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TRIBECA: ‘The Key’ Wins Tribeca’s Storyscape Award For Best Immersive Media

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Her film The Sun Ladies , is a powerful immersive documentary about the brave Yazidi women in Iraq, who escaped their ISIS captors to start a female-only fighting unit called the Sun Ladies with the goal of fighting back and protecting the honor and dignity of their people, and fellow women. Image Credit: Celine Tricart.

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Why Smells Are So Difficult To Simulate For Virtual Reality

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Michael Abrash, chief scientist at Oculus, seems to agree: when he outlined his predictions for the next five years of VR last October, he focused on these three senses. How do you think virtual reality will improve over the next few years? You’re probably hoping for better ways to see, hear and touch virtual worlds.

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR and Oculus Rift

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Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. We’re kicking off the weekend with a ton of new content and also get to celebrate with an Oculus Store Halloween Sale, where you can find up to 75% off the following content. Will that Mervil be you?

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Digital Influencers and Marketing New Realities with Cathy Hackl

XR for Business Podcast

I mean, you have seen some amazing used cases of this, but we’ve got to talk about what just happened in the past weekend, and that’s the launch of Game of Thrones. Coachella just used AR, and Game of Thrones…where do we start? You know, Game of Thrones as well. Alan: Oh My God. Cathy: I don’t know!

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Digital Influencers and Marketing New Realities with Cathy Hackl

XR for Business Podcast

I mean, you have seen some amazing used cases of this, but we’ve got to talk about what just happened in the past weekend, and that’s the launch of Game of Thrones. Coachella just used AR, and Game of Thrones…where do we start? You know, Game of Thrones as well. Alan: Oh My God. Cathy: I don’t know!

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we would be tying together people from somewhere — maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did — with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And that was all done in a sort of virtual world.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we would be tying together people from somewhere — maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did — with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And that was all done in a sort of virtual world.