XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jack Daniel’s opened its virtual doors to the public by commemorating urban art and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in late September. Currently ongoing, the iconic brand has launched The Verse — the company’s first virtual reality (VR) immersive experience — under its Art, Beats + Lyrics programme.

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2018

Created initially to work in MIT’s new drone-testing facility in Building 31 , the new Flight Goggles system integrates a motion capture system, an image rendering program, and number of on-board electronics including IMUs, and custom-built circuit boards that integrate a powerful embedded supercomputer.

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VRScout

JUNE 3, 2016

Now the artist is again teleporting fans to her native Iceland with the Björk Digital exhibition, launching on Friday in Sydney, Australia, with Björk herself expected to DJ at the event. The experience is scheduled to be shown in several other cities in the coming months, including Tokyo, London, Paris and Houston.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Now, he turns his eye towards virtual reality with Gnomes & Goblins , an original production from Wevr in partnership with Reality One. A traveling showcase of digital and video works, Björk Digital started in Australia and it just debuted at London’s Somerset house. EVERYONE WANTS IT STANDALONE.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Sony has finally revealed that PlayStation 5 is coming on November 12th (in America, Australia, Korea and other countries; rest of the world is on November, 19th). A group of creatives is proposing a live motion capture VR opera based on the murder mystery steampunk opera “Miranda”. News worth a mention. Image by Sony).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

NYU VIRTUAL REALITY DANCE PROGRAM. Virtual reality is not new to NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts , and numerous student projects have already been created utilizing 360 photo and video. into the virtual and augmented reality industry , which was an impressive 300% growth from the $700M+ funds that were invested in 2015.

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