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Seongnam to Offer ‘Digital Twin’ City, NFT Citizenship

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The capital city also built an augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) digital recreation of the Jeoson Dynasty in a major project with the Cultural Heritage Administration, Cheil Worldwide Inc, and Woomi Construction Corp, it was revealed in an agreement in July last year.

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Crown Prince Approves New Dubai Metaverse Strategy Phase

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Dubai’s Metaverse Strategy aims to leverage emerging technologies such as virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR), blockchain, digital twins, 5G, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), machine learning (ML), and many others. Dubai’s Metaverse Strategy: A Quick Retake.

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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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Is XR ‘Taking Off’ for the Commercial Aviation Industry?

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According to Allied Market Research, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) aviation markets are expected to reach $23.6 According to some of the latest initiatives, here is how the commercial aviation industry is employing AR, VR, and MR solutions: Commercial Aviation Training. Which Commercial Aviation Firms Offer XR Solutions?

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Dubai Government Launches Metaverse Tech Strategy

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The initiative will also target national tourism, remote work and collaboration, healthcare, legal, education, retail, and other key sectors, and also aims to collaborate on setting global metaverse standards for infrastructure and regulations.

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Web3, XR, Crypto, and the World Economic Forum 

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In the past, the group has discussed how metaverse solutions and XR could help tourism companies to reconnect with their consumers in the post-pandemic landscape through virtual visits to distant locations and XR travel. For instance, Barbados became the first country to enter the virtual world with its own Decentraland embassy.

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4 Ways Governments May Adopt (Or Respond To) The Metaverse

Bernard Marr

The government of Barbados is already thinking along these lines, opening a diplomatic embassy in the Decentraland metaverse platform. But digital twins aren't just useful for planning and predicting – they can also be used to create a digital replica of a city (or any other environment) within the metaverse for leisure and tourism purposes.