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Oculus and Kaleidoscope Announce DevLab VR Art Incubator

VRScout

As the founder of Always & Forever Computer Entertainment,George practices a broad range of disciplines from animation to sound design and programming. Michael is a graduate of Texas A&M with a masters in visualization. George Michael Brower. George Michael Brower is a Brooklyn-based artist making interactive art. Nick Pittom.

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My experience at SXSW 2022: expect the unexpected

The Ghost Howls

Ten days ago, I revealed to you that I was going to Austin, Texas to attend the SXSW, one of the most important events about creativity and technology in the USA. The event hasn’t been held physically for 2 years because of the coronavirus, and it is finally back in Austin Texas just now. Going SXSW. SXSW Logo (Image by SXSW).

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The Augmented Home

Robert Scoble

Apple and Unity aren’t going to continue making this mistake, because they have done the kinds of human factor research I have. Visit a home with two teenagers and you’ll see that while the parents do most of their entertainment-focused computing in the family room, that isn’t true of the kids. The other low.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.14): Niantic acquires 8th Wall, Magic Leap 2 previews are positive, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone from Austin, Texas! It is promising in-car VR entertainment system, that offers VR experiences whose movements are synchronized with the ones of the car, for an experience that is nausea-free and feels like the one of an amusement park. Can you imagine something more Texan than this? Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Second Annual Polys Awards Celebrate Another Year of WebXR

ARPost

Nominees in the category were arcade-style XR game Worlds Demolisher by Total-Viz, immersive infographic Texas Blackout by Flow Immersive, 8i’s Volumetric WebXR Media Streamer , and the category winner A320 Cockpit Simulator by Playko Software. Unwanted Waters was also nominated for the Entertainment category.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. In 2019 in El Paso, Texas, there was a horrific event where a gunman killed many people, just walked into a Walmart, and killed many people. For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR.

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Making Holograms a Reality Through Volumetric Capture, with Intel’s Raj Puran

XR for Business Podcast

Raj has spent the last four years of his tenure on building business opportunities, use cases, experiential marketing with partnerships in location-based entertainment, museums, education and other commercial XR segments. Prior to moving into business development, Raj has held several positions in I.T. Alan: And see if they can manage it.