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The Future Group Raises $20 Million to Blend Real-world Video With Virtual Worlds

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The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. The Oslo, Norway-based company came out of stealth last year and is now working on a major project with a team of more than 100 people.

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Virtually Drive Audi’s New Q5 Through Your Own Sandbox Creation

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Audi wants to use VR to give us a chance to make our childhood dreams a reality by allowing customers to test drive the new Audi Q5 on a virtual track they design in a sandbox. This virtual world has real depth,” says MediaMonks’s creative director Tom Eriksen. The Sandbox 2.0

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Naer, Miro, HPE Partner for XR Remote Work on Meta Quest 3

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For the Oslo, Norway-based company, their solution allows teams of colleagues to join forces anywhere in the world as avatars in a virtual office environment or for in-person meetings. Teams can also change the virtual environment to their preference, adjusting the time of day, mood, and settings with numerous digital assets.

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Audi Creates VR Sandbox Track You Can Shape And Drive Yourself

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The sand is then carefully scanned by a Kinect depth-sensing camera, from which a virtual world is rendered. With the terrain data now built into your own virtual track, you can buckle up in the new Audi Q5, which becomes a portal to the virtual world you just created. This virtual world has real depth.

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NVIDIA, Siemens Demo Freyr Virtual Plant at Hannover Messe 2023

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The deal will provide the Lysaker, Norway-based battery firm with enhanced production and efficiency scaling tools for its operations. ” FREYR can host meetings with potential investors, customers, and clients while allowing them to tour the digitally-twinned plant in Norway.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

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Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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A Look at the World’s First Interactive Mixed Reality TV Show

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According to Bård Anders Kasin, co-Founder of The Future Group, this was an important strategic move: “We give them enough of that environment so that they can compete that challenge, and we use green screen to transfer them into the virtual world,” said Kasin during an interview with GameCrate. “Of Hopefully U.S.

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