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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.02): Facebook creates Metaverse group and prepares to launch its smartglasses, and more!

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Facebook Reality Labs creates a group focused on working on the “metaverse”. Zuckerberg said last week that he wants in 5 years Facebook to become a “metaverse company” and this week he started taking action in this sense: he has created a group in the company focused on “building the metaverse”. (Image by Facebook). Image by IGN).

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New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For The Week Of 10/09/16

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On the heels of OC3 last week, there is a solid array of titles to pick from, but none of them quite measure up to the wonder of what is coming soon with Oculus Touch. Plus, you just might learn something and what’s more fun than that. . Slot tub party lets you play virtual slot machine while lounging in a digital hot tub.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.09): Meta to release four VR headsets, NFT sales are going down, and more!

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The Cannes Film Festival will have an installation inside Fortnite, built by its sponsor partner Brut. Learn more. The latest news about the chip shortage issue is that now we lack chips for chips-making machines. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Outstanding move!

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.01): HoloLens 2 may come in September, Oculus may commercialize a multiplayer LBVR solution, HP Reverb is back and much more!

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Venice Film Festival is featuring a rich VR section. Among the most important film festivals, La Biennale del Cinema di Venezia is the only one with an official VR competition. VR is an empathy machine, but this is not always the case. Join this group of fantastic people by hitting the link below! exits beta stage.

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Meet Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR

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It’s been said it only takes one visionary to champion VR within an organization; that one passionate (and sometimes crazy) person who “gets it” early and then slowly but surely gets others in the group on board. As part of that, I got to meet Nate Mitchell and Brendan Iribe who later became two founders of Oculus.

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How Hollywood Has Predicted VR in Movies

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Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. Being one of the earliest films to explore the combination of human computer interaction, TRON is well known for its, at the time, exceptional graphics. TRON (1982).

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China shows its masterplan to lead Virtual Reality in 2025

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The final goal is building a machine that works: if there are the right hardware and the right tools for content creators, the users can enjoy great content on great hardware and this drives adoption of VR, and this attracts companies that make even better hardware and better content and the loop goes on. The whole machine equipment.