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Science Fiction or reality? What is the metaverse?

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Photo by Patrick Schneider on Unsplash Virtual reality , as the name suggests, allows users to immerse themselves in an artificially created world that appears real. Large companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Valve, Epic Games, Roblox as well as smaller startups are working on creating products for the Metaverse as we speak.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer.

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Oculus Go showcased.

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Teens slow to adopt VR and more bad news for the metaverse

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Virtual reality hasn’t caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday. In mid March , Google announced the end of Google Glass Enterprise. I watched the Game Developers Conference presentations from Nvidia , Unreal Engine , and Unity. Image courtesy Unreal Engine.)

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

The Ghost Howls

It is a set of very high-quality headphones that are able to offer truly immersive and spatial audio, with a unique feature that lets you blend the audio of the AR experience and of your real world in an optimized way. The popular Angry Birds game, but for immersive augmented reality. Survey and Medical Image Visualization.

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How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

The Ghost Howls

It comes out from the passion of someone that has just discovered how immersive realities are beautiful, or maybe from the mind of a student that has just finished the university and wants to find a dream job in AR or VR. I will briefly highlight all my recent story and how I got started with every new role I covered in the immersive field.

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Users up, land down for holidays

Hypergrid Business

Immersive Reality offering free parcels. The Immersive Reality grid is offering free parcels and stores to anyone on the hypergrid. There’s no centralized way to find OpenSim grids, so if you don’t tell us about it, and Google doesn’t alert us, we won’t know about it. The new hypergrid address is: craft-world.org:8002:HIEexpo.