As part of Diffa's Student Design Initiative, five of New York's top design schools created installations for the showcase, under the direction of industry mentors and within a strict budget. Students from the Pratt Institute, working with mentor Arpad Baksa, used Pegboard, twinkle lights, and individually placed test tubes to create a sparkling rendering of a world map.
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About 3,000 people tried the Oculus Rift headsets during the four-day event.
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The Oculus Rift video experience lasted two minutes and 20 seconds.
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A mix of hanging lightbulbs and string separated the guest queue from the rest of the Canon 360 Studio.
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Canon invited four fashion influencers—a blogger, a photographer, a model, and a design house—to produce video diaries showing a typical day in their lives. The company shared the videos on social networks, and still images of the influencers decorated the walls of the Canon 360 Studio.
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Canon used its sponsorship of London Fashion Weekend as an opportunity to demonstrate the quality of its Selphy Photo Printers by snapping "model head shots" of guests and printing them on site.
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Guests could try Canon's new white EOS 100D camera.
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