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Metaverse To Target 3 Key Destinations, Unity Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

John A Cunningham, Head of Government & Aerospace at Unity. Most companies and people with current websites would have “Metaverse-like destinations” in the future, he said, adding that, according to Unity, would result in three primary categories. Three Categories of Metaverse Destinations.

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Trends and predictions for XR in 2024

The Ghost Howls

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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Rethinking Digital Twins

ARPost

How Unity talks about digital twins – real-time 3D in industry – I think we need to revamp what that means as we go along,” Unity VP of Digital Twins Rory Armes told ARPost. Unity – which is a game engine at heart – isn’t shying away from digital twins. That’s where the game engine starts.”

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7 pieces of advice if you have to remotely work as a VR developer from China

The Ghost Howls

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. I still call them VPNs, where the acronym stands for Very Party Networks).

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Meta, IBM Rally XR Community for Global AI Alliance

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The alliance also called on companies, researchers, governments, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to join forces to collaborate and share data on the emerging technology. Unity has also begun exploring the full capabilities of artificial intelligence with its generative AI (GenAI) solutions, Unity Muse and Unity Sentis.

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Watch ‘Escape Code,’ A Neon-Soaked 360-Film About Our Cyberpunk Future

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The entire short film, embedded below, was created in Unity and is driven by a synthwave soundtrack scored by Emmy award winning composer RAD LAZER (aka Rafter Roberts). I don’t want to give too much away, but essentially Jonas (our hero) is a computer hacker, and accesses a government database that acknowledges the existence of aliens.

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#1228: XR Accessibility and Public Policy with XR Association’s Liz Hyman

Voices of VR

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC. Section 508 would only apply to XR experiences produced by the federal government.