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Will 3D Cities Unlock Immersive Experiences?

AR Insider

I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. This is more about machine-readable data for AR cloud systems to understand surroundings and overlay content accordingly. The product’s main feature was 3D graphical renderings of U.S. cities, starting with San Francisco. Force Multiplier.

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Will 3D Cities Unlock Immersive Experiences?

ARVR

In 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. This is more about machine-readable data for AR cloud systems to understand surroundings and overlay content accordingly. The product’s main feature was 3D graphical renderings of U.S. cities, starting with San Francisco. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Metaverse is calling again – think bigger

Life at the Feeding Edge

Having sad that, it is worth reminding everyone that the original work in 2006 in Second Life was mostly about pulling data from other sources into the environment, and doing things with it, this eventually led to building Wimbledon’s 2006 course with the ball trajectory from Hawkeye rendered there.

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Epic’s Tim Sweeney Confirms Robo Recall’s Funding

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Here’s that original quote, which Sweeney confirmed today we reported accurately: “I n 2006, a world class Triple A game cost 10-20 million to produce now they’ll cost up to 100 million. Sweeney confirmed to us the team size data reported in that article is correct as well. “I apologize for sharing partial details this way.

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Dairy Farmers turn to Mixed Reality to Enhance Cow Health

CraneMorley

This will track different data points such as key vital signs like heat signals, inactive behavior, to even how much a cow has eaten. Like shown in the image below, with the HoloLens live data will be floating right above the cows. Any outliers in data will alert farmers something might be wrong, and they should check on the cow.

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VR Health & Exercise Institute Finds Many VR Games Are Better Exercise Than a Treadmill

Road to VR

Back in 2006, Nintendo’s Wii console popularised motion controllers, enticing people off the couch for a spot of ‘arm flailing’ with its addictive title Wii Sports. The organisation recently announced a program to independently assess VR games in a controlled environment, with the aim of publishing the results through a rating system.

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Demystifying 3D File Formats For 3D Commerce And More

ARVR

3D models store the 3D information as either plain text or binary data for the 3D model. gLTF is based on JSON, so it stores some data in external files like textures (JPEG or PNG), shaders (GLSL), or geometry and animation data (BIN). GLB files store all this data internally. FBX FBX is a proprietary 3D file format.

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