Road to VR

JULY 3, 2018

Based in Reykjavik, Iceland, Aldin is an indie VR studio which has been an early innovator in the VR game development space with its first two titles, Trial of the Rift Drifter and Asunder , developed well before the first major VR headsets were launched in 2016. .”

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VRScout

AUGUST 18, 2020

Users can now immerse themselves in amazing destinations, such as Vestrahorn or Iceland, where they can calm their minds and bodies after getting their butts kicked by Supernatural trainer, Leanne Pedante. In addition to these killer membership updates, WITHIN has also announced the addition of guided meditation courses.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 5, 2022

A volcano in Iceland has been spewing lava for the past few days, and as spectators angled their phones for the perfect shot, three tourists have been injured in an attempt to visit. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 28, 2021

Iceland’s giant volcano Katla is overdue for a very, very large eruption. It’s kind of terrifying, but Netflix ’s first-ever Icelandic movie, which is also titled Katla , manages to make the volcano look much more dangerous and infinitely creepier, as this first trailer shows. Read more.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

You’ll be able to explore a few of the most impressive natural formations in the United States and Iceland, including Horseshoe Canyon, White Pocket, Mount Morrison, Mount Whitney, Alabama Hills, The Wave, Arches National Park, the North and South side of Death Valley National Park, Antelope Canyon, Crystal Crag, and Haifoss waterfall.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 22, 2021

A volcano in Iceland is currently spewing molten lava after roughly 800 years of sitting dormant. And thanks to the wonders of technology, anyone with an internet connection can watch it happening in real time. Oddly enough, it’s actually quite soothing to watch, as far as live videos go, especially when you know that… Read more.

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2024

Coming to PC and Xbox consoles on May 21st, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II promises a fateful return of protagonist Senua as she continues her brutal journey of survival, this time taking her to Viking-era Iceland where she battles demons from both within and without.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 17, 2021

Using the lava flow fields of Iceland to test out drones and rovers to explore Mars. How do you test a machine that's designed to operate on another planet?

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Digital Trends

MAY 29, 2022

If you’re keen to switch off from work during your next vacation and fancy deploying an original out-of-office email, you can get a horse to do it for you.

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ARPost

AUGUST 4, 2020

Featuring superb, calming landscapes from Iceland in 4K quality, the app is developed by an award-winning startup and includes music by bands like GusGus and Sigur Rós. This is one of the VR meditation apps designed for people who need a step by step approach to this activity.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This ambitious project featured the Icelandic pop-rock band in a music experience for a high-end AR device that brought music, visuals, and interaction together equally to create a synesthetic experience. An interactive audio-visual exploration Tónandi.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2021

Built by a self-funded Iceland-based startup, Arkio aims to bring intuitive, fully-featured architectural sketching to VR. In addition to a focus on speed, Arkio also aims to be cross-platform and easy to use, with the ability for VR and non-VR users to collaborate together.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2017

The Icelandic music icon’s next stop after traveling the globe with her VR album is finally right here in Los Angeles. Filmed in the highlands of Iceland, the video was directed by Andrew Thomas Huang. Filmed on a remote beach location in Iceland, Stonemilker VR was the first 360° music video from Björk’s Vulnicura album.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 2, 2016

Bjork Teleports Fans to Iceland With New Virtual Reality Experience via Variety Bjork is taking fans around the world on a journey to her home country: The Icelandic music icon debuted a new virtual reality experience called “Bjork Digital” in Sydney, Australia this week.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Now Iceland-based studio Aldin Dynamics has pushed out the game’s first big update, called ‘Powers’, which includes a lot more than just a set of new magical powers.

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EON Reality

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“Empowering Iceland’s Future: EON Reality Launches Spatial AI Center to Revolutionize Education.” ” IRVINE, CA– February 27,2024 – EON Reality, a global leader in immersive learning technologies, is thrilled to announce the launch of a groundbreaking educational initiative in Iceland.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In quite the pivot from virtual tourism experience EVEREST VR (2016) , Iceland-based Sólfar Studios has revealed their next VR project, In Death , a VR roguelike bow-shooter that promises procedurally generated crawling for loot and more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 24, 2021

Scientists on-site at Iceland’s erupting volcano near the capitol city of Reykjavik cooked up some hot dogs on Sunday. What were these scientists studying with such a wacky experiment? The lava dogs weren’t part of their experiments, sadly enough. The scientists were just hungry. Read more.

