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The Battle For Your Head Is Underway: VR from Oculus, Sony, HTC/Valve competing at GDC2016

CTOvision

GDC2016 is the largest game developer conference in the globe. By all accounts it will be the biggest yet for virtual reality. It has become so huge a sub-conference has been organized called the Virtual Reality Developers Conference ( VRDC ).

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Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps

The Verge

Facebook will soon begin testing ads inside its Oculus Quest virtual reality system. Facebook will later expand the system based on user feedback, saying it aims to create a “self-sustaining platform” for VR development. Facebook has “no plans” to base ads on movement or voice command data.

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Space Needle moves New Year’s party online as streaming digital effects show replaces fireworks

GeekWire

A virtual light show will envelop Seattle’s Space Needle in a special streaming production to air on New Year’s Eve. T-Mobile is still sponsoring the event, and in the real world the Needle will be lit up in the Bellevue, Wash. Image courtesy of Space Needle). ” The New Year’s broadcast starts at 11:35 p.m.

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7-year-old boy saves Seattle from robot invasion — with help from VR engineers and Make-A-Wish

GeekWire

Tri Films Productions Photo). Price was born with a syndrome that caused his heart to develop unevenly and has required three major surgeries to correct; someday he will need a heart transplant. Tarcha talked to the nonprofit Virtual World Society , which put out the request to its network to see who could help.

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10 great games to play on your new 2020 VR headset

The Verge

If you received a virtual reality gaming headset this holiday season, congratulations! But it’s also a very rewarding game that fully immersed me when I strapped on a virtual reality headset. It’s released on practically every virtual reality gaming headset, which makes it very accessible to play. Real VR Fishing. Rez Infinite.

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Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse. What does he see next?

Vox

People who’ve never written a line of code love his books — and so do bona fide nerds, like the Google Earth developers who used Snow Crash as inspiration, or Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who hired Stephenson to work on his Blue Origin rocket startup. You need other people to mobilize huge amounts of capital to make that real.

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Iron Man VR is a tinfoil version of a truly great Iron Man game

The Verge

It’s also the first real console title from Camouflaj, which had previously developed the high-profile mobile game, République , back in 2013 (which has since been ported to PC, Xbox One, PlayStation, and a variety of VR platforms). “I It’s the sort of idea that’s uniquely suited to virtual reality. I am not Iron Man.”.

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