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A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) realityI.

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A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) reality I hold in my hands what looks and feels like a wand from a Harry Potter film. The game—and the wand—were developed by Pat Starace , director of the digital fabrication course at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida.

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Spatial Beats: Snap, Niantic & Facebook

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The title is a bit of a misnomer because the most awesome thing about the awesome list is The Tribeca Film Festival itself, which highlights the XR media as part of its twenty-year mission to bring together visionaries across media to celebrate the power of storytelling. VR and AR are still only a tiny part of that. Who’s next?

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Sony Acquires Beyond Sports to Expand Metaverse Solutions

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Kenichiro Yoshida, Sony Group Chief Executive , said in a recent statement the Metaverse was “simultaneously a social environment, as well as a live networking space where gaming, music, films and anime intersect.”

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AR Empowers Sustainable Fashion, ZERO10 Report Says

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Additionally, Trigger XR and Niantic also launched several games to promote the Professional Golfer’s Association (PGA) as well as the recent Jurassic World blockbuster film , using cutting-edge data visualisation and interactive features for players. Kindly visit ZERO10’s website for more information.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

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It is also organizing the LEAP Developer Days, a big event for ML developers, that will be held on May 19–22nd inside Magic Leap headquarters in Plantation, Florida. Image by Microsoft). It seems that the filming of Matrix 4 has just started in San Francisco and people on social media are already getting crazy.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. For the recent Rogue One film, director Gareth Edwards used virtual reality to stage several several scenes. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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

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AR headset distribution is much more dramatic, as students are mainly developing on Microsoft HoloLens (43%), with Google Glass, Vuzix AR headsets, Epson Moverio, Meta AR Dev Kits making up the rest of the pie chart. University of Florida, USA. Vancouver Film School, Canada. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First.

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