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Stanford Research Shows VR Users Can Be Identified Using Only 5 Minutes of Motion Data

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Privacy in VR is an ever growing issue, especially now that all new Oculus accounts must login to Facebook with their real identity, which includes anyone who wants to use a Quest 2. “With the rise of virtual reality, body tracking data has never been more accurate and more plentiful.

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Case Study: SAP Integrates AR for ERP

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Since 2016, the company has invested in AR, VR and XR to help its customers accelerate time to insight and enhance the way SAP data is visualized and understood. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit. Doesn’t a computer do the job just fine?

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Case Study: The Design Behind ‘Cubism’s’ Hand-tracking

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Hand tracking first became available on the Oculus Quest back in late 2019. Needless to say, this initial demo had several flaws, and didn’t really take the limitations of the technology into account, which is why I decided to initially omit hand tracking support from the full release of Cubism on the Oculus Store. Future Work.

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Oculus Introduces Next Generation Of VR Avatars With ‘Expressive Avatars’ Update

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More lifelike avatars and a new avatar editor arrive on Oculus Rift & Go headsets. Since launching in December of 2016, Oculus Avatars has brought a much-needed sense of humanity to the Oculus platform, allowing users to interact with one another on a personal level while in VR.

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Data Point of the Week: XR Developers Speak

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Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. And most of the results stand up to reason and other data we’re tracking.

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Elon Musk Details ‘Neuralink’ Brain Interface Tech, Oculus CTO Calls It “very bold work”

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And while virtual reality and BMIs are still relatively segregated fields at this point, Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack got a chance to visit Neuralink’s offices, calling it “very bold work.” Neuralink’s surgical robot, Image courtesy Neuralink. .”

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New VR Fitness App VZfit Helps Stay at Home People Stay in Shape

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The user only needs to get ready with their fitness gear, put on the Oculus Quest headset and handheld accessories, and launch the application. Users have two choices: after putting on the Oculus Quest headset, they can grab the handheld accessories and start a jogging or fitness training routine. How the VR Fitness App Works.

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