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A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) realityI.

AllThingsVR

A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) reality I hold in my hands what looks and feels like a wand from a Harry Potter film. The game—and the wand—were developed by Pat Starace , director of the digital fabrication course at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. Read more here.

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VR/AR Association Holds Virtual Summit Dedicated to the Metaverse

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The session launched Victoria VR , a blockchain-enabled worldbuilding game that Reyes had also teased at the 2021 VR/AR Global summit. To create not just a game, but a virtual world where people are able to live and work.”. AI is then digitally embodied through Unreal Engine , Unity , Metahuman , or Ready Player Me.

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. Oculus is going to found big games. Robo Recall is still the best game for VR currently released (Image by Oculus).

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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

The Ghost Howls

He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. One of the colleagues of mine of that time was Kim Libreri, that is now the CTO of Epic Games and he created the optical flow for the paint effect for What Dreams May Come.

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

Road to VR

Currently VR First is boasting more than 50 projects in development at the labs, and not just games. In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). University of Florida, USA.

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