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PSA: You Don’t Need Xbox Game Pass to Play ‘Fortnite’ for Free on Quest

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You can find a list of officially supported controllers here , although many other non-listed Bluetooth controller also work, like an old Google Stadia controller. Supported controllers include all Xbox One S and Xbox One X controllers, PS4 and PS5 controllers, and some later-generation Xbox One controllers. So, what’s the big deal?

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How VR Video is Being Used to Help Kids Conquer Fear of Swimming

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One fifth of children in Sweden are unable to swim, according to a new initiative launched by the Swedish Swimming Federation, a significant number considering that the country’s beautiful landscape is littered with lakes and bordered by the Baltic sea.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Also remember: we’re soon going to have a Gear VR controller (it’ll be similar to Google Daydream’s controller, which operates like a laser pointer). Brands have customized Google Cardboards for… well, as long as “marketing” and “virtual reality” have been in the same sentence (a year and a half, really).

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Social VR Research Alert: Participate in a Research Study on Identity Construction in Virtual Environments, at Lund University in Sweden

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Filippa and Lina are two Master’s students in the International Marketing and Brand Management program at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. If you are interested in participating in this research, please fill out this Google Docs form. Each interview will be around 30 minutes, and conducted online.

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Monster Hunter Now Hits One Million Pre-Registrations

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Monster Hunter Now arrives on September 14 for iOS and Android devices, available through the App Store and Google Play. On Android, a regional soft launch means it's out now in Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sweden.

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Looking Back at Virtual Reality Over the Last 5 Years

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They even became “Christmas present of the year” here in Sweden in 2016! Google, Valve, Facebook, Sony, Samsung and an enormous amount of other companies are trying to do their part in bringing the tech forward, and the sense of enthusiast development that sparked this new revolution is still here, in all of us. It’s that easy.

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Metaverse needs to solve problems, not be the problem

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COVID also helped professional implementation of VR which is closer to the real experience than Zoom, Google Meet or Teams. Therapist of the psykologpartners clinic from Sweden treat their patients by using VR and the remote management system. Content ?—?that’s that’s the most important part.