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BBC Debuts VR Film ‘We Wait’ For Oculus Rift

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BBC has released their first VR short film for the Oculus platform. Now available to download for free on Rift, We Wait is a dramatized story that brings you along a Syrian family’s journey to embark on their second perilous attempt to cross the sea to Greece on smuggler boats.

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How To Watch The 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Live In VR

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Immersing yourself in football’s biggest tournament has never been easier as leading media providers bring VR live streaming to the masses. Here’s how you can spend this weekend immersed in football’s most elite competition: OCULUS VENUES. Oculus Venues is available free via the Oculus Go and Gear VR.

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR, Rift and Touch

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Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR , Oculus Rift , and Touch Controllers. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (12/17/16). Xbox One Streaming (FREE – Oculus Rift ). Deskverse ($9.99 – Oculus Rift ). Perfect (FREE – Oculus Rift ).

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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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Reveries on The Future of VR

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Unprecedented immersion. VR is already the most immersive form of computing and is getting better at a rapid pace. For example, when Oculus released their touch controllers in December, I was amazed by how much more real and complete each experience felt, driven simply by the fact that I could see and articulate my hands within VR.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

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Now you can immerse yourself in the ancient city , to walk down its streets, and even to enter some of its most famous buildings while listening to the commentary of highly qualified experts. The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. At the moment, this means solutions such as the Samsung Gear VR and the Oculus GO. Rome Reborn 3.0

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

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Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. University of the Aegean, Greece. image courtesy VR First. Universität Heidelberg, Germany.

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