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BMW Unveils Mixed Reality Driving Experience

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. The vehicle will merge with the physical and virtual world of the users.

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It’s Time To Develop A Consent Framework For Virtual Beings

VRScout

And for a third group, the value in virtual beings isn’t the ability to create a new person: it’s to recreate an existing one. In a YouTube video that recently went viral, a woman is shown “reunited” with her late daughter in a virtual world.

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OpenSim user activity ramping up for the holidays

Hypergrid Business

With the free-to-use DreamGrid software, anyone can easily create virtual worlds through a graphical interface and one-click install feature on their home computer. Learn here how to create and host a new Dreamgrid on your home computer using the software. The hypergrid address is hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002:Virtual Recall.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Game’s Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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The Jetset with Headsets: How XR Will Revolutionize Air Travel, with Neutral Digital’s Greg Caterer

XR for Business Podcast

I’m really excited to learn about the stuff you’re doing. So I think the guys at the Void have really done a great job at bringing the magic into VR and put haptic floors, scent machines — they’ve hijacked all your senses. Have you used haptics or scent machines or anything like that? Greg: Yeah.