ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

This is achieved using a headset that completely fills the users field of view in combination with body tracking to map the players body into the virtual world. Augmented Reality combines aspects of virtual reality with the real world around you in a way that enhances the real world experience.

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APRIL 27, 2022

Then, let’s be realistic, if we’re building replicas of the physical world in the metaverse, why would some of the basic customer reactions change in that virtual world too? In Metaverse, brands will offer their customers hyper-personalized experiences without worrying about the physical world’s many barriers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. Go to SideQuest Sponsored Area Do you need a virtual world? What a time to be alive!

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

You can listen to this podcast via The Wall Street Journal website for the podcast The Journal ( here’s a link to the first episode ), or via your favourite podcast service, such as Apple , Spotify , or Google. I will definitely be listening in!

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

More info Philip Rosedale shows its VR pod Philip Rosedale has described on his blog an interesting project he’s carrying on about making people stay fully still on a bed and having visual and haptic stimuli that give them the sensation they are moving in a virtual world. Funny link It happens to me all the time!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

For example, ongoing research proposes that people with cerebral palsy may be able to use an EMG-enabled interface to recreate neuromuscular control and coordinate movements in the virtual world. Meta’s research also attempts to leverage EMG to make user movements in the virtual world more seamless.

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AIXR

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In Cline’s incarnation, the Metaverse is an oasis, a seamless blend of real life and virtual life, achieving a kind of utopia. Using headsets and cryptocurrencies, ‘players’ can inhabit a virtual world, interacting, shopping, or taking part in games in real-time, all from the comfort of their own homes.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

More info (Ray-Ban Meta review) More info (Varjo XR-4 preview) Discover fashion in the digital worlds An interesting article in Vogue speaks about the new fashion trends in virtual worlds. There are people whose job is to curate the creation of clothes in the metaverse and they make also pretty decent money out of it.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. Samsung VR is now somewhat similar to the App Store or Google Play store in that it’s where you can find the latest content for virtual reality products.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

is a company that aims at using the data from the cameras of all the phones running AR applications, send them to a server, and merge them all together to create a full mesh representing the whole world. Finally, AR could become truly useful since it won’t be confined to rooms, but it can expand into the whole world. Funny link.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Today, to provide an insight into the opportunities for XR in the gaming landscape, we’re going to be looking at some of the most impressive case studies from the last few years. Tender Claws and Google ARCore.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

It hasn’t been long since Virtual Reality became a vital part of gaming industry as such. During the years of researching, studies had indicated that those kind of training games are boosting the memory, sharpening the mind and potentially preventing cognitive diseases like Alzheimer’s.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

To me, modern VR started when Google released the Cardboard App in 2014 basically for free to a world that basically scratched its head and said, ‘huh?’ It is still far from clear what Google was thinking but it sent a kind of signal. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be. The dynamic has changed since 2014.

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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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Leapmotion

APRIL 22, 2014

Experimental headsets are changing how we see the world, either by creating the virtual worlds of our imaginations, like the Oculus Rift, or adding ghostly layers on top of the real world, like Google Glass. GetVu is also designed to be universal.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 31, 2020

A face computer that swaps out the stuff your eyes can actually see with a choose-your-own-digital-adventure of virtual worlds to explore, all from the comfort of your living room? Instead, long-lapsed friendships are being rekindled over Zoom group chats or Google Hangouts. What problem are you fixing, VR?

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. “They will have full owner ship of those regions.”

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ARPost

APRIL 10, 2020

From virtual try-ons, to detailed product inspection, to camera activated logos, to what my mom calls “bright and shiny” camera filters – what we wear will come to life in the virtual world. Google, Snapchat, and Facebook are quickly ticking off the parts of the body their camera can recognize. This is not far off.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

The next largest gainer was Atek Grid with 677 new regions, Virtual Worlds Grid with 647, and OSgrid with 519. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. The following two grids were added to our database this month: Abel’s Virtual World and Tranquility.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Or you can also do some kind of other analysis, so you can study your data better. The third component that has become a key part of the product is a shared virtual office. You can be there, looking your data in VR with your collaborators from all over the world and interacting with them.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Many peer-reviewed studies at this point not only validate the technology but show that it works incredibly well, with some studies showing over a doubling in performance with VR training. I’ve seen some people who still equate XR to Google cardboard and are blown away when they see how far the technology has come.

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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.” A user study demonstrated the effectiveness of the system’s alleviation of virtual reality sickness symptoms.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. Someone made Google Lens work in VR. Developer Phasedragon has developed a VR experience where you hold a virtual smartphone in your hand. Decentraland is growing.

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HaptX

JANUARY 9, 2018

David also helps maintain a website about haptic media studies and has a book about the history of haptics called Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing , coming out in early 2018 with the University of Minnesota Press. .” Haptic Media Studies Explained. Source: Wired.com. Who is it for?

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

For the past two years, it featured a virtual world made in VRChat by us of VRrOOm, and this year, the virtual world was still there in parallel with the physical one. The event hasn’t been held physically for 2 years because of the coronavirus, and it is finally back in Austin Texas just now.

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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. Is this a job for Google Glass? Google put in 500 million dollars.

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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. Is this a job for Google Glass? Google put in 500 million dollars.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

The game appears fantastic : the graphics are high-level, the interactions are carefully studied to be natural (e.g. This week, the damn coronavirus has caused the cancelation of three super-important events: GTC (that will be substituted by the streaming of the sessions), SXSW and Google I/O. So, it is good, but still a small niche.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

Innovation happens in sprints In life as in technology (Image by LizAndMollie) While I was thinking about what to write in this article, I remembered something I studied at University about innovation. Think also about how Rayban Stories made wearing smartglasses in the street cool … it was unthinkable when Google Glass came out.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Google). Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. The operating system should be Android, but it seems that Google is also building an operating system specific for XR. What about yours? Let me know how things are going for you!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

I was a first-year at Stockholm University, studying game development, and had found out that we could actually make the faculty order us cool s**t if we just asked. Almost exactly five years ago, the hot thing I could think of to control virtual worlds was the early Emotiv EEG headsets. I remember 2012.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

There’s of course no time frame available on Neuralink’s prophetic AI-merging neural lace; Musk himself says that while the N1 sensor should start in-human clinical studies in 2020, achieving full BCI will be a long, iterative process. SEE ALSO Oculus Chief Scientist Dives Deep Into the Near Future of AR & VR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

These are some of the very things we’re focusing on with the Virtual World Society and areas I’ve been exploring for some time. I’ve taken time to study emerging technologies, including XR. How many stages have I spoken on, in front of groups of hundreds and even thousands of people with barely any black people in the audience.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

In most of what I’ve done with virtual reality prior to using CoSpaces, students have consumed the content to connect to a learning objective — mainly Google Expeditions and Nearpod VR. We’ve also had a demo day with zSpace and are looking to add a virtual reality lab in the coming school year.

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