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Space Invaders Celebrates 45th Anniversary With a New AR Game

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Space Invaders is a shooting video game created by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978 and manufactured and sold by TAITO. It was the first fixed shooter video game and is considered one of the most iconic arcade games ever. It means that the AR game adapts to the player’s real-life surroundings.

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PSA: You Don’t Need Xbox Game Pass to Play ‘Fortnite’ for Free on Quest

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Xbox Cloud Gaming finally came to Quest earlier this week, letting Game Pass Ultimate members play the service’s full catalogue of flatscreen games on Quest for the first time. Keep in mind: we’re talking about traditional flatscreen Xbox games played on a virtual screen. So, what’s the big deal?

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Enabling the Spatial Web: What’s the Mp3 of AR?

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as in its native Japan, but that could change soon as it expands westward (more on that in a bit). This will accelerate as software continues to democratize AR creation for individuals, and make it table stakes for consumer brands. The latter is what we’ve traditionally seen with compression technologies like mp3. Creative Capacity.

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Emerging Trends in the VR Gaming Industry?—?2023

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Emerging Trends in the VR Gaming Industry — 2023 Technology is evolving at a fast pace. 2023 is currently shaping up to be the year of promise for the VR gaming industry. Virtual reality games, in particular, have come a long way from the lukewarm response they received in their early years. What is VR — A Quick Explanation!

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Report: Pico to Layoff “hundreds” as Company Shifts Focus to Hardware

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Citing three people with direct knowledge of the matter, the report maintains the information comes from an internal meeting from earlier this morning wherein it was allegedly revealed Pico is keeping its VR hardware team whilst folding much of its software team back into ByteDance’s own product development team.

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Sony Reveals New Lightweight Motion Trackers For VR

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Now Sony is back with another game-changing portable, the Mocopi motion capture system. Mocopi also comes with a software development kit that will let you import your captures into 3D animation programs and various other 3D software. Remember the impact the Sony Walkman had on music?

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Benefits of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVR) for Enterprise in Japan

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Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVR) for industry uses in Japan is expected to skyrocket thanks to the partnership between AVR Japan and EON Reality. Currently, the AVR market in Japan is taking a turn from gaming giants (like SONY for hardware and GREE for software) to move towards education and enterprise markets.

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