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VR Social Platform Rec Room Is Partnering With The NBA

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You can hit the court and play basketball against other players and customize your avatar with a variety of official NBA accessories, including 30 new shirts for each NBA team, from the Chicago Bulls to the Los Angeles Lakers. There’s even an interactive NBA-themed basketball to dunk on fools.

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AR Technology Invades Electric Daisy Carnival In Vegas

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One Lense, for example, is designed to help guide you throughout the festival grounds so you can find your favorite artists quickly. Moving forward you can expect original AR-powered Snapchat Lenses for popular events like Lollapalooza in Chicago, Rolling Loud in Miami, The Governors Ball in New York, and Wireless Festival in London.

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NFL Kicks Off 100th Season With Nostalgic Snapchat AR Lens

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Next Thursday the Chicago Bears take on the Green Bay Packers in the first match-up of the NFL’s historic 100th season. “For example, ahead of Super Bowl [LIII], we created a sticker pack of the [two] teams a week before [the game], with limited promotion, and it was viewed more than 303 million times in Snapchat.”

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Philip K. Dick-inspired VR Story ‘The Great C’ Now Available on Mobile VR

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We went hands-on with The Great C when it released on PC VR headsets late last year, and it proved to be a powerful example of VR storytelling done right; the experience is a visually compelling, brings expert voice acting, motion capture, and classic movie-style pacing to impressive effect. Image courtesy Secret Locationc. The post Philip K.

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Foursquare Enters the Audio AR Game

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Here are a few audio examples provided by Foursquare (click to play): [ PLAY ] Blue Bottle Coffee is the #1 rated coffee shop in Greenwich Village according to Foursquare. The app taps Foursquare’s rich foundation of location data as content (and geo-triggers) for Audio AR experiences. PLAY ] Los Tacos No.

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Spatial Beats: Apple, Magic Leap & Oculus

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Like this example, cars could be swapped out. It is available in cities like Seattle, Chicago, Tokyo, London, and most recently, San Diego and Portland. The shelves of a kitchen can be populated with new products after the fact. Didn’t ask if people could be swapped out.

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This Game Lets You Practice Photography in VR

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Chicago-based game developer Robomodo is showing us an early prototype of their “VR Photo Jam” experience, transporting you into the shoes of an action sports photographer positioned atop a halfpipe as skaters fly overhead. For example, going from Auto to more manual camera operation settings. “It

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