Plex gets into VR with a new app for Daydream-ready Android phones

 As part of its broader, long-term strategy to appeal to content producers by offering them more exposure, media software maker Plex today is unveiling its new VR experience, Plex VR. The addition will allow Plex users to not only watch videos in VR, but also co-watch with friends – a social component to media consumption that a number of companies, including, recently, Facebook and… Read More

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Team USA is skiing in virtual reality to prepare for the Winter Olympics

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The 2018 Winter Olympics are almost here. For the skiers and snowboarders of Team USA, that means constant training on the slopes — and in virtual reality.

For the past two years, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) has been working with Strivr, a VR training startup based in Menlo Park, California. The Utah-based national governing body for skiing and snowboarding uses Strivr’s VR platform to train athletes for World Cup competitions as well as the upcoming Olympics. 

Where VR is most useful for Olympians, according to Strivr CTO Brian Meek, is in course repetition. Skiers and snowboarders often only get one chance to experience the course they’ll be racing on before a race itself, and they’ll get that chance a few days before (or even the day of) the event.  Read more…

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Spielberg on ‘Ready Player One’ and the future: ‘Virtual reality will be a super drug’

The director behind the upcoming film adaptation of Ready Player One is making some bleak predictions about what lies in store for us in the decades to come. 
While the rest of us are still waiting for Steven Spielberg’s vision of creepy AI chil…

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