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Marginal VR at Berlin Gamesweek 2019

Berlin Gamesweek offered many exciting events during a week full of playful and business-oriented activities. Apart from the stellar event platform Amaze Festival (see here), VR was not in the focus. Traditional Gameweek components had few offers for VR enthusiasts. Associated events like TwitchCon
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EFM VRNow Summit at Berlinale 2019

Virtual Reality was quite a topic at the European Film Market section of the Berlinale Film Festival this year. The market presented a whole range of cinematic VR productions on the show floor. And the festival dedicated a whole day to a conference program and project presentations on the relation b
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Movie VR at MediaTechCon 2018

MediaTechCon is a new convention format, overarching three joint special events formerly related to media digitization, film technology and virtual reality. The event took place at the Berlin Babelsberg film studios and presented an extensive conference program, an expo area for immersive technologi
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Embedded VR at EGX Berlin 2018

UK’s most prominent gaming event EGX started a satellite show this year in Berlin. Taking place just a few weeks after Gamescom, I went there for comparison, and for checking out the promotion of gaming VR. A regional playing field ‘for the players’ The size of EGX is just a small
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Deep Mining VR at IFA 2018

Virtual Reality was in the limelight at IFA 2017 when Microsoft introduced a series of Mixed Reality headsets with its partner companies. So, it was interesting to see what the big fuss was all about and if VR could be established as an emerging market segment on Europe’s most indicating trade
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Gamescom 2018 multiplays VR

VR has established itself as showrunner at Gamescom booths with a general current of multiplayer games on display. But Nvidia took the main event out of the show with a sidelined presentation of a new graphics card generation on its own. Meanwhile, on the show floor, location-based entertainment now
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Battle Royale VR at Geforce Gaming Celebration

Just before the opening of the Gamescom trade show, Nvidia presented its new graphic card generation on a remote event location, specially designed for the world premiere of the RTX series. The Geforce Gaming Celebration event manifested once again the growing gap between VR and traditional games. N
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VR goes into detail at DevCom 2018

The ongoing slow adoption rate of VR for home entertainment risks putting the new medium into a state of stagflation. Instead of discussing new approaches and strategies to create incentives for a more dynamic market expansion, game developer conferences seem to shy away from thinking out of the box
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VR-Mobility at Unite Europe 2018

Unity’s annual European developer gathering took place in Berlin this year. Only a few weeks before, the competing engine platform from Epic held its Unreal Fest Europe in the same city during Berlin Gamesweek. This was an excellent opportunity to check the state of VR on the developer front.
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CeBIT 2018 gets VR going

Good old CeBIT made a fresh start with the 2018 edition. After having lost traction on both sides of digitization in industrial and in consumer markets, this CeBIT redesign aimed to regain a position of relevance between the  Hannover Messe of Industrie 4.0  and consumer electronic shows l
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