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NBA Will Live Broadcast One Game a Week in VR

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Last year, the major sports league teamed up with NextVR to capture the 2015 All-Star Game and slam-dunk contest in 360° VR video. Today, NBA Digital has once again teamed up with NextVR, announcing that they’ll be broadcasting at least one game every week during the season in VR, which tips off October 25th. There is one catch though.

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Walmart Brings Tricked Out ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ VR Experience to Select Stores

Road to VR

Walmart is continuing its onward journey to think outside of the big-box with the help of VR, this time bringing 50-foot tractor-trailers to their megalithic parking lots across the US to let shoppers go head-first into a VR experience for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

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Education – the Next Frontier for Virtual Reality

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Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the hottest topics in tech right now, with buzz about its potential stretching from film, TV and games, to healthcare, retail and more. But it hasn’t seen nearly the same amount of attention in the education space.