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Game Of Thrones Prequel Gets The AR Treatment

VRScout

Immersive technology bring the highly-anticipated show to life in the real-world. Snap Inc. has partnered with HBO to launch a series of AR-powered Snapchat Lenses inspired by House of Dragons , the upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series.

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Snapchat Adds New Landmarker Targets & Templates to Lens Studio

Next Reality AR

Don't Miss: Snapchat Lens Studio Adds New Segmentation Templates to Its Bag of Augmented Reality Tricks The other new Landmarker targets include the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France; the Astronomical Clock in Prague, Czech Republic; Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany; El. After hosting an augmented reality experience using its Snapchat Landmarker technology at the Statue of Liberty, Snap is now giving creators the opportunity to create their own Lenses with Lady Liberty.

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‘Beat Saber’ Earned Nearly $100M in Revenue Last Year Alone

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Czech language publication CzechCrunch confirmed that Beat Games earned 2.3 billion Czech koruna in revenue last year alone, or around $97 million USD.

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Timbaland ‘Beat Saber’ Music Pack Coming to the Block-slashing Rhythm Game

Road to VR

New music for Beat Saber (2018) seems to be flowing in at faster clip ever since Facebook acquired Beat Games , the Czech Republic-based VR studio.

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Sense Arena VR Hockey Training Took Us From Amateur To Pro

VRScout

Sense Arena, a VR sports training provider based out of the Czech Republic, is one such company working to modernize the world of sports training through the use of immersive technology.

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The VR Job Hub: Labrodex Studios, VRgineers & Ubisoft

Peter Graham

Prague, Czech Republic. Prague, Czech Republic. Prague, Czech Republic. Now that it’s September the kids are back in school, students are about to start or return to university and Autumn is upon us. Change is in the air so why not flip things around this season and look for a new job. Here at the VR Job Hub there are plenty on offer, located all around the world. Location. Company. Melville, NY. Labrodex Studios. Unreal (UE4) Programmer.

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Snapchat’s Latest Lens Studio Update Is A Game Changer For AR Creators

VRScout

14 new landmarks and 6 AR templates make their way to the desktop app. This week Snapchat further deepened its commitment to AR technology with the release of a new update for Lens Studio, the companies official desktop app for the creation of AR ‘Lenses,’ which adds fourteen new “Landmarks,” as well as six additional Lense templates. Debuted back in April, Snapchat’s “Landmarkers” Lenses bring famous locations all around the world to life in AR.

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‘Beat Saber’ to Land on PSVR Later This Year, Studio Teases New Track

Road to VR

The Czech Republic-based studio announced PSVR availability via a tweet , which featured a brand new song to the lineup. Hyperbolic Magnetism, the indie studio behind Beat Saber (2018), today announced that the hit PC VR rhythm game is headed to PlayStation VR headsets later this year.

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‘Beat Saber’ Sells Over One Million Copies

Road to VR

Beat Games, the Czech Republic-based indie developers behind Beat Saber (2018), announced they’ve sold over one million copies of their popular block-slashing rhythm game—a figure calculated across all supported VR platforms. Beat Games CEO Jaroslav Beck announced the news in a video blog , saying he optimistically expected the game to reach 150,000 copies before its release, a number three times larger than the team’s pre-launch estimation.

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Pre-orders for TPCast Wireless VR Add-on Now Available in Europe

Road to VR

TPCast pre-orders are available in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK. TPCast, the wireless streaming device that lets HTC Vive owners play VR games cable-free, is now available for pre-order in most of continental Europe starting at €349 (or the regional equivalent).

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VRgineers Reveals Improved ‘XTAL’ Professional Headset with Wider FOV

Road to VR

VRgineers, a Czech Republic-based startup building enterprise VR headsets, today announced a more advanced version of their wide field of view (FOV) professional headset XTAL. The new version, which features a wider FOV thanks to a new pair of non-Fresnel lenses, will be making its debut at CES 2019. The upcoming version is said to incorporate proprietary non-Fresnel lenses that the company says will deliver “the clearest, most immersive VR experience to date.”

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Dedicated ‘Beat Saber’ Machine to Hit VR Arcades in South Korea & China

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Beat Games, the Czech Republic-based indie developers behind smash hit rhythm game Beat Saber , are aiming to make a big splash in Asia with a newly revealed dedicated arcade machine. The cabinet was created in partnership with SKonec Entertainment , a Seoul-based company that recently opened a VR multiplex called VR SQUARE.

