Wolves in the Walls: It’s All Over is the first two chapters, combined together as one experience, and lasts about 20 minutes. It’s premiering at Tribeca this week, but Saatchi sent me a build a few days ago to try at home.
Earlier this year I talked to Saatchi about their pivot to becoming a “virtual beings” company rather than just another “VR experience” creation studio and that switch was landmarked by the announcement of Whispers in the Night. It features the same exact 8-year old girl from Wolves in the Wall, Lucy, but is all about talking to her and sharing secrets.
“Memory is the core concept for us in Wolves [in the Walls] so that everything you do is remembered,” Saatchi says. “We don’t want Lucy to become a horrifying person from what you do, she has her own journey and her own life and her own story, but she will remember. We’re focused on what we call an ’emotional POV’ almost like you’re wearing Lucy glasses.”
Today marks the grand opening of The Petersen Automotive Museum’s “Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy” exhibit, an automotive-themed showcase that shines a spotlight on some of the most iconic dream cars from cinema and video games. Featuring vehicles from legendary franchises such as Star Wars, Blade Runner, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, visitors can get up-close and personal with 50 famous rides from over 20 genre-defining films.
This year, the Petersen Museum has once again partnered with Comic-Con on its “Hollywood Dream Machines: Worlds Reimagined” exhibit, a uniquely immersive experience that utilizes Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality headset to give attendees a special look at two of sci-fi’s most recognizable vehicles.
With his hit podcast, Hardcore History, Dan Carlin brought his love for the past to the masses. It was only a matter of time until he wanted to move beyond audio -- but instead of moving into the crowded world of documentaries, he turned to VR. War Remains, his first virtual reality project which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, puts you right in the trenches of World War I. And it's more than just another VR short: Co-producers MWM Immersive built a massive installation for the experience, allowing you to touch and feel the virtual environments in real life.
Corning Incorporated (GLW), the world`s leading supplier of high refractive index glass for eyewear, announced today that the company has developed 300-millimeter diameter glass wafers in select refractive indexes optimized for augmented reality (AR) device makers. These wafers offer the largest available size of high refractive index glass on the market today. Similar to the semiconductor industry, larger wafers are expected to reduce customers` manufacturing costs.
Corning`s ultra-flat, high-index glass wafers are used to make waveguides, a key optical component in AR wearables. Larger-sized wafers enable lower cost for customers through a combination of material and equipment utilization improvements, which in turn support customers` efforts to make AR wearables more affordable for consumer applications.
The stock taking off thus does not come as a surprise as it indicates growing investor confidence about Imagination Park potential to generate value from its proprietary augmented reality platform. After shedding more than 80% in market value, after a harrowing crash last year, the stock has once again started recouping the losses.
WHAT DOES IMAGINATION PARK DO?
Imagination Park is engaged in the development of interactive holographic content through its cloud-based augmented reality enterprise platform. The company develops augmented reality products for mobile phones as well as headsets. Its products also include XenoMark an AR content activation mobile app.
Conclusion: The AR glasses showed promise in assisting different health care professionals on endotracheal intubation simulation. Participants in the AR group took a longer time to ventilate but scored 100% in the developed checklist that followed the NEJM protocol. This finding shows that the AR technology can be used in a simulation setting and requires further study before clinical use.
FlightSafety International, a company that builds flight simulators to train commercial and military pilots, had an exhibit at the Berkshire Hathaway Shopping Day that features about 10 simulators recreating what it’s like to fly different planes like the Northrop T-38 Talon.
“It was really fun,” says one shareholder who tried one of the simulators. “I want one for my game room.”
A newly-acquired software development subsidiary of ServTech Global (ASX: SVT) has entered into a deal with luxury carmaker Volvo Car Italia SpA for the creation of interactive customer experiences designed to appeal to a broader market segment.
Vection Italy SRL this week signed the Virtual Reality Framework Agreement which will see Volvo adopt its proprietary virtual and augmented reality (VR) technology to strengthen its position in automotive innovation.
Vection’s first task under the agreement will be the development of an augmented reality marketing solution to showcase Volvo’s occupant protection and safety equipment including car safety cells and airbag systems.
The project is expected to be completed by month end and represents a revenue to Vection of approximately $30,000.
The virtual reality documentary “Traveling While Black,” by Academy award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, immerses the viewer in what travel was like for black Americans during the Jim Crow era of the 1950s and 60s. Black motorists and travelers could consult the Green Book, a guide to lodging, restaurants and bathrooms around the country that catered to African Americans. The film focuses on one of them: Ben’s Chili Bowl, a landmark DC. VOA’s Penelope Poulou reports.
This year, the Petersen Museum has once again partnered with Comic-Con on its “Hollywood Dream Machines: Worlds Reimagined” exhibit, a uniquely immersive experience that utilizes Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality headset to give attendees a special look at two of sci-fi’s most recognizable vehicles.
Conclusion: The AR glasses showed promise in assisting different health care professionals on endotracheal intubation simulation. Participants in the AR group took a longer time to ventilate but scored 100% in the developed checklist that followed the NEJM protocol. This finding shows that the AR technology can be used in a simulation setting and requires further study before clinical use.
See the full story here: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/05/berkshire-hathaway-shareholders-learn-what-its-like-to-fly-a-plane-ahead-of-annual-meeting.html