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VNTANA Partners With JOOR for B2B E-Commerce

ARPost

The company has an in-house 3D web viewer but also offers APIs and complete integrations with services like Shopify as well as Unreal and Unity. Studies typically show that interest in XR-enabled e-commerce is closely related to exposure to XR-enabled retail. VNTANA 3D web viewer. It’s also good for the entire 3D/AR ecosystem.

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

Road to VR

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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Gorillaz Debut AR YouTube Experience At Coachella

VRScout

This award-worthy case study made for augmenting a YouTube livestream, layers a larger-than-life 2D (the band’s imaginary frontman) on the very top of the proscenium and syncs up perfectly with Albarn performing live on stage. “Gorillaz are perfectly positioned to experiment with the canvases that exist between physical and digital.”

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The AR Experience Honoring Scientist Jane Goodall

ARPost

This concrete jungle is a far cry from Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park where Goodall studied chimpanzees. Jane used unorthodox approaches to study chimpanzees, yielding extraordinary results. The idea of using light and sound to create an unreal experience was also used in the Unreal Garden this summer.

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#1359: Landmark Anthropological Field Study of VR with “In the Land of the Unreal” author Lisa Messeri

Voices of VR

Yale Anthropologist Lisa Messeri spent a year doing field work in Los Angeles in 2018 studying the political ecology of the VR community, and will be releasing her landmark book called In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles on Friday, March 8th.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. Or Unreal if that’s your language. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. What is interesting for us is the last line “adoption and support of ARKit features and future VR features into Unreal Engine by their XR team”. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games). Notice that Apple talks about “future VR features” that it is going to implement. This is huge.

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