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Glossary: The Metaverse and its Key Components

XR Today - Virtual Reality

.” To understand the technology better, here is a quick introduction to the top Metaverse components, ideas, and technologies: Metaverse Avatars are a user’s digital embodiment in a virtual environment or game world, and may include hyper-realistic 3D representations powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

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10 Top Use Cases of Blockchain in Virtual Reality

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Secure VR Marketplaces Decentralized marketplaces on the blockchain can be used to facilitate secure transactions of virtual goods and services, reducing fraud and ensuring safe transactions. This can enable community-driven development and decision-making in virtual worlds.

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Y-12 National Security Complex and HaptX partner to advance U.S. Government training missions

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Groundbreaking glovebox training application leverages virtual reality and multi-user haptics On Sept. 14, 2023, HaptX announced a Memorandum of Understanding with Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), to collaboratively advance virtual reality technology and speed its use to support U.S. Government training missions.

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Mind-Controlled VR Game Coming to Arcades 2018

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Once considered nothing more than farfetched science fiction, neuroscientists have since taken a much more optimistic stance on the potentially game-changing tech thanks to advances in brain-computer interfaces. In fact, one startup is claiming they’ll have a mind-controlled virtual reality game in VR arcades as soon as 2018.

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How Can Consumer and Industrial Blockchains Power the Metaverse?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This also enables the development of unique identity verification systems and voting authentication mechanisms to facilitate decentralized autonomous organisational (DAO) governance. They have also been used to create digital art, gaming experiences, and even entire virtual worlds.

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ARuVR’s 2022 Growth Marks Market Shift for 2023 

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G-Cloud 13 2022-2023 provides companies working with British public institutions such as the UK government, education, healthcare, police and first responders to supply goods while following UK institutional guidelines. The framework also expedites procurement services for UK public sector entities. . Med-Tech World Awards 2022.

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The State of XR in Education and Training in 2022

XR Today - Virtual Reality

What started as a novel concept, largely embraced by entertainment and gaming companies, has become a mainstream sensation. With XR technologies, we can connect remote learners in a virtual environment designed to recreate a physical classroom, or allow them to traverse environments they couldn’t access in-person.

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