Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Images created by AI aren’t only found in your social media feed — they’ve already made their mark in OpenSim and other virtual environments. From AI art galleries in OpenSim to AI-created fully immersive three-dimensional environments, AI is already shaping how we experience virtual worlds.

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XROM

MAY 1, 2023

These headsets offer advanced features such as 6DOF (six degrees of freedom), which allows for more realistic movement and interaction within the virtual environment. These devices provide users with an immersive and engaging experience, allowing them to explore virtual worlds and experience content in new and exciting ways.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) are technologies that overlay or replace physical environments with virtual content. While AR enhances surroundings by incorporating digital components into live view, VR is an experience that replaces the actual world with a computer-generated simulation.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 28, 2018

This year’s Virtual World Best Practices in Education 2018 conference, which ended last week in Second Life, was shorter than last year — three days, instead of four — and attracted about 1,100 attendees, down from a high of around 4,500 in previous years. Gateway area of this years’s VWBPE.

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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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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 22, 2022

Since it became the most hyped technology buzzword, around the time Facebook rebranded itself as Meta, there has been no shortage of visionaries, pioneers, and entrepreneurs lining up to tell us what they think it is. This was not the way that we were meant to use technology.". Eric Schmidt , Google. Mark Zuckerberg , Meta.

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Bernard Marr

APRIL 12, 2023

Generative AI, ChatGPT, Dall-E – it seems everyone’s so excited about AI at the moment that they’ve forgotten all about the hot technology trends of just a short while back. This is the nature of the “hype cycle” that those of us who follow the latest developments in technology have become very accustomed to. Today – not so much!

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Their audiences are digital natives and are keen to do business with companies that share their understanding and enthusiasm for virtual worlds and gaming-style environments. JP Morgan Chase is another global banking giant that has already established a presence by setting up shop on the Decentraland platform.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

The technology is unique in its flexibility and usability across different devices and sectors. Commonly, enterprise end-users leverage digital twins to replicate real-life objects or environments. However, the technology is still finding its place in the enterprise. Digital twins are an extensive piece of the XR toolbelt.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 28, 2022

Virtual Reality – by definition, it isn’t real, right? So if it’s true that we will find ourselves increasingly living our lives in the virtual worlds and environments of the metaverse , will this end up cheapening what it means to be human?

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Virtual Reality is a medium, or a media technology. full immersion in a synthetic world with no input from the other one. Everything from AR to VR, with a bunch of MR in between, is collectively referred to as XR, or XR Technologies. It is still far from clear what Google was thinking but it sent a kind of signal.

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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. VR IN HOSPITALS.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As the extended reality (XR) ecosystem continues to expand, an ever-widening swath of industries and users is embracing XR technologies, forever changing how people work and play. XR Visual Ecosystem Flowchart.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 9, 2024

Image courtesy Google.) Every week, I talk to the experts building the technology and deploying it, and to companies already finding value in it. The AI-powered transformation is bigger than anything I’ve ever covered before, in my two-plus decades of technology journalism. Yup, Google’s Gemini 1.5

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 6, 2017

It was a beautiful place and a great backdrop for our talks about the inspiration cycle between science fiction, real-world technology, and games. I asked him where we were in our ability to create the Metaverse, the immersive virtual world envisioned by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash. Making the Metaverse.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This is me, Maria, your friendly local technology reporter and blog editor. And I still think that, of all the technologies out there today, the OpenSim hypergrid still comes the closest to that vision. The metaverse is still a technology solution searching for a problem to solve. Zoom is good enough for most virtual meetings.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Google Earth VR: bringing the whole wide world to virtual reality. With Google Earth VR, you can simply travel to anywhere no matter if you have time conflicts or financial difficulties, you can travel anywhere simply w. VRChat: Interact with global users in the virtual world. Travel VR Apps. Social VR Apps.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It makes sense that in designing these groundbreaking technological devices, groundbreaking technological devices would be employed themselves. In May, ahead of this year’s Augmented World Expo , Logitech introduced the VR Ink Pilot Edition. The stylus can work in virtual environments including room-scale virtual spaces.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

Facebook details its Insight technology. In an interesting post on its blog, Facebook has detailed its Insight technology , the solution that performs the inside-out-tracking on the Oculus Quest. Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Someone made Google Lens work in VR. (Image by Oculus).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Since that article, Luckey’s “tinkering” has expanded into a full-blown technological revolution, earning him a whopping 2.3 Having that type of control in a virtual environment opened up so many possibilities for Vermeulen. I just want to augment my world.”. Can you imagine a world without potato chips?!

