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Step Into The Shoes Of An 80s Robot In Funny Or Die’s New VR Film

VRScout

With a runtime of 40 minutes, Miyubi is the longest VR film made so far. Founded in 2007 by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, the video comedy site has been responsible for some of the decade’s most memorable sketches and series. Miyubi is available now for FREE via the Oculus Store.

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

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This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. The original Oculus Rift won the first VR Headset of the Year Award (not its own category this year) in 2017. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. VR Film of the Year.

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Top 37 VR Film Festivals to Attend in 2018

VeeR VR

As virtual reality continues to rise in popularity, more film festivals, both up-and-coming ones and established ones, are opening up virtual reality competitions. Here we selected 37 film festivals dedicated to virtual reality or with VR programs for your reference. Check them out and visit some in 2018!

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STRIVR Introduces VR Training On and Off the Field

Road to VR

It’s a question that STRIVR Labs CEO Derek Belch has been asking himself since 2007 when the former Stanford Cardinal kicker took a class about virtual reality from Jeremy Bailenson, the head of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL). STRIVR has used HTC Vive, Samsung Gear, the Oculus CV1 and Oculus DK2 headsets.

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What’s New in VR at Sundance 2018

HaptX

Once a year, a quiet town in the hills outside Salt Lake City usurps Hollywood as the center of film and media. In the forty years since the Sundance Film Festival began, the event has refashioned the landscape of Park City and reshaped independent film. Sundance is now more than a film festival. What is New Frontier?

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A Brief History of VR

VeeR VR

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. After its 2007 release of google Street View, in 2010, google introduced stereoscopic 3D mode for Street View. million USD in funding.

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Keeping VR users from hurting themselves

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And that’s why I had to fire up the time machine again, and dust off an even older video of mine: Figure 2 : VR Quake 3 Arena Map Viewer , uploaded to YouTube on February 26th, 2007 (but filmed about a year earlier than that, and showing software developed in mid-2005 — holy cow, I still had some hair back then!).