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This VR App Reconstructs 30,000-Year-Old Homo Sapien Faces in 3D

VRScout

Virtual reality gives us a close up of our ancient ancestors. The app from Visual Science studio, VRScience , claims to offer the first scientifically accurate VR visualization of the Sungir people, who lived in Russia in ancient times and are the ancestors of today’s northern and eastern Europeans. .”

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How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry

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© Poly by Google Augmented reality (AR ) technology is a unique tool empowering restaurants, delivery services, and other vendors in the food service industry. Another NY-based startup, Kabaq , also enables users to see virtual 3D food on their table while at the restaurant or when ordering food online. © Ronen Horovitz.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.12): Quest 2 is launching, dogs use AR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

At the same time, Facebook could have an approach similar to the one that Google has with Android: theoretically you can use an Android phone without a Google account, but good luck in doing it : since my phone is Chinese, I don’t have Google services and I can assure you that it is a true pain in the a**. Image by Google).

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Wires are a buzzkill, and untethered virtual experiences are the future – so this wireless, mid-tier prototype is a definite step in the right direction. SOCIAL INTEGRATIONS: Oculus Avatars is a new way to create your digital representation in virtual reality, with a vibrantly-colored steampunk aesthetic.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.26.11): Half-Life: Alyx revealed, Oculus Link out, XBox not considering VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. Google announces The Relightables. Google has just invented a new system to shoot volumetric videos of avatars.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.25): Quest 2 Pro leaked, Facebook to change its name, and more!

The Ghost Howls

According to The Verge, the top executives from Facebook are working on a rebrand of the company, most probably to create a parent company that owns all the various businesses controlled by Facebook … something similar to what Google made when it created Alphabet. Snap and Google Partner to Bring “Quick Tap to Snap” to Pixel 6.

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Honey, I Shrunk the XR, with MEL Science’s Kai Liang

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The industry kind of slowly drifted, and a lot of my friends and partners actually moved into virtual reality. And I can’t help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc.