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St. Giles Hotels Giving Gear 360 Cameras To Guests for Campaign

VRScout

With hotels located in major cities in the United Kingdom, United States, Malaysia, Philippines, and Australia, the St. Giles Hotels is giving each of their guests a Samsung Gear 360 to capture and show how easy it can be to shoot VR videos.

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Lumiere Award Winners Team Up To Create The Virtual Content Group

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China and the United States are major players in the virtual reality industry, but certainly aren’t the only ones coming to the table and investing a lot of time and money into immersive tech. As VR technology grows, companies will be crossing over into uncharted waters.

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FOVE Launches Pre-Orders For Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0, Starting at $549

Road to VR

After raising $480,000 in funds through Kickstarter and an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures, FOVE later participated in the River accelerator program early last year alongside a number of other “frontier technology” startups.

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Top 37 VR Film Festivals to Attend in 2018

VeeR VR

Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. Fictional and non-fictional, live-action cinematography and CGI are all acceptable as long as they are compatible with mobile HMD's such as Samsung Gear VR. The festival mainly focuses on VR narratives and documentaries.

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

Road to VR

With currently 26 labs operating in the United States, Europe, Asia and Oceania, VR First is bringing the number to 40 labs by the end of year. North Carolina State University, USA. North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. Oklahoma State University, USA. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First. RUBIKA, France.

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PenPal Schools launches a VR field trip for students to promote Pakistan

Hypergrid Business

The virtual reality video was created in partnership with Chocolate Milk & Donuts , a virtual reality creative agency based in Austin, Texas, and the project supported by Samsung, Mozilla Hive Austin with a grant from the Gigabit Community Fund , The City of Austin’s ATX+PAK program is also a partner in the project.

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InstaVR Interviews: Dr. Matthew Frew, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise, University of the West of Scotland – School of Business and Enterprise

InstaVR

Basically, in the United States, it’s what you might call a “Futurologist.” Similarly we’ve got a few Samsung cameras that, like the Theta V, are pretty good consumer cameras. We have a number of what are called “transnational education units” all over the world. What do you focus your teaching and research on? .

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