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Gamification works at MediaTechCon 2020
Like so many media events this year, MediaTechCon 2020 also had to be realized as an online streaming event. Instead of walking between sites on the Studio Babelsberg lot in Potsdam, visitors entered a virtual hub on the internet. Here they could follow lectures and panels by switching between enter
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The grand tour of VR Days Europe 2020
The three-day streaming event of VRDays Europe certainly has been the most encompassing virtual conference I visited in this year of restrictions for social and business interactions. Not only, because this event brought together so many diverse aspects of VR from so many busy activity areas. The sh
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Digital home run with gamesweekberlin PRO X
Popular Gamesweek Berlin focused on a more professional edition this year due to the cancellation of public events. After the innovative and experimental digital edition of Amaze in springtime, the other program sections of Gamesweek were summarized this fall in a three-day digital conference under
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Flock around the clock with PAX x EGX
All annual PAX events which normally take place locally in different regions in the US have been summarized for a one-week-long digital streaming event this year. Included in PAX Online was also PAX Australia. Together with partner event EGX Digital in the UK, PAX Online x EGX Digital offered a 24h
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VR turns media festivals into digital festivities
COVID-19 forced many art and film festivals to go virtual in 2020. For VR this move was not entirely negative. Some festivals used the transition to online editions for setting up impressive showcases of their immersive sidekicks. Cinematic VR suddenly came into a position to represent branded festi
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IFA Special Edition promotes hybrid realities
In contrast to most large scale business and public events, this year’s IFA did actually offer a real-world event instead of going entirely online for pandemic related conditions. The IFA Special Edition took place on-site at the Berlin Messe fairground as well as in local electronic retail st
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Virtual SIGGRAPH thinks beyond 2020
The annual conference on computer graphics SIGGRAPH had to go online in 2020 and mastered the challenge by offering an expanded edition with many insights, inspirations and imaginations on a well organized digital content hub. All established program channels of the real world show were represented
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Gamescom 2020 folds RL down and lifts VR up
Gamescom went entirely online this year. Most areas of the world’s most popular gaming event were maintained on the landing page of Gamescom Now. Gamescom Congress offered a mixture of videos on demand and live workshops on Zoom. Indie Arena Booth, Business Area and brand booths were transpose
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Digital Devcom blinks into Metaverse in 2020
Like so many business events in 2020, Devcom went completely digital in this year’s edition. The developer convention still precedes the Gamescom trade show, which also had to go digital this year. Unlike the years before, the convention was less attached to the main promotion event on the fai
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Console VR’s Unfinished Swan Song
Console VR is mostly associated with PlayStation VR although there are many more relations between VR and consoles on the market. Sony’s biggest competitor Microsoft avoids VR on the Xbox but develops for Windows Mixed Reality. Nintendo tested the waters with cardboard toy system Labo VR for t
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