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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." The film was heavily circulated, covered extensively across media and news outlets when it released.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.15): Apple kills its AR glasses, Oculus full-steam ahead on 2nd gen VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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Hand and finger tracking, gesture interfaces, and grip simulation: Leap Motion: Manus VR: Neurodigital: Gestigon: Handpose: Usens: Dexta Robotics: Minority Report (film). Neural plugins: The Matrix (film). Total Recall (film). Avatar (film). Eye tracking: Fove: Eyefluence: SMI: Bladerunner (film).

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Hands-On: Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Feels Great, But It’s Not Perfect

VRScout

The game places you inside an otherworldly laboratory littered with oozing green liquids, ghoulish sound effects, and strange wooden machines; an aesthetic similar to something you might see in a Harry Potter film. A voice guides you and encourages you to interact with various objects scattered throughout the lab.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.01): Facebook is very confident in Quest 2 sales, Valve is working on Neural Interfaces, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The Sundance Film Festival has just kickstarted. The Sundance Film Festival, one of the most important movie festivals happening every year, has just started. UltraLeap (formerly known as Leap Motion) has just launched the 5th iteration of its hands-tracking runtime, called Gemini. Rony Abovitz launches Sun And Thunder.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. Chaitanya has had a multi-faceted career in the Indian Film & CreativeArtsIndustry for over 17 years. 6- Chaitanya Chinchlikar. 9- Eddie Avil. 19- Akash Nigam.