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‘Bigscreen VR’ To Host Live Q&A With Ready Player One Author Ernest Cline

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With the release of Ready Player Two —the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2011 science-fiction novel Ready Player One —just around the corner, social VR platform and VR theater experience Bigscreen VR today announced that it will be conducting a first-of-its-kind VR interview featuring series creator Ernest Cline.

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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. How to Watch in 360 on a VR Headset.

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Sketchfab Hosts 1 Million Online Scenes While Matterport Posts 250K Virtual Spaces

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Founded in 2011, Matterport is an immersive technology company built on mapping real places as 3D models. CoreVR will be available on Matterport Apps on Google Cardboard and the Samsung Gear VR with more platform options “coming soon.” ” Charles Singletary contributed to this report.

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VR: Fad or Fiction?

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He built the first prototype of his VR headset in 2011 and announced it on Kickstarter in 2012. The sales of the other players on the VR market were pretty much flat across the year – the Oculus Rift (the PC tethered version), the Samsung Gear VR, the HTC Vive, and the Vive Focus showed limited sales growth.

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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

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It had a compelling reason to exist, which is why Microsoft directly competed against iPod Touch over the course of three device generations before eventually giving up the goat in 2011 and discontinuing the third-gen Zune. Many chalk it up to poor marketing, lack of brand cache, and not enough music to choose from.

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Check Out These 2018 Black Friday VR Deals

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This is especially true for those brave enough to participate in Black Friday, a night so barbaric it’s basically the equivalent of a suburban gladiator fight; except instead of battling for their lives, these “warriors” are battling for 25% off the latest Samsung 4K TV. VIVE PRO DISCOUNTS!

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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

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Mojang isn’t a exactly a household name, but the game the studio developed certainly is— Minecraft (2011). Minecraft has turned into a global phenomenon, prompting Microsoft to buy the indie studio in 2014 for a whopping $2.5

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