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TRIBECA: ‘The Key’ Wins Tribeca’s Storyscape Award For Best Immersive Media

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The Key , which debuted at this years Tribeca Virtual Arcade , immerses you into a world where each challenge you face is filled with dangerous twists and unexpected turns. For The Key , Tricart wanted to expand past standard 360-degree filmmaking to create a more impactful immersive experience for audiences.

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PTSD Exposure Therapy in VR: Importance of Storytelling & Emotional Presence in Healing Trauma

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VR is used to incrementally trigger an embodied sensory experience in PTSD patients by placing soldiers within the virtual sights, sounds, feelings, and smells of common combat scenarios in Iraq and Afghanistan. More: Here’s a 20-minute VICE Canada Story on Virtual Reality PTSD Exposure Therapy.

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR and Oculus Rift

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GAMES: Face Your Fears (FREE – Gear VR ). Immerse yourself in adventure; Save the world, time and time again. Based on the VRJAM Gold award-winning game, DRIFT is a one-of-a-kind experience played from the perspective of a bullet. Littlstar is an immersive VR platform and community for mobile content and 360° videos.

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How VR is Changing the Way We Think About Therapy

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If you’re at all familiar with VR, you’ve probably heard that VR is more than “just games” a time or two. Virtual Iraq VRET was developed from 2005-2007 as an answer to the military’s problem at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Ph.D.

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Why Smells Are So Difficult To Simulate For Virtual Reality

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Having served with the US military in Iraq, Kenya and Djibouti, one of his key research interests is getting former soldiers to don VR headsets so they can face up to, and overcome, their traumatic memories. Figuring Out How Smell Affects Presence. The visual is dominant,” he says.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse's James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

That's the kind of training opportunities VR training platforms like Immerse are able to offer with the technology at their disposal. Justin is the co-founder and chief operating officer and leads product strategy for Immerse. As a founder, he designed and led product development of the Immerse platform from scratch.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

That’s the kind of training opportunities VR training platforms like Immerse are able to offer with the technology at their disposal. Today, we have two amazing guests, James Watson and Justin Parry from Immerse. Justin is the co-founder and chief operating officer and leads product strategy for Immerse.