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TRIBECA: ‘The Key’ Wins Tribeca’s Storyscape Award For Best Immersive Media

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Her film The Sun Ladies , is a powerful immersive documentary about the brave Yazidi women in Iraq, who escaped their ISIS captors to start a female-only fighting unit called the Sun Ladies with the goal of fighting back and protecting the honor and dignity of their people, and fellow women.

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Exclusive: First-Ever Impact Reality Summit Announces 2020 Lineup

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Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus. Ethics of Time Travel : How is XR redefining our past, present, and future?

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Why Smells Are So Difficult To Simulate For Virtual Reality

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Michael Abrash, chief scientist at Oculus, seems to agree: when he outlined his predictions for the next five years of VR last October, he focused on these three senses. How do you think virtual reality will improve over the next few years? You’re probably hoping for better ways to see, hear and touch virtual worlds.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

James Watson and Justin Parry drop in to talk about all the other opportunities the tech presents businesses. So we would be tying together people from somewhere — maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did — with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. Justin: Yeah.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

James Watson and Justin Parry drop in to talk about all the other opportunities the tech presents businesses. So we would be tying together people from somewhere — maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did — with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. Justin: Yeah.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

James Watson and Justin Parry drop in to talk about all the other opportunities the tech presents businesses. So we would be tying together people from somewhere — maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did — with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. Justin: Yeah.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse's James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

James Watson and Justin Parry drop in to talk about all the other opportunities the tech presents businesses. So we would be tying together people from somewhere -- maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did -- with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. Justin: Yeah.