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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.02): Facebook creates Metaverse group and prepares to launch its smartglasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Facebook Reality Labs creates a group focused on working on the “metaverse”. Zuckerberg said last week that he wants in 5 years Facebook to become a “metaverse company” and this week he started taking action in this sense: he has created a group in the company focused on “building the metaverse”. (Image by Facebook).

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Apple Joins Pixar, NVIDIA, & More to “accelerate next generation of AR experiences” with 3D File Protocol

Road to VR

.” Much like HTML forms a sort of description of a webpage—being hostable anywhere on the Internet and retrievable/renderable locally by a web browser—USD can be used to describe complex virtual scenes, allowing it to be similarly retrieved and rendered on a local machine.

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The Future of VR in Education: Full Immersion in Learning

ARPost

Many generations have learned according to this “golden” formula. The results of studies on the VR impact on student engagement in the learning process show that in more than 60% of cases, students have increased attention, and interest in the subject. The film is based on authentic recordings made by a BBC war reporter.

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XR Technology at AWE and the Auggies: Exclusive Content From Ori Inbar

ARPost

The Finalists for Best Art or Film Are: Grease AR – 2020’s XR technology ode to everyone’s favorite ‘70s musical that took place in the ‘50s. Jumanji: The Next Level Web AR Experience – an interactive promotion for the film sequel. Exozet – a company providing remote VR training for groups like Siemens.

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What I Learned Designing My First AR App

ARVR

Inspired by the video above, I had a friend film as I moved paper to imitate buttons. Learning How to Edit 3D Models The interactions in our demo were fairly simple?—?we In addition, I had to group the parts to allow users to select different pieces of the model. and “What do they do when I move my phone?”

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Our pick of AR Remote Collaboration and Support Services

ARPost

AR remote collaboration with IoT devices as well as low-latency calling in less-than-ideal locations and conditions are only likely to improve as the company is one of the most active groups in exploring 5G. The end takeaway of ARPost ’s backroom discussions was that machines that can learn and be intelligent can be collaborated with. ?.

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How to choose an LBVR product?

The Ghost Howls

Jorge Torales, CEO at Torch VR, a VR park in Prague, the Czech Republic says: “I was hired by the Institute of Documentary Film to consult with several teams trying to implement game mechanics into their applications. Most notably, Spencer Hunt from Skydance Media, a company co-producing films with Paramount Pictures.

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