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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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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week. Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. Some news on content. Header image by Khronos Group). More info.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

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The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January.

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Labrodex’s Sci-Fi RPG Shooter Hybrid ‘Scraper’ Already Has Its Own Prequel Novel

VRScout

We have a super group, and I feel very lucky to be working with them on a daily basis.”. I own an IT solutions and project staffing firm I started in New York City back in 1996. Sony has done an amazing job with the PSVR and is headed towards 4 million units sold.

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This is How Fake News Happens: The Reporting of Palmer Luckey and Nimble America

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Excerpt: “Palmer Luckey—founder of Oculus—is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton.”. Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey is financing a pro-Trump meme group. “He 8:23 PM @Papapishu ✔: My HTC Vive review: Good immersion. 2:35 PM New York Magazine (Brian Feldman). Comfortable headset.

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The Curious Relationship Between DVDs and VR

VR Playhouse

INTRO: A little over a hundred years ago, the light switch was invented in the sleepy suburb of Lynbrook, New York. And to explain at least a small portion of this sudden success, I’m going to look at another piece of technology at the time, Sony’s Playstation 2. As I said, terrifying. Needless to say, neither lasted long.

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Investing in XR with GFR Fund’s Teppei Tsutsui

XR for Business Podcast

The GFR Fund is one such investor group, and this one in particular has cultivated an impressive portfolio of XR up-and-comers. Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. So they have a platform on their own app and Sony PlayStation’s, as well. Teppei: Yes we did.