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MTV VMAs Debut Historic XR Metaverse Show

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

At the ceremony, hip hop superstars Snoop Dogg and Eminem also performed their hit title, “From the D to the LBC” to commemorate their hometowns of Detroit and Long Beach, California, respectively.

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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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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. In-world delivery for items is not yet available but it is being worked on. The hypergrid address is hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002:Virtual Recall.

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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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Christopher Lafayette: Let’s build together an inclusive XR community

The Ghost Howls

I want children, youth, and teens of all backgrounds to be inspired to know that their parents are working in this great big massive land and that they can build in tech as well, anywhere in the world. These are some of the very things we’re focusing on with the Virtual World Society and areas I’ve been exploring for some time.

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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.

Gaming 78