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A mine crystals only gypsum in the world finally accessible to all thanks to the virtual reality experience 'Discover the Geode Giant' company Studio-Future, is the winner of the first Murcia VR award by Medialab Spirit Holy in the Holy Spirit Transmedia Festival, organized by the city of Murcia and the association MediaLab Holy Spirit.
The prize is worth 5,000 euros and economically with the first benchmark of quality in the development of the sector in our country.
The jury of the first edition of Murcia VR formed by Millán Berzosa (Google News Lab), Manuel Gonzalez (Zoom Net), Oscar Hormigos (The App Date), Inmaculada Guiu (VG productions) and Enrique Miñano (Transmedia Holy Spirit Festival) , she wanted to also highlight a special mention for its quality and its pioneering status to the VR experience of the popular series of TVE 'the Ministry of Time'.
The closing and awards ceremony of the Festival, will take place tomorrow at 19.00 pm in the new Multipurpose Pavilion of the Holy Espinardo Spirit, in a ceremony presided by the Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, along with Councilman Modernization administration, Urban Quality and Participation, Jose Guillen.
'Discover the Geode Gigante' is an experience of Virtual Reality (VR) developed by the company Studio-Future for Oculus Rift device with which the user can enter the Almeria pulpí geode the largest in Europe and the second largest Naica world after Mexico, located in the Chihuahuan desert, and reach to the very heart of this geological treasure.
This is a project that is not only a great experience in virtual reality, but also demonstrates its multiple possibilities beyond technology: placed at the entrance of the pocket and for a price of just 5 euros, the experience VR 'Discover the Geode Giant 'has enabled over 40,000 people to know this environment to which access is impossible given its danger.
When reward 'Discover the Geode Giant' with Murcia VR award jury praised the project has "the latest developments in virtual reality and high realism, maximizing the available technology" in statements Millán Berzosa and it is an experience "and tested with the general public, with a VR facility has achieved five times more attendees than the population of the town itself, opening the door to other outreach initiatives and breaking with clichés that say they still it is not the time of virtual reality. "
In addition, the jury wanted Murcia VR prize award a special mention to the experience of Virtual Reality popular series of TVE 'The Ministry of Time'.
In its ruling, the jury considered this project developed by TVE and Future Lighthouse extending the transmedia universe of the series its pioneering status as it is the first experience in VR for a television series in our country, as well as outstanding graphic quality and potential user to interact in VR story.
"After a very close votes and almost dead heat with the favorite, the jury decided to make a special mention of the Ministry of Time, a production that focuses on the interaction between the audience and leaves the Spanish fiction at a level that has nothing to envy the first initiatives of its kind in the English-speaking world "in the words of Berzosa.
More than 50 candidates from a sector on the rise
In its first edition, the prize VR Murcia, with the collaboration of The App Date has received up to 51 proposals from all regions of Spain and in sectors as diverse as education, tourism and journalism.
The high number of applications that have been submitted to the first edition of the award shows that content creation in virtual reality is a sector on the rise in our country.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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