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Traveling Halo Fan Experience Will Feature Competitive Location-Based VR

VRScout

Based on the video provided, it appears as though attendees will be using PC backpacks provided by VRcade Systems all-in-one free-roam VR platform in conjunction with the HTC Vive Pro and its motion controllers. As for what the experience is actually like, we’ll just have to wait and see.

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USC Launches $1bn XR, Generative AI Initiative

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The University of Southern California (USC) announced last week the launch of an over $1 billion USD initiative to grow its university programmes for extended reality (XR), generative artificial intelligence, and ethical technology. The USC Frontiers of Computing programme has invested in Southern California’s state economy.

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Magic Leap to Launch in 19 Countries, Exec Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Watts was joined by Pearly Chen, Vice-President of HTC VIVE , Brian Vogelsang, Senior Director of Product Management for Qualcomm Technologies , and Maria Pace, Head of XR Hardware, Global Partnerships and Strategies for Google. Pearly Chen, Vice-President of HTC VIVE. Magic Leap 2 stands on the shoulders of giants and the force.

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Become a Spartan in Halo Training Grounds’ Free-Roaming VR Multiplayer Starting This Weekend

Peter Graham

Using VRstudios’ untethered backpack VR system which utilises HTC Vive Pro headsets, the gameplay has been “engineered to challenge various disciplines such as squad-integrated coordination strategies, spatial awareness in the battlefield, and real-time weapon tactics improvisation,” states the studio.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.07): new Quest is coming at $299 and $399, NVIDIA RTX3070 is powerful and affordable and more!

The Ghost Howls

Point Reyes” is a beach in California, so it is just an internal codename at Oculu… ehm Facebook, following what it has always been its tradition for new unannounced headsets. HTC CEO Yves Maitre resigns. HTC, you did it again. More info (Facebook Research on Road To VR) More info (Facebook Research on Upload VR).

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

Road to VR

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. California State University Monterey Bay, USA. University of Florida, USA. image courtesy VR First.

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