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EXCLUSIVE: Dreamlike VR Experience ‘The Key’ Set To Debut At Tribeca Film Fest

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Lucid Dreams Productions director Celine Tricart and producer Gloria Bradbury partnered with the Oculus VR for Good Creators Lab , to push storytelling in a compelling new direction. For the project, Tricart traveled through ISIS-held territory to meet the women soldiers at the border between Iraq and Syria and record their stories.

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New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases for the Week of 10/30/16

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Make no mistake: if you have an Oculus Rift, then this is Obduction week. VRMark is a more rigorous test than the text-based option from Oculus and, even in its free version, can show you how many frames are dropped during tests. Project Syria, from Emblematic Group. If you missed last week, you can see those new releases here.

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CNN Launches New Immersive Journalism Initiative, CNNVR

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The CNNVR app has been available on Google’s Daydream VR platform since its November launch last year, and is now publishing content to the Samsung VR app on Gear VR and Oculus Video app on Rift too. In addition, CNN’s iOS and Android apps now support 360 video, along with the desktop site CNN.com/VR.

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New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 10/30/16

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VRMark is a more rigorous test than the text-based option from Oculus and, even in its free version, can show you how many frames are dropped during tests. Project Syria, from Emblematic Group. Project Syria is a project that was developed back in 2013 and is now being released on consumer VR. VRMark, from Futuremark.

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Little Maxima Is a VR News Reading App That Wants To Combat Fake News

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Pritesh Desai this month released Little Maxima for the Oculus Rift. “Instead of just reading about bombing in Syria, imagine actually being taken there in VR. You can download Little Maxima now for free with support for Oculus Touch.

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VR for Good: Future Aleppo Is An Emotional Tour Of Loss And Hope

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Kteish’s creation itself has been virtually recreated inside the Oculus Rift with the help of Alex Pearson and London-based production studio, Marshmallow Laser Feast. It’s a perspective on Syria that simply isn’t possible without VR. And it’s been further immortalised within VR.

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Getting — and Keeping — Your Attention in XR, with LumiereVR COO Alexander Haque

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Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. Alan: Yeah, it’s funny, it was brought up in the last podcast, that Andy Mathis from Oculus kind of brokered that whole deal.