The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I can make a render also of the time machine, but this doesn’t mean it is getting real soon… More info Happy Anniversary, Pimax! More info (Ray-Ban Meta review) More info (Varjo XR-4 preview) Discover fashion in the digital worlds An interesting article in Vogue speaks about the new fashion trends in virtual worlds.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Just like it sounds, it’s AI that can create, from words and images to videos, music, computer applications, and even entire virtual worlds. What makes generative AI different and special is that it puts the power of machine intelligence in the hands of just about anyone.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 9, 2024

Image courtesy Google.) Except — and this is super important — except that AI is learning continuously and evolving fast. Yup, Google’s Gemini 1.5 The tech companies already have preliminary models that can do most of this, including that Google AI I just mentioned. Characters and backgrounds morphed.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

So this is just another speculative virtual world; The minting was so successful that it disrupted the whole Ethereum blockchain. Google acquires Raxium. The news about Google being willing to acquire Raxium had been leaked a few weeks ago, but now it has become official. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

NVIDIA delivered a speech on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2022, revealing a fresh lineup of metaverse solutions to audiences, including virtual world-building, digital twin, and avatar platforms. Covers neural graphics advancements, digital twins, & virtual humans: [link]. Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) August 9, 2022.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Curious to learn more, I reached out to Joe Pavitt, Master Inventor and Emerging Technology Specialist at IBM Research Europe. Natural language processing is a type of machine learning that powers realistic conversation between humans and machines. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING.

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Building the Metaverse

MAY 9, 2022

Disco Diffusion is an online tool that runs inside Google Collab, a platform that lets you execute Python programs that can run on cloud-based GPUs. It uses a learning model that results in startling “creative” artwork. are we just going to let the machines take over? Elden Ring Art in 5 minutes? AI Music Videos?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The industry has been experiencing a boom in recent years with hundreds of startups and heavy investment from tech giants including Google, Apple, Samsung, and Facebook. The long-range goal for AR/VR is full immersion—the ability to deliver a user from the real to the virtual world without sensory interruption. Social Response.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Watch YouTube in VR with your friends, Google pours resources into shared social VR experiences, upcoming standalone headsets will be wireless, the Snapchat vs. Facebook continues, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WATCH YOUTUBE IN VR… WITH YOUR FRIENDS!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Yes, I know this blogpost is somewhat off-topic for a blog about “news and views on social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse,” but hey, my blog, my rules. Backup Strategy : Set up a backup strategy using Time Machine or a third-party backup solution to ensure your data is protected.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

We’re going to train it with multimodality data, not just text on the internet, we’re going to train it on texts and images, graphs and charts, and just as we learned watching TV, there’s going to be a whole bunch of watching video.” We call that virtual world Omniverse.” “We need even larger models,” Huang said.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Apart from the hardware, Somnium is moving well also on the software side: the graphics of the virtual world is improving over time, and soon will be released the first game built on top of Somnium. In case you don’t have a powerful machine, this open-source project is worth a look. Learn more. I like this approach.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Curious people outside the tech industry could line up to interact with a variety of alluring and mysterious machine interfaces, and what they saw was dazzling. AI is now being used to create virtual worlds, or “metaverses”, that are populated by digital avatars and objects that can be manipulated in real-time.

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Trenzi VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Metaverse is a 3D virtual world where the virtual avatars of billions of people can live, work, shop, learn and interact with each other without moving away from their couch. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm followed the steps and invested billions of dollars in that concept.

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Trenzi VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Metaverse is a 3D virtual world where the virtual avatars of billions of people can live, work, shop, learn and interact with each other without moving away from their couch. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm followed the steps and invested billions of dollars in that concept.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 27, 2020

Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo and the global voice and speech recognition market size is estimated to reach USD 31.82 Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo Click To Tweet. billion by 2025.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

They both serve a similar purpose, that is blending the virtual and the real : if wearing a Varjo XR-1 headset you go to a greenscreen room, you will see the virtual world in the places where there is the green color and the real one in the other parts of your view. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. The solution is part of Mediapipe, the framework to create machine-learning-based solutions , and offers 21-points hand tracking on your mobile phone. Decentraland is growing.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

I had this fascination with the concept of a Holodeck and as I grew up that never sort of left me and when virtual reality became the thing with Oculus, I just saw this opportunity to actually build my own holodeck. Essentially you do analyze faster and come with better insights.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Back in the time, there were already some virtual worlds having interoperability between them, there has already been written a document about avatar rights, and there were already big concerns about privacy. Learn more. Learn more (OpenBrush reaching v1.0) Learn more (Icosa announcing the 1.0 Les Mills BodyCombat.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 19, 2023

If you think about it, most of the sites we use today are owned by major corporations (like Meta, Google, and Amazon) and – to some extent – are controlled by government regulations. And many of the virtual worlds that will ultimately form part of the metaverse (places like the Decentraland virtual world) are built on blockchain.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

A workplace trainee can learn how to use or repair a piece of equipment using a digital twin; some solutions allow trainees to take apart complex digital objects, like an engineer, to see the inner component – saving a lot of time, usually reserved for clean-up.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The aim in developing the PanguVR engine was to equip content producers to create immersive and interactive content, in UE4 (Unreal VR Engine), automatically meaning without any learning curve. PanguVR lets you see your new home in virtual reality (Image by Pangu VR). How do you achieve that?

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift. Virtual Reality is used for entertainment purposes like games and in more serious fields, like healthcare.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Virtual reality developers aren’t making as much money as they expected. Just ask Vander Caballero, founder of Minority Media , creator of the VR game Time Machine VR. GamesBeat: You’ve launched your initial games in virtual reality, like Time Machine VR. Here’s an edited transcript of our conversation.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Apple is constantly improving its ARKit solution, adding always more features, and also Google is (slowly) updating ARCore. For instance, NFTs are now an important part of AR virtual fashion. AI and Machine learning make software always more capable of recognizing people and objects. Metaverse and AR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Many elements contribute to Web3’s infrastructure, notably real-time 3D (RT3D) augmented, virtual, mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) immersive experiences. Although extended reality (XR) and Web3 experiences exist thanks to other integrated elements like AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and Geo-tagged content.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

This lets the glass offload a good part of the computation from the host machine and perform it directly on the device. Anything World makes you create virtual worlds with your voice. You know that I like talking with you about cool XR experiments, and Anything World is one of them. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. Hyper-reality or mixed reality means creating a world around, it’s the merging of real and virtual worlds, where physical and digital objects interact with each other in real-time.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 11, 2024

More Realistic Virtual Try-On Features Until now, virtual try-on features have been fairly rudimentary – for example, picking from a small list of body shapes to see what a particular garment might look like on the customer. However, generative AI brings a new level of realism to such features.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. We were very fortunate to be working with some of the world's great innovators on what I'd call augmented reality projects. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. We were very fortunate to be working with some of the world's great innovators on what I'd call augmented reality projects. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 16, 2017

Kitely was in second place with 1,520 new registered users followed by InWorldz with 1,048, Emilac with 801 and Virtual Brasil with 412. Adreans-World grid lost 218 registered users. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. VirTec vending machine network loses ground.

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Bernard Marr

APRIL 12, 2023

Hundreds of global brands and businesses have already taken the leap into the metaverse, with companies like Nike, HSBC, and many other global names building their presence in existing virtual world platforms like Horizons (Meta) or Decentraland. Crucially, the concept of merging the real and virtual worlds is central to the metaverse.

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