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10 Virtual Reality Trends to Look Out for in 2021 and Beyond

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Oculus was acquired by Facebook, showing the possibility of integrated VR within the social platform. Tourism and Travel (Experience Destinations Before Booking). As most of us are stuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, people are yearning for a vacation or any travel in general.

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Cooperation of Deep Tech SMEs and Global Giants Drive Opportunities in the Metaverse

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In 2021 Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg was quoted saying that AR glasses are “one of the hardest technical challenges of the decade.” Fourthly, there are certain key application areas or industry vertical-specific solutions that Finnish companies should pay more attention to.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

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. It was actually an AR device which overlayed wire-frame graphics on physical environments.

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Making the World a Better Place with Virtual Reality

Tech Trends VR

SpaceVR will use Virtual Space Tourism to connect us to our planet and to each other, expanding the limits of human consciousness. Either way, it seems worth booking a ticket for Burning Man, because as many in the virtual reality space are fond of saying, talking about VR is like dancing about architecture.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Authors’ opinions are their own. It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Who will profit?

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VRX 2017 Conference Brings an All Star Cast

VRWorld

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset.