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Facebook buys game studio BigBox VR

TechCrunch VR

Facebook has bought several virtual reality game studios over the past couple years, and they added one more to their portfolio Friday with the acquisition of Seattle-based BigBox VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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‘Sword Art Online’ to get Netflix Live Action Treatment From ‘Altered Carbon’ Creator

Road to VR

Like many classic VR anime , players ultimately become trapped in the virtual world, with the threat of death in the game having the same consequence in real life. SEE ALSO Taking After 'Sword Art Online', Oculus Founder Wants to Make a VR Game With Serious Consequences.

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Gibby Presents: Road Testing the Latest Location-based VR Experiences

Road to VR

The game, the interface, the disbelief would all fall away and only Experience would be left.” Location-based Virtual Reality or LBVR refers to an out-of-home location where people can play unique VR games, usually as a team, that they can’t find on consumer headsets. Then he built it. WHAT IS LBVR?

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The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! in Game Design. Many of the emergent metaverse experiences – such as Roblox, Fortnite, and The Sandbox – came about due to gaming and game-related technology.

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Valve, SMI and Tobii Preview VR’s Eye Tracking Future In HTC Vive

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Dinosaur kicking for $300 is certainly funny, but it’s also a great example of a broad effort by developers and hardware manufacturers to make virtual worlds more responsive to human behavior. New Tools For Game Designers. The purple lines represent what caught my eye in that virtual world over that length of time.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.09): New Half-Life: Alyx videos and details, coronavirus makes events go virtual and much more!

The Ghost Howls

HitMotion’s game designer Massimiliano Ariani is in Tuscany and he’s well as well. Valve is rising the hype releasing constantly new material about the game, making us slowly discover how the game is. The game appears fantastic : the graphics are high-level, the interactions are carefully studied to be natural (e.g.

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