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Metaverse needs to solve problems, not be the problem

ARVR

Metaverse and virtual reality sells beyond gaming and technology markets if it solves problems. COVID also helped professional implementation of VR which is closer to the real experience than Zoom, Google Meet or Teams. It will not sell if it creates them. Photo: Meridian Treehouse. Shared, synchronised immersive reality experience.

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Looking Back at Virtual Reality Over the Last 5 Years

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

They even became “Christmas present of the year” here in Sweden in 2016! I was a first-year at Stockholm University, studying game development, and had found out that we could actually make the faculty order us cool s**t if we just asked. And then the Oculus Kickstarter happened. It’s that easy. I remember 2012.

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The VRScout Report – Altspace Shuts Down & Disney Resorts Get The Void

VRScout

Currently available on the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and accessible via PC, you can build up to 3 of your own worlds — and after that, Sansar charges a $9.99+/month fee depending on how many worlds you want to build. WILL GOOGLE LET YOU ANIMATE YOUR SCENES MADE WITH BLOCKS SOON? …and just a few more.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

You can have serious games, or directly training with different teams, attempting to train together. Oculus Quest is coming out. The Oculus Quest is a great device that is coming — very polished by Oculus, it will be quite cheap, only $400. But it’s good, because it can be localized.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

You can have serious games, or directly training with different teams, attempting to train together. Oculus Quest is coming out. The Oculus Quest is a great device that is coming -- very polished by Oculus, it will be quite cheap, only $400. But it's good, because it can be localized. We've got the VIVE Focus Plus.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

You can have serious games, or directly training with different teams, attempting to train together. Oculus Quest is coming out. The Oculus Quest is a great device that is coming — very polished by Oculus, it will be quite cheap, only $400. But it’s good, because it can be localized.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. Only instead of for games, you’re doing it for learning. And very much VR has been like AI.

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