Cats and VR

MAY 16, 2016

Today Oculus kicked off a new initiative today called VR for Good by launching two pilot VR film programs to inspire the next generation of VR creators – starting with high school students, rising VR filmmakers, and nonprofit organizations. Information provided by the Oculus Blog Check out Cats And VR's 360° Videos here: [link].

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Originally started in 2015 as a traveling VR film festival spanning 10 cities in North America, Kaleidoscope has really come into its own this year. Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

link] Today he is back again being a super punk rock dev and kicking off his time at GDC in partnership with Gold Club San Francisco to launch Gold Club SF VR. Gold Club SF VR is now available on Oculus, HTC Vive, and PC as a free download at VRClubz.com.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The Assassin’s Creed film is now in theaters and it’s rolling out in style with a companion VR experience playable at select movie theaters across the United States. Metreon 16 — San Francisco, CA. Century City 15 — Los Angeles, CA. Barton Creek 14 — Austin, TX. 34th Street 14 — NYC. Lincoln Square 13 — NYC.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In the hopes of enacting meaningful environmental change rather than simply raising awareness for causes, the Nature Conservancy has launched a new experience for Oculus Rift and Gear VR. The real-time interactive experience dubbed “This Is Our Future” debuted October 6th at a Conservancy hosted event in San Francisco.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2019

Fable, founded by former Oculus Story Studio alumni, today announced a distinct pivot in their focus, moving from an immersive storytelling studio to a “virtual beings” company which plans to build persistent, AI-powered, characters which can interact naturally with viewers. “Lucy is always Lucy if she’s in AR or VR.

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MARCH 26, 2017

One such experience, Gold Club SF VR, recreates the famous Gold Club strip club in San Francisco, California, complete with the front desk, main stage, bar and ATM by the front door. Gold Club SF VR features 15 dancers, four from the Gold Club and 11 adult film stars, including Chloe Amour, Megan Rain, Adria Rae and Alexis Monroe.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The moment this tall, gangly young man appeared before me inside an Oculus Rift VR headset I could feel melancholy pouring out from every pixel of his black and white frame. We got to meet some of the studio’s staff and try the experience for ourselves at a Unity press event in San Francisco. Hue is very sad.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of Magic Leap. Comparison shot of Varjo Bionic display and Oculus Rift display. So what is Varjo? Varjo solves this problem.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This expertise is also paid very well , with high salaries in cities like London or San Francisco. It seems that the filming of Matrix 4 has just started in San Francisco and people on social media are already getting crazy. More info (News on filming) More info (A shot recorded by a fan).

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. Academy of Art San Francisco, USA. Vancouver Film School, Canada. image courtesy VR First.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Venice Film Festival is featuring a rich VR section. Among the most important film festivals, La Biennale del Cinema di Venezia is the only one with an official VR competition. VRX is a very interesting virtual reality event that will take place in San Francisco, from 12th to 13th December. exits beta stage.

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MAY 2, 2017

Holospark, creators of the gorgeous VR app The Impossible Travel Agency , have returned to the VR space with something that aims to meld the best features of gaming and film into an interactive ghost story that can only be told from within a head-mounted display. You don’t have to wait long to try out Seance: The Unquiet for yourself.

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JULY 13, 2017

The company is also toying with streaming live concerts and producing VR films , which will become more flexible in the future, with storylines changing based on consumer preferences. Tencent has also invested in Original Force , which creates computer-generated VR content and is working on VR movies for use with Oculus Rift.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Since its announcement at Google I/O earlier in the year, Daydream has been positioned as a potential usurper to the mobile VR throne currently occupied by Samsung and Oculus with Gear VR. It looks very similar to an Apple TV or Oculus remote but with a bit more heft to it. The Remote. The remote is View’s ace in the hole.

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MAY 1, 2017

Tyler left a comfortable job at renowned video game studio Double Fine Productions to pursue a career making music videos and short films in New York City, but the grim reality of that path became abundantly clear rather quickly. “My I was really pumped to work on these really cool short films and music videos that I had seen.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The ceremony will be officiated by AltSpaceVR’s Community Manager and Social VR Content Creator Lisa Kotecki, who will be 5,000 miles away on the other side of the world in San Francisco. Guests receive formal invitation and there’s a process in place to manage RSVP and registration to make sure it all comes together.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

LET’S TALK OCULUS: DRM NO MORE AND PATENT FOR NEW VR MOTION. Teleportation has become a common way to move users around a virtual environment, but Oculus was just granted a patent for a novel method of movement that could be more intuitive. How do we bring positional tracking to smartphone VR? NEW LAUNCHES, MOVEMENTS, AND MONEY.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. For entertainment, we’re largely using the same techniques of framing and timing from film, but adapted a little bit to make it feel better in VR.

