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Six artists collaborate to do a VR painting of Star Wars with Tilt Brush

May 6, 2020December 16, 2017

Can you really go wrong when you use Google’s Tilt Brush – one of our favorite Virtual Reality tools – to render the characters in Star Wars? Here’s a fascinating example of six artists doing a collaborative VR …

Star Wars AR Experience Coming from Disney and Lenovo

September 2, 2017September 2, 2017

New headset will bring the Star Wars AR Experience

You won’t have to wait much longer before you can step into the Star Wars AR experience. The new $199 Lenovo Mirage AR headset is already available for pre-order and will hit the stores in early November. The …

New AR Headsets Coming: From DIY Kits to Smartphone HMDs

July 26, 2017July 24, 2017

Mira Prism new AR headset only 99 dollars

Back in a rainy NYC after the Campus Technology conference in Chicago and it seems to be raining new AR headsets this summer. Cardboard-like DIY kits are appearing, there’s news on the Disney-Star Wars front, and a fascinating HMD …

Samsung’s VR Rides are Straight Out of the Future

January 10, 2017January 10, 2017

Samsung's VR Rides are a sign of what the future holds

If you haven’t seen any of Samsung’s VR rides you should. In fact, get on one as soon as you can. They turn up at conferences (CES 2017 and elsewhere) and at Samsung 837, Samsung’s pioneering …

Magic Leap and ILMxLab Partner to Create Star Wars in Mixed Reality

April 24, 2017June 18, 2016

A new partnership between Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB and Magic Leap will open new frontiers for entertainment, gaming and education. Both companies have worked with partners before, but as Wired notes, this is different: But this collaboration isn’t …

VR Games at the Game Developer Conference

April 25, 2017March 17, 2016

VR games were the hot topic at the Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this week. With the upcoming HTC Vive launch on April 5th and a two-day Virtual Reality Developers event at GDC it’s …

Star Wars Death Star Recreated in VR

February 2, 2020March 12, 2016

You haven’t experienced the Death Star in Star Wars until you’ve seen it in VR. The original Death Star in the first movie in the series (1977) was born at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) …

Sundance Virtual Reality: Lucasflim Holo-Cinema is like Real-Life Star Wars

July 15, 2018January 25, 2016

Imagine walking up to a character in a movie and have a conversation with them. No longer a fantasy, the Sundance Virtual Reality project by Lucasfilm is making this a reality for Star Wars fans. It’s …

Star Wars Virtual Reality Lab at ILM

July 27, 2018August 15, 2015

Here’s a glimpse into the Star Wars Virtual Reality lab at the Industrial Light and Magic studio. This isn’t your Oculus Rift VR, but the future of entertainment and media. Things are starting to look and …

News, Media, and Events

Maya Georgieva is quoted in The Economist on Using augmented reality in marketing.

Join us today at the iLRN Conference where we'll present as co-authors the Executive Summary of the State of XR Report at 1:00pm (EST), June 23rd - immersively in VirBELA.

Maya Georgieva is quoted in The Atlantic It’s Cool to Look Terrifying on Pandemic Instagram on the use of AR during the Coronavirus.

Emory Craig did a keynote at the GESSDubai Conference in Dubai, UAE, "Reinventing Learning for the Future: A World of Virtual Reality and AI Avatars."

Emory Craig spoke at the XR in Education Summit at Yale University on "The Future of XR."

Maya Georgieva was on a panel at the Saleforce conference, "The Evolution and Power of Disruptive Technologies" in San Francisco.

We'll be at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Chicago with a Preconference workshop and other sessions the week of October 14th.

We'll be at the OC6 conference and reporting on the latest news from Oculus in San Jose on Sept. 25th and 26th.

We're on an XR and Learning panel at the The Chronicle of Higher Education and HP Leadership Summit, September 17, 2019, at The City University of New York (CUNY) The Graduate School.

We're at several conferences this summer, including AWE, SIGGRAPH 2019, and Singularity University's Global Summit.

We're delighted to be joining faculty in the College of Nursing at Sacred Heart University for a full day Professional Development Workshop, "Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications in Nursing Education." June 2019.

Ready for a discussion on "Ethics and Digital Fluency in VR and Immersive Learning Environments"? Join us at the NYS-CIO Conference in June 2019.

We are speaking at the United Nations Learning Forum on "Immersive Learning and The Future of Work," June 2019.

Emory Craig will be speaking at the AI Everything Summit in Dubai, "Who Can You Trust? Welcome to the Future of AI-driven Avatars in XR." May 1, 2019.

Join us on the Future Trends Forum with Bryan Alexander at 2:00pm (EST) on Feb. 28th for an interactive discussion and update on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Education.

We're at the EDUCAUSE-ELI Annual Meeting in Anaheim to do a 360 Video workshop, a Discussion on VR and Empathy, and the release of the Horizon Report

Emory Craig and Jesse Damiani discuss the future of VR, AR, and XR on the AV Life Podcast.

Emory Craig is speaking at the AIM North conference on VR and AI as Catalysts for Innovation in Learning, Nov. 7th

Emory Craig is speaking at the OECD Workshop on DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SCIENCE AND INNOVATION at OsloMet University in Norway, Nov. 5-6th

We're at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Denver to do a Preconference workshop on 360° Video and other sessions on VR during the week of Oct. 29th.

Maya Georgieva did an Ignite talk on Storytelling at the Connected Learning Summit at the MIT Media Lab on August 1.