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Study by “Compare The Market” Finds Surging Interest in “Virtual Travel”

ARPost

Australian financial service provider and consumer protection group Compare The Market used Google Trends and SEMRush to look at how internet users are searching terms like “virtual travel”, “virtual tourism”, “VR travel”, “virtual reality tours”, and “virtual reality travel.” About the Study. Are You Exploring Virtual Travel?

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Does the VirZOOM Exercise Bike Solve the VR Locomotion Problem?

Road to VR

Movement within virtual environments is a hard problem, and while VirZOOM addresses some of the challenges of VR locomotion, people who are sensitive to simulator sickness will likely still have issues with some of the games developed by VirZOOM. He says: So now our current anxiety is all about VR sickness. Support Voices of VR.

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Gamers Gift VR Nonprofit Is Raising Money On Twitch To Help The Sick And Elderly

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Owlchemy Labs’s Job Simulator is a big hit at children’s hospitals, Hill says. Virtual tourism experiences like Wevr’s underwater simulator TheBlu: Encounter are also popular, particularly at assisted living facilities. They realize, wow, this is really neat.

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New Feature Spotlight: App Usage Analytics (aka Reports)

InstaVR

Previously, users could tie their InstaVR account to Google Analytics to pass some data points into that tool. For instance, if you distribute WebVR, and a majority of users are accessing the page from an Android device instead of their laptop, perhaps it would make sense to publish a standalone app for the Google Play Store?

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15 Free VR Titles You Should Download When Oculus Touch Launches

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

This lack of hand-presence has been notable and resulted in many games opting to release for Vive first, such as Job Simulator and a slew of other titles coming to Rift finally next week. Google Earth VR [ Steam ]. Using advanced world-scanning techniques, this is one of the first truly believable and immersive forms of VR tourism.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.09.26): Pico 4 announced, RTX40 cards revealed, and more!

The Ghost Howls

to make a game to incentivize tourism) with an AR application that doesn’t need to be installed but works directly on the browser, causing a very small friction to the user. I envision lots of possible applications in marketing, tourism, and gaming. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. News worth a mention.

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Getting started with Augmented Reality (AR)

ARVR

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. ARCore   — ARCore is an AR SDK released by Google in 2018 for building augmented reality experiences. It is useful to simulate situations that are too dangerous or difficult to recreate in real life.