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Boulder International Film Festival Will Include A Pavilion Dedicated Entirely To XR Experiences

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The Boulder International Film Festival ( BIFF ), which takes place in Colorado next week, is widely recognized as one of the world’s coolest film festivals. . BIFF attracts more than 25,000 film enthusiasts, media and industry every year. BIFF attracts more than 25,000 film enthusiasts, media and industry every year.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

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Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps.

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Reality Bytes: Instagram Shopping, Google Maps & Cleaning Drones

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For an indexed library of data, reports, and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at cleaning drones, Instagram shopping and Google Maps’ AR updates. Drones have been used to survey, film, even attack – now they clean. Hint: it’s not for a commission on sales.

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Google & Snap

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This week, we look at tech stocks, Quest 2’s continued rise, Google’s VR sunsetting, and horsing around with Snapchat See the full roundup below. What is up with Google and XR? Sundance Film Festival brings VR Storytelling and Movie Premieres to your home. HaptX Ready To Ship Enterprise Data Gloves.

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Microsoft Now Lets You Film Mixed Reality With HoloLens Hack

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Spectator Mode is similar in concept to the mixed reality filming seen in the VR industry, though has added complications given HoloLens’ entirely independent solution and the fact that holograms can be viewed from anywhere, not just within a specific, tracked space. Tagged with: HoloLens , mixed reality filming.

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Terrifying VR Living Room Shows How Smart Devices Are Manipulating Us

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What if I told you that smart devices such as your iPhone and Google Assistant aren’t just listening to you, but persuading and manipulating your actions as well? We had a chance to check out this immersive experience while at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and sufficeth to say it left us genuinely unsettled. Image Credit: The Othrs.

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UNAIDS Launches Educational 360-Degree Series Ahead Of World AIDS Day

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UNAIDS partners with Google & Makhulu Media for a series of VR films about HIV testing. We wanted to see if immersive virtual reality films could encourage people to take an HIV test and improve relationships between nurses and young people by helping them to step into each other’s shoes,” adds Makhulu Media producer Rowan Pybus.