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Niantic Launches Harry Potter Wizards Unite as Beta in Australia & New Zealand

Next Reality AR

and Portkey Games, launched published to Google Play and the App Store in Australia. The land down under joins New Zealand (who gained access to the beta on April 16), as the lucky guinea pigs for the location-based game. On Tuesday, the beta version of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, built in partnership with Niantic, Warner Bros.,

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John Cusack & Christina Ricci Make Their VR Debut In ?Distorted Reality?

VRScout

To compliment the theatrical film release of Distorted on June 22nd, Minds Eye Entertainment and SkyVR have partnered to produce Distorted Reality , a scripted, live-action cinematic VR distributed through OneTouchVR on Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and iOS.

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Distorting Virtual Reality

Tech Trends VR

To complement the theatrical film release of Distorted on June 22nd, Minds Eye Entertainment and SkyVR have partnered to produce “Distorted Reality,” a scripted, live-action cinematic VR distributed through OneTouchVR on Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and iOs.

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Virtual Reality Headset Demos for Newbies: Some Do’s and Don’ts

Ryan Schultz

Next, I introduced my coworker to Google Earth VR , the virtual reality version of the already-familiar Google Earth. A special thank you to John, for being my guinea pig, and the first person to whom I have demoed my new HTC Vive Pro 2 headset at work!

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Future Trend: The Use of Artificial Intelligence Companions and Chatbots in the Metaverse (and I Decide to Test Out the Replika AI Chatbot)

Ryan Schultz

However, after reading through some of the top-rated conversations which other users of the program had posted to the Replika subReddit , I was intrigued enough to upgrade, despite my concerns about how my de-identified, anonymized personal data would be used by the third parties listed in their Privacy Policy, including Facebook Analytics and Google (..)

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Bringing Lego Fish and Global AR Gnomes to Life, with Trigger Global’s Jason Yim

XR for Business Podcast

He has creatively led over 150,000 hours of development in mixed reality, including as a Snap Lens Studio partner, preferred developer for Facebook, and showcase developer for Euphoria and Google, as well as an early adopter and early developer for Magic Leap. You’ve done work with Snapchat, and Facebook, and Google.”

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Bringing Lego Fish and Global AR Gnomes to Life, with Trigger Global's Jason Yim

XR for Business Podcast

He has creatively led over 150,000 hours of development in mixed reality, including as a Snap Lens Studio partner, preferred developer for Facebook, and showcase developer for Euphoria and Google, as well as an early adopter and early developer for Magic Leap. You've done work with Snapchat, and Facebook, and Google." Jason: Sure.

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