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John Legend Performs Live In VR To Raise Awareness Towards Mass Incarceration

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Fresh off their huge $30 Million funding announcement, virtual music platform Wave hosted an amazing live VR concert last week featuring GRAMMY award-winning singer-songwriter John Legend in an effort to help awareness and support for Legend’s FREE AMERICA campaign, with the goal of transforming the U.S. Image Credit: Wave.

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Insights and Announcements in VR Gaming From The Virtual GDC Showcase

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This year, Facebook (who held their own showcase event last year ) partnered with Unity and Intel to offer a larger, joint showing in advance of the more complete Game Developers Conference, which will take place in July. Major Announcements From Unity. Unity visual scripting. The First Unity for Humanity Grant Recipients.

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Mexico Celebrates First VR Festival in Latin America

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Last month, more than 1,200 people participated in VR Fest MX , Mexico’s first international virtual reality festival, the first of its kind in Latin America and Spain. Mattel used the event to unveil its VR View-Master in Mexico, while Samsung and Unity were also some of the event’s main sponsors.

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Varjo Promises “Human-Eye” Resolution With VR-1 Headset

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Alongside its proprietary 20/20 eye tracker and 60-PPD Bionic Display with “human-eye” resolution, the VR-1 also features support for a large helping of photorealistic virtual workflows, including Unreal Engine, Unity, Autodesk, VRRED, PREPAR3D, ZeroLight, and VBS Blue. Weight: 605g (905g w/ headband).

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Sandbox is Building an SDK so Anyone Can Create for Its VR Attraction Platform

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Sandbox operates a number of VR locations in major cities across North America as well as Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, and Jakarta. Sandbox VR, the location-based VR attraction, will be opening up to third-party developers soon, as the company will be releasing an SDK for its Sandbox ‘holodeck’ VR attraction platform.

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Orlando is ‘The MetaCenter’: Pushing Boundaries in the Metaverse

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See Also: One of America’s Biggest VR/AR Centers Is… Orlando? Orlando has the most Unity licenses in the US, proving that the city is ready to be mapped in a 3D environment. Participants joined using various VR devices such as Oculus, mobile devices, desktops, and MacBooks. ENGAGE: Creating Content in the Metaverse.

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Competition in MR Glasses Market to Heat Up With PhotonLens

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PhotonLens will be focusing primarily on Europe and North America for our initial sales efforts,” PhotonLens CEO Patrick Liu said in an email to ARPost. We have an SDK for developers adapting content from unity, and we’re putting the finishing touches on some of the documentation at the moment,” said Liu.