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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). Currently VR First is boasting more than 50 projects in development at the labs, and not just games. image courtesy VR First.

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OSVR - a Look Ahead

VRGuy

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. We see entertainment, therapy, home improvement, tourism, meditation, design and many other applications. Google Glass has not been as successful as hoped. Microsoft Hololens kits are shipping to developers, but are not priced for consumers yet.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. We’re not tied to Microsoft. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. We’re not tied to Microsoft. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?'s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. We're not tied to Microsoft. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well. We're past that point of, "hey, can we make this work?"

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