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Volkswagen Group, One of the World’s Largest Companies, is Building VR Apps to Help Employees Collaborate Across the Globe

Road to VR

The company has used its suite of VR apps to allow multiple users to simultaneously collaborate while physically located between Volkswagen logistics office in the Czech Republic and the company’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany. Volkswagen Group, the multi-brand automotive company, has developed VR apps to make long-distance collaboration in production and logistics an easier task.

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Microsoft to Expand HoloLens Availability to 29 More European Markets in December

Road to VR

Starting December 1st, HoloLens will be available in the following countries: Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Estonia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Romania, Hungary, Portugal, Bulgaria, Turkey, Croatia, Greece, Malta, Cyprus, and Slovenia.

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How Beat Saber Won The Battle For Mainstream Consumers

VRScout

Beat Saber blasted onto our screens in May 2018 by Czech Republic developers, Beat Games, after the team realized they weren’t satisfied with the rhythm runners on the market at the time. Does Beat Saber hold the recipe for global VR success? With the VR industry crying out for ways to make it ‘make it mainstream’, can we learn a thing or two from Beat Saber … a game that won over VR trendsetters and traditional gamers alike? .

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‘Beat Saber’ Gets New ‘Rocket League’ Monstercat Music Pack DLC

Road to VR

Beat Games, the Czech Republic-based studio behind Beat Saber (2018), is again making good on their promise to keep the fresh music flowing to their block-slashing VR rhythm game. Starting today, you’ll be able to download the newest paid DLC pack featuring some of the catchiest tunes to find their way into Rocket League (2015).

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Try Vive, Rift, Touch, PSVR, Gear VR, and Daydream FreeHTC hosts.

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Most of the European Vive demo locations are concentrated in England, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany, but you’ll still be able to spot a few places in France, and even one in the Czech Republic. Try Vive, Rift, Touch, PSVR, Gear VR, and Daydream Free HTC hosts a list of stores across the US and Europe where you can try the Vive for free. Use the link above to search for the nearest location to you.

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‘Beat Saber Arcade’ Tournament Coming to 50+ VR Arcades Worldwide

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Surpassing over $2 million in revenue in its first month, the block-slicing rhythm game has decidedly become a big win for the three-person, Czech Republic-based team. Beat Saber (2018) , the hit VR rhythm game, is getting a version especially for VR arcades. To celebrate the arcade version’s launch this week, Beat Games (ex-Hyperbolic Magnetism) is holding a tournament in more than 50 VR arcades across the world.

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Hands-on: ‘Beat Saber’ is Every Bit as Fun as It Looks

Road to VR

At GDC this year, I had a chance to step into Beat Saber, an upcoming rhythm game from Czech Republic-based indie studio Hyperbolic Magnetism that tasks you with slicing flying cubes with lightsabers to electronic dance music. If that sounds cool to you, then you’re in luck. It is cool – but more than that, it’s also ridiculously well executed. It’s a deceptively simple concept; blocks appear about a 20 meters away marked with colored directional arrows.

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2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof

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Beat Saber from the Czech Republic, Arizona Sunshine from the UK, Job Simulator from Austin, Texas, Super Hot from Poland, Moss from Seattle, Washington. VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest.

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

Road to VR

Pre-order headsets will ship to the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom and the United States.

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Road to VR’s 2018 Game of the Year Awards

Road to VR

When we met up with Czech Republic-based indie studio Beat Games (then Hyperbolic Magnetism) at GDC 2018, it was apparent the small team had something special on their hands. Consumer VR is a little over two years old now, creeping up on three years next April. There’s been plenty to talk about in VR gaming over the course of 2018, with even more ambitious indie studios and AAA game companies getting into the medium for the first time.

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Founded by CERN Engineers, CREAL3D’s Light-field Display is the Real Deal

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in Science Engineering from the Technical University of Liberec in the Czech Republic. Co-founded by former CERN engineers who contributed to the ATLAS project at the Large Hadron Collider, CREAL3D is a Switzerland-based startup that’s created an impressive light-field display that’s unlike anything in an AR or VR headset on the market today. At CES last week we saw and wrote about lots of cool stuff.

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Meta makes fundraising easier ahead of Earth Day

Mashable VR

Meta has announced new fundraising tools and educational initiatives in honor of Earth Day — the global climate awareness holiday taking place on April 22 — including expanded Instagram Reels options for more than 30 countries to participate in digital fundraising.

