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HTC Donates Over 100 Vive Headsets to California & Nevada Libraries

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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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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

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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

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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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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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IMAX Launches High-Tech Centers That Make Trying VR a Movie-Like Experience

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With groundbreaking VR headset technology, 360-degree sound and sophisticated room tracking, players will be instantly transported into new virtual worlds that are more realistic than anything imaginable.” These locations are slated to open “in the coming months.”

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YouTube Spaces Studio Explores the Basics of Mixed Reality Video Capture

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Prolific YouTuber Tom Scott recently visited the Mixed Reality Lab at the YouTube Space studio in New York in order to showcase mixed reality capture. One effective way to achieve this is with mixed reality, a combination of capture techniques that merge footage of the real world with the virtual world.

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