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MARCH 11, 2019

With the new seed funding, the company is now moving its headquarters to San Francisco where it will continue to develop its VR software, working between Italy and the US. Mindesk has already published its solution for McNeel Rhinoceros and Grasshopper and soon will publish a version for Dassault SolidWorks.

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MARCH 7, 2017

VR headsets continue to be interesting avenues for movie production crews to promote their films, often immersing fans and those curious in an experience that adds another layer of understanding to the work it relates to. It is directed by Dean Israelite, who is known for his recent film Project Almanac.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

and Westfield San Francisco Centre, San Francisco, Calif. The Rec Room Toronto Roundhouse, Toronto, Ont.; The Rec Room West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton, Alta.; and Resorts World Genting, Pahang Darul Markmur, Malaysia.; Tysons Corner, McLean, Va., Feature Image Credit: The VOID, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality.

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MAY 16, 2016

The first program, the 360 Filmmakers Challenge, partners nine San Francisco Bay Area high schools with professional filmmakers to create 3-5 minute 360° films about their communities. Student from Oakland High School filming his project for the 360 filmmaker challenge. Students reviewing their 360 video footage.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

I got to go hands-on with the experience during an event today at the company’s San Francisco developer hub. On stage at Microsoft’s Mixed Reality event in San Francisco today, 343 Industries boss Bonnie Ross said that Halo: Recruit “is just scratching the surface of what Halo could be in mixed reality.”

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MARCH 16, 2018

Shared VR experiences seem to be the hot trend making rounds at film festivals this year. It wasn’t long ago that immersive lineups only included VR films that you had to explore by yourself. We got a chance to try the experience with friends at Sundance Film Festival. Afterall, VR is always better with friends.

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MAY 30, 2018

Other events hitting Venues later this summer include films screenings from Lionsgate Films, featuring Reservoir Dogs (1992) , Sinister (2012) , Apocalypse Now (1979) , and National Lampoon’s Van Wilder (2002). June 6 // MLB: Arizona Diamondbacks @ San Francisco Giants // 12:45 pm PT. June Showtimes.

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AUGUST 11, 2018

Tse’s project, developed using Magic Arrows software, was recently showcased alongside that of 14 other artists at the Festival of the Impossible in San Francisco, where her piece – half of which existed in the physical world and half could only be seen in AR – was appropriately called “two sides of the same coin.”.

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MAY 26, 2020

Here, friends and strangers can meet-up at the city center to play games like basketball, golf, and darts; watch live sporting events and films; and coordinate with work colleagues. This past March, Rosedale sold his blockchain-powered social platform to San Francisco-based start-up Wookey Project Corp.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Westfield San Francisco Centre, San Francisco, California. Jumanji: Reverse the Curse launches ahead up the upcoming film Jumanji: The Next Level , which is due for release in December. Grand Canal Shoppes in The Venetian and The Palazzo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, California.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The conference takes place in the heart of San Francisco at the Hilton Financial District Hotel. Already, content owners are experimenting with technologies, venue strategies, and business models to capture unprecedented levels of interest from consumers in trying virtual reality games, film, and interactive art.

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JUNE 19, 2017

Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of Magic Leap.

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APRIL 13, 2017

Academy of Art San Francisco, USA. 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. VR First Institutions (including new openings).

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

Her work was recently showcased alongside that of 14 other artists at the Festival of the Impossible in San Francisco, where her piece – half of which existed in the physical world and half of which could only be seen in Augmented Reality – was appropriately called “two sides of the same coin,” and was developed using Project Aero.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Besides Audi’s Holoride, attendees were able to experience multiple immersive backseat entertainment projects, including self-driving cars featuring 270-degree VR films to keep passengers entertained. Lyft is a San Francisco, CA based company offering ridesharing services in the United States and Canada.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Saatchi says that his time at Oculus Story Studio was largely spent trying to figure out how to fuse VR gaming and film to define the art form of immersive storytelling. The suitablye named Virtual Berings Conference is planned for Summer 2019 in San Francisco. “Lucy is always Lucy if she’s in AR or VR.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The agenda will cover both enterprise and consumer XR, including AEC, automotive, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, gaming, film, TV and beyond, with the underlying aim to go beyond the hype of XR to understand what are the keys to mass adoption and apply cross-industry knowledge to boost business productivity. About VRX and XR Intelligence.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

This morning, the Good Morning America team dropped a huge Star Wars fanboy bomb when they announced that Disney and Lucasfilms, the creative…’force’ behind the Star Wars films, have something big planned to generate buzz around their upcoming Force Friday II.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Last Friday I drove to San Francisco’s North Beach, headed to a venue called HACK Temple —a newly renovated space (and organization) with the aim of helping future-forward thinkers “hack the matrix of Silicon Valley.” “It also could be the ultimate form of global mind control. “It has to be about that.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

