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An Iceberg Wall Collapsing at the Titanic Museum Feels Like a Metaphor, But for What?

GizModo VR

A large iceberg wall at the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, collapsed on Monday, which sure seems it might be an allegory for current circumstances that happen to be eluding our minds at the moment. Read more.

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How and Why Brand Engagement Is Driving XR Development

ARPost

8th Wall also recently worked with Powster to create an AR experience for the horror film “Candyman” that was launched by a user speaking a phrase from the film into their phone. When we talked to MVP last year, the company had just worked on the AR layer of a mural in Nashville Tennessee. 8th Wall.

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Hands-On: Kung Fu: Shadow Fist Is A VR Brawler Inspired By Streets of Rage

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

When discussing games with a fellow member of the Memphis Game Developer group in Tennessee, they pondered how cool it would be if they had a fighting game in VR. In the Korean revenge thriller, there’s an iconic scene where the film’s protagonist takes on gangster after gangster in a hallway during a one-shot fight scene.

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Shaq’s Fun House Debuts Super Bowl LVII AR Experience

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

He has become a household name across sports, advertising, film, sports analysis, and music across his 31-year career in professional sports. The Nashville, Tennessee-based company develops app-free creative content on any static image to boost engagement and conversion rates.

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A big spider will spread in the U.S. No, it won't 'parachute' down.

Mashable VR

And the sizable mature adults definitely aren't going to "parachute" down from the sky en mass, like something out of a low-budget horror film. People have already spotted them in the likes of Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. (They might even have ecological benefits.) are rather mundane. How far, exactly, is uncertain.

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Fan edits are the internet's love language

Mashable VR

This guy I'm dating has cigar boxes full of little pieces of film from Star Trek. Fans would make vids using pieces of film from the cutting room floor," Yvonne Gonzales, an undergraduate student who teaches a course on fanfiction at UC Berkeley, told Mashable. And I thought, duh.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.09): New Half-Life: Alyx videos and details, coronavirus makes events go virtual and much more!

The Ghost Howls

La Biennale di Venezia , the commitee behind the Venice Film Festival, has just organized its important workshop of the Biennale College inside the VRrOOm social XR platform for which I’m a developer. It couldn’t take place in Venice due to the virus, so it was held all in VR. News from partners (and friends).

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