Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In the metaverse era, education as we know it will change. And I’m not just talking about formal education in schools, colleges, and universities – but also workplace learning and lifelong learning. Here are three examples that highlight how education will evolve. Make no mistake, these are metaverse technologies.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

2023: Enter Google ARCore Google’s convenient and easy-to-access ARSDK facilitates the development of WebAR experiences for cross-platform delivery. Google now supports numerous Android smartphones such as Asus, Lenovo, LG, Moto, Motorola, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Infinix, Tecno, Sharp, and Xiaomi.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 6, 2017

The Educator Commons store on OSgrid’s Wright Plaza. To help schools and educators create, access and share more virtual learning and educational resources, an Educator Commons shop has been set up on OSgrid ‘s Wright Plaza region by Kay McLennan, a professor of practice at Tulane University.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Training and education continue to lead the enterprise-grade AR/VR/MR technology sector. As adoption rises in business settings such as healthcare, aviation, and construction, VR training and education applications have always driven this curve. Alex Howland Tech is changing at an exponential rate, and so too is education.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2018

The first startup that I’ve met is called Langzou and it operates in the education sector. I’m going to report the full story because I think that is very interesting to make you understand better the VR educational ecosystem here in China. I really wish to thank them for this opportunity they gave me.

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ARPost

JULY 27, 2023

Will it be “How AI Will Enhance the Metaverse and Education” with Meta Head of Global Education Partnerships Leticia Jauregui and Zoe Immersive CEO and co-founder Emilie Joly? Or will it be “Beyond Loudness: Spatial Chat and the Future of Virtual World Communication” with Dolby Laboratories Developer Advocate Angelik Laboy?

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. Natural Language Processing (NLP) NLP is about using voice commands for people to explore and interact with virtual worlds. Screenshots taken on the official EQ3 website 4. It can boost satisfaction and sales.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Inworld AI is a company building a tool to create brains that experience creators can put into virtual bodies to populate the metaverse – whether that’s games, simulations for enterprise and education, embodied chatbots in immersive retail environments, or whatever else you can think of. A Colorful Background.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

Winners from the past three events include Oculus Rift and Quest, Google Tilt Brush, HTC VIVE Pro, and the Vader Immortal series. AIXR , the organization behind the VR Awards, is an international, independent, non-profit organization dedicated to growing the XR sector through professional development and general education.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In response to these ongoing safety concerns, Morrongiello and her team of researchers at the University of Guelph have begun introducing a brand new virtual reality program designed to educate children on the proper safety procedures when crossing a busy intersection. What’s the catch?

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Sony is followed by Facebook (the Oculus platform) and Google (Day Dream, Card Board, Tilt Brush, etc.); Towards the bottom of the top 20 list, we also see vendors positioned in the “VR for work” segment, with VR applications in collaboration, education, industry, military and defense, science and medical, and other research fields.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Virtual reality is described as a “three-dimensional, computer-generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person. That person becomes part of this virtual world or is immersed within this environment and whilst there, is able to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions.” (“What is Virtual Reality?”,

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 17, 2017

VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. Just last week we learned about Facebook’s plan for a $200 headset that occupies the low end of the market while Google continues work on a six degrees of freedom standalone headset.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

Built for remote teams such as startups, innovative global organizations, and educational institutions, participants are able to join or host events and secure their own private spaces on “Moon Valley.” It’s literally who you are in the virtual world and is thus very important. ” Image Credit: HeadOffice.Space.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 28, 2018

This year’s Virtual World Best Practices in Education 2018 conference, which ended last week in Second Life, was shorter than last year — three days, instead of four — and attracted about 1,100 attendees, down from a high of around 4,500 in previous years. Gateway area of this years’s VWBPE.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 9, 2024

Image courtesy Google.) Yup, Google’s Gemini 1.5 The tech companies already have preliminary models that can do most of this, including that Google AI I just mentioned. Third — and this is the key part of it — the next generation of generative AIs will be able to simulate the world. TopAI has 70.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

Past attempts have been unsuccessful, such as Google Glass, due to reluctance and concerns over ethical issues such as privacy and security of AR glasses. Fast-forward a few years from the failing Google Glass, and now it turns out the popularity of smart-glasses has increased again, thanks to numerous new developments.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 13, 2022

