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Could Origami Be The Future Of VR Haptics?

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Hanqing Jiang, who was a part of the research team, learned about a form of origami called curved origami (or curved crease origami) while at Arizona State University in 2020 and used it to create stiffness with paper-made sculptures.

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The Advantages of Using Virtual Reality for Team Building

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They will be stuck in a virtual room with a bomb, while their team players will have the instructions to defuse it. Arizona Sunshine takes you on a post-apocalyptic journey. Your objective is to save a man trapped in the virtual realm. The game consists of players in the real and virtual world.

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Facebook Researchers Explore Mechanical Display Shifting to Reduce Screen Door Effect

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Researchers from Facebook Reality Labs and the University of Arizona published new work exploring the use of high-speed mechanical display shifting to reduce the so-called screen-door-effect (SDE) of immersive displays.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.04): Varjo announces XR-4 headset, Quest 2 sells much more than Quest 3, and more!

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More info LivingCities shuts down Last year, LivingCities was announced as one of the most promising startups out there , having the mission of bridging the real and the virtual world, making physical and virtual people interact together as if they were in the same place.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.22): Zuck’s selfie gets viral, Meta accounts are arriving, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Many journalists wrote bad things about Meta’s M-word efforts: they said that Meta invested $10B just to have this cringy virtual world. It features the store by iQiYi , and this makes it launch together with games like Fruit Ninja and Arizona Sunshine. The starting price tag is 2,999 yuan (~$440).

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.11): Upload VR Showcase, Metaverse Safety Week, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Ray-Ban Meta review) More info (Varjo XR-4 preview) Discover fashion in the digital worlds An interesting article in Vogue speaks about the new fashion trends in virtual worlds. It presents well-designed puzzles and plenty of light adventuring opportunities Arizona Sunshine 2 is a very well-crafted sequel to a VR hit.

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10 Highly-Anticipated VR Games We’re Excited To Play In 2021

VRScout

Vertigo Games, developer behind the hit zombie shooter Arizona Sunshine , returns with a brand new adventure that will have you exploring a frozen, hostile world after a mysterious outbreak turns LA into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. So much so, in fact, we thought it easier to break down just a handful of our most-anticipated titles.

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