelve VR as It Shutters Atlanta Office, Sells Branch Behind 'EVE: Valkryie' in Newcastle. MORE
Once known as Project Arena , the game is the result of early experimentation with VR motion control from CCP’s Atlanta studio. MORE
According to a report by Icelandic publication MBL , CCP is shelving virtual reality as it closes its Atlanta location and sells its Newcastle office, two important VR branches that produced Sparc (2017) and EVE: Valkyrie (2016). MORE
New locations coming in the near future include Atlanta, Austin, Hollywood, New York City, Philadelphia, Santa Monica, and Washington D.C. . Minnesota’s Mall of America , the United States largest mall, is getting the popular VR out-of-home experience The VOID soon. MORE
The New England Patriots take on the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI Sunday, February 5. Those lucky enough to attend the Super Bowl Live festival in Houston have the chance to travel to Mars in virtual reality. MORE
Atlanta Public Schools will be one of the first to introduce the new zSpace Laptop to students. AR+VR for Learning. By Emily Friedman. In a recent, much talked about study at the University of Maryland, researchers found that people remember information that’s presented in an immersive environment better than information obtained from a desktop computer or tablet. MORE
At the time, CCP said that while the Atlanta-based studio behind Sparc would be dissolved, the development team at the Newcastle studio would remain intact despite an impending acquisition, and that work on the game’s Winter Update would continue even in the midst of the move. MORE
Currently, Periscape only has the one location at JFK for their VR Tower stations, but with the potential of generating well over $2 million annually, Periscape has worked fast to get plans together for locations in 229 other airports around the globe including Paris, Dubai, Shanghai, and Atlanta. MORE
Based on feedback from judges in the Imagine Cup US Finals—that they would like to see the product working in a real warehouse, the next step was to test the app as a paid proof of concept in a real setting in the metro Atlanta region. MORE
In order, they are New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Jose, and Atlanta. Virtual reality and augmented reality represent areas of opportunity. VR failed to live up to the wildest promises when the new systems launched in 2015. But the number of job postings for VR and AR have risen 93 percent since 2015, with 17 percent of that growth happening in the past year. Those jobs are dispersed across the U.S. but job site Indeed.com noted that five cities have the most VR and AR job listings. MORE
According to James Pinkstone from Vellum Atlanta, that’s exactly what happened to 122 gigabytes of his music collection : “What Amber explained was exactly what I’d feared: through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. Amazon Apple Breaking Cloud Computing Entertainment Google News Software Programs AAPL Apple Music Audio-Technica EULA James Pinkstone MP3 Vellum Atlanta WAV WAV file MORE
They let me know about the Warrior Wishes program and I spent a few moments of the game having a conversation & rooting for Atlanta. MORE
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OCTOBER 30, 2017
According to a report by Icelandic publication MBL , CCP is shelving virtual reality as it closes its Atlanta location and sells its Newcastle office, two important VR branches that produced Sparc (2017) and EVE: Valkyrie (2016).
UploadVR
JUNE 24, 2016
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JUNE 5, 2018
In 2016, straight out of high school, Jak Wilmot started one of Atlanta’s first VR animation studios – Disrupt. In 2016, straight out of high school, Jak Wilmot started Disrupt, one of Atlanta's first VR animation studios Click To Tweet.
Road to VR
MAY 27, 2016
Feature Interview VR Sports adam kraver ccp atlanta ccp games e-sports esports virtual reality e sports virtual reality esports vr e-sports vr esports vr sportsWhat puts the ‘E’ in E-sports?
VRWorld
MAY 6, 2016
According to James Pinkstone from Vellum Atlanta, that’s exactly what happened to 122 gigabytes of his music collection : “What Amber explained was exactly what I’d feared: through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. Amazon Apple Breaking Cloud Computing Entertainment Google News Software Programs AAPL Apple Music Audio-Technica EULA James Pinkstone MP3 Vellum Atlanta WAV WAV file
UploadVR
JULY 11, 2018
The augmented reality headset will be getting demo stations at AT&T stores in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco once it’s been launched for consumers, the company announced today. We’ll finally (finally!) have a chance to try out the much-anticipated Magic Leap One for ourselves via in-store demos in the future.
UploadVR
DECEMBER 7, 2016
NextVR will be partnering with Live Nation to broadcast a live performance by the artist and DJ collective Thievery Corporation as they perform in Atlanta, Georgia. The live performance takes place in Atlanta, GA at the Tabernacle venue on Dec.
