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Microsoft HoloLens 2 & Unity Used to Highlight the Threat to Endangered Whales at the Smithsonian

HoloLens

The latest example comes from a new exhibit that highlights one of Earth's most powerful but vulnerable sea creatures: orca whales. Although the enterprise use cases for the Microsoft HoloLens 2 continue to impress, the arts community just can't stay away from the best augmented reality headset on the market.

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What Are The Biggest Myths About AR Advertising?

AR Insider

I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. We’ve seen some great examples of entertainment marketing, such as Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man : Into the Spider-Verse campaign done by Trigger using 8th Wall’s WebAR platform a few years back. Four Myths About AR Advertising.

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Meta, IBM Rally XR Community for Global AI Alliance

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For example, companies will need to develop and deploy benchmarks and evaluation standards. Currently, it has long been a member of the XR Association , a Washington, DC-based organisation piloting numerous initiatives to outline best practices and ethics for XR, AI, and other emerging technologies.

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The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington, in the U.S., Game development engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine were first created in order to make virtual worlds where we can compete in sports, puzzles, or just blow each other up with futuristic weapons. If you study a computer science degree (B.S.,

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HaptX News | February 2023

HaptX

The HaptX SDK provides SteamVR support, plug-ins for Unreal Engine and Unity, and a C++ API, along with a trove of haptic effects, templates, and demos, making it easy to create haptic VR experiences for HaptX Gloves. The prototype is built with Unity, integrating ArcGIS Maps SDK and the HaptX SDK.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

For example, stakeholders could use the digital twin to simulate climate change mitigation projects based on historical rainfall totals and flooding patterns. To know, for example, that a robot’s motion is grounded in reality and physics, software systems need to understand the laws of physics. Canada, and Mexico.

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4 Ways to Unleash the Power of Sound in VR

Leapmotion

Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space, which is absolutely essential to creating a sense of presence. Weightless and Hollow , for example, both include tracks that influence how we experience them. Here are just a few: Unity documentation. Ambiance and Mood.