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Many Worlds VR Debuts Immersive Content Tools

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The company provides an immersive environment for users to play mini-games, join events, and socialise. Users can also hop between tailor-made digital worlds via portals that seamlessly transport a user to a new digital space. The platform also has new mini-games and immersive experiences in the pipeline for future builds.

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Epic Games Distributes Grants To VR Devs Including Robo Recall Mod Team

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

During a week where Unity gained a $400 million influx of investment capital, it’s chief rival Epic Games is working to spend $5 million of its own money to facilitate game development for the Unreal Engine. Announced earlier this year, the game features a complex combat system and an alpha is expected in 2017.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

And both the journalists of Road To VR and Upload VR agree on the fact tha t it doesn’t represent an improvement for VR gaming yet. The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun.

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What is a Virtual Tour in 2021? Types, Feature­­s, Development

ARVR

Some people choose to create a Unity 360 virtual tour, since this game engine has multiple plugins and extensions that make development easier. For instance, Tairua School in New Zealand is just one of many educational institutions using VR for education.

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Celebrating the 2023 Auggie Awards and XR Prize Challenge

ARPost

The interactive game for a New Zealand Supermarket included social lenses, games, and recipes. “We Best Game or Toy “This one has a special meaning to me as someone who has devoted his entire life to a toy,” skateboarder Rodney Mullen said in presenting the Auggie Award for Best Game or Toy.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order. If you are in a game studio, this is a must-read. If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me!