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Facebook Publishes New Research on Hyper-realistic Virtual Avatars

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. “Our system runs live in real-time and it works for a wide range of expressions, including puffed-in cheeks, biting lips, moving tongues, and details like wrinkles that are hard to be precisely animated for previous methods,” says one of the authors. a) The ‘Training’ headset, with nine cameras.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.27): Discover XR Cyber Monday Deals, Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, and much more!

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Mindport offers an authoring tool to create training VR experiences and Cognitive3D can help in building analytics from these experiences after they have been released. This seems like a very good partnership.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.09.20): Quest 2 Pro leaks, Xiaomi smartglasses, Half Dive headset, and more!

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Facebook has also just started having the first little troubles about them: the Italian Privacy Authority (“Garante della privacy”) has asked the company further explanations about the glasses, to verify that it complies with Italian and European privacy laws, especially for what concerns the children.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.18): Meta announces Quest Pro, new rumors about Apple, and more!

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Which are not that many, either An article in JingDaily states that in China metaverse activities are more appreciated by the authorities if they are somehow linked to real events and locations The New York Times has written a long and detailed article to bash Mark Zuckerberg and its metaverse efforts.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.16): Apple prepares the launch of Vision Pro, Sony announces MR headset, and much more!

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Devin Reimer, the author of the original post, answered with other valid points, like that if the Vision Pro will be successful, the only input scheme offering input parity between Vision Pro, Quest, and Pico will be hand tracking because the Vision Pro will not have controllers.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.01): Meta still committed to the Metaverse, Jio launches Dive headset, and more!

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UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which was considered the biggest acquisition in gaming history. More info Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been blocked I called for it, and it happened. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.08): Xiaomi unveils its smartglasses, Improbable and RP1 want to create the networking for the metaverse, and much more!

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And, interestingly, the runtime is also being prepared to add authorizations for face tracking and eye tracking, as a leaked screenshot proves. According to the features currently released in the PTC, the next v43 update of the Quest runtime will finally introduce the possibility to record gameplay videos in 16:9 format.