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JULY 31, 2017

When I tried the latest installation of The VOID earlier this year in Utah I encountered what I think is likely the pinnacle of immersion possible in 2017, with one major limit. Even the gun you hold becomes part of the immersive experience as it transforms in VR into part of your proton pack for catching ghosts.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

And despite losing some of the charm that comes with attending the legendary in-person event in Salt Lake City, Utah, event organizers did a considerable job with this virtual alternative. Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier showcase was conducted virtually this year in response to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. 28th to Feb.

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JUNE 24, 2021

JUMP, the destination-based entertainment company, exited stealth late last year and teased a unique attraction that would combine real-world wing suits, wind effects, body harnesses and VR headsets for a fully immersive skydiving experience. Locations are tentatively said to start operations sometime in November 2021.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Under Tabitha’s leadership, we’ve forged a new collective vision: one that honors the spirit and tradition of these invigorating yearly gatherings in Utah, while making room for imaginative new possibilities in a new online format.”. 7 Sounds – U.S.A. The Changing Same: Episode 1 – U.S.A.

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JULY 25, 2019

In an official announcement made earlier today, the Utah-based LBE provider confirmed that VR pop-up stations would begin appearing in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego Westfield locations; these temporary installations will serve as placeholders for what will eventually become permanent location-based entertainment facilities.

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JUNE 30, 2016

We tried Ghostbusters: Dimension, the world’s most immersive VR experience At Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Times Square today, we got to try out one of the world’s most expensive and immersive virtual reality experiences.

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MARCH 14, 2023

The school’s Department of Geoscience latest initiative combines Mixed Reality and HoloLens technology with the study of our planet’s landscape for unique immersive educational experience. One of the first courses for first year students is to explore the river valleys in Utah.

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JULY 22, 2019

The platform, which was created to provide surgeons with an immersive, repeatable environment to safely practice their craft, is now used by more than 20 teaching hospitals and eight top medical device companies across 11 countries.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Developers and hardware solution providers have been working together over the past few decades to build VR headsets capable of hosting immersive experiences. Many platforms such as Horizon Workrooms , Virbela, Arthur, Spatial, and even Autodesk have showcased top immersive spaces for teams. The History of VR.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Atlas V , the development team behind AAA VR projects such as Six Years and Battlescar , have returned once again with yet another high-quality immersive experience that pushes VR storytelling in a bold new direction. Gloomy Eyes debuted at this years Sundance Film Festival in Park CIty, Utah.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

The project is an ongoing research initiative at the University of Utah’s Laboratory for Quantitative Experience Design which is a joint lab between the School of Computing and Entertainment Arts & Engineering departments. Star Trek: Bridge Crew is available on the Oculus Quest and Rift , Playstation 4 , and on Steam for $24.99.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Real haptics like shaking floors, gusts of wind, and even smells are used to increase immersion. While initially beginning operations in 2015 at a testing facility in Pleasant Grove, Utah, It seems as though the company’s original plan for a ‘ flagship ’ location in the same city has yet to pull through.

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MARCH 20, 2017

With additional smells wafting your way and other special effects like wind, heat, cold and vibration, The Void promises to offer a uniquely immersive ‘4D’ mixed-reality experience. The company maintains a test facility just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah—still closed to the public and by invite only.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Established in 2007, the New Frontier exhibition in Park City, Utah was created to “provide the highest level of curation in the emerging [immersive media] field, incorporating fiction, non-fiction and hybrid projects to showcase transmedia storytelling, multi-media installations, performances and films.”

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JANUARY 28, 2019

.” The year-long project was announced at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah this weekend. We generally want to place that VR camera where a person could actually physically be or stand, and that’s a massive factor in building a sense of immersion for audiences,” said Lajeunesse.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

” “There is a lot of interest in exploring the overlap of immersive theater and VR,” says Samantha Gorman, co-founder of Tender Claws. . ” “There is a lot of interest in exploring the overlap of immersive theater and VR,” says Samantha Gorman, co-founder of Tender Claws. The Under Presents.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Get out of your comfort zone in this free climbing, mountain biking, kayaking and slacklining immersive series. Despite having traveled all around the world, pro mountain biker, Cam Zink’s favorite place to push his limits is right at home in Virgin, Utah. Rampage , Cam Zink.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

Park City, Utah is already preparing for next month’s annual Sundance Film Festival, and this time around 18 AR & VR films and exhibitions are set to debut at the festival’s New Frontier program. ” The 2019 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 24th, 2019 through February 3rd, 2019 in Park City , Utah.

