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HTC Donates Over 100 Vive Headsets to California & Nevada Libraries

Road to VR

HTC is donating over 110 HTC Vive systems to California and Nevada libraries through its new Vive Libraries Program, an effort to seed local communities with premium VR. ” In California alone, HTC has donated 100 Vive headsets to public libraries. Unabomber: The Virtual Reality Experience. Take Flight!

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VR Gets Experimental At Moving Image New York 2017

VRScout

In what had to be the most physically jarring of all the projects on display, World And Place Evaporating was a unique project that utilized actual reflective surfaces to warp your perspective while in the virtual world. It was really interesting watching myself with a headset on while still engulfed in a virtual forest.

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Hands-on With IMAX VR in New York

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Virtual reality has always been a tough sell. As long as the experience was safe and the risk of motion sickness was low, most would enjoy diving into a virtual world à la the Matrix. Not because people didn’t want it of course. IMAX and AMC are looking to change all that.

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Tribeca Immersive Brings XR Experiences With Important Messages

ARPost

This summer, prepare for something exciting: Tribeca Festival, which is taking place in New York, June 8-19, brings Tribeca Immersive – a special section of the well-known festival showcasing XR experiences. See Also: Immersive Tech for Environmental Issues: How VR Can Drive Conservation Initiatives. ska, in a press release. “

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Stuxnet Documentary ‘Zero Days VR’ Wins an Emmy

Road to VR

Zero Days VR was based on the titular Oscar short-listed Participant Media documentary, and visualizes the story of Stuxnet in a way the traditional documentary simply couldn’t—by placing you inside a virtual world of computer viruses, which the studio says lets you experience “the high stakes of cyber warfare at a human scale.”

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Engage Link hands-on: an early look at the “Linkedin of the metaverse”

The Ghost Howls

The company got more than $10M of investment over the years, including important support from HTC Vive, which uses its spaces to organize the virtual events to launch its XR hardware. Engage Link wants to take the best of both worlds, and let you meet in VR professional people from your field while you stay at home.

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The Void Upgrades Display, Aims For 20 Installations This Year

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If you wanted to see one of the most complete VR experiences available last year you would have paid for a ticket to Madame Tussauds in New York for around $50 and included the extra Ghostbusters: Dimension VR experience. You would enjoy catching ghosts with three other players moving freely around the virtual world alongside you.

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