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Discover The Virtual Burning Man 2021

The Ghost Howls

This year, in exactly one month from now, there will be the 2021 edition of the Virtual Burning Man and I’ve got the amazing opportunity to talk with the organizers about it. Here are some numbers from the 2020 Virtual Burn. The same is true for creating virtual Burning Man spaces. What were your stats for 2020?

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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.11): CES is starting, Facebook smartglasses are coming “soon”, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

2021 has just started and we’re all curious to know what are the big XR surprises it will gift to us. Virtual CES is about to start and will feature AR and VR devices. Thanks to it, you can preview your filters on the fly in a virtual smartphone that you can see in a suitable virtual environment. Image by CES).

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, David Em made strides in the creation of explorable virtual landscapes, while the Ames Research Center iterated on VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). In fact, the program was only officially discontinued in 2021. The feedback we were getting from them was that.

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Our pick of AR Remote Collaboration and Support Services

ARPost

The platform, which won last year’s Auggie Award for Best Enterprise Solution, is compatible with MR headsets like HoloLens and Magic Leap. However, the highly anticipated MR/VR/AR remote platform launched at Microsoft Ignite 2021 is definitely worth talking about. See Also: Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. ENTERPRISE-FOCUSED VR MARKET TO GROW TO OVER $9B BY 2021.

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Some fluff on the metaverse

The Ghost Howls

This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021. But I don’t see why I should be immersed night and day in a virtual environment … I don’t think it has sense, especially for the biggest part of the population.

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All you need to know on the Facebook Connect (OC7)

The Ghost Howls

Upload hypothesizes that maybe a 2-year partnership with Lenovo forces them to do so until May 2021. Facebook is going to launch a pair of smartglasses in 2021. This long partnership will start with the first product, that will be shipped in 2021: a pair of fashionable smart glasses under the Ray-Ban brand. Privacy in AR.

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