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BUSINESS/ARTS & COMMUNITY
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Sunday, June 7, 2015
Denton Record-Chronicle
discovery of them. Our purpose
will always be connecting visi-
tors and the community to the
Original Independent Denton
experience.
Like you, we can’t wait!
KIM PHILLIPS is vice
president of the Denton Con-
vention & Visitors Bureau at
the Denton Chamber of Com-
merce. She loves promoting
Denton’s original, independen t
spirit through the city’s sense of
place and cast of many charac-
ters. She can be reached at
kim@discoverdenton.com.
will be minimal sundries cur-
rently unavailable at a down-
town location.
Imagine a visitor attending
one of our downtown festivals
on a bright, sunny day.
Forgot the sun block? Need a
pair of shades? These are what
we mean by sundries.
Gift cards to local Denton
restaurants and attractions all in
one place will make giving Den-
ton to friends and family very
simple. Of course, money spent
in Denton businesses is good for
everyone. But another result for
businesses and customers alike
is finding each other.
We’ve all had the occasion
when we received a gift card to a
place we had not been and were
encouraged by the gift to try it. A
resulting good experience may
mean a new customer, and at
the least some good word-of-
mouth exposure.
Tickets to the city are some-
thing many welcome/visitor
centers offer. These might in-
clude anything from tickets to
the North Texas Fair and Rodeo
to a show at the Campus Theatre
to a tour in the horse country
and everything in between.
Again, having the option to
purchase a ticket on the spot will
facilitate more cheeks in more
seats for all of our events and
venues.
Plus, these experiences cre-
ate richer memories for visitors,
enhancing their own Denton
stories.
So you see, the merchandis-
ing is more about promoting
and delivering Denton than be-
coming a profit center. The Den-
ton CVB is a nonprofit organiza-
tion. What revenue we do realize
will be reinvested 100 percent
into the welcome center.
Will revenue ever cover the
entire project cost? No, and it is
not meant to.
The welcome center is about
the mission. The revenue just
lessens the annual cost of offer-
ing this vital service while mar-
keting Denton in new ways at
the same time.
The Discover Denton Wel-
come Center will not arrive to
compete with existing retailers
but to complement and facilitate
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We also envision rotating in-
ventory from local artists. There
are countless artists within the
Denton community, and the
Discover Denton Welcome Cen-
ter will be an additional outlet
for introducing them to new au-
diences and us to them, adding
wealth to both sides of our bur-
geoning creative economy.
Yet another sales direction
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yoga sessions, midday bike rides
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friends.
He also has more time for
passion projects: He spent a
month at an elephant sanctuary
in Thailand this year, and he
started a Facebook page called
TheDogmatic, posting photos of
dogs in shelters to help get them
adopted. He never plans to work
for just one employer again.
“Everything about an office
was such a waste of time to me,”
he says.
When Brown first went free-
lance, he emailed companies
asking for work.
Now, most comes from refer-
rals. Sometimes he checks in
with a hiring agency. “I’m not
clamoring for work,” says Brown.
“I can be picky and choosy with
what I do.”
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March 26 at the Facebook F8 Developers Conference in San
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Freelance Web designer Henry Brown cycles around his neighborhood May 26 in the Lower
East Side of New York. Brown ditched his fledging advertising career 11 years ago, sick of
spending 15 hours a day at work and having no time for himself.
Hollywood dips its
toes into the world
of virtual reality
ness Talent Group connects in-
dependent workers with com-
panies. Its contractors can make
between $1,500 and $2,500 a
day, says CEO Jody Miller. Most
have a master’s degree and at
least 10 years working experi-
ence, she says. They can be hired
by companies to help launch
new products, research invest-
ments or other tasks.
Companies weren’t always so
thrilled about hiring freelancers,
says Allison Hemming, CEO of
New York staffing company The
Hired Guns. When she started
the company 15 years ago, com-
panies would say, “if they were
that good they would have a job,”
says Hemming. That’s changed.
“The concept of freelancers as
slackers is completely over,”
Hemming says.
Spex, a company that makes
software and apps used for
home inspections, turned to
Canopy Advisory Group to find
a part-time publicist.
CEO Brett Goldberg says he
didn’t have to post a job descrip-
tion, sift through resumes or
conduct interviews, saving him
time and money.
By Ryan Nakashima
AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES - Virtual
reality is creeping into our
world.
“What’s better for
jump scares than,
like, turning your
head and it’s right in
your face?”
