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Award-winning Mobile Meditation App ‘Calm’ Comes to Oculus Go & Gear VR

Road to VR

Once you’ve selected a meditation, which addresses a number of subjects such as grief, gratitude, and creativity, users can then choose from a few locations: a mountain lake, a redwood forest, or a white sand beach in Hawaii. “We We have always believed that VR can be a powerful medium for meditation and relaxation,” says Calm.com, Inc.

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USA Today Premieres Season Two of ‘VRtually There’

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On board one of the last flights of Goodyear’s GZ-20 model blimp or hang gliding in Hawaii, you can now experience season two of USA Today’s “VRtually There” series. The first episode takes you high inside the Goodyear Blimp.

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The Final Games Released on the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii U and How To Buy Them

GizModo VR

Top Mention: Shakedown: Hawaii | $80 | Wii U Read more.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 to Improve AR/VR Rendering & Reduce Power Consumption “by 30%”

Road to VR

Qualcomm introduced it’s new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company’s tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as ‘XR’, or ‘eXtended reality’) performance up to 30 percent in comparison to its predecessor, Snapdragon 835.

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Sketchfab Hosts 1 Million Online Scenes While Matterport Posts 250K Virtual Spaces

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In its essence, Sketchfab is attempting to do for online 3D models what YouTube did for videos. Matterport’s 3D camera has been used to map a vast collection of places, from a Maori village in New Zealand to a huge lava tube in Hawaii. Let’s break these down one at a time shall we? First, there’s Sketchfab. Miss Seagull.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.21): Qualcomm launches AR2 chip, HTC headset gets leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The biggest news of the week took place in the Hawaii islands, where Qualcomm had its Snapdragon Summit event. At first, we had something bad happening: Meta shared on its social media an embarrassing video of Godzilla stepping into Wendy’s inside Horizon World. I hope that it won’t just be a video…. Top news of the week.

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Snapchat’s Augmented Reality Vending Machines are Marketing Gold

VRScout

Editor’s Note: VRScout was able to independently verify valid re-sale permits for Snapchat’s Bot in the states of Nevada, Texas, Washington and Hawaii. Read more: Snapchat Quietly Introduced a 360-Degree Video Ad Platform. Further Reading: Creating a 360-Degree Snapchat Video With AR Filters.