Road to VR
JULY 4, 2018
Rosenthal says the company already has exclusive partnerships with 229 airports, including Paris, Dubai, Shanghai, Singapore, and Atlanta. Traveling through Terminal 4 on your way to, or through JFK International?
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
SEE ALSO CCP to Shelve VR as It Shutters Atlanta Office, Sells Branch Behind 'EVE: Valkryie' in Newcastle.
Road to VR
JANUARY 3, 2018
At the time, CCP said that while the Atlanta-based studio behind Sparc would be dissolved, the development team at the Newcastle studio would remain intact despite an impending acquisition, and that work on the game’s Winter Update would continue even in the midst of the move.
VRScout
APRIL 26, 2017
Pulseworks , an Atlanta-based motion theater company, built the VR Transporter for the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian launched its first virtual reality attraction at The National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. on Wednesday.
UploadVR
OCTOBER 30, 2017
The company is closing its Atlanta office and selling its Newcastle office, according to a report by the Iceland Monitor. The CCP Atlanta studio is being closed down and after 8 years my time with CCP is coming to an end… Now to figure out what to do next. In what can only be characterized as one of the biggest blows to the budding VR industry, CCP Games is shelving its VR efforts.
Road to VR
JULY 31, 2018
New locations coming in the near future include Atlanta, Austin, Hollywood, New York City, Philadelphia, Santa Monica, and Washington D.C. . Minnesota’s Mall of America , the United States largest mall, is getting the popular VR out-of-home experience The VOID soon.
Road to VR
JUNE 13, 2017
Once known as Project Arena , the game is the result of early experimentation with VR motion control from CCP’s Atlanta studio.
Road to VR
JULY 11, 2018
“When available for consumers, AT&T customers will be among the first to experience [the Magic Leap product] in select AT&T stores in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, with more markets to follow,” AT&T said.
VRScout
JULY 6, 2018
Currently, Periscape only has the one location at JFK for their VR Tower stations, but with the potential of generating well over $2 million annually, Periscape has worked fast to get plans together for locations in 229 other airports around the globe including Paris, Dubai, Shanghai, and Atlanta.
Cats and VR
OCTOBER 30, 2017
CCP is stepping back from VR and has closed it Atlanta office responsible for Sparc and is selling its Newcastle office responsible for Eve Valkyrie. Today there was a significant restructuring to CCP games, known in the VR world for the excellent EVE Valkyrie and Gunjack games.
VRScout
JANUARY 30, 2017
The New England Patriots take on the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI Sunday, February 5. Those lucky enough to attend the Super Bowl Live festival in Houston have the chance to travel to Mars in virtual reality.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 12, 2017
SEE ALSO CCP to Shelve VR as It Shutters Atlanta Office, Sells Branch Behind 'EVE: Valkryie' in Newcastle.
VRScout
MARCH 13, 2018
First, Jeakins took his turn racing down a detailed digital version of the real-world Road Atlanta Raceway in Braselton, Georgia as it appears in Microsoft’s 2017 arcade racing video game Forza Motorsport 7. Real and virtual go head-to-head in this first-of-a-kind high speed duel.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
said Morgan Godat, Executive Producer at CCP Atlanta. CCP games, the developers behind EVE: Valkyrie, have revealed their next made-for-VR title Sparc, a futuristic TRON-esque sports title for HTC Vive, PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift & Touch.
UploadVR
APRIL 13, 2018
” That conclusion meant that, last year, CCP closed down its Atlanta studio, developer of multiplayer VR eSport, Sparc, and sold its Newcastle studio, best known for its work on EVE: Valkyrie, to Sumo Digital. CCP Games’ annual fan event, EVE Fanfest, is taking place in Reykjavik, Iceland this week.
Road to VR
MAY 30, 2018
June 20 // MLB: Atlanta Braves @ Toronto Blue Jays // 9:37 am PT. Oculus Venues , the social app that allows ‘thousands of users’ to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today.
AWE Blog
MARCH 23, 2018
Jewel Burks was Co-founder and CEO of the groundbreaking Atlanta-based visual search startup Partpic from 2013 to 2016, when the company was acquired by Amazon. Presenting 8 women founders in augmented and virtual reality. By Emily Friedman.
VRScout
MAY 30, 2018
June 20 // MLB: Atlanta Braves @ Toronto Blue Jays // 9:37 am PT. Your ticket to live social events in VR is here. You can now watch live concerts, sports, and comedy shows with friends in VR.
