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Dive Into a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse Built on Unreal Engine

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Victoria VR is among the first to harness the latest augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies to offer a hyper-realistic metaverse created and owned by users. From Real to Unreal and Unreal to Real. Unreal Engine has the capability to render real-life photos into photorealistic graphical images. ej Dobruský.

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Training AI & Robots in VR with NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck

Road to VR

At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck. They’re using Unreal Engine to simulate interactions with people in VR to train a robot how to play dominos.

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Here’s the 10 Companies Competing at GTC’s VR Content Showcase for $30,000 in Prizes

Road to VR

The event’s VR Content Showcase is designed to highlight those non-entertainment use-cases by bringing together leading startups focusing their efforts to make AR and VR useful across industries. Doghead Simulations. Epic Games will showcase high-fidelity VR experiences and new photorealistic content developed with Unreal Engine.

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These University Courses Are Teaching Students the Skills to Work in VR

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He tells me that back in 1993 he set up a fully immersive VR lab in the high school where he taught, so it’s not surprising that he believes Virtual Reality and teaching are natural bedfellows, nor that he ended up as the Director of Game Studies & Simulation at Full Sail University. “I But that’s only the beginning.

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The Future Group Raises $20 Million to Blend Real-world Video With Virtual Worlds

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It’s a new form of entertainment.”. A contestant in a live studio could fire a full-sized slingshot at something in the virtual world, like a giant castle for piggies. Or you could have game show contestants drive in a motion simulator for kart racing and then drive through a virtual environment.

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What is the Metaverse?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Games are an excellent environment for the Metaverse content because the medium encourages users to immerse themselves in digital worlds and join communities unrestricted by geographic location. Platforms like Engage and Virbela offer persistent Metaverse worlds that simulate real-life offices.