The Assassin’s Creed film is now in theaters and it’s rolling out in style with a companion VR experience playable at select movie theaters across the United States. Metreon 16 — San Francisco, CA. Century City 15 — Los Angeles, CA. Barton Creek 14 — Austin, TX. 34th Street 14 — NYC. Lincoln Square 13 — NYC.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. For entertainment, we’re largely using the same techniques of framing and timing from film, but adapted a little bit to make it feel better in VR.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

link] Today he is back again being a super punk rock dev and kicking off his time at GDC in partnership with Gold Club San Francisco to launch Gold Club SF VR. By combining high definition film with game technology, we have created powerful new form of entertainment that takes advantage of both worlds.”. “By

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JUNE 8, 2017

Penrose Studios’ newest animation tells the hauntingly beautiful story of Mina and her father, who live in a floating shack above a post-apocalyptic, underwater San Francisco. Arden’s Wake.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. Unity’s Tony Parisi weighs in on how we might come to find it. Today we hear from Tony Parisi, Head of VR & AR at Unity. Tony Parisi.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

We got to meet some of the studio’s staff and try the experience for ourselves at a Unity press event in San Francisco. The event brought together many of the VR experiences that were selected to appear at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Hue is experienced on an Oculus Rift using its Touch controllers.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

The real-time interactive experience dubbed “This Is Our Future” debuted October 6th at a Conservancy hosted event in San Francisco. This Is Our Future” is not a live action VR film, but instead was built in Unreal, letting you trigger action within the experience, playing with your perception of space, scale and volume.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Film is an expression of the human imagination; it enables us to see the world from another perspective and escape from our own lives, and 360-degree video and virtual reality are the newest mediums for telling immersive, emotional stories. Learn More About The San Francisco 360-Degree Filmmaking Workshop.

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JULY 24, 2018

It can be hard to listen to presentations about VR,” Jeremias says on the line from his office in San Francisco. “A The VR Theatre is set to show where storytelling is headed, letting attendees experience the best in virtual reality films in a location that is double the size of last year.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

There’s a unique flavor of VR that exists in Austin— the cross-pollination of industries like film, gaming, and tech that make the VR scene here truly ‘Austin’” said Autumn Taylor, Studio Director of Owlchemy and a co-organizer of VR Austin. The surplus of resources makes Silicon Valley attractive in many ways.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Shang-Chi ( Simu Liu ) and Katy ( Awkwafina ) are simply trying to take a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority—or “Muni” to locals—bus to their jobs as… Read more. There’s a lot of great fight scenes in Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings , but the most striking (pun not intended) is also its first.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The ceremony will be officiated by AltSpaceVR’s Community Manager and Social VR Content Creator Lisa Kotecki, who will be 5,000 miles away on the other side of the world in San Francisco.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

San Francisco, California. Moscone Center; San Francisco, California. San Francisco, California. Tribeca Film Festival // April 19th – April 30th. Sidewalk Film Festival // August 24th – August 28th. San Francisco, California. San Francisco, California.

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MAY 30, 2018

June 6 // MLB: Arizona Diamondbacks @ San Francisco Giants // 12:45 pm PT. Oculus states that we can expect content from SHOWTIME coming later this summer, plus more film screenings of Lionsgate titles, new concerts from AEG Presents, live NBA League Pass games and additional shows produced by NextVR, MLB games, and more.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Last night at the Upload Collective in San Francisco, the Nokia Ozo team hosted a masterclass for 360-degree filmmakers. The class was also live streamed using a four camera Ozo setup. Students at the class were able to benefit from the expert teachings of Alex Henning.

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MAY 16, 2016

Today Oculus kicked off a new initiative today called VR for Good by launching two pilot VR film programs to inspire the next generation of VR creators – starting with high school students, rising VR filmmakers, and nonprofit organizations. Teams will start their filmmaking journey at a two-day bootcamp at Facebook HQ, July 26-27.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Back in 2018, the Academy Awards announced a new Oscar, to be given to the Best Popular Film of the year. The idea was to recognize the blockbusters that typically dominate the box office but never manage to make it to the Best Picture category. It didn’t go over wel l, and now, it’s getting worse. Read more.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Passing by this discreetly placed booth at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, you’d have no idea this was home to HBO’s first internally built experience in VR. The installation lacked all HBO branding, instead greeting you with a “Westworld: A Delos Destination” sign flanked by staff dressed head to toe in white.

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