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Thin & Light PC VR Headset Bigscreen Beyond Now Shipping in US

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Priced at $1,000, the headset makes for an interesting value proposition for users already hooked into the SteamVR hardware ecosystem, offering up a slim design thanks to the inclusion of pancake lenses and micro-OLEDs. The company says it also plans to sell in South Korea, Israel, “and more soon.”

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

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VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. Sogang University, South Korea. South East European University, Macedonia.

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