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Top XR Vendors Majoring in Art and Entertainment in 2022

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Google might not earn as much attention in the XR space as some other leading technology vendors, but it has already captured the attention of countless artists and educators with its unique virtual reality tools. These wearables could easily be adapted for the entertainment and arts sector too.

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Getting started with Augmented Reality (AR)

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Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. onto the actual camera view.

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What Are the Seven Layers of the Metaverse?

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Perhaps the most well-known instance of the decentralized metaverse is Decentraland , a decentralized virtual world that runs on the Ethereum blockchain and is governed by a DAO whose policies may be altered by voting. The human interface layer. The infrastructure layer. Closing thoughts.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.08.11): Gear VR is over, Go long term future is uncertain, Huawei teases its metaverse and much more!

The Ghost Howls

HTC Vive is at the second place; Oculus Quest, even if it is so new, has already gathered a lot of interest from developers; Gaming is still the most popular content developed in XR, but now there is also interest in other kinds of applications , like entertainment (e.g. Google launches AR Live View for Maps. The time has come.

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Valve Index: A good fit?

The Ghost Howls

There wasn’t a different width interface or a spare interface provided , which puzzled me as the HTC Vive (a Valve collaboration) had shipped with both narrow and wide facial interfaces – the “wide” really a regular fit and the narrow for people with narrow faces. . Valve Index facial interface strip down (Image by Immersive Computing).

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“But I don’t want to wear glasses”

Robert Scoble

Soon we won’t be able to imagine living life without devices that not just correct our vision but add new virtual and augmented reality capabilities to them. The small monitor that Google Glass showed us is tiny and not impressive at all when compared to devices that are coming on the market in 2020.

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Facebook Expands to Enable 360 Photos in News Feeds

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Facebook’s upcoming “360 Photos” feature will let people upload flat panoramas like those taken on iPhones, Google Photo Spheres or photos from 360 cameras. The best of those photos will be collected in a section of the Oculus 360 Photos app, which you’ll be able to explore from your headset. Photo credit: Facebook).