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DC Comics And More Enter VR With Madefire Oculus App

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Madefire, a digital comic book app company, recently announced the launch of a new preview app that brings select issues to Oculus and Samsung’s Gear VR. The company exhibited the app at this year’s New York Comic-Con and Oculus Connect 3. Madefire isn’t the first group to try and bring comic books to VR.

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Oculus ‘VR For Good’ Adds Three New Experiences To Oculus Video

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The Oculus Creators Lab delivers yet another offering of socially conscious VR films that will leave you thinking. A harrowing examination into ethnic hatred, the film shows the viewers Angel’s eye-opening journey of self-discovery, from her eight years of blind hatred within white supremacist groups, to her eventual recovery.

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New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For Week Of 10/02/16

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Though there’s a lot of stuff out on Gear as per usual, the past few days have been all about Oculus Connect 3, not actually using your Oculus Rift. Still, there is one big launch to look forward to this week along with some other oddities worth taking note of. If you missed last week, you can see those new releases here.

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Framestore Partners With Madefire For Launch of VR Comics Platform

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Joe and more comic books coming to Oculus. During a New York Comic Con panel this past week, Ben Wolstenholme the CEO of Madefire joined together with Fox, Oculus and comic creator Dave Gibbons ( Kingsman and Watchmen ), revealed the launch of VR Comics, which is available right now on Gear VR. Batman, Superman, G.I.

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Metaverse needs to solve problems, not be the problem

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Meta is however still struggling with adaptation to business / education use since it abandoned Oculus for Business solution and now you need to have one Facebook account per each headset. 500 people run every week through the “Walk on the Moon” multi-headset installation at Smithsonian museum in Washington DC. size headset).

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ARwall Expands with advisory team that includes Raymond Mosco

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ARwall’s cumulative new talent has helped paved the way for companies including Apple, Facebook, Oculus, Microsoft Hololens, Survios, Disney Studios Technology Group, Microsoft TV and more. Mosco has held notable positions at Apple, Facebook, and Oculus.

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African Americans in virtual reality

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Not only does the film feature some impressive uses of immersive virtual reality — check out Shuri driving a car via a remote virtual interface in the clip above — but you can also become Black Panther in Marvel Powers United VR for the Oculus Rift. When it comes to business one group to be aware of is Hyphen-Labs.