VRScout

APRIL 23, 2019

Lucid Dreams Productions director Celine Tricart and producer Gloria Bradbury partnered with the Oculus VR for Good Creators Lab , to push storytelling in a compelling new direction. For the project, Tricart traveled through ISIS-held territory to meet the women soldiers at the border between Iraq and Syria and record their stories.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2017

The CNNVR app has been available on Google’s Daydream VR platform since its November launch last year, and is now publishing content to the Samsung VR app on Gear VR and Oculus Video app on Rift too. In addition, CNN’s iOS and Android apps now support 360 video, along with the desktop site CNN.com/VR.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Pritesh Desai this month released Little Maxima for the Oculus Rift. “Instead of just reading about bombing in Syria, imagine actually being taken there in VR. You can download Little Maxima now for free with support for Oculus Touch.

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JUNE 21, 2017

Kteish’s creation itself has been virtually recreated inside the Oculus Rift with the help of Alex Pearson and London-based production studio, Marshmallow Laser Feast. It’s a perspective on Syria that simply isn’t possible without VR. And it’s been further immortalised within VR.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Make no mistake: if you have an Oculus Rift, then this is Obduction week. VRMark is a more rigorous test than the text-based option from Oculus and, even in its free version, can show you how many frames are dropped during tests. Project Syria, from Emblematic Group. If you missed last week, you can see those new releases here.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

VRMark is a more rigorous test than the text-based option from Oculus and, even in its free version, can show you how many frames are dropped during tests. Project Syria, from Emblematic Group. Project Syria is a project that was developed back in 2013 and is now being released on consumer VR. VRMark, from Futuremark.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Nour herself had to flee the war in Syria, moving to Canada in 2017, where she joined a flight school in Quebec, and after earning her license in September 2018 she’s working towards becoming a pilot for Air Canada. The films will be screened in VR through a variety of systems such as the Oculus Go, Google Daydream, or Samsung Gear VR.

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