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HTC Brings VR Center to Paris; Vive Exhibit at Nobel Museum

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Which is probably why HTC has been exploring entirely new ways to bring VR to art, education and culture — starting with museums around the world. Now the museum is adding VR to their long list of attractions promoting science and technological culture, with this latest HTC Vive partnership. Nobel Museum VR Exhibit.

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Inside Two Bit Circus’ Los Angeles VR Amusement Park

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There’s a zone for arcade games, a bar for mixed cocktails, a group of escape rooms, a concession stand, and a 100 person theater. The popular group trend of working together to achieve a common goal has gotten an immersive and interactive spin. At first glance, its a massive space with high ceilings and separate entertainment zones.

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Inside The First IMAX VR Arcade

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The first arcade in Los Angeles is not connected with a multiplex, but future IMAX VR centers in Los Angeles, New York and overseas will be connected to movie theater locations. HTC is betting big on VR arcades in China. I think,” said HTC’s Viveport President, Rikard Steiber. Photo provided by IMAX.

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IMAX And Ubisoft Launch New Mission for ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’ at IMAX VR Centers

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With up to four people per ‘pod’, the new mission puts players at the game’s familiar consoles set aboard the U.S.S. Aegis, and tasks the crew with rescuing a stranded group of Vulcan scientists escaping from a damaged space station. SEE ALSO 'Star Trek: Bridge Crew' Review.

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AWE 2023 Is Right Around the Corner

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a panel discussion with leading XR ethicist Kent Bye, HTC VIVE China President Alvin Graylin, WXR Fund Managing Partner Amy LaMeyer, and Creative Artist Agency ’s Chief Metaverse Officer Joanna Popper. It’s hard to find an XR organization that Peck isn’t or hasn’t been involved with, and Bar-Zeev co-created Google Earth and HoloLens.

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AMD Debuts a VR Experience Around Big India Movie Release

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It is the world’s first “trillion pixel film,” and it is getting a virtual reality experience that debuted this week at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The companies are also rolling out VR installations, or location-based entertainment, at lots of cinemas across India using HTC Vive VR headsets.

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4 Things That Make The China VR Market Unique

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Chinese “VR experience sites” have been so successful that HTC said it would open 10,000 of them in 2016. The HTC Vive costs $1,000 in China and consumers need a high-end gaming PC that could add thousands more to that price. The Shanghai Media Group recently partnered with US-based Jaunt to form Jaunt China. Enterprise Focus.

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