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Take A Virtual Tour Around The Solar System With ‘Overview’

VRScout

Written and directed by up-and-coming French VR Director Paul Mezier, Overview has been available since March on HTC Vive, but has now launched on the Oculus Rift as well. Solignac used to lecture at NASA and the European Space Agency and was most recently on the selection board of the latest group of European astronauts.

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Taking a Virtual Spin Around The Solar System

Tech Trends VR

After demoing it myself, I also got my seven-year-old niece try it, and even though by now she’s a bit of a VR veteran (using your family members as guinea pigs is standard practice in my household), the experience still had her shouting out in excitement, and – most tellingly – incorporating space exploration themes into her play afterward.

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

VRScout

The content will also be available in stereo 3D through the Littlstar app on Sony’s Playstation VR, Google Daydream, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR and more. We are excited to be one of the only groups facilitating A-list film star debuts in virtual reality, and we hope that others will follow our lead.”.

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Research Study Suggests VR Can Have A Huge Impact In The Classroom

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” To test this theory, the subject of astrophysics was chosen to be a guinea pig of sorts. A class of 40 students was divided into four groups of ten. Each group was given a test on the same subject matter, but the lessons to each group were delivered in different ways.

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Distorting Virtual Reality

Tech Trends VR

The content will also be available in stereo 3D through the Littlstar app on Sony’s Playstation VR, Google Daydream, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR and more. We are excited to be one of the only groups facilitating A-list film star debuts in virtual reality, and we hope that others will follow our lead.”.

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What’s new in VR for 2019?

InstaVR

We’d just seen the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive get wide releases, and Gear VR was seeing strong usage thanks in part to Samsung bundling the headset with new phones. 2018 was a transition to more and more groups within companies using the technology.

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