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Much like our UI Widgets , it’s a set of interface elements – switch, lever and potentiometer – that can be embedded in any virtual environment. But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further? Recommended: Google Chrome. Recommended: Google Chrome.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

A volumetric captured Corgan soars through Tilt Brush and Blocks by Google created VR art. Corgan worked in collaboration with Isobar, Viacom Next, and VR artist Danny Bittman to conceive the virtual worlds depicted in the production. The video and VR experience was directed by Viacom NEXT’s David Liu and Rob Ruffler.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

At Hypergrid Business , we’ve been covering OpenSim and other desktop-based virtual environments since 2009, and began covering virtual reality extensively in 2014. But there’s a flip side to the technology. I’ve been watching a lot of Primitive Technology videos lately.)

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The gaming landscape stands as one of the most versatile and compelling areas for the development of extended reality technology. Promising a new and improved way for gamers to connect with the worlds they love, XR could represent a new frontier for entertainment. Tender Claws and Google ARCore.

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ARVR

JULY 3, 2020

Understanding the constraints and benefits of virtual reality and 360 videos for telling stories and exploring ideas of culture and identity Photo by Lux Interaction on Unsplash 01. Technology and media enable us to use our senses to experience different worlds and expand our horizons.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Only a few years ago, when extended reality solutions first started emerging in the market, many viewed them as a novel and consumer-focused. Companies quickly rolled out solutions for the entertainment and gaming landscapes, based on new, immersive technology, introducing us to a new age of digital media.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

Only a few years ago, when extended reality solutions first started emerging in the market, many viewed them as a novel and consumer-focused. Companies quickly rolled out solutions for the entertainment and gaming landscapes, based on new, immersive technology, introducing us to a new age of digital media.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Traditionally based off of technological developments happening in the real world, some of the first movies with VR technology started coming out in the early 80’s when advancements in computer technology allowed research to begin on more affordable VR. TRON (1982). Arcade (1993).

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 26, 2018

As virtual reality technology advances, more companies are working to bring the VR experience direct to households. They now have three commercially available products, with another in the pipeline, and they continue to refine and advance their technology. The VR environment can be a great way to relax.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Alice Lloyd George is an early stage investor based in New York and the host of Flux , a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier technology. She has shape-shifted across media types, spending time in everything from AOL and chat rooms, to MMOs, virtual worlds and social media platforms. Contributor.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

But over the past couple of months some virtual reality meetup, event and training spaces have reported huge earnings from sale of virtual land during coronavirus pandemic, and Second Life, once thought to be the fore-runner of the virtual metaverse, has run out of land due to high demand. It works with Oculus headsets.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 10, 2018

As virtual reality technology advances, more companies are working to bring the VR experience direct to households. They now have three commercially available products, with another in the pipeline, and they continue to refine and advance their technology. The VR environment can be a great way to relax.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

Go to Google and search for ad images that are 300 by 250 pixels. The 100,000 people who come here for VR stuff, who are interested in technology and in immersive environments. Or the idea of creating a virtual environment that they can visit in VR appeals to them. Which ones jump out at you?

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 7, 2023

This doesn’t mean every business has to develop and sell technology-related products and services. It means that every business needs to undergo a process of technology-driven digital transformation. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to be a “tech giant” to put these hot technology trends to work.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Just like it sounds, it’s AI that can create, from words and images to videos, music, computer applications, and even entire virtual worlds. The first use cases for generative AI typically involved creating text and images, but as the technology has become more sophisticated, a world of possibilities has opened up.

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