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WellTown Is A VR Experience Built For An Entire City

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New Zealand’s capital has transformed into an interactive VR city in hopes of enticing tourists and potential residents. Celebrating the rising of the Matariki star cluster which signals that it’s Maori new year, a time when all New Zealand reflects on the past year and then look forward into the future.

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Meta rolls out new parental controls for Instagram and Quest VR headsets

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Meta announced today that it’s rolling out new tools on Instagram and Quest VR headsets that are designed to give parents additional supervision controls. On Instagram, parents and guardians can now send invitations to their teens to initiate supervision tools. Prior to this change, only teens could send invitations.

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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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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

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Integration with these popular AR tools could open up the headset to a massive community of independent creators who have flocked to the developer-friendly platforms. In other words, down with the “walled garden” approach favored by companies such as Apple and Oculus. More immersive. Yes, let’s get that out of the way.

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Virtual Winery: Meet the VR Tours Cuvee

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The likes of Audi, Coca-Cola and even The New York Times are all using VR for visual marketing, but what about matching Virtual Reality and the reality itself? Just as GoPro and YouTube achieved a symbiotic relationship, propelling both companies to the new heights, VR is being seen as a new marketing tool for our food obsessed society.

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Interview: Composing Music For VR With Jeremy Tisser

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However one of the most powerful tools for capturing a viewer’s attention often goes overlooked by the masses: Music. Whether it be rock, techno, New Zealand Hakka, throat singing–no type of sound is off limits in this incredible musical journey that changes with each level you traverse.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

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It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus. Or maybe with the same money, they can directly go to New Zealand (Image by Road To VR).