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Within Releases First In A Series Of CNNVR News Documentaries

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Exploring the frozen landscapes of Iceland in Iceland is Melting // Image Credit: CNNVR. The last two documentaries are Iceland is Melting (June 20), which will allow users to tour the melting glaciers of Iceland, and Toro Bravo (July 6), which drops users into a live bullfighting pit in Pamplona, Spain.

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3 Ways Generative AI Is Making Our World A Better Place

Bernard Marr

Preserving The Icelandic Language What country doesn’t love its native language? This is a particular concern for the country of Iceland. So, the government of Iceland has collaborated with OpenAI and is using the GPT-4 language model to help preserve the Icelandic language. (As

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With Music In New Realities, We Can Go Deeper Together

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Given the investment in this virtual space by companies including Meta, HTC, ByteDance’s Pico, and soon… Apple with their anticipated headset likely to be announced in 2023 , the AR/VR market is a major player in the music industry, even spawning the “Best Metaverse Performance” category in the 2022 MTV VMAs.

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Meta, NBA Open 180-Degree Live VR Sports on Meta Quest

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However, Meta and Xtadium will only host the latter in the United States, and Horizon Worlds-based games in the US, United Kingdom, Iceland, Ireland, France, and Spain. At the time, Silver told the media, “We’re working very closely with Apple. Meta will also host the matches on the Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, and now, Meta Quest 3.

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Report: Meta to Open ‘Horizon Worlds’ to Younger Teens Amid Renewed Retention Push

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Horizon Worlds on the other hand has been limited to users 18+ since it was launched in 2021, and only to those in US, Canada, UK, France, Iceland, Ireland and Spain. Meta’s Quest 2 headset is technically only available to users aged 13 and up. At the same time, Meta has slashed some XR projects , including first-party title Echo VR.

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Bigscreen Beyond Ultra-Compact SteamVR Headset Now Shipping

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Bigscreen is also now accepting orders from 13 new countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Bigscreen says after that announcement, and after Apple Vision Pro 's unveiling, it saw a "massive increase" in preorders.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.10.27): Quest sales are not taking off, Minecraft Earth launches in Early Access and much more!

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The two lucky countries are New Zealand and Iceland. Bloomberg publishes new hints on Apple glasses. Every week we have new hints on Apple glasses: it is no more a matter of “if” they will come to the market, but a matter of “when” and “what”. Microsoft details 3 interesting R&D projects.