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USA Today Premieres Season Two of ‘VRtually There’

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On board one of the last flights of Goodyear’s GZ-20 model blimp or hang gliding in Hawaii, you can now experience season two of USA Today’s “VRtually There” series. Launched bak in October 2016, “VRtually There” is USA Today’s ongoing commitment to publish immersive stories using VR.

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Award-winning Mobile Meditation App ‘Calm’ Comes to Oculus Go & Gear VR

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Rated Apple’s 2017 App of the Year and Google Play’s 2018 Editor’s Choice Award winner, the original mobile version of Calm has celebrated a measure of success over the years with its growing list of soothing guided meditation routines and nighttime stories to put a restless mind to bed. director of product Tony Hsieh. “It

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Sketchfab Hosts 1 Million Online Scenes While Matterport Posts 250K Virtual Spaces

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Sketchfab models can be viewed in VR with the appropriate headset, which effectively makes this platform the most varied immersive content provider on the Internet. Founded in 2011, Matterport is an immersive technology company built on mapping real places as 3D models. ” Charles Singletary contributed to this report.

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USA Today’s VRtually There Gets A Full Second Season

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Such a thing hopefully signals that the teams making the calls for immersive content truly value the medium. To tune into these stories you can get the Google Play app , check the V Rtually There YouTube channel , or view on USA Today’s VR webpage.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

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” , that are all the member states of the USA, excluded Alaska and Hawaii. It is a set of very high-quality headphones that are able to offer truly immersive and spatial audio, with a unique feature that lets you blend the audio of the AR experience and of your real world in an optimized way. MagicScript.

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Google Launches Earth VR on HTC Vive, A Breathtaking New Way to Know Our Planet

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Today Google launches Earth VR for the HTC Vive for free, giving us a whole new perspective on the world. I remember, back in 2001, how amazed I was to see Google Earth for the first time. ” “Go to Hawaii!” Google Earth made the world tangible in a way we’d never known it. It feels robust.

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