— Matt Upson, senior vice
president of digital marketing
at Focus Features
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Once seen as a tool for alien-
blasting gamers, movie studios,
television producers and artists
are now adopting the technolo-
gy, which immerses people in
faraway realms using bulky gog-
gles, house-sized domes, and
smartphones.
Entering a virtual world
means that users who look left,
right, up or behind experience
an alternate environment, even
when they’re sitting in a theater
or on a couch.
It means a horror movie can
be promoted with a haunted
house tour featuring a mass
murderer who can spring from
anywhere. Or a shark documen-
tary enhanced by the sensation
that you’re being circled by pred-
ators.
ENGAGEMENT
ANNIVERSARY
gles as test units for content de-
velopers. Samsung, meanwhile,
is selling Gear VR, which works
with Galaxy S6 smartphones.
Sony will release a consumer
version of its Project Morpheus,
which connects to its PlaySta-
tion 4, in the first half of next
year.
Bradford 60th Anniversary
Anncll and Roy Bradford
marked 60 years of marriage on
June 4, 2015. A celebration with
family was held June 6.
They have three children. Roy
Bradford, Andrea Duwe. and Lori
Hannah, nine grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren
They reside in Copper
Canyon.
Grant-Hinchey
Ron and Lori Grant of
Lantana, Texas, are pleased to
VH i annoL,nce Ihe engagement of
■ daughter, Katie Annamal
jJyJ Grant, to Colin Lee Hinchey. son
iTj4| of John and Daria Hinchey of
Corinth, Texas.
The bride-elect is a 2011
graduale of Denton Guyer High
School and will be a December
2015 graduate of the University
of North Texas where she will
receive her Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies in
Early Childhood-6, Katie is currently employed in the
Information Technology Shared Services Department at the
University of North Texas,
The groom is a 2011 graduate of Denton Guyer High School
and will be a June 2015 graduate of the United Slates
Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, where he
will receive his Bachelor of Science in Logislics and Inter modal
Transportation and will receive an Unlimited USCG License as
a Merchant Marine Officer, Upon graduation, Cofin will be
commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States
Army, He is the grandson of Carol Hinchey and the late Bill
Hinchey of Gainesville, Texas, and the late K. B and Laverne
Moseley of Lewisville, Texas,
The couple will be married on June 2fl, 2015 in a private
ceremony at the Harmony Chapel in Aubrey, Texas. After their
honeymoon in Belize and a tour of the Pacific Coastline, the
couple will reside in Furl Banning, Georgia.
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Oculus’s goal is to get head-
sets into as many hands as pos-
sible, says co-founder and head
of product Nate Mitchell. The
company set up a division of ex-
perimental filmmakers called
Oculus Story Studio to help oth-
er filmmakers learn how to ere-
ANNIVERSARY
“What’s better for jump
scares than, like, turning your
head and it’s right in your face?”
says Matt Iipson, senior vice
president of digital marketing at
Focus Features.
Virtual reality may not ap-
pear at your local multiplex
soon, but it’s being used to lure
you there.
Universal’s Focus Features
recently launched its first virtu-
al-reality experience for movies,
promoting the upcoming re-
lease of its Insidious: Chapter 3
horror flick.
It’s driving a truck around
the country, inviting fans to wear
virtual-reality goggles. It’s also
sent out thousands of movie-
branded Google Cardboard kits,
which fold around smartphones
to turn them into primitive VR
viewers.
Fans can download the app
from Google Play, or the App
Store, to make it work.
In the Insidious VR experi-
ence, viewers sit in a haunted
house across from a psychic.
Various scares appear from the
right and left and, in the end,
there is a close-up encounter
with an undead serial killer
known as the Bride in Black.
Lionsgate used a similar ap-
proach for its Insurgent movie.
It applied VR to try to widen the
film’s fan base beyond young
women, to male fans of action
movies. Using VR was one way
to appeal to gamers, who are
mostly men and are expected to
be the first buyers of VR head-
sets.
ate VR video.
“Our goal is making the Rift
(headset) and virtual reality af-
fordable,” says Mitchell, adding
that he hopes it “becomes a tech-
nology that truly changes the
world.”
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Facebook is testing what
CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls
“spherical video,” or a flat re-
presentation of immersive con-
tent that could be navigable by
mouse on its website.
Google’s YouTube launched
support for “360-degree video”
on Chrome browsers and An-
droid phones in March and is
providing VR camera rigs for its
partners at its six studios. Fold-
up Google Cardboard units can
be bought online for as little as
$2.46.
Discovery Communications
is also planning to launch VR
content under the Discovery
Virtual brand in August.
