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VR’s Stunning Filmmaking Makes a Big Impact at First Ever World Humanitarian Summit

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The first ever UN World Humanitarian Summit was held in Istanbul, Turkey this week, and VR was there to help make an impact. Gear VR co-creator Samsung Electronics brought several of its mobile VR HMDs along to the event, showcasing a total of nine VR films that were made in partnership with the UN itself.

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR, Rift and Touch

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Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR , Oculus Rift , and Touch Controllers. Samsung #BeFearless Fear of Public Speaking – Personal Life (FREE – Gear VR). This VR app is designed by Samsung to help you overcome your fear of public speaking.

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VR Experiences to Introduce Your Family to Virtual Reality Over Thanksgiving

Road to VR

The turkey is in the oven, the cranberry sauce is in the can, and your VR setup is in the box ready to be shown off to the family at Thanksgiving. Fruit Ninja VR. The original PlayStation VR Demo Disc | Photo by Road to VR.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

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. Bahçesehir University (BAU), Turkey. Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek’s Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

I just found this out about him: he’s a composer as well, for films. Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. Let’s talk turkey here. I just found this out about him: he’s a composer as well, for films. Jon is the CEO and founder of Seek. SeekView is his web-based product built for e-commerce brands.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek’s Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

I just found this out about him: he’s a composer as well, for films. Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. Let’s talk turkey here. I just found this out about him: he’s a composer as well, for films. Jon is the CEO and founder of Seek. SeekView is his web-based product built for e-commerce brands.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek's Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

I just found this out about him: he's a composer as well, for films. Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. Let's talk turkey here. I just found this out about him: he's a composer as well, for films. Jon is the CEO and founder of Seek. They're a leading provider of web-based augmented reality for e-commerce brands.