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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.15): Samsung XR prototype leaked, Meta 2024 glasses are only for internal use, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info Immersed VISOR to support hand tracking and eye tracking It seems that Immersed truly wants to compete with Apple with its VISOR headset. It’s amazing to see that it is possible to solve many visual problems of current XR headsets via software. Almalence plans to license this technology to headsets manufacturers.

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The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! At the most fundamental level, the metaverse will be built by software engineers. This is simply because the idea and concepts are still emerging. BSc, and even Ph.D.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations. Noire: The V.R.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. image courtesy VR First. Oklahoma State University, USA.

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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

The first one is a software update in V31 that enables passthrough APIs (only on Quest 2). Acquiring it, Epic secures a great source of assets for the developers using its Unreal Engine, and also the connection with many talents. Of course, this acquisition is related to Epic’s master plan of creating its open metaverse.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content. VeeR acquires, produces, and distributes best-in-class immersive stories and light-weight interactive experiences. web, and mobile. 4- Kshitij Marwah.

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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

Or Unreal if that’s your language. on immersion and presence , or somewhere in that nature (I might be off by a single point). What that means is that when you increase immersion, it does increase presence, but not at an extremely high level , which I believe matches anecdotally what we’ve seen over the years.

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