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JUNE 23, 2016

It has been over a year since we first experienced The VOID’s VR theme park in Utah. In the city of Orem, Utah, a VR arcade has just opened for business, maybe giving us a first glimpse at what these arcades may look like in malls around the country. But after walking out of The VOID, our minds were blown away.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Recorded using LIDAR data capable of capturing millions of points of light per square inch, the immersive experience utilizes a combination of VR & AR in order to place users right in the middle of the Amazonian community. Awavena made its initial debut earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

It’s that time of the year again when art and technology converge on Park City, Utah for over a week of VR and immersive storytelling — along with some feature films too. You can expect some 20 VR experiences and 11 installations, showcased between three venues in Park City.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

His will to explore the transformative power of AR in Real Estate led him to us, and we worked together to develop a pilot project and to launch the Ding Dang app about a Real Estate property located in Springville (Utah), named Springpointe. Ding and Dang are Utah slot canyons. This is a big step beyond renderings and site plans.

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JULY 25, 2019

The Void , a developer of immersive virtual reality entertainment centers, is partnering with the multi-national, multi-hyphenate mall developer Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield to build twenty five new locations around the world.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

The VOID has blown our minds with their Utah theme park and Ghostbuster’s experience in New York—and also announced in February a collaboration with China-based Shanda Group to build China’s first VR theme park. EXA Global is a Malaysian-based gaming company working towards bringing immersive VR gaming experiences to Southeast Asia.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Now, a major actress is making her way into the new immersive media by lending her voice to an animated VR feature. Cheez is voiced by Banks and will add to a film that is an official selection for the Sundance Film Festival that takes place in Park City, Utah from January 19th to the 29th.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

According to the post, “On Tuesday, December 13 at 12pm PT / 3pm ET, we will be launching Live 360 video on Facebook with National Geographic, live from the Mars Desert Research Station facility in Utah.”

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MARCH 30, 2017

We saw the first hint of 360 live streaming back in December when Facebook partnered up with NatGeo to launch Live 360 from the Mars Desert Research Station facility in Utah. Then we here at VRScout followed suit the following month for the second ever 360 live stream , capturing President Obama’s Farewell Address. Live 360 Spatial Audio.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

Sundance takes place January 19th-29th in Park City, Utah, and you can find event info here and also look into ways to volunteer. New Frontier’s environmental awareness exhibition, The New Climate, is the result of a recent boom in narratives centered on the topic in New Frontier and in the films program.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

One of the most original rhythm-action titles of 2019 was Cloudhead Games’ first-person shooter (FPS) Pistol Whip, which recently won ‘Immersive Reality Game of the Year’ at the 2020 D.I.C.E. Once both of those have taken place then the top three scorers will move onto the finals hosted in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

What makes the experience so immersive is that it is a completely untethered multiplayer walk-around experience complemented by real-world effects, like heat or wind. The experience is a product of The Void, a Utah-based startup.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

The bastion of cinema — the Sundance Film Festival — is bravely exploring the VR medium and trying to engage its audience into the new immersive experience this week in Park City, Utah.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

Partnering with National Geographic to show off the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in full 360 degree glory, Facebook took its first steps into live spherical video. Live 360 video will become available to the API later this month, and Facebook will roll out the immersive live stream functionality to all Pages and users.

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APRIL 7, 2017

The Void is one of the most immersive experiences available. Starting today, visitors to Lindon, Utah, where the startup is based, will be able to see this incredible experience. It is pretty much as close to Star Trek’s Holodeck as you will find. It becomes the third Void location after a recent opening in Dubai.

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. VR immerses itself into pop culture. This year marked the release of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster adaptation of Ready Player One , prompting a wave of curiosity about the state of immersive technology and its use cases.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

A diagram of human binocular overlap | Photo courtesy David Johnson, University of Utah. Wider field of view , and thus greater immersion. When you focus on an object, your brain rotates each eye such that the object as seen in the same location in both views. Advantages of Partial Overlap. Improved aspect ratio.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Although EEG can provide a good starting point for some early data collection, Ambinder maintains, a trip underneath the skull is needed to order to derive deeper, more useful knowledge which in turn should allow for more immersive and adaptive games in the future. Read & Write: The Immersive Future. It’s 2030.

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MARCH 8, 2017

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Positional tracking adds not only comfort but also immersion to virtual reality, and is a feature of all major tethered VR headsets.

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