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With Music In New Realities, We Can Go Deeper Together

ARPost

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. VR game Walkabout Mini Golf.

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Meta Horizon Desktop Editor Now Publicly Available In Early Access

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Most worlds on it today are made inside VR, using the Touch controllers to manipulate primitive 3D shapes and rig up interactions using a spatial visual scripting system. While this allows anyone with just a Quest to build virtual worlds, the results have been widely and harshly criticized for their simplistic cartoonish appearance.

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Meta, NBA Open 180-Degree Live VR Sports on Meta Quest

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Xtadium will also host all announced 52 games on its platform, with Horizon Worlds also hosting the events in 180-degree cinematography. A Whole New (Virtual) World NBA Arena is set to return to Horizon Worlds on 17 November, with tonnes of new features for building online communities for sports brands.

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Two guys in Iceland want to improve how VR games are developed

VR Game Critic

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 was standing in an HTC Vive, watching a virtual version of a virtual world.

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Early VR Pioneer CCP Games Acquired by ‘Black Desert Online’ MMO Developer for $425M

Road to VR

CCP Games , an Icelandic game studio known for the long running EVE: Online MMO and their eager jump into and eventual backpedaling in the VR space, has been acquired by Korea-based developer Pearl Abyss , the studio behind the MMO Black Desert Online.

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30th Raindance Film Festival to Showcase Skits & Giggles, the First Live VR Comedy Show in Horizon Worlds

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As metaverse projects grow and diversify, live entertainment and performances are slowly, but surely, finding their place in the virtual world. On October 30, 2022, XR production studio Double Eye Studios will debut Skits & Giggles , the first live VR comedy show in Horizon Worlds.

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‘Supernatural’ Review – Fun Gameplay, Breathtaking Visuals, But Hefty Entry Price

Road to VR

Here, you’re treated to amazing 360 landscapes paired with near-photorealistic rendered foregrounds, making for a convincing illusion that you’re working out in a rice paddy at sunset, on the Icelandic tundra, or in the Scottish Highlands.

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