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Preserving Historical Landmarks In VR Should Be A Priority

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Thankfully, however, the historic French site was recently immortalized in 360-degrees by TARGO, a VR studio specializing in immersive documentaries. With photogrammetry and 3D spatial capture on the rise, immersive technology is poised to become the ultimate preservation tool for real-world locations.

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2021 Predictions: AR Advertising Exceeds $2 Billion

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In fact, this is what happened to search circa-2003 and social advertising circa-2009. — Hardware evolutions like LiDAR will enable AR lens leaders like Snapchat to offer more robust rear-facing (world-immersive) lens campaigns. AR could benefit from a similar shakeup by grabbing ad spend.

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How Will Spatial Computing Fare in a Post-Covid World?

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Immersive product visualization can bring back some of the dimension and immersion that’s lost in retail lockdowns. In fact, this is what happened to search circa-2003 and social advertising circa-2009. The latter is a Covid-advantaged area in general…just ask Zoom.

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Innovative Headset Manufacturer IMMY Enters Article 9 Foreclosure, Auctions Assets

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His company, IMMY , had been in business since 2003 and using mirrors since 2009. The model to be released was to be a $500 USB-compatible headset with a 62-degree FoV , primarily intended for watching immersive videos. However, it had only worked with the military and was preparing to roll out a consumer model by the end of this year.

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What Can Big Tech Companies Learn from Second Life?

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Second life, one of the world’s first metaverses, was created in 2003 by Linden Lab and received widespread attention. Lessons Big Tech Companies Can Learn from the Immersive Game of Second Life. It had hundreds of thousands of active residents and a self-reported $500 million in GDP.

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NYT: Mandalorian Director Favreau Building Dinosaur Experience For Apple’s Headset

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” That being said, some kind of 3D immersive experience seems likely. His directing credits include Elf (2003), Iron Man (2008), Chef (2014) and The Jungle Book (2016), as well as most recently working on popular Star Wars series The Mandalorian for Disney+. Favreau is an acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker, director and actor.

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Metaverses in the making

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Ready Player One is a great visualization of the Metaverse called The Oasis When we talk about Metaverses today, we refer to the fusion of social networking, entertainment, gaming, and very soon shopping that will allow for new immersive experiences like joining a Travis Scott concert in Fortnite?—?together But haven´t we been here before?