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Peter Jackson’s New Studio is All About AR Storytelling

VRScout

The Lord of the Rings auteur is using Apple’s ARkit to unlock new levels of storytelling immersion in augmented reality. The New Zealand native is responsible for some of the medium’s most technologically groundbreaking work, including the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit franchises.

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Big News XR from BMW, Meta, Apple, Campfire, Nreal, and Cannes XR

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Apple Trademarks XR Operating System Apple has filed a trademark for “ xrOS ” with the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office, further teasing its upcoming MR headset. Apple initially filed the base xrOS trademark with the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office earlier this year.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

The Ghost Howls

So, the company has created this androgenic girl called Mica , which should be as close as possible to a real human, featuring a great visual quality (thanks to Unreal Engine) and credible eye movements and facial microexpressions. Or maybe with the same money, they can directly go to New Zealand (Image by Road To VR).

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FOVE Launches Pre-Orders For Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0, Starting at $549

Road to VR

The company has already released their SDK which allows developers to integrate FOVE support for projects built-in Unity, Unreal Engine, and CryEngine. Minimum Hardware Requirements. Eye tracking sensor: 120fps infrared eye tracking system x2, less than 1° accuracy. Weight: 520g. Connections: HDMI 1.4 / USB 3.0 / USB 2.0.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. Canterbury University, New Zealand. image courtesy VR First.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. 14- Kai Liang. 34- Nick Cherukuri.