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Big XR News from Meta, Google, Unity, T-Mobile, KPMG

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Meanwhile, major technology firms Google and T-Mobile contributed further to the XR landscape with some significant project partnerships. KSA is investing $1 billion in metaverse-related projects as it seeks to become a global technology hub. This week proved favourable for the Metaverse. Metaverse to Contribute 2.8%

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You Can Take a Free Coursera Course on XR from the University of Michigan

ARPost

As part of an exercise within the University of Michigan, he was asked to create a “two-week focused learning” course. The course’s three parts cover an introduction to XR technology, applications and issues, user experience design, and extended reality app development through webXR tools, Unity, and Unreal.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. IBM’s key technology in this area is Watson, their AI assistant. It was a trust exercise.

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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. A just-released report by Snap and Deloitte sees the technology moving to ubiquity by 2025 and promises unprecedented business outcomes, citing a staggering 94% conversion rate on purchases in some cases. by Tony Parisi. Here’s why.

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Boeing, Microsoft Back Australia’s Air Force with HoloLens M&O Tool

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

United States aerospace firm Boeing has begun conducting field testing to repair its aircraft with augmented reality (AR) technologies, its Australian branch announced on Thursday last week. The military organisation’s Mobility Guardian 2023 exercise took place in July. How do we help deployed forces stay mission ready?

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Daniel Beauchamp inspires us to do more crazy experiments in VR

The Ghost Howls

And I loved that when speaking on UploadVR, he invited every one of us to be crazy and creative with XR, trying new roads, new impossible stuff, enabling new roads for the future of the technology. The prototypes are also a way to get better at Unity. A lot of my prototypes are excuses to learn new skills and techniques in Unity.

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Creating VR Content With Zero Coding Skills

VRScout

Those unfamiliar with immersive technology have often perceived VR as some form of modern black magic that only highly-trained developers can properly harness. But today you no longer need to be a Unity professional or 3D designer to get into this sacred industry.

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