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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. Birthed in New Zealand and raised in Los Angeles, CA, volumetric capture company 8i has announced a Series B round of $27M.

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Frontier VR Is A Wonderful Adventure Into The Wilderness Available Now

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Frontier VR is a collection of three spaces designed by New Zealand-based Gaugepunk Games. These are some of the most memorable and, yes, immersive locations I’ve seen in VR, reminding me of the kiddish joy I experienced the very first time I put on a headset and found myself in a virtual world.

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Celebrating the 2023 Auggie Awards and XR Prize Challenge

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The massive multi-user art exhibit includes everything from 2D photographs to 3D objects and virtual worlds. The interactive game for a New Zealand Supermarket included social lenses, games, and recipes. “We Another Year, Gone That wrapped another year of the Auggie Awards and of the Augmented World Expo.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order. News worth a mention. HTC is now selling certified refurbished Vive HMDs for $400. The hype is rising….

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.10.27): Quest sales are not taking off, Minecraft Earth launches in Early Access and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The two lucky countries are New Zealand and Iceland. More info (News on Road To VR) More info (Official blog post by NVIDIA). HTC keeps updating the Vive Cosmos. It seems that HTC has taken the critics on the Vive Cosmos very seriously and it is now updating the runtime of the device every week.

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

XROM

Pradeep has been a leader for IBM GBS Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), He has over 30 years of executive & management experience across a number of industries. Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments).

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Don’t miss out on this offer ? As low as $7,000 per unit!

Steki Amusement

Series ─ VR CyberX (9D Virtual Reality Motion Cinema) : $7,000 (regularly $8,100) NEW SERIES! All new professional movies form Italy VR movie studio RED RAION , which can let you enter a new virtual world. Series ─ VR CyberX (9D Virtual Reality Motion Cinema) VR 2.0