VRScout

APRIL 22, 2019

Immersive experiences that highlight the importance of environmental protection. Thankfully, immersive technology—such as VR—has proven to be the ideal tool for educating the public on environmental issues and spread awareness through immersive projects designed to envoke a sense of empathy with the user.

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

Magic Leap, Disney, and Epic Games are bringing their A-game to the annual tech conference. Kicking-off July 28th at the Los Angeles Convention Center, SIGGRAPH 2019 will feature the largest offering of immersive programming since the conference’s creation back in 1973. The darkness awoke the dead from their graves.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Not only does the film feature some impressive uses of immersive virtual reality — check out Shuri driving a car via a remote virtual interface in the clip above — but you can also become Black Panther in Marvel Powers United VR for the Oculus Rift. JMIR Serious Games. Documentaries. Hyphen-Labs. Black Public Media.

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2018

Tribeca’s Virtual Arcade returns once again to bring groundbreaking immersive experiences. . A relatively new expansion to the Tribeca Film Fest, the Virtual Arcade exposes attendees to an impressive collection of some of the most ambitious immersive entertainment projects currently in development. JACK: PART ONE.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Michael Abrash, chief scientist at Oculus, seems to agree: when he outlined his predictions for the next five years of VR last October, he focused on these three senses. Smell has been used in VR PTSD treatment previously, he explains, but until now the difference it makes to immersion has not been quantified.

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APRIL 21, 2021

To learn more about the collaboration as well as each festival’s unique approach, I caught up with Michael Swierczynski, Director of NewImages Festival; Guillaume Esmiol, Deputy Director of Cannes’ Marché du Film; and Loren Hammonds, Vice President of Immersive Programming of the Tribeca Festival. The XR community are really experts on that.”

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