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Fable Studio’s ‘Lucy’ The First Virtual Being To Win Emmy

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Based on Neil Gaiman’s award-winning book of the same name, Wolves in the Walls follows 8-year old Lucy, an imaginative young girl who begins to suspect the walls of her home are filled with ferocious wolves. Fable Studio’s Wolves in the Walls joins last years Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media winner, Oculus Studios’ Henry.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

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Ernest Cline, the author of the top-seller Ready Player One has announced that his book Ready Player Two, that is the sequel of RPO, is coming to all bookstores on November, 24th. More info (Oculus Link resolution) More info (Change Guardian when using Oculus Link) More info (Shortcut for screenshot on Quest). Learn More.

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Labrodex’s Sci-Fi RPG Shooter Hybrid ‘Scraper’ Already Has Its Own Prequel Novel

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It’s drawing from a philosophically introspective yarn, exploring the what-ifs of humanity giving society over to intelligent machines. Scraper: A Novel About Punk, is a great book about a young rocker in the early 80s and his band. I wanted a well-known sci-fi author to help with the book. No relation at all.

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Virtual Being Project Wolves in the Walls Wins Emmy Award

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Wolves in the Walls: It’s All Over (Part 1) won the primetime Emmy Award for ‘Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media’, a project which was a VR adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Dave Mckean’s children’s book. Fable also h as plans to introduce memory , so that viewers actions will have consequences in later instalments.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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The devices will use positional tracking (which will not require any external sensors) developed from expertise learned through creating Google’s Tango mapping technology and optimized for virtual reality. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP. The beloved Austin, TX-based virtual reality content studio Owlchemy Labs has been acquired by Google.

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‘Wilson’s Heart’ Review

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Wilson’s Heart (2017) is a psychological thriller that takes you on a wild first-person adventure through the mind of a hospital patient recovering from a curious surgery, one that has replaced his live-beating heart with a strange machine. Publisher: Oculus Studios. Available On: Home (Oculus Touch).

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Exclusive: First-Ever Impact Reality Summit Announces 2020 Lineup

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Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus.

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