Building the Metaverse

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This article is a guide to the companies building the generative artificial intelligence technology that will lead to these virtual worlds ( games, simulations, metaverse applications). Creators Supported by Generative AI Game development provides a view into how virtual worlds will be supported by generative AI.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 8, 2022

This Thursday, Enrique Tromp, the Co-Founder and CTO of VRMADA , took to his LinkedIn account to announce UltimateXR (extended reality), a free and open-source framework for creating enterprise-grade immersive training scenarios, collaboration environments, and interactive gaming experiences. You no longer look at a TV and see somebody else.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For the proprietary software platform, in-house developers have leveraged over 50 years of total experience in the gaming, AI, and design industries. This has involved partnerships with some of the world’s largest AAA gaming studios such as Consortium 9, Shrapnel, and Square Enix, with the latter two becoming key investors.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2024

Augmented Virtuality and the connections between the real and virtual worlds One thing that fascinates me the most about mixed reality is creating a connection between the real and the virtual world. The kitchen is the virtual setting, and the box is the real element living in it.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

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.

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VRScout

JULY 27, 2023

The platform supports popular tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons , Pathfinder , and Starfinder. Unlike other companies in the virtual tabletop space, Mirrorscape features robust building capabilities that are integral to the core experience. Mirrorscape has been working on this for a long time.

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ARVR

JANUARY 13, 2021

but mostly I want to understand how they can be used to bring us together and make diverse virtual worlds more engaging. Because one branch of what we now call Chat Bots evolved to support managers of very large gaming communities, sophisticated behavior management and social influence tools have evolved.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

HTC's VIVERSE platform will be utilizing Lamina1's layer one tools to enable more efficient cross-world cross-platform asset distribution and management, so users can seamlessly keep their digital assets (avatars, clothes, artwork, etc.) with them as they traverse the metaverse.

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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

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. Players can defend their real-world neighborhoods from 3D invaders emerging from nearby buildings and landmarks.

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2022

XR gaming brings real-world elements and virtual elements together to create interactive 3D experiences. It encompasses all immersive technologies that bring the physical and virtual worlds together. It covers everything from virtual reality and augmented reality to mixed reality. XR Games: What’s New?

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2020

With growing usage of social virtual worlds and spaces like VRChat and Mozilla Hubs , you might be looking for a way to make your own avatar to represent yourself in VR. Here are two user-friendly avatar character creator apps for that purpose which won’t require the use of developer-level tools like Unity, Blender, etc.

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ARPost

MARCH 8, 2022

With more and more business and sales being conducted in virtual worlds, one digital marketing agency with physical offices in California is expanding its services into the metaverse. Our clients are now able to expand their businesses and operations into the virtual world to amplify their growth and authority.”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

After many pressures from the community and the media, Meta has finally decided to introduce new parental control tools in Quest 2. Even if Meta still doesn’t admit that its headsets are used by a lot of small kids (these measures are marketed as tools parents can use with teenagers), these measures are targeted also at them.

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VRScout

AUGUST 27, 2018

SteamVR has provided its own tools to avoid breaking immersion, such as its Matrix-esque “Room View” mode or their handheld “Dashboard” camera, which provides a small color feed permanently attached to the right motion controller. The post FragmentVR Opens A Window To Reality Within The Virtual World appeared first on VRScout.

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VRScout

MAY 19, 2022

Through Hatch Kids , young learners access a program called HatchXR , a set of awesome tools that will let kids design, code, and play their own games as well as create their own virtual worlds to explore. We built Hatch as a kids coding platform for the age of the Metaverse.”

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 10, 2023

What would happen if this thinking were applied to metaverse-style virtual worlds? It now plans to hand over the tools to build immersive, scalable, and intuitive digital worlds to the experience-obsessed industries of fashion, beauty, and art — specifically — so that they can create and monetize their own worlds.

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ARPost

AUGUST 15, 2022

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine blurs the distinction between the real world and the virtual world. Esri , the world’s largest GIS software firm, recently released version 1.0 of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5. From real to unreal, from unreal to real.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2022

I have just finished playing Red Matter 2 , the much-awaited sequel of Red Matter , one of my favorite games for Quest. During the whole game, you are confronted with posters, writings, and products that remind a lot of Soviet Russia (e.g. Red Matter 2 is mostly a puzzle game.

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VRScout

JULY 1, 2020

Create your own interactive games and environments, no prior experience required. Once you’re feeling comfortable with the controls, you can then get started creating your own VR games and environments. The post PlayStation’s Dreams VR Expansion Lets You Create & Share PS VR Games appeared first on VRScout.

