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Facebook Publishes New Research on Hyper-realistic Virtual Avatars

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. “Our system runs live in real-time and it works for a wide range of expressions, including puffed-in cheeks, biting lips, moving tongues, and details like wrinkles that are hard to be precisely animated for previous methods,” says one of the authors. a) The ‘Training’ headset, with nine cameras.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.16): Apple prepares the launch of Vision Pro, Sony announces MR headset, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Devin Reimer, the author of the original post, answered with other valid points, like that if the Vision Pro will be successful, the only input scheme offering input parity between Vision Pro, Quest, and Pico will be hand tracking because the Vision Pro will not have controllers.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.01): Meta still committed to the Metaverse, Jio launches Dive headset, and more!

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UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which was considered the biggest acquisition in gaming history. More info Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been blocked I called for it, and it happened. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.08): Xiaomi unveils its smartglasses, Improbable and RP1 want to create the networking for the metaverse, and much more!

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And, interestingly, the runtime is also being prepared to add authorizations for face tracking and eye tracking, as a leaked screenshot proves. According to the features currently released in the PTC, the next v43 update of the Quest runtime will finally introduce the possibility to record gameplay videos in 16:9 format.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.02.06): Apple ships the Vision Pro, Meta had record revenues, and more!

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First of all the first authorized 3rd-party accessories have started to surface, and we have already battery holders, alternative straps, carrying cases, etc… Then Upload VR investigated the external battery and discovered that it is a pretty powerful one, and this may be the reason why it has not been added to the headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.22): Quest to feature new parental control tools, Google acquires Raxium, and more!

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I don’t know if this is good to foster healthy competition in the environment, but the antitrust authorities are sleeping, so the shopping can continue. News worth a mention. Image by Qualcomm). Qualcomm sets up $100M fund for XR content creation. Qualcomm has just set up a fund to support the creation of interesting AR/VR content.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.20): Roblox may come to Quest, Meta launches Avatar Store, and more!

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Some people say that we shouldn’t value them for the current users, but for the future potential, but NWN’s author comments that this was an error already made with Second Life. I don’t think so… New World Notes is at it again commenting on the Web3 worlds, which are mostly desert.

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