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

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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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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

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Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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How Different XR Companies Approach Cloud Services

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For example, some of the cloud services that we’ll look at are cloud storage solutions. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. For example, Magic Leap has had a partnership with Google Cloud for the past year now. But, what is the cloud anyway?

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The AR Space Race, Part IX: Epic Games

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As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations. It’s become a runaway train in the gaming and VR worlds.

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Leveraging the Medical Metaverse to Increase Patient Outcomes

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Moreover, Microsoft is resparking its stake in an Industrial Metaverse, with plans to debut products in 2024. Chen remarked: This is one of my favourite examples of real-life value-add today. At the time, Chen highlighted an example of startup success within the XR healthcare solutions provider space: Mind VR.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).

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Best Places To Learn AR and VR Development Online in 2020

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There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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