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Social VR Platform ‘vTime’ Gets Preliminary Video Support in New Theater Update

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Social VR/AR platform vTime released a new update today that includes a few theater spaces where you can chat with friends and watch select sports programming on big screen TVs. Programming is admittedly thin at the moment, which only includes select clips from Manchester City Football Club matches.

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VR Quiz Game ‘Go Guess’ Uses Google 360 Captures to Make You Guess Where You Are

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Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. Google opened up its treasure trove of 360 Street View captures to developers late last year, although there was a proviso for developing apps and games with the data: it had to be free.

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The 2017 Lumiere Awards: Google and Dear Angelica Win Big

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Google Earth VR. presented Google Earth VR with the Century Award for VR in service of environmental enrichment. Google Earth VR turns much of the world into a digital playground that you can fly or teleport around in immersive 3D space. Longtime Hollywood environmental activist, Ed Begley Jr. Ghostbusters . Dear Angelica.

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Oculus and Kaleidoscope Announce DevLab VR Art Incubator

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Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus. Successfully funded projects will go into production in early 2017 and will be available on the Oculus platform. Mike Brett. Milica Zec. Zohar Kfir.

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Lionsgate and SilVR Thread Partner to Launch Intense First-Person VR Experience for New Film “NERVE”

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The exclusive content was captured live on set with stunt actors during the films’ main production, and includes the insanely real dare of crossing a ladder between two buildings dozens of floors above New York city streets, or surviving a high-speed skateboard ride hitched to a police car. Cats And VR.

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VR Animator Tyler Hurd on Igniting Your Career with a ‘Just Start’ Mentality

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Tyler left a comfortable job at renowned video game studio Double Fine Productions to pursue a career making music videos and short films in New York City, but the grim reality of that path became abundantly clear rather quickly. “My Months later, Tyler finally got his hands on an Oculus DK2 and saw his characters in VR.

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Leap Of Faith: Behind The Making Of The ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Movie VR Experience

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The 360-degree experience was filmed by Practical Magic in cooperation with 20th Century Fox and New Regency. The theatrical activation will feature kiosks with Oculus Rift headsets powered by Alienware Aurora PCs using AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics cards. Here’s how they made it happen. 2 and Jan.