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

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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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AI is then digitally embodied through Unreal Engine , Unity , Metahuman , or Ready Player Me. The summit is scheduled to take place from December 5-7, 2022, in Miami Florida. Charisma CEO Guy Gadney presented “Characters in the Metaverse” with writing lead Rianna Dearden. Also present was Virbe founder and CEO Chris Wrobel.

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

The Ghost Howls

The Florida company has released during the GDC the Lumin SDK, that is the development kit that has to be used to develop for LuminOS, the custom operating system of the Magic Leap device. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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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. Now, this genius that has revolutionized cinema has landed in the mixed reality ecosystem , to try to improve it as well.

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

Road to VR

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%). University of Florida, USA. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First. Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. Universität Hamburg, Germany.

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