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#1359: Landmark Anthropological Field Study of VR with “In the Land of the Unreal” author Lisa Messeri

Voices of VR

Yale Anthropologist Lisa Messeri spent a year doing field work in Los Angeles in 2018 studying the political ecology of the VR community, and will be releasing her landmark book called In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles on Friday, March 8th.

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

Road to VR

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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All you need to know on HoloLens 2

The Ghost Howls

Microsoft has conducted a study on thousands of people, to design a device that can fit a lot of different heads of different people and that is also able to accommodate glasses. As you can see, Microsoft has carefully studied how to incorporate all the various types of commands so that to make the user experience effortless and natural.

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9 Must Have Skills To Become An AR/VR Developer (With Course Recommendations)

ARVR

Also, I am not diving deep into things like code architecture, testing, security and fixing memory leaks in your mobile apps. Depending upon your app’s feature requirements and your present code architecture, select an SDK and then continue with the development. Adding 3rd party libraries so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

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How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

The Ghost Howls

My suggestion to them is to start first of all to learn Unity and C#, or Unreal and C++. Unity is easier and has a stronger community, but Unreal has better graphical performances and better support for enterprise. If you want to become a Youtuber, you can study Nathie , Mike Virtual Reality Oasis , Sebastian Ang MRTV , and so on.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.09.26): Pico 4 announced, RTX40 cards revealed, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Doing its keynote on video, CEO Jensen Huang introduced the new RTX4080 and RTX4090 graphics cards, which are based on the new Ada Lovelace architecture. The annual GTC event for NVIDIA has been a blast. As usual, they are “the best cards ever released”.

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Interview to Enea Le Fons: from #30DaysInVR to #XDaysInXR and beyond

The Ghost Howls

I spent 80% of my time on a slightly customized version of Unreal Engine for Developers in-VR Editor (by Epic Games). It enables sophisticated in-VR level design and a good part of Unreal’s interface is exposed within it. XDaysinXR Architecture 1 is part of WHITELABEL’s #XdaysinXR initiative. Tell my readers about it!