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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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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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“It’s Time to Go Spatial”: Get Hyped for AWE USA 2020

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While events take place throughout the year and around the world, the main floor in America is in Santa Clara, California. In terms of events, participants, and opportunities to attend, Augmented World Expo (AWE) is the largest AR, VR and MR trade show out there. This year’s AWE USA is taking place on May 27-29.

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GMA Takes Us Swimming With Sharks Live in 360°

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Good Morning America had viewers swimming with the sharks in the Bahamas this morning along with Meteorologist Ginger Zee in a first-ever live 360 VR shark dive broadcast. WATCH: UNREAL! — Good Morning America (@GMA) May 22, 2017. This is not the first time GMA has broadcasted live in 360° video.

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VR/AR Association Holds Virtual Summit Dedicated to the Metaverse

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AI is then digitally embodied through Unreal Engine , Unity , Metahuman , or Ready Player Me. Christian’s sentiments were echoed by Head of North America at Glue , Adam Lorimer, in his session “The Metaverse at Work Today.”. Charisma CEO Guy Gadney presented “Characters in the Metaverse” with writing lead Rianna Dearden.

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Varjo Launches VR-1 with Retina-quality Fixed-foveated Display & Eye-tracking, Priced at $6,000

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Varjo says their “industrial-grade” VR-1 headset is available starting today in 34 counties, across North America, Europe, and Hong Kong. At launch the company is promising support for 3D software tools and engines, including Unreal Engine, Unity, Autodesk VRED, PREPAR3D, ZeroLight, and VBS Blue IG.