Virtual Reality Archives — Electric Runway

On November 29, 2021
By Veronica Marie
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Exthereal – Fashion in Extended Reality Conference

Exthereal: Fashion In Extended Reality is a conference bringing together Tech, Fashion and Gaming. Fashion has gone digital and virtual. Welcome to the Metaverse! ???? Exthereal: Fashion in Extended Reality conference invites you to experience how immersive technologies revolutionize the…

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On November 18, 2021
By Amanda Cosco
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Circular Fashion Summit to take place inside the First Fashion Metaverse

At the beginning of December of this year, I'm attending my first conference since Covid, but I won't be leaving the comfort of my couch. I'll be strapping on an Oculus Quest 2—a virtual reality headset produced by Facebook— to…

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On November 5, 2018
By Amanda Cosco
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Inside the LA Fashion Film Festival

Fashion futurist Amanda Cosco speaks with Leslie Bedolla of the Los Angeles Fashion Film Festival (LAFFF) to find out what exactly is a fashion film. We explore the potentials for brands and consumers as well as the synergies for emerging media like augmented and virtual reality.

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On October 31, 2018
By Amanda Cosco
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Finland Travel Diary

Fashion Futurist Amanda Cosco travels to Finland to give a keynote talk on how the fashion and beauty industries are adopting emerging media—specifically augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

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On August 22, 2018
By Amanda Cosco
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Enabling 3D Commerce with Shopify’s Daniel Beauchamp

This week on the Electric Runway podcast, Fashion Futurist Amanda Cosco interviews Daniel Beauchamp, the head of VR and AR for Shopify. Shopify is a leading e-commerce company that provides merchants all over the world the digital tools to sell…

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On August 3, 2018
By Amanda Cosco
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Virtually Vogue: Fashion and Retail in Second Life

This week on the Electric Runway podcast, we're continuing our conversation on avatars and digital representation with Ebbe Altberg, the CEO of Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life. In case you're not familiar with it, Second Life is an online…

FashTechTV

On September 1, 2017
By Amanda Cosco
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The Future of Shopping in Virtual Reality: In Conversation with Shopify’s Daniel Beauchamp

You've heard of e-commerce, but what about v-commerce? Shopping in virtual reality is closer than we think. While most VR experiences we've seen thus far from fashion brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Topshop are about consuming fashion, what about using…

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On August 9, 2017
By Amanda Cosco
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Putting the ‘AR’ in Art

Before Nintendo and PlayStation became household staples for middle-class American gamers, there were the arcades of the late 70s and early 80s. For many of that era, games like Donkey Kong and Space Invaders were first experienced as big blinking…

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On August 8, 2017
By Amanda Cosco
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AR + VR Industry Night in Toronto

On August 2nd, 2017, I had the opportunity to take the stage at House of VR for We Are Wearables' VR/AR Industry Night. For those not in the know, We Are Wearables is the world's largest wearable technology community, with…