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Educators sour on virtual worlds

Hypergrid Business

Educators are souring on virtual worlds, as evidenced by declining participation in online forums, in virtual conference attendances and education-related destinations on the Second Life grid. “This will allow more students, such as those in rural areas and low-income situations, to access the virtual worlds.”

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VR/AR Association Holds Virtual Summit Dedicated to the Metaverse

ARPost

During this panel too, Reyes spoke of blockchain technologies as the link not just between virtual worlds, but between virtual worlds and the physical world to create true interoperability across immersive platforms. How are we going to transport attributes from the physical world to the digital world?”. “To

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Military Contractor ECS Awarded Grant to Build VR Army Medic Trainer with Advanced Haptics

Road to VR

million—to pilot a virtual reality training program for U.S. Founded in 1997, ECS is a Florida-based contractor which builds digital training and other tech solutions for the U.S. SEE ALSO Hands-on: HaptX's VR Glove is the Closest I've Come to Touching the Virtual World. Army medics.

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Unity Reflects on Industrial Metaverse at IGS 2022 Miami

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Remaking the (Virtual) World. At the start of his address, he discussed the development of the Metaverse, citing object-oriented computer scientist Alan Kay, who stated “the best way to predict the world is to invent it.” In the energy sector, wind farm enterprises also utilised the tools for predictive analytics.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.07): new Quest is coming at $299 and $399, NVIDIA RTX3070 is powerful and affordable and more!

The Ghost Howls

But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. The Florida company has been the startup losing more value in 2020, and it has gone from an estimated value of more than $6B to a present value of around $450M.

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Here’s How Travel Will Look In The Internet Of The Future

Bernard Marr

Hotels are already using VR as a marketing tool to entice visitors to their doors. Improving Real-World Travel Future Internet technologies will also continue to improve and enhance our real-world travel experiences. Traditional theme parks will also incorporate VR and AR into their regular rides and experiences.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Augmented Reality is being a great tool for e-commerce: AR tools have increased the user’s likelihood of purchase by 11 times; Build.com found that the return rate after selecting items in AR has decreased by 22%. More info (Use Google Translate). Are we at an inflection point for VR? News from partners (and friends).