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Marvel Studios & ILMxLAB Reveal Avengers: Damage Control Location-Based VR Experience

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Set after the events of Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Damage Control puts players in the shoes of an ordinary guest visiting a Wakandan Outreach Center when the facility is suddenly attacked by an unknown enemy. We hope people have as much fun experiencing Avengers: Damage Control as we did making it.”

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VR Chuckwagon Racing Stampedes Into Canada

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There they’ll use Touch controllers strapped to the wooden vehicle to whip and turn your diesel-powered steed through tight turns and sharp corners. North American teams in Canada and the US have been working to bring this GMC Rangeland Derby VR experience to life for months,” said Jason Alan Snyder, Global CTO, Momentum Worldwide.

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Meta Opened Horizon Worlds To Teens In The U.S. & Canada

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Meta is opening up its online social worlds to teenagers in the United States and Canada. Quest headsets are designed for use by those aged 13 and older, with "customized controls with age-appropriate settings" for those looking to connect in Meta's virtual reality. "Teens’

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Reality TV Meets The Metaverse In This Interesting New Project

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The company will also make use of hand, face, and object tracking, offering detailed interactions with the digital world that would be more difficult to recreate using standard motion controllers. The company recently announced Eurovision Canada , a new music competition based on the popular European song contest that will air in 2023.

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AR-Powered Hardhats Are Heading To The Mineshaft

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Mining technology and solutions provider National Speleological Society (NSS) Canada has partnered with Cambrian R&D Centre for Smart Mining to develop an augmented reality (AR) helmet that allows miners to plant explosives safely and more efficiently while operating in underground shafts. Image Credit: NSS Canada.

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Prototype Backpack Features Robotic Limbs Controlled Remotely In VR

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Project Fusion’s VR-controlled robot arms could revolutionize remote collaboration. Using an Oculus Rift headset and a pair of motion controllers, that separate user can then operate the mechanical arms entirely in VR. Various buttons on the Oculus controllers allow operators to move the pinky, middle, and ring fingers simultaneously.

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Researchers Command Adult-Size Robot Using Vive Controllers

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We’ve seen several instances of this in the past, from a motorized bomb-defusal robot that allows Police to deactivate explosives remotely using a VR headset and motion controllers to a company using VR to train production machines. However it’s the software behind this impressive method of control that’s the real magic. .”