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The Best Apps and Games to Get Seniors Into VR

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The app uses content from Wikipedia and Google Earth to create interactive and educational self-guided tours of just about anywhere. That’s true literally – the game recently released a course based on the fantasy film Labyrinth. It was also announced that knee strikes are coming to the boxing exercise. Wander (Quest).

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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

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Our panelists included John Hanke, CEO of Niantic Labs and co-creator of Pokémon Go; Ralph Osterhout, CEO of Osterhout Design Group, maker of augmented reality glasses; and John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries, maker of the Mezzanine collaboration software and science advisor for the film Minority Report.

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VR & AR 2018: A Year In Review

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If 2018 is remembered for anything, it’ll be for the multiple high-quality animated VR films released throughout the year. Featuring an absolutely stellar voice cast including everyone from John Legend and Oprah Winfrey, to Constance Wu and Diego Luna, Crow: The Legend is arguably one of the most well-structured VR short films ever released.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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But despite the option to “jack in” in the distant future, plenty of people will still opt to use the treadmill and haptics combo for the exercise benefits. Hand and finger tracking, gesture interfaces, and grip simulation: Leap Motion: Manus VR: Neurodigital: Gestigon: Handpose: Usens: Dexta Robotics: Minority Report (film).

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View Conference 2018: Jan Pinkava explains some VR experiences from Google Spotlight Stories

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Do you know Google Spotlight Stories? It is a small R&D lab on creative projects hosted by Google that is focused on creating original VR storytelling experiences. The 16 experiences developed so far by the Google Spotlight Stories team. Back To The Moon is the first virtual reality doodle of Google’s history.

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Creating Filters on Spark AR that Unveil Thoughts About Ourselves IRL

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These convos quickly found their way into a Google doc, where we could word vomit everything we were feeling on any given day. An excerpt from our Google doc (I highlighted the phrases in green that spoke to me the most) Our thoughts took shape as images, too. Keep an eye out for her latest film, The Sculpture , debuting Summer 2020.

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China shows its masterplan to lead Virtual Reality in 2025

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The document is divided into nine parts: I will report them here, as a small summary of mine, together with the full text translated with Google Translate (so, RIP English), if you want to read it. It can also be an opportunity to get to know what each country should try obtaining in the next years for what concerns virtual reality.