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‘We Wait’ Is The First BBC Production For The Oculus Store, And It Is Free

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But We Wait is a first for the British broadcaster which saw the BBC Connected Studio collaborate with legendary Bristol-based animation studio Aardman Digital – the makers of Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep – to produce a dramatization of the dangerous journey Syrian migrants take from Turkey to Greece on smuggler’s boats.

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

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In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). Dania Academy of Higher Education, Denmark. University of the Aegean, Greece. California State University Monterey Bay, USA.

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR, Rift and Touch

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Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR , Oculus Rift , and Touch Controllers. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (12/17/16). Chernobyl VR Project combines video game mechanics with an educational and movie narrative approach.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

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” Smarthistory’s educational documentary on Rome is the single most popular program produced by this website. The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. He was very impressed and offered us direct access to executives of Oculus, who helped us in various ways to develop our VR applications. Rome Reborn 3.0