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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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Listen to me on Volumetric Video Production
During the opening of the VoluCap Volumetric Video Studio in Babelsberg, I had an interesting and very inspiring conversation with two friends on the subject. You can listen to it here (in German): http://www.daybyday.press/article6289.html all images from interlake.net
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Building up momentum at VRX Europe 2018
This year’s edition of VRX Europe took place in Amsterdam. The two days conference program was packed with market outlooks, lectures, panels and demos. The first day was a general overview of VR trends, while the second day was split into two parallel workshop tracks for entertainment and indu
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VR/AR gets serious at APITs Day 2018
The initially rather slow adoption of VR in consumer markets urges producers to find alternative playgrounds and application fields for their VR developments. Especially in Germany, investors and VR start-ups go now for B2B and industrial markets, hoping to find a more predictable and secured enviro
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VR in a blaze at A MAZE 2018
For the 10th edition of Indie game festival A MAZE, the event now took the center stage of Berlin Gamesweek 2018. Celebrating its first decade of experimental game development activities, the show continues to strike out as the festival’s most vibrant and dynamic platform. And it now remains t
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VR goes to ground at Berlin Gamesweek 2018
My report on this year’s activities at Gamesweek Berlin will be rather short. While the festival provided interesting VR experiences on several platforms for the last three years, the 2018 edition was disappointing in terms of VR. With the glorious exception of the amazing A MAZE indie art sho
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VR in the limelight at IFA 2017
After a no-show at CeBIT and a low show without VR at Gamescom, Microsoft chose IFA in Berlin to be the stage for the upcoming Windows Mixed Reality program: keynote presentation, Windows Creator Update and a whole range of headset releases underlined Microsoft’s engagement and strategic appro
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VR gets settled at Gamescom 2017
In comparison to last year’s trade show, Virtual Reality got a bit less attention at this year’s Gamescom. However, the new gaming platform established its continuous presence on the show floor, and the show’s preceding game developer conferences Devcom and Respawn dedicated an ent
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