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VRScout

JUNE 3, 2016

The Icelandic music icon is taking her VR album on tour, starting in Sydney. Now the artist is again teleporting fans to her native Iceland with the Björk Digital exhibition, launching on Friday in Sydney, Australia, with Björk herself expected to DJ at the event. Björk spinning at preview night.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2019

Waltz of the Wizard (2016) is a exceptionally well-built VR experience from Iceland-based studio Aldin Dynamics. As one of the pioneering demos to heavily feature object interaction back at the birth of consumer VR, it always felt like the curiously magical prologue to something much larger.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2016

Cinematic VR studio Jaunt has unveiled their latest VR series, Home Turf, taking you on a journey from the peaks of the Sierra Nevada to a massive drop off Icelandic waterfalls. Iceland , Galen Volckhausen. Get out of your comfort zone in this free climbing, mountain biking, kayaking and slacklining immersive series.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The world’s biggest direct air capture (DAC) plant is set to come online in Iceland on Wednesday. The moment is an important one in developing new technologies to help suck carbon dioxide out of the air —but raises a whole host of questions on the future of how we’re going to put those technologies to use. Read more.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 22, 2018

On Wednesday, the company unveiled a behind the scenes video of how the ethereal music-meets-AR app Tónandi was produced in collaboration with Icelandic music group Sigur Rós.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2018

CCP Games , the Icelandic studio known for their long-running MMO Eve: Online (2003) , shuttered their VR production studios in a surprise move last year, selling off their Newcastle-based branch behind their multiplayer space dogfighter EVE: Valkyrie (2016), and completely shutting down their Atlanta studio behind sports game Sparc (2017).

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Magic Leap today revealed a collaborative AR project with Icelandic band Sigur Rós, a musical experience which fills the player’s surroundings with ethereal visuals and an interactive soundscape.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

According to a report by Icelandic publication MBL , CCP is shelving virtual reality as it closes its Atlanta location and sells its Newcastle office, two important VR branches that produced Sparc (2017) and EVE: Valkyrie (2016).

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VR Game Critic

MAY 18, 2016

I was standing inside a representation of Waltz of the Wizard by Icelandic developer Aldin Dynamics, but I wasn’t in the game itself. I felt like a ghost inside the Matrix. Instead, I was watching someone else play the game from within a sort of pointillistic version of the environment, studying what they do.

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Digital Trends

MAY 24, 2021

DJI's FPV drone launched in March, the same month that a volcano in Iceland started to erupt. In this video, the two come together with spectacular results.

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VRScout

APRIL 4, 2017

The Icelandic art-pop singer released the full version of the VR music video for Notget, off of her 2015 LP, Vulnicara , after releasing a teaser for the video last November. You can now watch a 2D video version of Björk’s latest VR music experience. This isn’t Björk’s first VR rodeo, and it likely won’t be the last.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Háifoss Iceland. White Pocket. Mount Morrison. Mount Whitney. Alabama Hills. Arches National Park. Death Valley National Park North & South. Slot Canyons. Crystal Crag. The users will benefit from a virtual guide narrating and teaching interesting facts about each location.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 15, 2022

An asteroid measuring around 10 feet wide has burnt up in the skies north of Iceland. This sort of thing happens from time to time, but this incident was notable in that the asteroid was spotted less two hours before the impact. Read more.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2021

Waltz of the Wizard has been in continuous development by Iceland-based studio Aldin Dynamics since it was launched on Steam back in 2016. It’s an amazing game in its own right, and now it’s getting a big update which essentially brings a substantial new mode to its mostly non-linear sandbox-style gameplay.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

Sólfar Studios , the Iceland-based studio behind roguelike VR archery game In Death , today announced that their ghoulish bowshooter is getting a new chapter.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The “Notget” VR music video premiered Wednesday at a Björk digital exhibition at the Iceland Airwaves festival. The 21-second preview clip continues the relentless work Björk has put into the immersive medium to complete a full VR version of her Vulnicura album in the coming months.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Stonemilker” was the opening track from Vulnicura that was shot in Iceland and also directed by Andrew Huang. The post Björk Teases New Trailer for ‘Family’ VR Video appeared first on VRScout.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall, located near the country’s capital Reykjavik and its airport Keflavik, has travelers both worried and in awe as the hotspot spews lava into the surrounding areas. Read more.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

SEE ALSO: Iceland ran the world's largest trial of a shorter work week. Panasonic also recently introduced an optional four-day work week for employees, and Iceland had a trial from 2015 to 2019 that showed that workers were happier, healthier, and more productive than they were working a five-day work week.

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