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New York Times Releases Holographic Experience Starring Ashley Graham

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Celebrate New York Fashion Week with a volumetric AR runway show featuring model and activist, Ashley Graham. From going on a daring spacewalk to hanging out with your favorite cartoons, VR is beloved for its ability to make the unreal feel real. Image Credit: The New York Times / Graham Roberts.

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“Enter Thee Hottieverse”: Megan Thee Stallion’s Immersive Virtual Reality Concert Powered by AmazeVR

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Technology That Makes the Unreal Look Real. It combines live-action 3D footage taken using 9K cameras with computer-generated environments using Unreal Engine-based visual effects. The virtual reality concert tour starts in Los Angeles on April 5-10 and ends in New York City on June 30-July 3.

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Our First Look At Magic Leap’s Experimental Spatial Computing AR Experience

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Undersea , a new spatial computing AR experience developed for the Magic Leap One headset, is set to premiere next week at the 46th annual SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Los Angeles. 44 other immersive experiences will also be present throughout both the Immersive Pavilion and VR Cinema. Featured Image Credit: Magic Leap.

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Disney Invests in VR Arcade The VOID, Epic Games in 2017 Accelerator

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Among the 11 picked for the company’s 2017 Accelerator is location-based VR arcade The Void and Unreal Engine creator Epic Games. The Void now operates four VR centers globally; at Madame Tussauds in New York, The Rec Room in Toronto, The Beach in Dubai, and their headquarters outside of Salt Lake City.

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Nickelodeon Launches Slimezone VR at IMAX VR Centers

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Now available at Los Angeles, New York and Toronto VR centers. Nickelodeon launched its SlimeZone multi-player VR experience at IMAX VR centers in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto Friday, with further plans to bring the social experience to locations in Shanghai, Bangkok and Manchester (UK) soon.

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Bloomberg: Apple Building Headset Versions Of FaceTime, Maps & More

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Over the weekend The New York Times also reported Apple is enlisting Hollywood directors like Jon Favreau to create immersive VR content, such as a version of Prehistoric Planet. Developers will also apparently get access to a Mac based headset simulator so they can develop before having the device in-hand.

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Felix & Paul’s Creepy VR Film ‘Gymnasia’ Set To Debut At Tribeca Film Festival

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Altogether, GYMNASIA is a six-minute experience that brilliantly fuses 3D 360-degree video, stop motion, miniatures, and computer-generated graphics (CGI), and is the first stop motion VR experience to induce the elusive anxiety that occurs when the lines between “real” and “unreal” are blurred beyond belief.

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