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South Korea Is Building Its Own K-Pop Metaverse

VRScout

Ever since Psy graced our ears with his now-iconic song ‘Gangnam Style’ in 2012, the popularity of South Korean music, film, and television has skyrocketed in places like the United States. “For example, in September 2021, the government had already committed to investing $2.2

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. One is government. So this was before Oculus.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. One is government. So this was before Oculus.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality's Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

In Dan Lejerskar's experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR -- they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. One is government. I assume government is involved in that.

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Despite The ‘VR Desert’ Developers Can Still Find Ways To Survive

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Montreal-based Minority Media, which also created the groundbreaking PSN title Papo Y Yo in 2012, created the dinosaur undersea adventure game that launched on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets in May 2017. The headsets and the technology for continuous virtual worlds and the blockchain for ecommerce, all the pieces are here.

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Breaking the Mold – How VR Can Help Teachers

Veative

For far too long, byzantine rules and obsolete beliefs governing our ways of learning have stymied the sincere efforts of teachers to bring about a change in the education system. Teachers, it is now time to embrace the future and the future is virtual reality in education. ‘An Cambridge University Press, 2012. Eilam, Billie.