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On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Unity’s Head of VR & AR, Tony Parisi

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Unity’s Tony Parisi weighs in on how we might come to find it. 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. Today we hear from Tony Parisi, Head of VR & AR at Unity.

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Hue is a Heartbreakingly Beautiful VR Experience About Sadness and Color

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We got to meet some of the studio’s staff and try the experience for ourselves at a Unity press event in San Francisco. The event brought together many of the VR experiences that were selected to appear at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Hue is experienced on an Oculus Rift using its Touch controllers.

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

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While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). Academy of Art San Francisco, USA. Vancouver Film School, Canada. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.

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SIGGRAPH 2018 Expands Its VR Showcase With New ‘Immersive Pavilion’ In Vancouver

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It can be hard to listen to presentations about VR,” Jeremias says on the line from his office in San Francisco. “A The VR Theatre is set to show where storytelling is headed, letting attendees experience the best in virtual reality films in a location that is double the size of last year.

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‘Sword Art Online’ Experience Comes to FOVE 0

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The experience was created in honor of the upcoming Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (2017) film, and will be first made available in Japan and Korea starting January 31 with availability ending July 31, 2017. SEE ALSO Sorry, Internet. The 'Sword Art Online' VR MMO Isn't Real.

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VR Animator Tyler Hurd on Igniting Your Career with a ‘Just Start’ Mentality

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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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Oculus and Kaleidoscope Announce DevLab VR Art Incubator

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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. Arnaud Colinart is a Producer at AGAT Films & Cie / EX NIHILO. Eliza McNitt is a writer and director of films and Virtual Reality experiences. Arnaud Colinart. Eliza Mcnitt.

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