ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

Much like an oil painter needs their paints and turpentine, AR creators need a myriad of tools as well! Not all AR *has* to contain 3D, but it is a typical type of asset used in the space because of its dimensionality and end goal of simulating reality and enhancing reality by mimicking it! From artist tools to live-ops?—?everything

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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. The tool is already being used to help teach students at prestigious locations like Yale University.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways. That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” But it’s not alone.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2023

XMReality The Glimpse Group FutureSightAR (Dauntless) Arvizio RealWear Vuzix Iristick The Wild Yulio Immersionn Make Real Spinview XMReality Focusing on virtual and augmented assistance, XMReality produces tools that support the transfer of knowledge and guidance between employees anywhere in the business landscape.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Flash’s downfall left a gap in tools and platforms available for easily creating web-based interactive content, leaving creators struggling to adapt to the new era: Enter WebGL. With these components already available, why aren’t we living in the virtual world? One example of content enabled by WebGL: Ghostland aka Decentraland.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

This allows decision-makers to work on immersive visualizations as part of their daily operations, such as reviewing iterations of a product or viewing a digitized urban area to simulate smart city initiatives. Moreover, digital twins are an incredibly valuable tool for training scenarios.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 31, 2022

At the same time, those who believe the future of the internet is decentralized and built on blockchain are experimenting with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to enable ownership of digital assets and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) designed to bring digital democracy to the virtual worlds we inhabit. The Corporate Metaverse.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 6, 2017

The shop, which is hypergrid-enabled, has virtual world learning and teaching tools, freebies, Do-It-Yourself resources, hypergrid links to showcase education builds by the community, and a directory of OpenSim educational content creators. You can do so in-world or through the community’s Google plus page.

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Trenzi VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Metaverse is a 3D virtual world where the virtual avatars of billions of people can live, work, shop, learn and interact with each other without moving away from their couch. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm followed the steps and invested billions of dollars in that concept. Why is the metaverse gaining momentum?

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Trenzi VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Metaverse is a 3D virtual world where the virtual avatars of billions of people can live, work, shop, learn and interact with each other without moving away from their couch. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm followed the steps and invested billions of dollars in that concept. Why is the metaverse gaining momentum?

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ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

These new technologies are Augmented Reality ( AR ) and Virtual Reality (VR). Virtual Reality is an immersive simulation of reality in which the surrounding world is completely replaced with a computer generated world. So what makes augmented and virtual reality so special?

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 9, 2024

Image courtesy Google.) Yup, Google’s Gemini 1.5 The tech companies already have preliminary models that can do most of this, including that Google AI I just mentioned. Third — and this is the key part of it — the next generation of generative AIs will be able to simulate the world.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Virtual reality is described as a “three-dimensional, computer-generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person. That person becomes part of this virtual world or is immersed within this environment and whilst there, is able to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions.” (“What is Virtual Reality?”,

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Bernard Marr

JULY 6, 2023

Hotels are already using VR as a marketing tool to entice visitors to their doors. Improving Real-World Travel Future Internet technologies will also continue to improve and enhance our real-world travel experiences.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

Is the evolution in the exploration of virtual and augmented realities, because it takes advantage of the power of the web together with the unification of these realities, facilitating the creation of immersive and interactive environments, virtual reality tools, and more. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.How ExpiCulture?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

And in fact, in these years, NVIDIA has always worked in offering the tools to improve the graphical quality of games and 3D applications in general , with ray-tracing (RTX ON / RTX OFF) being the latest big innovation it brought to the market. Omniverse is a powerful tool for creating 3D virtual worlds that is made of different modules.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. It has just announced that it will release a new tool to create virtual worlds for the platform based on Unity. News worth a mention. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. Disney is working on glasses-free virtual installations. Cooking Simulator VR is the best VR game of 2021 on SteamVR.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 3, 2022

AI has been described by Google CEO Sundar Pichai as “more significant than fire or electricity” in terms of the impact it will have on human civilization. Responsible, forward-looking employers will increasingly think about navigating this change by enabling workforces to fully leverage the new tools that are available to them.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You can simulate any scenario with just a headset in a portable manner. For situations that are hard or dangerous to simulate, like in healthcare, there is even more value. These resources offer insights into effectively using XR tools, creating content, and integrating them into curricula.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Virtual Worlds Grid lost the most regions this month at 365 followed by Insight Concepts which lost 119 regions and Encitra Home Grid which lost 90 regions and Dorena’s World closing the fifth spot at 67. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Answer: probably just the possibility of the same community visiting different worlds together may be enough) Is monetization beneficial to virtual worlds? Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Joseph Toma : [From the presentation], although the hardware will inevitably evolve, we are years away from consumers and businesses adopting these tools. Also, while converging the physical and virtual worlds is inevitable, it won’t be through massive ski goggles on your face.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

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. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by The Information) New Apple headset rumor talks about natural interactions and content creation tools Rumors and leaks about the upcoming Apple headset are being wisely slowly spilled week after week to keep the attention on the headset high.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. But, you know, companies should select the right tool for the job.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. But, you know, companies should select the right tool for the job.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further? CAD & OBJ Viewer allows you to take a design directly from CAD into a virtual world where you can manipulate and verify the design without wasting precious time on rapid prototyping until you are ready.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We already know that Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm are working on a competitor of the Vision Pro, which should be based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR Gen2+ and cost around $2000. So at the beginning of next year, we may have huge players like Apple, Google, and Meta battling for the high-end XR sector. The price is $399.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Apart from the hardware, Somnium is moving well also on the software side: the graphics of the virtual world is improving over time, and soon will be released the first game built on top of Somnium. Everything they have announced is realistic , and it gives the company the impression of being reliable. I like this approach.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

This year Flock (video above) will expand upon some of the concepts of Holojam with a multi-user untethered virtual world “designed to get people to move, shake, and flock together.” Explore the International Space Station 250 miles above earth in this simulation experience developed in collaboration with NASA.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

We have already seen some devices like Google Glass that gave us a taste of how they would improve the world, even while introducing new problems, deepest amongst them was that they didn’t provide enough benefit to offset the real social costs of wearing a computing device and the weight that a computer put on our face.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar's experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR -- they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. Today we're speaking with Dan Lejeskar, founder and chairman of EON Reality , a world leader in virtual/augmented reality based knowledge transfer for industry and education.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But you have hands and feet controllers to move in the virtual world, so according to the manufacturers, you have 1.5DOF more (whatever it means). VR animation tool Quill has proved to be an interesting tool for creators these years. Yes, you’ve read everything well. It has 4.5DOF. and just rotating your head.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

8agora provides creative teams, individuals, and groups with customizable virtual reality avatars that they can use to attend meetings and events, three-dimension high definition graphics, instant chat, simultaneous translation from any language, and many other business-oriented tools. (Image courtesy 8Agora.). AltspaceVR.

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