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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.28): Flight Simulator VR released, a new hack lets you use Quest without Facebook, and more!

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Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Microsoft Flight Simulator is now compatible with VR headsets : not only the HP Reverb G2 as initially teased but all the headsets that are compatible with OpenXR , so basically all the most famous devices. Top news of the week. Image by HP). Of course, no. Other relevant news.

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Hands On With ILM Immersive's Apple Vision Pro What If. Marvel Experience

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Previously, Marvel Powers United VR from Sanzaru explored superpowers with controllers in hand while Avengers: Damage Control extended the idea to hand tracking a couple years later at The Void locations. "We've been really waiting for this kind of mixed reality moment for a long time," Shereif M. In What If.

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AIXR Partners With VRChat to Bring 4th Annual VR Awards Online

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See Also: Best VR Hand Tracking Games for Oculus Quest in 2020. VR Film of the Year. Gravity VR , the Tribeca VR film by Fabio Rychter and Amir Admoni. Lutaw , the Tribeca VR film by Samantha Quick and Michaela Holland. The Pantheon of Queer Mythology , a VR short film by Enrique Agudo. Tech giant Qualcomm.

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4th Annual AIXR VR Awards Take Place in VRChat

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VR Film of the Year. VR Film of the Year went to Walt Disney Animation for their captivating submission Myth: A Frozen Tale. The experience beat out the Cirque du Soleil experience by Felix and Paul Studios, Tribeca VR Films Gravity VR and Lutaw , and Enrique Agudo’s The Pantheon of Queer Mythology. Myth: A Frozen Tale.

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How Characters & Environments In The Secret Of Retropolis Were Built Inside VR With Quill

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From hand-made environments in VR using Quill to hand tracking supported by players in VR headsets, Peanut Button's The Secret Of Retropolis offers a tantalizing tease of the future. Embody the witty protagonist of a film noir plot. Look around. Find items. Solve puzzles." Meet unforgettable characters. Solve puzzles.

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How to choose an LBVR product?

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Jorge Torales, CEO at Torch VR, a VR park in Prague, the Czech Republic says: “I was hired by the Institute of Documentary Film to consult with several teams trying to implement game mechanics into their applications. Most notably, Spencer Hunt from Skydance Media, a company co-producing films with Paramount Pictures.

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How Hollywood Has Predicted VR in Movies

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This technology could be in the form of a head mounted display, motion tracking, haptic systems in gloves or suits, locomotion, consoles or image capture. 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).