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Five VR Games To Hold You Over Until ‘Star Wars: Squadrons’

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The project is an ongoing research initiative at the University of Utah’s Laboratory for Quantitative Experience Design which is a joint lab between the School of Computing and Entertainment Arts & Engineering departments. Star Trek: Bridge Crew is available on the Oculus Quest and Rift , Playstation 4 , and on Steam for $24.99.

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The Void, Epic Games Join Disney’s Accelerator Initiative

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One of these companies is The Void, a group well known in the VR industry for its impressive location-based VR experiences. We recently went hands-on with its latest offering in Utah and came away extremely impressed, but we’ve also seen The Void offer a Ghostbusters experience too.

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A VR Theme Park is Coming to Malaysia

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The VOID has blown our minds with their Utah theme park and Ghostbuster’s experience in New York—and also announced in February a collaboration with China-based Shanda Group to build China’s first VR theme park. We can only expect more companies to follow suit and many more “first VR theme parks” for countries around the world.

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Actress Elizabeth Banks Brings Pedigree To VR Animation ASTEROIDS!

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20th Century Fox partnered with a production group for VR and 360-degree projects based on their different properties and we previously reported on the New York Times and Milk(Vr) collaboration that yielded a collection of shorts with appearances from major acts like Natalie Portman and Don Cheadle. , where the aliens previously made an apperance.

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First Look Inside ‘The Void’ Ghostbusters: Dimensions, Opens July 1st

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It feels like only 5 minutes ago we caught wind of a new startup riding on the back of the new virtual reality revolution, one based in Utah that had its sights set on creating a cutting edge mixed reality theme park. The experience is apparently around 15 minutes long, with groups of three players taking part at any one time.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Partnering with National Geographic to show off the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in full 360 degree glory, Facebook took its first steps into live spherical video. PARTY WITH YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS IN VR: OCULUS ROOMS & PARTIES. In the official words of the Oculus blog, this is “just the beginning of social VR.”.

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Digital Frontier: Where Brain-computer Interfaces & AR/VR Could One Day Meet

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In 1997, a bio engineering professor at the University of Utah named Dr. Richard Norman developed the ‘Utah Array’, an implant with 256 electrodes designed to rigidly attach to the brain. SEE ALSO Oculus Chief Scientist Dives Deep Into the Near Future of AR & VR.

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