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VRScout

MAY 11, 2021

In addition to today’s big headset announcements, HTC has also announced VIVE Business, a comprehensive range of VR tools that includes VIVE Business Device Management System, VIVE Business Training, VIVE Business Streaming, and VIVE Sync, each of which designed to support large manufacturing companies as well as small family-owned businesses.

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ARPost

MAY 30, 2022

Gaming is usually not considered a ladies’ activity. ” While this bias permeated early virtual reality communities, the accessibility of new devices and an uptick in women jumping into VR for fitness, immersive experiences, and an opportunity to escape are changing the dynamic. This is a clever tool for engaging audiences.

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2021

What if you could combine virtual worlds, blockchain, and digital ownership to create a Tamagotchi 10.0? That’s what Virtually Human Studio (VHS), the team behind ZED RUN , has been developing with digital racehorses that you can buy, own, race, breed, care for, and invest in. The first step in ZED RUN is to buy your own horse.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Following its expansion onto new VR and non-VR platforms alike, social virtual world Rec Room is seeing serious growth. Pair that breadth of accessibility with built-in tools which allow creators to make and share their own virtual experiences, and you’ve got a recipe for a thriving virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Tokyo Game Show, one of the most important gaming events in the world, is happening these days. Like the past 2 years, there is also a digital edition of it that lets you enter into a virtual world dedicated to the event, and that is also accessible in virtual reality.

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VRScout

JANUARY 10, 2022

” These experiences could include everything from interactive games to communication and navigation apps just to name a few. If true, Apple would be one of the few immersive technology companies uninterested in establishing its own virtual world.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2021

“This new medium is one that presents a really exciting opportunity for many different parts of culture whether it’s artists, brands, or fans— they all have a role to play,” says Inder Phull, co-founder and CEO of PIXELYNX— a new gaming venture co-founded by Joel Zimmerman (deadmau5) and Richie Hawtin (Plastikman). Image Credit: Zora.

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ARPost

JANUARY 26, 2023

The game view is limited. The game is flattened and there’s little environment ambiance. Mcguinness presented the idea of “taking that whole experience that we were doing there in the physical world and bringing it into the virtual world,” Ortlepp said in a video call with ARPost. Virtex wants to fix that.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

Educators are using virtual worlds, but not in the way they had used them in the past, and not in the same numbers. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference is a good example that showcases this work. Better crowd control tools available such as management of voice, text, and regions.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 25, 2023

With recent advances in generative AI, there has been a lot of discussion about how it will be used in games, virtual worlds and the metaverse. So far, most of the focus has been on how we can speed up production pipelines, given how capital and labor-intensive many parts of game development are.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2022

Starting next month, Venues will officially merge with Horizon Worlds , a VR social platform where users can build and share their own virtual worlds, host live events, and develop interactive games and activities. The company followed up with additional in-game safety features as well as a metaverse culture series.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 10, 2022

See Also: Geenee AR Launches Web3 AR Game ‘NFT All Stars’ Playable With Select NFT Avatar Collections. With a recent acquisition, they also have plans to help onboard users to Web3 technologies through games that “bridge” Web2 and Web3. Web3, the Metaverse, and Gaming. That’s gaming.”. It’s like dialup.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 9, 2021

When Meta’s Horizon (now called Horizon Worlds) launched as an invite-only beta last year, a small group of Quest users was permitted access to the ambitious social experience and given the tools to start building their own world, play games, create safe spaces for discussions, and make new friends. PLAY A WORLD HOP.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Niantic, the developer behind location-based AR games such as Pokémon Go and Pikmin Bloom , today announced that it will be making its Niantic Lightship Augmented Reality Developer Kit available to developers around the world in an effort to build its ever-growing AR metaverse.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

For this reason, sound is more than just an immersive tool – how (and where) objects around you sound has an enormous effect on your understanding of where they are, especially when you’re not looking at them. In the real world, sound follows the inverse square law – getting quieter as the source gets farther away.

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ARPost

JUNE 21, 2023

Niantic is one of XR’s big world-builders using computer vision and scene understanding to realistically augment the world. The winner used generative AI to create the environment that replaced the sky through a recent tool developed by 8th Wall. Internally, we’ve seen a 95-97% reduction in time to create [with AI tools].”

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ARVR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

11 min read In 2016, Pokemon Go took the world by storm and showed the growing demand for AR gaming. The hype around Pokemon Go showed that augmented reality could be of interest to a wider audience, including those who usually do not play mobile games. In this article, we will answer questions like what does AR mean in games?

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ARPost

DECEMBER 23, 2021

During this panel too, Reyes spoke of blockchain technologies as the link not just between virtual worlds, but between virtual worlds and the physical world to create true interoperability across immersive platforms. How are we going to transport attributes from the physical world to the digital world?”.

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