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ABBA Enters the Digital Realm With 3D ‘ABBAtars’

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ABBA, the Swedish pop group behind massive hits such as “Dancing Queen,” “Take a Chance On Me,” and “Mamma Mia” (you know that every part of that song is a hook!) The process required Morris and his team to capture the group as they rehearsed and interacted with each other.

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Disney Animation Studios to Debut Its First VR Short Film Next Month

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Walt Disney Animation Studios, the group behind animated classics like The Little Mermaid (1989), The Lion King (1994), and newer blockbusters like Moana (2016) , is set to debut its first VR short film next month at the SIGGRAPH 2018 conference in Vancouver. Image courtesy Disney.

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Harry Potter Store Gets Two Location-Based VR Experiences

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launched the first official Harry Potter Store in NYC, offering fans of the long-running book and film franchise the chance to immerse themselves in the Wizarding World while, of course, shopping for official brand merchandise. Explore Hogwarts and fly a broomstick in these social VR experiences coming soon to the Harry Potter flagship store.

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Snap’s Lion of a March

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You might have even recognized the lenses as being those created with SignAll and the “Deafengers,” an internal employee group at Snap. While press focused on CODA’s Oscar win being the first by a streaming service, the film was also the first to win the award with a predominantly deaf cast.

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Peter Jackson’s New Studio is All About AR Storytelling

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Over the past year Jackson and his team at Wingnut AR, a subdivision of Wingnut Films , have been utilizing Apple’s ARkit to experiment with various types of AR experiences. The scene includes a stunning set piece as well as smooth, lag-free animations of alien gunships raining down fire onto a group of unlucky civilians.

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Digital Human Presents Live TED Talk

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Over the last 15 years, we’ve been putting humans and creatures into film that you accept as real,” explains Roble. “If The work from the Digital Human Group will change communication and human interactions forever.”. If they’re happy, you should feel happy. And if they feel pain, you should empathize with them.

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‘The Under Presents’: Interactive Live Theater For The Oculus Quest

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Tender Claws , a veteran VR developer responsible for Virtual Virtual Reality , are present at this year’s Sundance Film Festival showcasing their own Quest release, The Under Presents , an outlandish narrative-driven social experience that combines interactive theatrical performances with specially-trained live actors.

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