Teams are already shooting
off the Bahamas in preparation
for “Shark Week” in July, says
Conal Byrne, Discovery’s senior
vice president of digital media.
Fans of the series are used to
watching the circling predators
from inside a protective cage.
But virtual reality would height-
en the fear factor, as sharks
could cruise by while your head
is turned elsewhere.
“This feels like the perfect op-
portunity for virtual reality to
say, ‘Now let’s really put you in-
side this world,”’ Byrne says.
Part of the experiment is see-
ing what works creatively, in-
cluding not making people sick.
The other part is trying to deter-
mine how to make virtual reality
a business, Byrne says. That
could include advertising, put-
ting commercial products inside
virtual worlds, and giving fans
another reason to watch TV
shows.
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Meeker 50th Anniversary
Floyd and Janice Meeker celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary on June 4, 2015, She is the former Janice Riney.
High school sweethearts at Denton High School, they
married June 4,1965, at Hlllcrest Baptist Church in Denton,
Both are retired and attend Cowboy Church of Cooper Creek
in Aubrey, Texas.
They enjoy traveling and attending music concerts. Later this
year, they plan lo travel lo ihe southwest states and coast of
California.
Lovingly known as Gramma and Papa lo iheir family, Floyd
and Janice have two children, Michael Meeker of Denton and
Amy McLain of The Colony; and four grandchildren Kyle,
Katiynr Tyler and Jordan.
Floyd and Janice are lifelong residents of Denton.
ENGAGEMENT
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MS Jeff and Fawnda Dooley of
Denton, Texas, are pleased to
announce the engagement of
^ their daughter, Hannah
Elizabeth, lo Garrett Austin
HH McFerren, son of Kelly McFerren
of Denton, and Laura McFerren,
t ^ also of Denton.
■W The bride-elect is a 2011
graduale of Sparkman High
g§^ School in Madison, Alabama.
She will graduate December
2015 from Texas Woman's University with a Bachelor of
Science in Interdisciplinary Studies and certification in ESL.
Hannah plans to leach at the elementary level, She is the
granddaughter of Donald and Joan Dooley of Denton, and
Lealand and Louise Dear of Denton, She is the
great-granddaughter of Violet Dean of Denton.
The prospective groom is a 2012 graduate of Sanger High
School. He will graduate in the fall of 2015 from Universal
Technical Institute’s Automotive and Diesel Program in Irving,
Texas, Garrett is employed as an Automotive Technician at Bill
Utter Ford in Denton. Garrett is the grandson of Sallie Autrey
and the late Wayne Autrey of Denton, and Jimmy and Carolyn
Frazier of Sanger, Texas.
Garrett and Hannah met in middle school while attending
First Baptist Church of Sanger. The couple is planning an
August 7 wedding at First Baptist Church in Denton, with a
reception afterward at The Milestone Barn on FM 428. The
couple plans on residing in Denton.
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Higgs 60th Anniversary
James and Patsy ("Pat”)
Douglass Higgs were honored
on their 60th anniversary with a
family celebration dinner in the
home of their daughter. They
were married at the First Baptist
Church in Gainesville, Texas, on
June 6, 1955 They are residents
of Sanger. Texas, and arc
members of First Baptist Church
in Sanger.
James is self-employed,
buying and selling wholesale produce, since 1962, Patsy, a
graduate of TWU worked as a legal secretary, then for Denton
Regional medical Center, and finally part-time for the State of
Texas before retirement,
James enjoys gardening in his spare time, and he and Pat
love to take road trips, seeing the countryside and how other
folks livg, However, they say, the occasional small town find, of
a hometown restaurant with wonderful food, is not so easy
anymore. They also love visiting Seattle and camping in the
mountains of Colorado.
They have two children, daughter, Jamie Higgs Reiman and
son-in-law, Gary Reiman, and son. Jeff Higgs and
daughter-in-law, Kathy Knighl Higgs, six grandchildren, and
seven great-grandchildren The couple will also celebrate with a
trip later in the summer.
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VR remains the realm of pro-
motion. But content created
now or for future films could al-
so build value for home video
products as more VR headsets
are sold, Iipson says.
And the number of outlets
for virtual reality is increasing.
Oculus VR, the company
Facebook bought for $2 billion
and a leader in the VR headset
market, is expected to start ship-
ping a consumer version early
next year.
It’s already sold 150,000 gog-
“The pressure for revenue
comes second,” Byrne says. “The
first goal is, ‘Is there a meaning-
ful content experience here for
fans?”’
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