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A Week In Italy: Everything We Saw At Venice Immersive 2023

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Venice Immersive recently returned to Italy, showcasing dozens of worldwide VR and AR projects. Part of the Venice International Film Festival, we attended the festival and went hands-on with many experiences, also speaking with the co-curators. Here’s everything we saw. I wasn’t sold on Tulpamancer though.

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VIEW Conference 2018 will host amazing XR talks and workshops

The Ghost Howls

I’m very happy to talk about a very important event that will take place very soon in my city of Turin (Italy): the VIEW Conference. The Metaverse, that becomes the MagicVerse, in Magic Leap’s terms (Image by Magic Leap). More details. October, 26th (Friday) – 17.30. “What is the MagicVerse?”

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???????(Qingdao, here I come!)

The Ghost Howls

I will depart my lovely Italy on Saturday, to attend the Sandbox Immersive Festival (SIF) in Qingdao, China. The SIF will showcase 44 immersive projects , including 6 large-scale installations, 21 interactive experiences, 9 films and 8 VR films in 8K. Yes, I am returning again to China. Yes, new adventures await me.

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Escaping Into Virtuality

Tech Trends VR

The Raindance Film Festival , for example, received 600 VR submissions this year, including the first feature-length feature in the format. and Italy) and have watched as each of the countries where I have a right to vote have swung towards such candidates – the underlying causes of the phenomenon are the most worrying thing.

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ILMxLab’s Rob Bredow Explains What VR Opens Up For ‘Star Wars’

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Bredow was recently in Milan, Italy for the VIEW Conference. He told UploadVR that virtual reality is now part of the production process for the Star Wars films, something that commenced with Rogue One and director Gareth Edwards.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Essilor is the world’s largest lens manufacturer, and recently merged with Luxottica of Italy, the world’s largest eye-frames company. Magic Leap. Magic Leap has experimented with a variety of optical designs in order to find a feasible light-field display that can be manufactured at massive scales.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.28): Valve Index is now available immediately, Oculus and Magic Leap update their devices and much more!

The Ghost Howls

and this is good from one side, but stressful on others… much thanks to air conditioning to make me survive in that oven that is Italy in these days!). Magic Leap has just rolled an important update. In the meanwhile, Puzzlar, the first indie game developed with the dev grants of Magic Leap, has been released.