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Photorealistic VR Tour ‘Nefertari: Journey to Eternity’ Takes You Deep into a 3,000 Year-old Egyptian Tomb

Road to VR

Nefertari was an Egyptian queen who died around 1255 BCE, and as the first of the Great Royal Wives of Ramesses the Great, her death was commemorated in the same way many Egyptian nobles were at the time: entombed in a lavish underground structure tucked deep into the hills of the Valley of the Queens in southern Egypt.

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Asgard's Wrath 2: Meta's AAA Bet On Quest 2 Promises '60 Hours Of Exploration' In 2023

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Big Budget VR On The XR2 Processor Quest 2, of course, is not the Oculus Rift. Can Quest 2 truly drive the fabled "AAA" experiences a certain group of gamers picture as having both eye-popping visuals and incredible replay value? "The game is clocking in around 60 hours," Lingad says. I can predict the disbelief in my reader's minds.

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Staking Claim to a Digital Plot in AR, with SuperWorld’s Hrish Lotlikar

XR for Business Podcast

I think I have a piece of the Taj Mahal, and the pyramids in Egypt, and some places in Manhattan, but I definitely want to keep a lot of stuff for our users to buy. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. You guys are an entertainment company. Hrish: Sure. Alan: Right.

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Staking Claim to a Digital Plot in AR, with SuperWorld’s Hrish Lotlikar

XR for Business Podcast

I think I have a piece of the Taj Mahal, and the pyramids in Egypt, and some places in Manhattan, but I definitely want to keep a lot of stuff for our users to buy. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. You guys are an entertainment company. Hrish: Sure. Alan: Right.

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Staking Claim to a Digital Plot in AR, with SuperWorld's Hrish Lotlikar

XR for Business Podcast

I think I have a piece of the Taj Mahal, and the pyramids in Egypt, and some places in Manhattan, but I definitely want to keep a lot of stuff for our users to buy. So we've launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It's on Steam and Oculus. You guys are an entertainment company. Hrish: Sure. Hrish: It's 360.

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How Nokia Broke Into Virtual Reality With Its Ozo Camera

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The idea is that, as soon as we identified VR was coming — this was before the Oculus acquisition by Facebook — it was clear that one part of VR would be computer-generated experiences, games being the major example. If something goes crazy and the pyramids in Egypt are destroyed, we’ll never see them again. They used the OZO.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

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. By the summer of 2018, we were ready to unveil our work to the general public through the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, and Vive. Rome Reborn 3.0