Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

When I was a kid, I wanted to build a holodeck — the immersive 3D simulation system from Star Trek, so I started making games, beginning with online multiplayer games for bulletin board systems. Physics and realistic light simulation (ray tracing) You’d need a way to have a persistent world with data, continuity, rules, systems.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented Reality Augmented reality (AR) is an immersive experience where the objects that resides in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated information (virtual objects). An AR system comprises of three features: combination of real and virtual world, real-time interaction, and registration of virtual and real objects.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And are also good for data harvesting cough cough cough. But you have hands and feet controllers to move in the virtual world, so according to the manufacturers, you have 1.5DOF more (whatever it means). Apple VR headset may feature a 3000PPI microOLED display. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. Most of this is often discussed in light of its Unreal engine being used to create virtual worlds….much In other words, digital twins will overlay the physical world to enable AR devices to evoke relevant and geo-anchored digital content.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. Probably you all recall the iconic Apple commercial inspired by the book 1984 that helped a lot the company in becoming popular. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Leaks about Apple are intensifying over the weeks.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Virtual reality offers a fantastic way to embed employees in rich simulated environments. Finally, mixed reality solutions like the Apple Vision Pro can combine elements of the virtual and real worlds to create highly accurate learning simulations. They can even design digital twins for the metaverse.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You can simulate any scenario with just a headset in a portable manner. For situations that are hard or dangerous to simulate, like in healthcare, there is even more value. Furthermore, data security and privacy should be well thought through. Justin Barad: Training is an unbelievable use case for spatial computing.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

My favorite one is “interoperability” : you shoud be able to go through all virtual worlds carrying with you what you have got in one into the other ones. It will also be a defensive move against Apple. Apple could announce its headset. Apple could announce its headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

We often talk about Apple and Meta, but we should not forget that Google is still in the match, and that in the AR Cloud race, it has still many cards to play, like the mapping of all the world already made with Google Maps. These filings are public, so it is possible to read some data about these pieces of hardware in them.

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Bernard Marr

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

(To be clear, Horizon Worlds maintains a virtual four-foot "personal boundary" around avatars that prevents non-friends from venturing too close, but in this case, other members had convinced the researcher to disable the setting.) Blockchain, crypto, creating realistic simulated worlds … all this requires huge computing power.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 6, 2020

A piece of unexpected news hit the augmented reality world this week: Niantic has acquired 6d.ai, one of the most interesting startups in the AR Cloud landscape, for an undisclosed amount of money. All these data could let Niantic already create the digital replica of the world before other companies that lack these data for now (e.g.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2023

For instance, the Apple Vision Pro allows users to interact with apps and technologies using innate actions like gestures and eye movement. Spatial computing concepts allow us to interact with computers and virtual worlds using our natural actions, from raising a hand to looking at a certain point on a screen.

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 15, 2023

Hypergrid Business Data.). Another option for people who want free OpenSim land is to use DreamGrid from OutWorldz, a version of OpenSim used by many people to create virtual worlds on personal computers, private company grids, or school grids. Kitely Market data — total listing, variations, and exportables.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Don’t miss the 1st ever live virtual simulation of a baseball game during @MLB encounter between Tampa Bay’s @RaysBaseball and L.A.’s Note that, even in Apple’s Vision Pro announcement, they talked a lot about sports. Tonight you will have never been closer to the field. ’s @Angels.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Otherwise known as a “ mixed reality ” or “extended reality” headset, VR/AR headsets combine augmented and virtual reality. For instance, the Apple Vision Pro headset will feature a mixed reality dial on the top of the device. First, smart glasses typically focus on bringing digital content and data into the real world.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

One of the biggest assets Apple has is its stores, and now Meta wants to copy it also about this feature. I think it is a fundamental decision, that may make Meta reduce its operational gap when compared to Apple, even if I think that the branding gap is still enormous. The Mall wants to bring shopping centers to virtual worlds.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple is adept at proposing something you didn’t think you needed.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Doing marketing in virtual worlds can be valuable. Other relevant news. Image by Mojo Vision).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

Even in 2007, when Apple announced the first iPhone, Steve Jobs was keen to get rid of the stylus for touchscreen management, arguing separate controllers and devices make using technology more cumbersome. Data Collection and Insights. Data is everywhere in today’s digitally transforming world.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This simply means computer programs (or algorithms) which, rather than needing to be told explicitly what to do by a human operator, are capable of becoming better and better at a specific task as they repeat it over and over again and are exposed to more data. Eventually, they may become better than humans at these tasks.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. Again, think of it of a simulated world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. Again, think of it of a simulated world.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Jobe is run through a variety of advanced VR simulations and begins to see astounding results. Making his first appearance in a VR movie, Keanu Reeves (Johnny) lives in a future where one of the only secure ways to transport data is to upload it into storage devices implanted in the brain. Virtuosity (1995). Strange Days (1995).

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 7, 2019

“Doing it in the physical environment is too hard, but we can build a virtual world that’s completely under control.” ” Rct studio wants to build the Westworld experience in virtual worlds. “It’s sort of like how the film Ready Player One built its own gadgets for the virtual world.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Now, as we head into 2023, the conversation has shifted to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s concerns that it might not take off because it’s too complicated and other commentators suggesting it’s too weird to gain mainstream traction. Of course, the concept of digital simulation has existed in industry for decades. Is It All Hype?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. Again, think of it of a simulated world.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 7, 2023

If you’ve only taken a passing interest it could mean anything to you from virtual reality, to pretend worlds, to cartoon avatars and online gaming. In fact Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that the fact people don’t really understand it might stop the metaverse from taking off entirely. Take digital twins, for example.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

More info (Statistics by Superdata) More info (Statistics by AR Insider) More info (Statistics on all headsets by AR Insider) More info (Palmer Luckey disagreeing on the data). Bloomberg publishes new hints on Apple glasses. VR times will come, but give VR the time it needs. Other relevant news. Image by Microsoft).

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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. will we move from the Social Web to the Shadow Web?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! It was cool, even if the simulation wasn’t super-smooth at times and looked a bit fake.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Take Digital twins as an example; racing teams in Formula 1 create digital twins of the race car and use the digital world to test the car in virtual wind tunnels and via digital simulations. We see similar abilities to edit or program real-world materials in nanotechnology. The Hyper-Connected, Intelligent World.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

This means that while you have the Quest on, your microphone data will be always listened by the device, and you can imagine my profound happiness in knowing this. This year, the dream of developing once, build once, and deploy everywhere can become reality. …unless Apple arrives and creates its own standard again…. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. That’s the beginning. Alan: Interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. That’s the beginning. Alan: Interesting.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

And bringing AI into the physical world, Huang introduced Omniverse Cloud APIs to deliver advanced simulation capabilities. Huang punctuated these major announcements with powerful demos, partnerships with some of the world’s largest enterprises and more than a score of announcements detailing his vision.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

Well, some do, but most of us use Spotify, Apple Music, or Youtube, to listen to music now. Plus, vinyl can’t work while commuting to work in a subway or a car or in a plane while traveling the world. A similar win will happen as we move to an augmented world that Spatial Computing brings. The vinyl is more enjoyable.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I mean, in many cases, you can simulate things with AR that you’re not able to do with a regular website or any other application. I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. It’s a massive undertaking.

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