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The VR Game Launch Roundup: Marbles, Mountains & Mayhem

Peter Graham

Find out in this new VR experience from Baobab Studios and from the director of Madagascar and Antz. Interact with objects such as airlocks and consoles while utilising a series of upgradable weapons and tools. Along with your robot sidekick, Debbie, your only source of light is a the flickering makeshift bonfire light.

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Oculus Artist’s ‘Quill’ Shorts Show the Incredible Potential of Illustrating & Animating in VR

Road to VR

Quill , Oculus’ VR painting and drawing tool, recently saw a major update which added animation tools to the software, allowing users to create animated sequences directly in VR. A resident artist at Oculus has taken to the tool to show the incredible potential of drawing and animating in VR. This is a POV test.

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Facebook Artist Makes a Case for VR Manga in Homage to Iconic ‘Dragon Ball’ Scene

Road to VR

As a current artist-in-residence on the Facebook Social VR team, Goro Fujita has been making some pretty impressive “quillistrations” as a part of his daily creative regime using Quill, Oculus’ first-party VR paint and drawing tool that he helped develop. — Goro Fujita (@gorosart) September 11, 2018.

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VR Animation Startup Baobab Adds $25 Million

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Fan previously worked at Zynga as a vice president while Darnell worked on the Madagascar films. Fan said they are also developing tools and technology to produce their animated films, but right now they are just using those tools to assist their own story creation rather than sharing that externally. “We ” Invasion!

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Venture Capitalists Contemplate How Much Exuberance Is Good for VR Investing

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We’re also looking at things like content production, content tools. To me, that seems like an investment in one particular person, the guy who made Madagascar. You expect the guy who made Madagascar to be able to do something good. What’s the best way to compress a large amount of data to reach a device?

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Sundance Is Bringing 20 VR Experiences to New Frontier

VRScout

Artist: Eric Darnell) — From the director of Madagascar comes Baobab’s VR animation. Artist: Daniella Segal) — From stone axe to super-computer, our brain’s evolution has been guided by our tools, evolving it into the most complicated object in the known universe. It’s up to you to show them what really matters.

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The AVR Platform and Classroom 3.0 Showcased at EduTECH Asia 2018

EON Reality

With a focus on how the AVR Platform can best be used in the education world, EON Reality’s discussion, ‘Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education: The Shift to Classroom 3.0,’ highlighted Wednesday’s offerings with a full presentation and hands-on demos of the new tools in Creator AVR.

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