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Drop of Doom VR Ride Comes To Six Flags

VRScout

Now add a helicopter, machine guns, enormous man-eating spiders tearing their way through a destroyed city and you have Six Flags coolest new attraction. The virtual reality coaster also used Oculus-powered Gear VR headsets which were synced to the action of the coaster.

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‘Google Earth VR’ Launches For Free To Let You Fly Around The World

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet. There are around 175 cities with full, 3D data, and over 600 ‘urban cores’ as well.” For example, at one point I landed on the roof of some random building in New Jersey.

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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

TechCrunch VR

Rubin, who co-founded the game development studio Naughty Dog in 1994 before it was acquired by Sony in 2001, has been at Facebook since he joined Oculus months after its 2014 acquisition was announced. .” Facebook VP of Play Jason Rubin. Image via Facebook. Virginia and West Virginia.

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VRFocus’ Most Anticipated VR Games Coming in 2020

Peter Graham

Headsets like Oculus Quest, Valve Index and Vive Cosmos have arrived while developers have continually surpassed the quality of content available. An Oculus Rift exclusive, the original from 2017 set a new benchmark in both visual and gameplay design for VR experiences. So now it’s time to look ahead and into 2020.

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Aimfire’s Camarada Lets You Stack Two Smartphones Together and Record 3D Video

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Aimfire, a seven-person firm in New Jersey, was founded in 2014 and received seed funding last September from two angel investors in the mobile industry. The company is working on making the video compatible with Oculus and Vive headsets. Why can’t they form a camera array to capture VR content?”.

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