Cats and VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
They let me know about the Warrior Wishes program and I spent a few moments of the game having a conversation & rooting for Atlanta.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
The large custom-built structure was designed and built by My Friend’s Nephew, an Atlanta-based creative advertising and design studio. Zaxby’s is taking an interactive HTC VIVE experience on tour to tailgaters across the country.
VRScout
AUGUST 26, 2017
Based on feedback from judges in the Imagine Cup US Finals—that they would like to see the product working in a real warehouse, the next step was to test the app as a paid proof of concept in a real setting in the metro Atlanta region.
UploadVR
JUNE 13, 2017
The developer’s team in Atlanta this week confirmed that Sparc will be coming to Sony’s headset first in Q3 of this year. CCP Games is going outside of its EVE universe for the first time ever later this year with Sparc , and PlayStation VR (PSVR) owners will get to try it first. It’s expected to hit both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift too, but it sounds like fans will have to wait either until the very end of the year of sometime in 2018 to get their hands on it.
UploadVR
OCTOBER 28, 2016
April 11, 2017 – Charlotte Hornets at Atlanta Hawks – 7:30 p.m. NextVR has previously pulled in massive funding through big investment rounds, including $30 million and another 80 million , to continue live broadcasting in VR.
VRWorld
OCTOBER 31, 2017
A VR studio in Atlanta is being shut down, while another in Newcastle, UK, is being sold off. “In the coming weeks, CCP will undertake the following proposed measures: The closure of its Atlanta studio with VR development moved to London, the sale of its Newcastle studio, and the elimination of a number of positions worldwide. Developer CCP Games has significantly cut the time and money it is investing in virtual-reality based game s.
UploadVR
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
said Morgan Godat, Executive Producer at CCP Atlanta. Do you remember the disc battle from Tron? Of course you do. Now do you remember Project Arena from CCP Games last year, the Tron-like versus game that resembled Tron’s disc battles?
UploadVR
JANUARY 18, 2018
Last year saw EVE Online developer CCP Games close down its VR-dedicated Atlanta studio , while Sony shut the doors of RIGS creator Guerrilla Cambridge just over a year ago today. Creative VR studio Future Lighthouse is set to close its doors nearly three years after its launch. Lighthouse, which was dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR storytelling (and wrote about its work on Upload late last year), worked on 18 VR productions over the past few years.
UploadVR
APRIL 2, 2018
In order, they are New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Jose, and Atlanta. Virtual reality and augmented reality represent areas of opportunity. VR failed to live up to the wildest promises when the new systems launched in 2015. But the number of job postings for VR and AR have risen 93 percent since 2015, with 17 percent of that growth happening in the past year. Those jobs are dispersed across the U.S. but job site Indeed.com noted that five cities have the most VR and AR job listings.
Cats and VR
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
said Morgan Godat, Executive Producer at CCP Atlanta. CCP Games today announced Sparc, a unique virtual sport only possible in virtual reality. In Sparc, players connect online to compete with each other in fast and fun full-body VR gameplay.
VRScout
MAY 5, 2017
Partnering with Atlanta-based animation studio TRICK 3D , MAWF provided the company with an audio recording of a conversation between Zayden and his mother in which he is asked to describe how he imagined Saturn to look.
AWE Blog
AUGUST 7, 2018
Atlanta Public Schools will be one of the first to introduce the new zSpace Laptop to students. AR+VR for Learning. By Emily Friedman. In a recent, much talked about study at the University of Maryland, researchers found that people remember information that’s presented in an immersive environment better than information obtained from a desktop computer or tablet.
VRWorld
JUNE 7, 2017
Atlanta 2017. While most video games possess some semblance of an economy, even if that’s just trading bottle caps for heavy artillery (as in Fallout’s perversion of the barter system ), online games and competitions under the eSports banner take the concept so much further.
VeeR VR
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Follow Lichter Filmfest on social media: Atlanta Film Festival Date: April 13 - 22 Now in its fourth decade, the Atlanta Film Festival—one of only two-dozen Academy Award® qualifying festivals in the U.S.—is The 2016 Atlanta Film Festival was first open for virtual reality.
UploadVR
APRIL 28, 2017
“The plan for the pitch was to fly to Atlanta, get Mike Lazzo from Adult Swim in a Vive. As noted in the review for Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality , the game’s developer Owlchemy Labs turned Job Simulator into the unofficial poster child of VR gaming. We gave Job Simulator an 8 out of 10 and, with Rick and Morty receiving an 8.5,
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