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How to make mixed reality demos that merge real and virtual worlds

The Ghost Howls

Meta did a great job in allowing the streaming of all the mixed reality data from the Quest to the PC for development purposes. Thanks to this, while you are in Unity, with the Quest connected via USB to the PC, you can press Play to test the application locally with full access to passthrough stream, hand tracking data, and scene data.

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Designing Mixed Reality Apps That Adapt to Different Spaces

Road to VR

To try and overcome these challenges, having good room-emulation tools that enable quick level design iteration is essential. In this article, I want to go over how levels in Laser Dance work, and share some of the developer tools that I’m building to help me create and test the game’s adaptive laser patterns.

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How Is Virtual Reality Changing Animation?

ARPost

With the development of extended reality technologies, animators saw the potential of using virtual reality to create more realistic and intuitive animations. While many creators are already using VR tools for skill-intensive and time-consuming tasks, it is believed that virtual reality will soon take the world of animation into new realms.

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Using Data-Driven Sales Processes to Improve Sales Funnel in the Manufacturing Industry

AUGray

In today’s data-driven world, manufacturers are increasingly turning to technology to help them optimize their sales processes and improve the efficiency of their sales funnels. Extended reality (XR) technology is one such tool that can be used to drive sales growth and improve the customer experience.

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The Intersections of Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality

ARPost

8th Wall , an acquisition that does its own projects but also serves as Niantic’s WebXR division, also uses some AI but is also compatible with other AI tools, as teams showcased in a recent Innovation Lab hackathon. The winner used generative AI to create the environment that replaced the sky through a recent tool developed by 8th Wall.

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Top 5 Use Cases For Hand Eye Tracking Technology

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Eye and hand tracking technology combines the use of sensors, artificial intelligence, and similar tools to help computer systems understand gaze, gesture, and movement. Data Collection and Insights. Hand and eye tracking, at their core, are a form of data collection.

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How Can Consumer and Industrial Blockchains Power the Metaverse?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

These would integrate across virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) devices to visualise data for enterprise users. Cardano powers the Pavia metaverse platform , which uses blockchain technology to create a decentralized environment for its users with a minimal carbon footprint and lower gas fees.

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