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The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into

ARPost

Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel. He gave examples of some applications of VR that have nothing to do with gaming, such as house tours, and meetings.

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How Different XR Companies Approach Cloud Services

ARPost

For example, some of the cloud services that we’ll look at are cloud storage solutions. We are now at the level that we are super happy with the latency and deployments.”. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. But, what is the cloud anyway?

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”. It is tricky to categorize the many overlapping innovators in this space.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Small startups can’t compete with big companies, so usually, startups produce expensive headsets at a smaller scale to survive : see VRgineers or Varjo as an example. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. The modality to ask for the adapters is not clear yet, though. News from partners (and friends).

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Book Review: The Metaverse, and How It Will Revolutionize Everything, by Matthew Ball

Ryan Schultz

In chapter 5 (Networking), Ball uses popular games such as Microsoft Flight Simulator to explain concepts such as network bandwidth and latency, and how game and metaverse companies work around such limitations. For example, users may need to give other users explicit levels of permission to interact in given spaces (e.g.,