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Mexico Celebrates First VR Festival in Latin America

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Mattel used the event to unveil its VR View-Master in Mexico, while Samsung and Unity were also some of the event’s main sponsors. Nicolas Alcalá, a well known VR pioneer who crowdfunded his first film project, The Cosmonaut by raising over $500,000 from 5,000 people, also took the stage.

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Earth Day: Now You Can Surf With a Legend in VR

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Ritter surfed frequently in Baja and mainland Mexico during his days as a student at UC Santa Barbara, and continued on to travel to many remote and unexplored oceanic landscapes. Appropriately, the idea for Nakuru was born on a surf trip in Sayulita, Mexico where the film’s future Director Steve Engman met Ritter’s son Sean.

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Spatial Beats: Zoom, Looking Glass & AR Funding

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The XR section of the venerated New York film festival introduced its offering on Tuesday: a mix of VR in the Museum of Other Realities, some limited in-person events at the Tribeca Hub downtown, and location-based mobile AR experiences around New York. M contract to provide VR training at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

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Putting AR into Art

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Although their main base is in Vienna, they also have a presence in Beijing and Tel Aviv as well as partners in Mexico and Mongolia. Immersive technologies seem like a natural fit with the art-browsing experience since most people experience it on two levels. Alice Bonasio is a VR Consultant and Tech Trends’ Editor in Chief.

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Reuniting Undocumented Immigrant Families with VR

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The technology blew him away. “The goal of the the Family Reunions Project is to apply virtual reality technology towards a community that needs transportation the most, which is displaced and immigrant communities.” ” Morales explained that making something so powerful isn’t as hard as you might imagine.

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

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Part of the Venice International Film Festival, we attended the festival and went hands-on with many experiences, also speaking with the co-curators. As someone who's never been to a film festival, never mind one with an XR segment, Venice Immersive was a learning experience for me. Here’s everything we saw.

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How to choose an LBVR product?

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And a VR center owner can get kids familiar with the technology so they could return once they will grow up. 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.

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