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VAR Live Launches Largest VR Theme Park In Malaysia

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Location-based VR made serious headway in Malaysia this month as immersive entertainment specialists VAR Live launched what is now the largest VR-based theme park in the entire country. VAR Live will reportedly keep its catalogue of immersive experiences on regular cycle, offering 3 to 4 new experiences with new hardware options every year.

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Report: Pico to Layoff “hundreds” as Company Shifts Focus to Hardware

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Citing three people with direct knowledge of the matter, the report maintains the information comes from an internal meeting from earlier this morning wherein it was allegedly revealed Pico is keeping its VR hardware team whilst folding much of its software team back into ByteDance’s own product development team.

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Monash University Malaysia and EON Reality Announce New AVR Platform Academic Installation

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Monash University Malaysia and EON Reality, the world leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, announce a new installation to bring the AVR Platform and technology into the university’s classrooms in the near future. is capable of on a local, national, and global scale.”

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A VR Theme Park is Coming to Malaysia

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One of those countries that may get their first VR theme park next — Malaysia. EXA Global is said to be developing their own games and hardware for the experience, with gameplay that includes up to four players. A leading game company in Malaysia, Mediasoft, will be responsible for the content for the EXA Global VR theme park.

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Additional Languages Found in Vision Pro Suggest It May Launch Where Meta Can’t

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Granted, Simplified Chinese is also commonly used in Malaysia and Singapore, whereas traditional Chinese script is used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. A report from earlier this year maintained that talks between Meta and Chinese tech giant Tencent had stalled , which allegedly put hopes for a Chinese launch of Meta hardware on ice.

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Report: TikTok Parent Lays Off Hundreds at VR Subsidiary Pico Interactive, Tencent Scraps VR Plans

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Seen a direct competitor to Meta Quest 2, Pico 4 still isn’t officially sold in the US; the headset is currently only available across Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and most countries in Europe.

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VAR LIVE Combines Wind, Smell, And Haptics For Next-Level Location-Based VR

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These are multifaceted audio-visual productions that, when done correctly, are capable of delivering shockingly realistic immersive experiences impossible to replicate using at-home VR hardware. VAR Entertainment Ltd. VAR LIVE’s widespread dominance can be attributed not only to its somatosensory system, but its scalability.

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