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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.26): Facebook aims at the Metaverse, Quest 2 goes MR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Zuck also didn’t address much the theme of privacy and how much data harvesting in VR could be dangerous. Probably the sentence “five years from now people will primarily think about us as a company harvesting data on the metaverse, rather than doing it on mobile phones” wouldn’t have sounded much sexy, so he avoided speaking about this.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

A traveling showcase of digital and video works, Björk Digital started in Australia and it just debuted at London’s Somerset house. Wires are a VR buzzkill, but the untethered VR headsets are powered by smartphones – which are graphics-processing lightweights compared to the robust PCs behind the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. I learned how to do the coding.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we target single player, we look at data, we look at the creation of that content, we look at integrating that with enterprise systems. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Alan: I’ve got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. It’s not about hard data in that first instance.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we target single player, we look at data, we look at the creation of that content, we look at integrating that with enterprise systems. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Alan: I’ve got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. It’s not about hard data in that first instance.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we target single player, we look at data, we look at the creation of that content, we look at integrating that with enterprise systems. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Alan: I’ve got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. It’s not about hard data in that first instance.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse's James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we target single player, we look at data, we look at the creation of that content, we look at integrating that with enterprise systems. I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Alan: I've got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. It's not about hard data in that first instance.