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MARCH 15, 2017

Sony has a gameplan for its attempt to dominate the world of virtual reality experiences: a pocket full of priceless film franchises and an online store full of eager virtual reality users. The second most memorable detour is the pool room, a place of sanctuary in the film for Jennifer Lawrence’s character. Designing The Avalon.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

In mid-October we learned about an upcoming VR experience was in development to accompany the theatrical release of the Assassin’s Creed feature film starring Michael Fassbender ( X-Men: Days of Future Past, Inglourious Basterds ). Michael Fassbender as Aguilar de Nerha in the Assassin’s Creed film.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We'll be talking about making an AR video with Will.i.am, creating art with Intel, and delivering on the promise of VR and AR with the San Francisco 49ers, San Jose Sharks, YouTube, and more. He's kind of like the Spike Lee of San Francisco, is what a lot of people say, but he works mainly in documentary.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2017

Since the launch of Tilt Brush last year, we’ve witnessed a surge in creative expression in immersive technologies, amplified by the presence of other applications popping onto the scene, such as MasterpieceVR , Oculus Medium , Quill , Kingspray , ANIMVR , and Sketchfab. That is, until May 20 at Terra Gallery in San Francisco.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

After much recent speculation of a possible price drop, the HTC Vive has joined the Oculus Rift in the discount club—cutting $200 off the previously $799 tag. Based in the US with offices in San Francisco and New York, financial technology company Lampix has raised $14.2M… via blockchain. … well, sort of. Alejandro G.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

At Lightship Summit on May 24th & 25th in San Francisco, Niantic may launch its City-Scale Visual Position System. The Cannes Film Festival will have an installation inside Fortnite, built by its sponsor partner Brut. Probably the subreddit /r/oculus should change to /r/meta. Outstanding move! Learn more. Some XR fun.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

The conference takes place on December 7th and 8th in San Francisco Marriott Marquis. The conference is organized by VR Intelligence, London-based firm whose leaders don’t hide that there’s an inflation of VR-related events.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There are many VR events, conferences, expos and film festivals worth attending, and we've handpicked the best ones with agenda & venue, as well as social media information attached. Give this a read and pick out your favorite ones to visit! It began in 1987, and has continued to grow in both scope and size every year.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 5, 2018

We were deeply honored to have been able to sponsor their last events and we look forward to becoming more involved with the VR community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Meanwhile at the 360 VR Bay Area Film Makers meet-up we saw talks from Apple and Pixar.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

We were meeting virtually in a Beta version of the much-anticipated Social VR platform – I was in London and he in San Francisco – and everything worked smoothly enough for me to believe they might actually pull this off. For Linden Lab, this can be a bit of a mixed blessing.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

During an updated demo in San Francisco, CA last week I got the chance to go hands-on with a dramatically upgraded build that shows some later portions of the game. The American Dream is slated to release at some point in Q3 of 2017 for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift with Touch, and HTC Vive. No exact price is set at this time.

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APRIL 30, 2017

This sim comes out on May 30 for Oculus Rift with Touch, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR (PSVR). I was able to play a few missions with my fellow game journalists at a preview event at Ubisoft in San Francisco. But Michael Abrash from Oculus, he gave a speech at Carnegie Mellon. It will have full cross-platform multiplayer.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2018

VeeR allows the audience to be immersed in scenes of the premium VR films, take adventures with people from all over the world. You can download VeeR VR in your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality , Google Daydream , Steam VR and Lenovo Mirage Solo to watch amazing VR content. SXSW-South by Southwest.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As this episode goes live, Alan’s away giving a talk at the XR Intelligence conference in San Francisco. Today, we’re speaking with Kathryn Bloxham from Reuters Events brand, XR Intelligence, about their amazing business conference, VRX happening in San Francisco, December 12th and 13th. It can be just filmed.”

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. Toby Zhang: I’m a partner with Youku Global Media Fund and CRCM in San Francisco. Image Credit: Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As this episode goes live, Alan’s away giving a talk at the XR Intelligence conference in San Francisco. Today, we’re speaking with Kathryn Bloxham from Reuters Events brand, XR Intelligence, about their amazing business conference, VRX happening in San Francisco, December 12th and 13th. It can be just filmed.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

So building and developing a new story that starts on the feature film side and then organically moves to interactive all the way through TV, through all the way to amusement park rides and toys. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. Hrish: Sure. Alan: Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

So building and developing a new story that starts on the feature film side and then organically moves to interactive all the way through TV, through all the way to amusement park rides and toys. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. Hrish: Sure. Alan: Right.

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