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The Future Newsrooms Study 2026 highlights five areas where professional journalism retains distinctive value despite the growth of generative AI: original reporting, community relationships, ethical judgement, meaningful interpretation and trusted audience engagement.
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Lightcraft’s Spark Story connects screenwriting, 3D previsualisation, shot planning and iPhone-based virtual-camera control. Filmmakers can visualise scenes, test cameras and lenses and prepare shot lists before entering a physical location. A 14-day free trial is available.
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Complete winners list of the 72nd National Film Awards, officially announced on 18 July 2026. Article 370 won Best Feature Film, Mammootty and Kartik Aaryan shared Best Actor, and Yami Gautam won Best Actress.
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Explore 10 free or free-to-play applications for VR creation, desktop viewing, virtual collaboration, WebXR browsing, social research and PC-VR streaming. The list includes Open Brush, Bigscreen, Google Earth VR, Wolvic, ALVR and other useful immersive tools.
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The ZOOM H3-VR is a handy spatial audio recorder designed for 360° sound capture, Ambisonics, binaural audio, VR content, field recording, and immersive media production
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Vizard is a virtual reality software development platform by WorldViz, designed for researchers, educators, and developers who want to build immersive and interactive VR applications using Python.
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Earfish is a University of Antwerp project that helps users measure their own HRTF and create a personalised head-tracked 3D audio mixing experience in REAPER.
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The IEM Plug-in Suite is a free and open-source collection of Ambisonic and spatial audio plugins
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Sennheiser is offering free access to most Dear Reality plugins
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The VR/AR Association (VRARA) Membership
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