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Google Closes The Door On Its ‘Spotlight Stories’ VR Film Studio

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Pour one out in remembrance of Google’s Oscar nominated, Emmy award-winning platform. In an official statement released yesterday by Google, the company confirmed the termination of their popular immersive film program, Google Spotlight Stories, after an impressive six years of AAA VR storytelling.

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Amazon to Begin Selling VR Apps Through New HTC Partnership

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The company began running its own Android app store in 2011 to capture revenue from Google’s Play app store and to reduce the company’s reliance on Google for its own ‘Fire’ tablets. Other details are thin at present, but this won’t be Amazon’s first rodeo for selling apps.

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Gorillaz Debut Latest Album with Impressive 360 Music Video, How to Watch in Any VR Headset

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Fitting for Gorillaz, who are ‘virtual band’ consisting of four fictional characters, the group’s highly anticipated fifth studio album (and first since 2011), ‘Humanz’, saw the release of its first track (Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)) as part of an impressive 360 music video. Google Daydream: YouTube VR app.

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Gorillaz’ Music Video Breaks Record as Most Successful 360 Music Video Debut

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Returning with their first full album since 2011’s The Fall, British virtual band Gorillaz continues to innovate in its production techniques. We are so grateful to the team at YouTube/Google Spotlight Stories for making that possible.” The ‘Saturnz Barz’ 360 video now has more than 6 million views.

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Magic Leap Founder Rony Abovitz to Step Down as CEO

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I have been leading Magic Leap since 2011 (starting in my garage). Since its founding in 2011, Magic Leap has amassed over $3 billion in capital from investors such as Google, Saudi Arabia’s Venture Capital Fund, Alibaba, and Axel Springer, making it one of the most well-funded startups in tech history. A new medium.

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Boulder International Film Festival Will Include A Pavilion Dedicated Entirely To XR Experiences

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The pavilion space will also prominently feature a retrospective of large-format AR artworks from 2011-2018 by HEAVY , an award-winning creative studio that specializes in using immersive technology to reclaim public spaces for civic engagement, enlightened interactivity, and fun & thoughtful experiences.

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Report: HTC Lays Off 1,500 Employees in Taiwan Manufacturing Division

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HTC has been in financial difficulty for the past few years, with stock prices falling since their all-time high in 2011. The company took measures recently by combining it’s ailing smartphone business with its VR division , coming shortly after the company sold off much of its smartphone team to Google in a $1.1

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