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The Road Ahead in VR and AR Will Have Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

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John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. These things are barely making it to the shelf. That’s coming.

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How science fiction precedes science fact and what it means for the metaverse

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I wrote my own ViFi novel, MetaWars , in 2010 after the Icelandic ash cloud grounded flights across Europe. That event inspired a story world where everyone interfaces digitally in a global metasphere using a brain-computer interface and is even able to upload their consciousness to the internet to achieve a type of digital immortality.

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Google-backed Magic Leap Reveals Mixed Reality Music App

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They invited a reporter from Pitchfork, an online music magazine, to its offices to check out a new mixed reality app Tónandi created in collaboration with Icelandic band Sigur Rós. It is obvious that the company still does not allow anyone to speak of the hardware they have on-hand. But it seems, something is actually happening.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

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The COVID-19 crisis has made many companies realize how AR and VR can be a fundamental tool for smart working (e.g. to make people work remotely on the same 3D prototype, or to organize events all in VR, like what we are doing with VRrOOm ), and this can help even more the adoption of XR. In which countries is it available?

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