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‘Twilight’ VR Ride Coming to Lionsgate Theme Park

VRScout

Santa Monica-based film and TV studio, Lionsgate, is opening theme parks in South Korea and China. While we can expect Hunger Games and Twilight to take center stage at the Chinese theme park, Lionsgate will also make use of VR for more obscure entertainment properties. ‘Hunger Games’ theme park in Dubai.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

These headsets offer users cutting-edge technologies, often with 6 degrees of freedom, spatial audio , foveated rendering, and bespoke hand, face, and eye tracking for avatar movement and gaming. Entertainment: Many of the initial innovations in VR began with entertainment and the video game sector.

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Is XR ‘Taking Off’ for the Commercial Aviation Industry?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Other nations are promoting the travel industry post-pandemic, with many nations creating sovereign metaverses to showcase national tourism initiatives. Nations such as Barbados, South Korea, Catalonia (Spain), Dubai, and Norway are creating virtual spaces to attract new fliers to top tourist destinations.

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

Road to VR

Currently VR First is boasting more than 50 projects in development at the labs, and not just games. In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). Purdue University, USA.

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VR Square, a VR theme park, is opening in Seoul

VRWorld

Image Credit: Korea Bizwire. In Seoul, South Korea, a new VR theme park is opening. The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency are responsible for making this project happen, likely in hopes of drawing people from all over the world to their VR facilities.

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Now Recruiting: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Enthusiasts of Dubai, UAE

EON Reality

These skills also enable students to work in architecture and product visualization, game creation, multimedia design, and broadcast media. King Tut VR: Mobile app for tourism. Learn more about the facilities first, come and visit on Thursday, July 27th between 6:00-8:00 pm. Please register by filling out the form below.

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Open House: Animation, Digital Art, and Computer Science Majors Invited to the Augmented & Virtual Reality Programme in Norway

EON Reality

These technologies are spreading far beyond the gaming world and into business and education, where its being used to train employees and better educate students. These skills will also enable students to work with product visualization, game creation, multimedia design, and broadcast media. King Tut VR: Mobile app for tourism.

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