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

VRScout

Her film The Sun Ladies , is a powerful immersive documentary about the brave Yazidi women in Iraq, who escaped their ISIS captors to start a female-only fighting unit called the Sun Ladies with the goal of fighting back and protecting the honor and dignity of their people, and fellow women. Image Credit: Celine Tricart.

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

Road to VR

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. Support Voices of VR.

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How VR is Changing the Way We Think About Therapy

VRScout

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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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR and Oculus Rift

VRScout

GAMES: Face Your Fears (FREE – Gear VR ). Based on the VRJAM Gold award-winning game, DRIFT is a one-of-a-kind experience played from the perspective of a bullet. For Rift: Boogeyman, Dead Secret, Albino Lullaby, Euclidean, Dreadhalls, Into the Dead and Kismet. A little spooky something for everyone. Will that Mervil be you?

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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. So getting out the car the first thing we would smell was rose. That has stuck with me until today.”. The visual is dominant,” he says.

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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable VR

Aside from the few countries that have restricted or outright banned them (including Belarus, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Oman, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and the United Arab Emirates), VPNs are perfectly legal in most of the world. Hold up — are VPNs legal?

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Digital Influencers and Marketing New Realities with Cathy Hackl

XR for Business Podcast

I mean, you have seen some amazing used cases of this, but we’ve got to talk about what just happened in the past weekend, and that’s the launch of Game of Thrones. Coachella just used AR, and Game of Thrones…where do we start? You know, Game of Thrones as well. Alan: Oh My God. Cathy: I don’t know!