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Reebok Launches AR Tool To Unlock Neighborhood Basketball Courts

VRScout

All of this will coincide with the launch of Reebok’s upcoming Question Mid “ Iverson Four ” sneaker, which is inspired by the 04’ national team uniforms worn in Greece, where Iverson wore the number 4 jersey. Image Credit: Reebok. In a recent Reebok blog post, Inga Stenta, Head of U.S

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

University of the Aegean, Greece. Vancouver Film School, Canada. image courtesy VR First. The idea is to stimulate development in VR where questions can be answered best, and in a place where projects can be developed without the heavy startup cost associated with PC VR. University College Cork, Ireland. University College London, UK.

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6 Ancient D20s That Will Definitely Not Curse You

GizModo VR

Twenty-sided dice, called icosahedrons , show up in architectural digs all across the Mediterranean, especially in Greece and Egypt. Would it surprise you to learn that even ancient civilizations liked to roll some D20s around back in the day? These surviving number rocks are estimated to be from the fourth through… Read more.

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Writing for VR: The Definitive Guide to VR Storytelling

VRScout

Furthermore, filming in 360° with a body poses more challenges in production and post-production (and it’s no cakewalk to begin with). If you’re interested in using a library for your 360 film, go back and deconstruct all the elements and the assumptions they generate in you.

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‘We Wait’ Is The First BBC Production For The Oculus Store, And It Is Free

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But We Wait is a first for the British broadcaster which saw the BBC Connected Studio collaborate with legendary Bristol-based animation studio Aardman Digital – the makers of Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep – to produce a dramatization of the dangerous journey Syrian migrants take from Turkey to Greece on smuggler’s boats.

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10 truly great war movies on Netflix

Mashable VR

In these films, we witness not only brutal battles but also the bravery and resilience of heroes and survivors. One of the fascinating films where the production has drawn as much attention as the movie itself, Apocalypse Now was its own war for director Francis Ford Coppola. Even achieving the final cut of the 1979 film was a battle.

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'Succession' actor Arian Moayed reveals why Stewy sniffed lavender while facing Logan Roy

Mashable VR

During a very quick meeting in a waterside restaurant in Greece, as Logan lays out the details, Stewy inexplicably sniffs the flower ahead of a string of expletive laden threats thrown from Kendall when the negotiation fails. Tweet may have been deleted.

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