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Alaska Airlines Begins Testing VR As First Class Entertainment

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Alaska Airlines new VR theater experience could make you forget you are on an airplane. The program remains in its trial phase with an end goal of determining whether the idea of a VR experience, similar to that of the Netflix VR app or Oculus Venues , would resonate with airline passengers. Their answer?

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Oculus To Meta: 10 Years Of Mark Zuckerberg's Quest For VR

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On March 25, 2014 the world learned Mark Zuckerberg purchased Oculus VR for over $2 billion. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, for example, tried and failed to ship better PC VR headsets than the Rift as standalone VR became Zuckerberg's focused strategy. Facebook had around 10,000 employees when it acquired Oculus in 2014.

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Shaun MacGillivray Chats About IMAX and VR Movies

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Juanita: We really appreciate getting a better understanding of this growing technology, especially in how it’s carving out a new medium for film! Shaun: We first started working with AR five or six years ago and had the opportunity to test the first version of the Oculus alongside our 8K IMAX technology with the widest lenses possible.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

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It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus. ” , that are all the member states of the USA, excluded Alaska and Hawaii.

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8 Insightful XR Travel Case Studies to Read in 2022

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In the last couple of years, we’ve begun to see some examples of what the right technology can do from leading hotel, transportation, and tourism companies. The Lumo company , a new train service running on the East Coast of the UK, took advantage of Lumo’s technology to grab the attention of their target audience.

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Lies Below Is A New VR Survival Horror Game For Oculus Inspired By Japanese Horror Manga

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The unsettling narrative-driven experience launches on Oculus Quest next month followed by Rift S in April. . Set in the remote mountain town of Slumber, Alaska, this disturbing narrative-driven VR game will have you fighting for your life as you face-off against hordes of unsettling creatures pulled straight out of a Silent Hill game.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

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It’s been said on this show before; XR doesn’t have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? One is government.

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