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3 Predictions for AR in 2022

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The one that you likely hear more about involves virtual worlds that host synchronous activity among far-flung individuals: an “embodied internet”, as Mark Zuckerberg calls it. Such periods historically cause advertisers to re-allocate budget to emerging ad formats, as seen circa-2005 (search) and 2010 (social). metavearth ).

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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You’ll be able to sit in a real-world go-kart rig and race around in the virtual world. GOOGLE LAUNCHES 3000 YEARS OF FASHION & CULTURE PLUS VR. ARAB EMIRATES AIRLINES TESTING OUT AR. 5 TECH TITANS BULLISH ON AR. SNAP DEVELOPING 2ND GEN VERSION OF SPECTACLES. PUBLIC AWARENESS OF VR IS GROWING AND PSVR LEADS THE PACK.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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The small company has a good background in making social virtual worlds, however – before building HelloVR, CEO Dedric Reid was Head of Design at Altspace (a social VR platform that has raised almost $16M in three rounds of funding). Interestingly enough, the open world features wildlife simulations provided by IBM’s Watson.

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OpenSim numbers down as two popular grids drop stats

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OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Alife Virtual : 590 regions. Open Virtual Worlds : 320 regions.

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12 Can’t Miss VR Talks You Have To See At GDC 2017

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Lessons Learned From A Thousand Virtual Worlds. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. Stefan Walker (Google), Luca Prasso (Google).

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What is the Spatial Web?

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All across the planet, our technologies are breaking out from behind the screen and into the physical world around us. Simultaneously, the people, places, and things in our world are being digitized and brought into the virtual world, becoming part of the digital domain. This has been the winning formula in the Web 2.0