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The VR Job Hub: ILMxLAB, Beat Games & Gravity Sketch

Peter Graham

Prague, Czech Republic. Every weekend VRFocus gathers together a number vacancies from across the virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industry, in locations around the globe, to help make finding the ideal job easier. Below are a selection of roles that are currently accepting applications across a number of disciplines, all within departments and companies that focus on VR, AR and MR. Location. Company. San Francisco, CA. ILMxLAB.

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EON Reality Continues Knowledge Metaverse Global Kickoff Tour

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The intercontinental trek will include meetings with more than 80 partners new and old.

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Where to Try Vive, PSVR, Rift, Touch, Gear VR, and Daydream for Free

Road to VR

Most of the European Vive demo locations are concentrated in England, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany, but you’ll still be able to spot a few places in France, and even one in the Czech Republic. With high-end VR systems priced at hundreds of dollars, it can be difficult to make the plunge before knowing what the experience is actually like. Luckily, it’s easy to find yourself a free demo of any VR major system out there.

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Limited time offer – Get up to 20% off on for Owatch Amusement Rides! Enjoy this limited time offer, and get more for less!

Steki Amusement

July has passed, and OWATCH ushers in the promotion season in August. The more you buy, the more discount you get. The maximum discount is 20%. Metaverse is the hottest topic at present. Do you want to start your own VR business? This OWATCH promotion season can’t be missed!

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EON Reality Continues Knowledge Metaverse Global Kickoff Tour

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The intercontinental trek will include meetings with more than 80 partners new and old.

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EON Reality Presents at Nordic VR Forum

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At the 2018 edition of the Nordic VR Forum, EON Reality Norway didn’t just attend Hamar’s distinguished virtual reality conference but also presented the “ Jesper on Wheels ” project to an eager crowd. With hundreds of attendees from 10 different nations and even more viewers following along with the event’s livestreams online, the annual event proved successful in every way.

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Huge Promotion for 9D VR Chair Cinema/Simulator and VR Park

Steki Amusement

Wholesale High-Quality 9D VR Cinema Price Products from Owatch / 9D VR Simulator Price VR Park for sale, China Factory. Worldwide Shipping! Stock Sale! China professional 9D Virtual Reality Price Rides & VR Game Machine Suppliers Factory.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.15): PS5 revealed, SteamVR implements OpenVR and more!

The Ghost Howls

My friend Jan Horsky, one of the most talented VR men of the whole Czech Republic, and his company are going to launch Machizzle, a very interesting VR puzzle game.

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How to choose an LBVR product?

The Ghost Howls

Jorge Torales, CEO at Torch VR, a VR park in Prague, the Czech Republic says: “I was hired by the Institute of Documentary Film to consult with several teams trying to implement game mechanics into their applications. Today I host a guest post on LBVR by Anton Zaitsev.

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Interview with VRgineers: we want to push XR forward, but we’re not manufacturing a consumer XTAL

The Ghost Howls

How is Virtual Reality in Czech Republic? ( The Trdelnik is one of typical pastry of the Czech cuisine. How is Czech people regarding VR? We are a small Republic, so the market here is not that big: our company is mostly exporting … okay, we have here the client Skoda, part of Volkswagen , a car manufacturer well established… and here are a few other companies which can use the technology from again transportation, energy field, as well as military.

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9D Virtual Reality Cinema: VR Multiplayer Entertainment Solution

Steki Amusement

Factory price, factory shipment. Virtual reality cinema equipment. Owatch's new product has a cool UFO appearance. 9D chairs with 10 seats, virtual reality theme park preferred. Small footprint and high return on investment! 360° immersive entertainment.

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GOOD NEWS! Owatch August BIG SALE, UP TO 20% OFF!

Steki Amusement

Everyone who wants to start a business will think so. ” What is the most profitable business right now? How much does it cost to start a VR business? “ If you want to start your VR business, then you can’t miss the best discounts that Owatch will launch in August! Buy more and save more!

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Enterprise VR: How VRgineers is Creating the Ultimate HMD for Simulation

Peter Graham

Having first encountered the XTAL HMD during CES 2019, coming away from the very brief demo rather underwhelmed – it does cost over £5,000 – VRFocus recently headed over to the Czech Republic to visit VRgineers’ headquarters. The consumer virtual reality (VR) market is a tough industry to be in, for hardware and software companies alike. It’s not easy convincing the public of spending £400+ on a device that straps to their face for immersive entertainment.