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Facebook’s AR/VR Head Calls for “Big Shift” in How It Deals with User Privacy

Road to VR

Virtual and augmented reality opens new, more intimate windows into user behavior though, with biometrical data obtained from VR/AR devices offering important vectors for understanding what makes each individual tick. We will start with the assumption that we can’t collect, use, or store any data.

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NASA’s 360 Livestream Of Final Cassini Orbiter Mission Scores Emmy Nom

VRScout

By 2004, the revolutionary spacecraft was in orbit around Saturn, providing researchers back on Earth with the first comprehensive data of the planet, its rings, and its moons ever collected. The 2018 Emmy’s premiers September 17th on NBC.

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Kim Nevelsteen wants to bridge different virtual worlds to create the Metaverse

The Ghost Howls

I’ve been pondering solutions for a viable Metaverse since at least 2004. A more distant solution would be where virtual world data is piecewise downloaded to the users’ system in the background on demand. It would be great if companies were to start taking notice: Valve, Epic Games, Bethesda, Mojang/Microsoft, etc….

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

The digitization was accomplished in 2004 with generous support from the Andrew W. While the results of the data capture–led by Prof. While it might have been possible to edit the scan data, this was impractical in terms of time and money. So the apps can be purchased in the stores of Apple and Microsoft.

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Mega-roundup of Facebook Connect 2: all the news in a single place!

The Ghost Howls

The data collection from XR headsets to offer targeted ads has to continue somehow. Yes, it is a game from 2004, but entering GTA in VR will be tons of fun ! Pico and HTC still offer better services, and better guarantees on data management than a consumer device, so it has to be seen what companies will value the most.

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