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South Korea Is Building Its Own K-Pop Metaverse

VRScout

The K-pop industry is so massive, the country actually relies upon it as one of its primary sources of gross national income next to Samsung. This blend of culture and technology is leading the country down interesting new avenues; the most important of which being the metaverse. Wolf3D metaverse avatars. Image Credit: Ready Player Me.

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Trends and predictions for XR in 2024

The Ghost Howls

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. with Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, etc…) to convince hardware manufacturers to create headsets powered by Android XR.

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The 10 Best Examples Of The Metaverse Everyone Should Know About

Bernard Marr

Not all of the projects highlighted here involve virtual reality, or decentralization, or cryptocurrency. Although those are all technologies that are likely to have a place in the metaverse , it isn’t strictly essential that they are part of every metaverse. Nvidia Omniverse.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

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. Because you need the real world in order to augment it.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

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. Because you need the real world in order to augment it.

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What is the Spatial Web?

AR Insider

As we bear witness to the Digital Transformation of our world and cross the threshold into the Web 3.0 Our technologies, from the first use of fire to the future of facial recognition, appear to be neutral by their very nature. era, we face some extraordinary choices with serious and wide-ranging implications.

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The Internet Of The Future: Here Are Best Examples Of Web3 In Practice

Bernard Marr

It will also be deeply linked to the real world due to being built on Internet of Things (IoT) technology and to the concept of immersive, connected environments (aka the “ metaverse ”). Users can buy or rent plots of virtual land using the platform’s own cryptocurrency, called MANA.