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Preserving Historical Landmarks In VR Should Be A Priority

VRScout

Following the destruction of the Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan back in 2001, Ben Kacyra began digitally capturing historical landmarks for preservation using laser-scanning technology, going on to launch the non-profit company CyArk in 2003. Image Credit: Google Inc.

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The VRScout Report – AR Magazines, NFL Refs in VR, & Eye Implants

VRScout

The STRIVR company was born out of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford back in 2015 (founded in 2003 by Jeremy Bailenson, who founded STRIVR with ex-Stanford kicker Derek Belch). There’s a lot of music content, apps, tools, and social experiences in VR, but not really any that build on existing software. NO PROBLEM.

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What is Spatial Computing in simple terms?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Spatial computing is here, and it’s changing the world Millions, even billions of people worldwide, interact with spatial systems and tools daily. Developers and designers can use spatial tools to create immersive user experiences in these settings. It was introduced initially by Simon Greenwold in 2003.

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My Presentation on Virtual World Building in Second Life (Delivered to a University Course on Virtual World Building and Design)

Ryan Schultz

In addition to delivering a lecture on Second Life, and a demonstration of how to use the in-world building tools, I will now also be the Second Life resource person for the class until mid-April, as the students apply what they are learning in this virtual world design class to an in-world building project!

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There's no need to freak out over Elon Musk buying Twitter. He's all hype.

Mashable VR

Except he isn't a founder at all , joining well after Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning created Tesla in 2003. Even if all this happens, Musk's Twitter will still be beholden to other big tech companies, such as Apple and Google, that it depends on to distribute its services. Twitter would lose money.

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Sex toys, meet Sephora: How the sexual (marketing) revolution affects where we shop

Mashable VR

The rise of the sex shop Here's a depressing fact: Lieberman herself was selling vibrators as "massagers" while working as an in-home sex toy salesperson in Texas in 2003. Here's a less depressing fact: there were meaningful steps taken forward for sex toy positivity between 1900 and 2003. ” Sexual wellness it is, then.

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The Right Time to Invest in VR, with MetaVRse’s Alan Smithson and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

We have a platform called xrcollaboration.com, and there's been over 70 startups that have created XR collaboration tools that allow you to go in VR, go into AR glasses, and communicate with people around the world. I think it was 2003, I think it was. You also have North being acquired by Google, so Google's making some strides there.

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