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The Best VR Events and Concerts Planned for 2021

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© Sony Virtual reality (VR) performances are quickly becoming the norm for live events, music concerts, and festivals (despite some unfortunate news coming from Wave earlier this week regarding their VR app). © Sony Trending AR VR Articles: 1. © Sony Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Ways to Get Your Business into VR 2.

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Major Report Calls for Standards on XR Metrics

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XR Firms Secure Next-Gen Tracking Tools. The report comes amid a series of partnerships and buyouts among global tech firms, many of who plan to leverage cutting-edge hand and eye tracking tools to boost features on their devices.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

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Augmented Reality is being a great tool for e-commerce: AR tools have increased the user’s likelihood of purchase by 11 times; Build.com found that the return rate after selecting items in AR has decreased by 22%. We now know how much Sony has paid for Insomniac Games. After years of await, finally, Sony has released it.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Streaming services Netflix and Hulu have been in the VR space for a while (Netflix announced their app for Gear VR all the way back in the fall of 2015), and Sony-owned Crackle is attempting to catch up. In a possible direct move against their upstart competitor, Facebook has announced their Camera Effects suite with two major tools.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.24): HTC shows Cosmos and Proton, devs make cool hands interactions, Sansar on sale and more!

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This week we had two bad news related to the Covid-19: Valve has reassured that the Index will get back in stock before the launch of Alyx, but due to the virus, the amount of devices available will be much less than they hoped for; Sony and Facebook have pulled out from GDC. At this point, I wonder if GDC may be canceled as the MWC.

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Building Character: Didimo Expands Popul8 Gen AI Partnerships

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Additionally, Colossal Order, a Finland-based gaming development studio, has created best-selling titles like Cities: Skylines. Didimo’s Popul8 tool allows world-building firms to create hundreds of unique characters in a fraction of the time and cost needed to do so.

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How MeKiwi ported Cave Digger to 7 different VR platforms

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MeKiwi is a very interesting indie studio in Finland : they have published a very popular VR game like Cave Digger, and they have also experimented with something artistic with ArtPulse. All the tools had to be rethought for the Desktop PC version (Image by MeKiwi). We are using Unity3D with VRTK , which made things easier.

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