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Articles tagged: augmented reality

Facebook Connect: The 5 Biggest Announcements for Immersive Journalists

17th Sep 2020

Facebook Connect: The 5 Biggest Announcements for Immersive Journalists

Yesterday, Facebook held its annual Connect conference on the company’s virtual and augmented reality efforts. Instead of multiple days, the majority of this year’s news was packed into a two-hour…

Apply for a Journalism 360 Grant to Fund Your Immersive Journalism Idea

13th Aug 2020

Apply for a Journalism 360 Grant to Fund Your Immersive Journalism Idea

Submissions to the the 2020 Journalism 360 Challenge are now open. The Journalism 360 Challenge aims to fund experiments in immersive journalism, and is requesting creators submit their ideas for…

Forbes’ Charlie Fink: How COVID-19 Could Push XR to the Next Level

14th Apr 2020

Forbes’ Charlie Fink: How COVID-19 Could Push XR to the Next Level

XR Immersive Enterprise 2020 will be held exclusively online May 5-7. Visit the XR Immersive Enterprise website to register for a pass today. When Immersive Shooter first sat down to speak…

XR Intelligence: Making the Business Case for VR, AR and XR

8th Jan 2020

XR Intelligence: Making the Business Case for VR, AR and XR

According to XR Intelligence‘s latest XR Industry Insight Report (2019-2020), 93 percent of  enterprises that have decided to use virtual reality (VR) have seen a positive effect on their business, with…

XR Journalism is here – get inspired and get to work

29th Oct 2019

XR Journalism is here – get inspired and get to work

At a recent AR workshop, a participant asked the instructor if he knew of any AR Journalism examples. The instructor, who was teaching a quick intro to Apple’s Reality Composer…

Snapchat updates Lens Studio: 14 new landmarks, 6 new lens templates

29th Aug 2019

Snapchat updates Lens Studio: 14 new landmarks, 6 new lens templates

All images credited to Snapchat. On August 26, Snapchat released Lens Studio 2.1, which included the addition of 14 new landmarks and six new lens templates. They’ve also published an…

McClatchy’s Augmented Reality Ethics Code

6th Aug 2019

McClatchy’s Augmented Reality Ethics Code

Theresa Poulson is the editor of McClatchy New Ventures Lab. McClatchy is currently accepting applications for its second cohort of Storytellers in Residence. Visit here for more information. When we set out to create two…

Behind the Scenes: McClatchy Tells Migrant Stories with Augmented Reality

26th Jul 2019

Behind the Scenes: McClatchy Tells Migrant Stories with Augmented Reality

This article originally appeared on the blog of McClatchy New Ventures Lab and has been reproduced here with permission. To check out more of McClatchy’s immersive innovations, follow them on…

How McClatchy built its AR app, Actual Reality!

27th Mar 2019

How McClatchy built its AR app, Actual Reality!

Ben Connors from McClatchy’s New Ventures Lab shares how (and why) they’ve built its first augmented reality app, Actual Reality! This article originally appeared on McClatchy NVL’s Medium account and…

VR/AR/MR event calendar 2019

9th Jan 2019

VR/AR/MR event calendar 2019

Techies have converged upon Las Vegas this week to attend CES 2019 (our own Editor-At-Large Robert Hernandez will be there tomorrow). If you could not attend, or you are attending…

Jaunt XR Platform expands to volumetric content capture

30th Aug 2018

Jaunt XR Platform expands to volumetric content capture

Update: On September 10, 2018, Jaunt announced its acquisition ot Personify’s Teleporter line of business, which includes key staff, IP and pending patents. The company’s volumetric streaming software system, which…

Lucid software claims to turn dual-camera smartphones into 3D cameras

27th Jun 2018

Lucid software claims to turn dual-camera smartphones into 3D cameras

Late last month, Lucid–the company behind the 3D VR180 LucidCam–announced that its software would be powering a new 3D camera from RED Digital Cinema. Today at Mobile World Congress in…

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