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Oculus & ESL Return For VR League: Season Two

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Whether it’s the conventional headset technology used in Ready Player One, or the futuristic, cerebral connection featured in Sword Art Online, it seems as though the end goal for competitive esports has always been VR. Oculus & ESL has provided a total prize pool of $220,000 for this years victors, $20,000 more than last years haul.

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Björk Launches Traveling VR Exhibition

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The Icelandic music icon is taking her VR album on tour, starting in Sydney. Björk has always been an early adopter when it comes to immersive technology, having released her “Stonemilker” video from last year’s album Vulnicura as a VR app along with an installation at New York’s Museum of Modern Art PS1.

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Audi Dealers Will Soon Sell Cars Using Virtual Reality

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Some settings include Iceland, Paris — and even the moon. This is where Audi says you’ll be able to toggle between a number of diverse VR environments like showing the car in Paris, Cannes, Iceland and the moon. Technologies for portraying virtual cars have been in use at Audi since 2012.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

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Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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CCP to Shelve VR as It Shutters Atlanta Office, Sells Branch Behind ‘EVE: Valkryie’ in Newcastle

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According to a report by Icelandic publication MBL , CCP is shelving virtual reality as it closes its Atlanta location and sells its Newcastle office, two important VR branches that produced Sparc (2017) and EVE: Valkyrie (2016). The Atlanta studio was best known for Sparc , the PSVR sports game that launched in August.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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THE FAMOUS ICELANDIC ECCENTRIC EMBRACES VR. That fabulously weird genius known as Björk continues her lifetime exploration of technology, art, and music with Björk Digital. Bitmovin’s technology is called adaptive streaming; it gauges the user’s device and internet connection and intelligently adjusts the video quality in response.

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The Quest for VR Immersion with Hrafn Thorisson (Haptics Club #8)

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link] Aldin Dynamics is an Icelandic VR software company founded in early 2013, focused on creating believable virtual reality experiences and technologies to sustain presence and immersion. When Oculus came along, it was the perfect timing and the “spark” for him and his co-founder to dive into the world of virtual reality (VR).

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