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Amazon Goes Virtual: Shop For Products In VR & AR

VRScout

Shopping for real products in the virtual world just became a little easier. Earlier this week, the popular online retailer Amazon launched “Amazon Anywhere,” a new shopping experience that enables customers to purchase physical products from the Amazon store without having to leave their favorite games and apps.

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Making A Metaverse That Matters book review

The Ghost Howls

The book subtitle is “From Snow Crash & Second Life to a virtual world worth fighting for” : I mention it because it exactly describes what is the theme behind the book. In case you want to read the book, too, you can find it on Amazon: [link] (the link is without affiliation, so you can trust the honesty of my review).

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OpenSim active users hit all-time-high for the holidays

Hypergrid Business

With the free-to-use DreamGrid software, anyone can easily create virtual worlds through a graphical interface and one-click install feature on their home computer. We are keeping the mobile app purely for gameplay, roleplay, and entertainment. Anyone can easily add their grid to this list from the same page.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.24): Apple opens applications for Vision Pro devkits, Meta may stop the production of Quest Pro, and more!

The Ghost Howls

(Answer: probably just the possibility of the same community visiting different worlds together may be enough) Is monetization beneficial to virtual worlds? Answer: if people go to a platform just to make money, that platform is not going to succeed) Are today’s virtual worlds so different from Second Life?

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E3 2017: Sony Video Talks Future PSVR Upgrades: A.I., Focus Variation And More

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Dominic Mallinson, Senior Vice President of R&D at Sony Interactive Entertainment, spoke a little about the current areas of VR that the group is looking into in a video that ran before the company’s E3 press conference yesterday. You can see it below, the clip starts at around 43:20.

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SuperWorld & Monograma Present: AMAZONIA

ARVR

A 3D gallery in Augmented Reality (AR) featuring NFT art and artifacts from indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest. For over 500 years, the Cinta Larga and Paiter Surui of the Amazon rainforest warred with one another. billion non-fungible tokens (NFT) corresponding to real world space. and their struggle.

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VR Highlights at San Diego Comic-Con 2017 Include Ready Player One And Marvel

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Some of the virtual worlds to visit at the enormous fan convention are likely still under wraps, but we know two major VR-related projects are likely to anchor the week. Worlds To Visit. The Tick: Amazon lists a “virtual reality escape room” as part of its promotion of the live-actions version of The Tick.

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