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VR Veteran Studio Behind ‘Bigscreen’ Unveils Thin & Light PC VR Headset ‘Beyond’

Road to VR

The reasoning: Bigscreen founder and CEO Darshan Shankar says the VR software studio wanted to build “the VR headset we wanted for ourselves.” “Today’s leading VR headsets have doubled in weight compared to headsets from 2016. A third wave of will come sometime in late 2023, including Japan, Australia, New Zealand.

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Hacked Together Mixed Reality Camera Robot Shows Huge Promise

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Jaymis Loveday’s most recent mixed reality video project was filmed with a helpful robot camera assistant. Loveday seems to be something of a mad scientist working in Australia, creating the first music video built in Tilt Brush. With Loveday’s most recent experiment, he essentially built a camera robot assistant.

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I chatted with a hologram, but holographic meetings aren’t here yet

Mashable VR

Just filming with nice camera equipment can cost a few thousand dollars. But it comes at a big cost (Portl's Epic box is $75,000 to own, along with an annual software licensing fee around $5,000) and equipment-heavy, with cameras, proprietary software, and special screens to beam people in. Credit: Mashable. Credit: Portl.

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The treadmill from Ready Player One is coming to our homes soon

The Ghost Howls

At the end of 2019, we took on some investors and we now have many clients in the health care, education, military, and film production industries. And users will have access to a software platform to access games and fitness apps to take full advantage of The Infinadeck. How is business doing? The walking surface will be small too.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. Vancouver Film School, Canada. RUBIKA, France.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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It’s ironic that the camera developed specifically for the adult VR film industry is one of the eeriest things I’ve ever seen. Melbourne, Australia-based archaeological startup Lithodomos VR has raised $679K to help progress its focus on accurately creating reconstructions of ancient sites and artifacts in virtual reality.

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What is 5D/7D Cinema?

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5D Cinema is a form of film art expression developed on the basis of 4D Cinema. When the audience is watching adventure films and horror films, the seat special effects are especially obvious. Other auxiliary equipment: control software, stereo glasses, connecting pipelines, hangers, etc. 5D/7D Cinema (6-seat).