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Can Niantic Drive Local Business Foot Traffic?

ARVR

including AR creation tools and ad placement?—?could Another way this can be done is in tandem with location-based gaming. The program positions sponsors’ real-world locations as in-game waypoints, which results in measurable foot traffic and ringing cash registers. to achieve in-game milestones. is AR marketing.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It is the first step towards the Infinite Office solution that FRL wants to offer in some months , transforming the Quest into some kind of work tool (or trying to do so). This is coherent with the 3 years for BCI (Brain-computer-interfaces) used in gaming that the CEO of OpenBCI told me in a recent interview.

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 3: Vive Pro Eye hands on, meeting with iStaging, Lyra VR and Women in XR!

The Ghost Howls

In this third and last article about my trip to Taiwan (here you are the links to my first and second one , if you missed them), I want to tell you about some other amazing XR stuff that I did there. iStaging is one of the companies that I loved the most in Taiwan. I have asked them how it is being a wo m an in XR in Taiwan.

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HTC VIVE Debuts Mars CamTrack at SIGGRAPH 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

HTC is set to reveal its new VIVE Mars CamTrack solution at the SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, Canada, where it will showcase the immersive production tool with Departure Lounge and Arcturus, it was revealed on Tuesday. One-click origin reset and simple calibration tools for cameras. Low-latency performance.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.14): Meta lays off 11,000 people, Apple works on some sort of “metaverse”, and more!

The Ghost Howls

According to the news outlet DigiTimes, Apple will use Taiwan-based Pegatron as its sole assembly manufacturer for it, and mass production of the device is set to begin “at the end of the first quarter of 2023”. All the YouTubers and VR magazines talked about it, and it seems that the game is very fun. Some news on content. Learn more.

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Japan’s NEWVIEW Awards 2019 Returns to Celebrate VR Art & Culture

Peter Graham

The idea was to use VR tool Styly to create interesting immersive projects which adhered to one of the critera; Novelty/Originality, Experience or Impact. Submissions could use additional tools in the production process, such as 3DCG, game engine, DAW of example but the submissios had to be made through the STYLY platform.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

The Quest software is tailored at consumers, and for instance, when you open it, the first things that you see is a list of games. The COVID-19 crisis has made many companies realize how AR and VR can be a fundamental tool for smart working (e.g. And this adoption requires enterprise-oriented tools and devices.

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