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VR’s Killer App May Be Full-Body Codec Avatars

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In film, you feel comfortably immersed in the story looking at something like the cute Baymax robot but constantly distracted looking at more human-like faces in heavily motion captured works like the 2004 film The Polar Express.

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

The Ghost Howls

The video was astonishing: he has been able to create a portal inside a Minecraft server , and if you enter the portal, you enter into another server, this time playing Doom. I’ve been pondering solutions for a viable Metaverse since at least 2004. Can you detail what you have done for people that have not seen this video yet?

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Digital Influencers and Marketing New Realities with Cathy Hackl

XR for Business Podcast

As you know, I do some work with Magic Leap — I don’t speak on their behalf — but they just launched the headsets at several AT&T stores, and one of the demos is an AR…well, no, a spatial computing experience for Game of Thrones. I’m going to take you way back, to 2004.

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Digital Influencers and Marketing New Realities with Cathy Hackl

XR for Business Podcast

As you know, I do some work with Magic Leap — I don’t speak on their behalf — but they just launched the headsets at several AT&T stores, and one of the demos is an AR…well, no, a spatial computing experience for Game of Thrones. I’m going to take you way back, to 2004.