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Google Working on VR Short Film With ‘Book of Life’ Director Jorge Gutierrez

VRScout

The new animated VR film will be part of Google Spotlight Stories. The VR short is being developed with Google Spotlight Stories and revolves around Mexican wrestling and “the tradition and the responsibility of carrying on the legacy of your culture.” Image Credit: Google Spotlight Stories.

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Spatial Beats: Zoom, Looking Glass & AR Funding

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The XR section of the venerated New York film festival introduced its offering on Tuesday: a mix of VR in the Museum of Other Realities, some limited in-person events at the Tribeca Hub downtown, and location-based mobile AR experiences around New York. M contract to provide VR training at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

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Putting AR into Art

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Although their main base is in Vienna, they also have a presence in Beijing and Tel Aviv as well as partners in Mexico and Mongolia. For the Albertina Museum in Vienna they also created digital content for the exhibition “Film Stills” and integrated AR experiences to the permanent collection “Monet to Picasso”.

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‘We Wait’ Is The First BBC Production For The Oculus Store, And It Is Free

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Award-winning films such as Chris Milk’s Clouds Over Sidra and HOME/AAMIR – produced in partnership with the National Theatre’s recently launched Immersive Storytelling Studio in London – are other examples of this.

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Reuniting Undocumented Immigrant Families with VR

VRScout

The project began when Alvaro Morales, an undocumented immigrant from Huancayo, Peru, tried a Google Cardboard to virtually explore the Palace of Versailles in Paris. .” Though it’s not the complete answer to the problem, it is a temporary solution to reunite families that have not seen each other for years.

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How to choose an LBVR product?

The Ghost Howls

VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. Most notably, Spencer Hunt from Skydance Media, a company co-producing films with Paramount Pictures. The cost appears to be around $90k in the US, Canada, Mexico and Australia. .

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The hey I got food poisoning and could not make it to Augmented World Expo today. Here is a list of the fun things going on.

Cats and VR

Europe and China to explore local candidates including Mexico City, Lisbon, Adelaide, Rome, Dubai and Tel Aviv. Highlights of today’s remarkable announcements include: CieAR is unveiling its new AR film platform which enables a unique and immersive film experience in real space and time with life-sized 3D virtual characters.