The event comes as industry leaders explore how immersive technologies are changing communications across the globe, namely for education, leisure, and employment. The emerging technology is also set to affect how people work across sectors of the global economy. Metaverse Rennaisance?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 2, 2020

It takes place in Paris as a part of the NewImages Festival , an international festival of digital creation and virtual worlds. Some of the biggest companies worldwide, such as Facebook, Samsung, and Google are investing billions every year into XR research and innovation. asks Levasseur.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

We’ve already begun to see galleries and museums creating their own augmented reality and virtual reality experiences, designed to educate and enlighten people anywhere. Software like Google’s VR tilt brush allows users to create unique virtual art pieces in a completely limitless canvas space.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

And, most of the sci-fi worlds that many people turn to for examples of it ( Snow Crash , Ready Player One , etc.), This problem in perception and policy was discussed by former Federal Trade Commission Acting Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen, NIST ’s Dylan Gilbert, and Google ’s Karim Mohammadali. are inherently dystopian.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2018

By 2045, I predict that we’ll have a decentralized open metaverse that’s built on WebXR, and that it’ll be the open web that realizes the educational potential of OASIS that’s depicted within the novel version of Ready Player One.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

It has some interesting insights, especially about what should be improved to have the real metaverse and not just some virtual worlds; Géraldine Fauville and other five professionals have written a whitepaper about the “metaverse for education”. The Mall wants to bring shopping centers to virtual worlds.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! The metaverse concept emerged from the world of computer and video gaming, which has been creating vast, interactive, multi-user environments for decades.

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ARVR

APRIL 27, 2022

Customer Behavior in the Metaverse According to Gartner 25% of people will spend at least one hour a day in the Metaverse for work, shopping, education, social media and entertainment by 2026. If customers love the products they’re experiencing in the virtual world, brands will then know how much of it to manufacture.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

I leave in the links here below also two great articles about the available online platforms and how it is hard to organize a VR event (an amazing post written by the Educators in VR summit organizer), so that if you want to organize one, you have some hints on how to start. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Expert Talks and Panel Discussions Day One On day one, right after the keynotes, many will likely stay in their seats to see Forbes columnist, author, and educator Charlie Fink talk with Magic Leap founder and former CEO Rony Abovitz about “How We Can Invigorate XR.” Mytaverse , OVR Technology , VRdirect , and Zappar.

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Trenzi VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Metaverse is a 3D virtual world where the virtual avatars of billions of people can live, work, shop, learn and interact with each other without moving away from their couch. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm followed the steps and invested billions of dollars in that concept.

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Trenzi VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Metaverse is a 3D virtual world where the virtual avatars of billions of people can live, work, shop, learn and interact with each other without moving away from their couch. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm followed the steps and invested billions of dollars in that concept.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

This shows the greater attention that companies are having towards full body avateering and embodiment in virtual worlds in general. More info Ben Lang wrote his impressions on AntVR’s optics Road To VR’s Ben Lang (my “review hero”) has finally written his hands-on article about AntVR’s optics that can switch between AR and VR modes.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

The Black Technology Mentorship Program is a mentor mentee program that inspires, educates, and brings underserved Black communities into technology. We operate virtually on an international scale. 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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

So it’s really good from an educational standpoint, as well as instruction based interactions,” he says. To give a bit of context, voice-based assistants have been around for over 60 years, but it wasn’t until recently that they picked up popular use with the introduction of smart home devices such as Google Home, and Amazon Echo. “It’s

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Steam may already be the go to place for HTC Vive gaming experiences, but games aren’t always for everyone — sometimes you just want to browse experiences by category and lose yourself in a virtual world. A 48-hour customer celebration also launches today with many hit titles available at a special price of $1 USD.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

While Arthur is based in Berlin, the company enjoys support from international clientele, some of whom presented their use cases and even shared their unique virtual worlds during the press event announcing the post-beta product launch on September 1. You can even connect other cloud accounts like Google Drive, One Drive, and Trello.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

One of the largest industry events in North America, the Vancouver-based conference will spotlight how tech giants and startups are creating new ways to visualize and interact with virtual worlds. The VR/AR Global Summit is poised to bring together apps from different corners of the sector.

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