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Sword Art Online VR Event Immerses You In The Hit Anime

VRScout

Starting tomorrow fans of the critically-acclaimed animated series Sword Art Online (SAO) can log into Sword Art Online -EX-CHRONICLE- Online Edition and explore a sprawling virtual world featuring memorable locations from the show.

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SXSW Kicks Off Today In VR With Live Events, Virtual Screenings, And More

VRScout

Explore a whimsical recreation of the infamous Austin-based festival on your Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, or SteamVR headset. Similar to the Sundance virtual celebration conducted this past January, SXSW Online XR allows you the chance to experience this year’s festivities from the comfort of your home using the power of VR.

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Stuxnet Documentary ‘Zero Days VR’ Wins an Emmy

Road to VR

Zero Days VR was based on the titular Oscar short-listed Participant Media documentary, and visualizes the story of Stuxnet in a way the traditional documentary simply couldn’t—by placing you inside a virtual world of computer viruses, which the studio says lets you experience “the high stakes of cyber warfare at a human scale.”

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Meta is integrating its Horizon Venues live events app into Horizon Worlds

TechCrunch VR

Meta says it has experimented with portals between Horizon Venues and Horizon Worlds over the past few months and found that users will be able to experience a seamless jump between the two via the integration. Meta notes that these users will still be able to catch highlights and replays of Venues events in Oculus TV.

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The Market Growth of Mixed Reality

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Instead, people everywhere are beginning to demand more virtual world integration into their physical environments. While augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) is paving the way for the immersive future. With MR, vendors allow people to interact with digital assets in the virtual world through sensors, computer vision, and more.

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Knott’s Berry Farm Installs VR Ghost Town In America’s Oldest Theme Park

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When you’ve got the headset on and gun in your hand, you can see your friend’s head and gun in the virtual world so you don’t bump into each other. The world was custom-built by a small team over the course of about six months at Bellevue, Washington-based VRstudios. Bottom Line.

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Meta will add basic parental supervision tools to its VR headset almost three years after launch

TechCrunch VR

But with attention from the highest office in the United States on its safety features, Meta is trying to make its platforms safer for kids by rolling out a variety of parental supervision tools. Meta’s Oculus VR companion app gained ~2M downloads since Christmas.

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