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SXSW 2023: Highlights and XR Experiences That Push the Boundaries of Storytelling, Music, and Technology

ARPost

The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals has once again taken the world by storm, delivering a jam-packed 10-day event featuring a variety of activities for audiences to explore. Hosted in Austin, TX, SXSW 2023 ran from March 10–19, 2023. Even more exciting, the virtual world could be constantly extended.

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#SWXW2019 – Augmenting ARt

Tech Trends VR

Brian Behm is an Artist Using the world as his canvas and digital elements as brushtrokes. Tech Trends catches up to him at South by Southwest in Austin. . Brian Behm is here at The South by Southwest Conference in Austin as both a speaker and mentor. Augmented Reality is different from Virtual Reality.

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AfroTech World 2022 Covered Immersive Tech, NFTs, and Creator Communities

ARPost

This provides a certain atmosphere to the community, but also creates a dedicated space to discuss the goals, obstacles, and opportunities that are unique to this group. Their virtual conference, hosted by Blavity Inc. and streamed on YouTube, attracted hundreds to a virtual world built in Virbela.

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Hands-on: Virtuix Omni One Comes Full Circle with an All-in-one VR Treadmill System

Road to VR

I visited the company’s Austin, Texas headquarters to try it for myself. The Virtuix Omni Backstory Image courtesy Virtuix The original Virtuix Omni treadmill started life way back in 2013 as wooden prototype built by a small group led by CEO Jan Goetgeluk. What if you had a treadmill on which you could run in any direction?

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Metaverse in the Even Industry: Host Your Next Event in the Metaverse

ARVR

Meta corporations and Microsoft almost simultaneously announced work on unified virtual worlds, and the focus on the “internet of the future” even led to the renaming of Facebook (but only the companies, social networks left their familiar name).

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GamesBeat Summit Conversations On The Metaverse, AR’s Future, and Hollywood Envy

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

I asked him where we were in our ability to create the Metaverse, the immersive virtual world envisioned by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash. Owen Mahoney, CEO of Nexon, was wedged in between virtual reality speakers like Sweeney, Kim Pallister, and Austin Grossman and Gary Whitta of Hollywood on the other.

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2014: A Year in Virtual Superlatives

Leapmotion

From virtual car dealerships to social ecommerce , our pals over at Chaotic Moon really crushed it this year in the VR department. But perhaps most importantly, it demonstrates a proven understanding of how to build intuitive, highly reactive sets of interconnected interfaces in a virtual world.