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FORM’s Premium Goggles Introduce AR To The Swimming Pool

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I competed in two Olympic Games: 2004 and 2012,” added Scott Dickens, Director of Strategic Partnerships at FORM. “At Having access to real-time metrics in your goggles is an absolute game-changer. Image Credit: FORM. “I At the elite level, everything is measured down to the hundredth of a second. Featured Image Credit: FORM.

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Facebook’s Quest to Kill the Smartphone

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Apple and Google beat the billionaire social media magnate to creating the smartphone — the dominant platform underpinning the Facebook network. When Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, we didn’t have Android or iOS, but the mobile phone market was well established — think Blackberry, Motorola, and Nokia.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

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Star Trek: Bridge Crew VR game // Image credit: Ubisoft. When you program [speech] into a game, you may have 10 intents that you will need to handle, but the freedom of being able to use your own voice as the user makes it feel like you’ve got infinite things to ask. RICHER ENVIRONMENTS.

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Editorial: How the Crypto Crash—and Meta’s Missteps—Are Souring the General Public on the Metaverse

Ryan Schultz

Granted, I understand that showing 2D screenshots of VR is difficult, and that VR generally lags behind traditional console and PC gaming in terms of graphics. Someone looking to play a game is going to go with something like Grand Theft Auto V (and continue to move on to the next biggest thing when they come out). • The live concerts!

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How Are XR Firms Training Sports Athletes and Saving Their Lives?

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Comments on Be Your Best VR Scanning Trainer Speaking to Sky Sports, Christian Wück, Manger, Germany U17 , said: “Maybe it is the most important thing because the game is so much faster than 10 years ago.” Wück explained further, “We had three cameras record a training game there to quantitatively measure the head movements.

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

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This is what also happens in Ready Player One, where Wade Watts can enter the portals of different games. I’ve been pondering solutions for a viable Metaverse since at least 2004. My PhD is in (distributed) pervasive games/applications and mixed reality. It is video game dependent. How did you create this?

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Top 37 VR Film Festivals to Attend in 2018

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Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. VR/AR/MR films, games, and interactive projects include a total runtime or viewing time of 40 minutes or less. Accepted projects will be exhibited in the JW Marriott on the 4th floor Tuesday, March 13 – Thursday, March 15, 2018.

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