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Microsoft to Scale the Industrial Metaverse in 2024

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Today, at Microsoft Inspire 2023, a showcase event covering the firm’s latest innovations. Microsoft quietly teased information regarding an industrial metaverse initiative. Details are elusive because Microsoft plans to reveal more information regarding its industrial Metaverse journey next year.

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AWE Day 3: The Most Wholesome Day in the History of XR Technology

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The day included a discussion on how to create a virtual world society from Tom Furness, a discussion on ethical responsibility in the immersive tech industry from Professor Donna Davis, a panel on women in XR, and more. There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. HP and Microsoft.

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Top 5 E-Commerce AR and VR Trends To Follow in 2023

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For example, it allows them to feel like they’re physically interacting with products in a brick-and-mortar store while being online. Virtual Showrooms Virtual showrooms are similar to try-on but involve the buyer flipping the camera around. For example, it’s popular among furniture stores like EQ3.

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UK Start-Up Secures $3.4M To Bring AR To Retail Stores

VRScout

The same technology could be extensive, and in the future could be applied to campuses, airports, shopping centers, and museums, for example. For example, typing gluten-free bread into an integrated app would show the directions towards the item. Feature Image Credit: Dent Reality.

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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

Hypergrid Business

Educators are using virtual worlds, but not in the way they had used them in the past, and not in the same numbers. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference is a good example that showcases this work. Those educators that remain in virtual worlds are leveraging them to create better experiences.

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What Can Big Tech Companies Learn from Second Life?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Second life, one of the world’s first metaverses, was created in 2003 by Linden Lab and received widespread attention. Second Life (SL) is a 3D virtual world that allows individuals to create avatars to explore virtual landscapes, build their own mansions, forests, spaceships.

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Enterprise-Grade VR GenAI Service Secures Millions in Investments

XR Today - Virtual Reality

According to Atlas, enterprise and commercial end-users can leverage the platform to build bespoke virtual worlds, assets, and designs, for example. The prominent players in the XR industry, like Meta and Microsoft, are promoting their in-house content creation platforms.