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‘Bigscreen’ Brings Paid Movies to Social VR Platform, Showing Select 2D & 3D Films

Road to VR

Bigscreen today announced it’s launched a new feature called Bigscreen Cinema , which brings a paid option to its free social VR platform that will let you buy a ticket to watch select 2D and 3D films each week. Image courtesy Bigscreen. Image courtesy Bigscreen. Up until now, Bisgscreen has been entirely free.

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The Dazzling World of Firebird: La Peri for HTC Vive

VRScout

You are in Firebird: La Péri , a gorgeous virtual reality interactive narrative. The powerful voice of your guide is familiar – it is the acclaimed Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies of Indiana Jones and Lord of the Rings fame. You are a king – named “Iskender,” a booming voice tells you – on a quest for immortality.

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Ready Player Golf and the Future of Fundraising Through VR Sports

ARPost

Rhys-Davies is best known for his roles as Gimli in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings , and as Sallah in the Indiana Jones films. Further, Moshasha confirmed in our interview that legendary actor John Rhys-Davies will be a special guest. The Future of Fundraising Through VR Sports? And that’s great.

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The Future Group Raises $20 Million to Blend Real-world Video With Virtual Worlds

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“We call this ‘interactive mixed reality’, or IMR,” said Bård (pronounced “Board”) Anders Kasin, a former technical director at Warner Bros. with experience using game-oriented technologies in The Matrix films. In the picture above, you can see how real people can be inserted into a virtual world.

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Exclusive: ‘Unearthed Inc: The Lost Temple’ Is A Sci-fi VR Take On An ‘Indiana Jones’ Style Puzzle Game

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Before I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark , the first film in the venerable Indiana Jones franchise, I told myself I wasn’t interested in that genre. What I realized is that genre has never been that important to me after all in films and games, it’s more so about the characters and the stories that are told.

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Marble Mountain released on Steam

The Rift Arcade

Launched today on Steam, Marble Mountain sees players navigate complex, puzzle-filled levels as a marble, something that’s not as easy as you might imagine, but it’s helped by the use of virtual reality to let players look around the environment and get a better sense of depth and distance thanks.

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Why VR? Flying Through The Eiffel Tower With Your Sister

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The sisters live a time zone apart in Colorado and Indiana, in lives driven by their work schedules at a school and hospital. These days, those voices call out to one another over the expanse of virtual reality from a pair of Meta Quest 2 headsets. He didn’t realize just how much bad language was gonna be in the film.

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