ARPost

JUNE 5, 2023

The “Building Open Standards for the Metaverse” panel moderated by Moor Insights and Strategy Senior Analyst Anshel Sag brought together XR Safety Initiative (XRSI) founder and CEO Kavya Pearlman, XRSI Advisor Elizabeth Rothman, and Khronos Group President Neil Trevett. Apple’s tendency to operate outside of standards was discussed.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. Natural Language Processing (NLP) NLP is about using voice commands for people to explore and interact with virtual worlds. Screenshots taken on the official EQ3 website 4. It can boost satisfaction and sales.

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AllThingsVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Funding Roundup: Intel acquires Voke VR, The Future Group Raises $20M, ObEN nabs $7.7M Voke will become a part of a new division called Intel Sports Group, the company tells me. Before that, he worked for Microsoft as the tech director on HoloLens and Kinect. and Kabaddi tournaments in India. Read more on TechCrunch.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

The seed round was led by KB Partners and TitletownTech, with participation from Greycroft, Verizon Ventures, Haslam Sports Group, 49ers Enterprises, and SC Holdings, and “additional strategic celebrity investors.”. The Venice VR virtual world, designed by VRrOOm within VRChat, will be the Venice VR Expanded hub—a virtual version of Venice.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2023

Neil Trevett, President, Khronos Group , explained that interoperability was essential to the Metaverse scaling to its full potential “beyond siloed games, experiences, and worlds.” Additionally, the organisation supports several Forum Exploratory Groups to build consensus on charters for future Working Groups.

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ARPost

MARCH 7, 2023

Their actions on the stage were volumetrically captured and displayed in The Polys’ AltspaceVR environment, similar to the launch of Microsoft Mesh. I’d like to thank Avi, Kent [Bye], and everyone at the XR Guild and the Virtual World Society , and everyone in the XR community,” said Heller. “I

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The competition is the incumbent video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, but calls on these platforms have a set agenda, and are timeboxed – they’re rigid and repetitive. Others are using it to host events, meetup groups and family gatherings.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Metaverse Tech Will Be Built and Used by a More Diverse Group of People John Payne, CEO of Croquet , believes that metaverse technologies will be built and utilized by more diverse groups. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Backed by technology giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, this environment has the potential to change many aspects of people’s everyday lives. Even concepts like the virtual workplace are becoming increasingly appealing. will require law enforcement groups to transform and innovate at an incredible pace.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 17, 2017

VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. What’s unclear is just how you’ll be able to interact with the virtual worlds and objects produced inside these headsets. ” The head of J.P.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2023

Already, this vision has captured the attention of some of the world’s marketing leading XR brands. Elsewhere, groups and governments have already begun implementing their own strategies for Web3 and the Metaverse, aligning with WEF’s vision of security, inclusion, and ethical practice.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

One of the first to enter this business is the Metaverse Group, which operates a virtual world called Decentraland. Late last year, a report surfaced that the parent company of the Metaverse Group announced that “a site in the heart of Decentraland’s Fashion Street district” has been sold for a record $2.5

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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

MARCH 1, 2024

Virtual worlds like Fortnite, Roblox, or also RecRoom, and VRChat are becoming every day more successful. But now that prediction at least makes some sense, and this shows how the virtual worlds market is growing, both in number of users and in the size of its economy , and this trend is continuing this year for sure.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 18, 2023

Now, as we look ahead to the next iteration of the future of work, immersive platforms and the metaverse are becoming increasingly intriguing. Technology giants like Microsoft, Meta, and Varjo are already investing in the idea of “metawork” , introducing new platforms and toolkits intended to connect employees in a universal digital environment.

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VRScout

MARCH 4, 2020

And for a third group, the value in virtual beings isn’t the ability to create a new person: it’s to recreate an existing one. In a YouTube video that recently went viral, a woman is shown “reunited” with her late daughter in a virtual world. Virtual being music group Auxuman (Image Credit: Auxuman).

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ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

Virtual Reality is an immersive simulation of reality in which the surrounding world is completely replaced with a computer generated world. 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.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In the US, stores like Microsoft, Gamestop, and Micro Center host Vive setups offering public demos, while you can find the system in Europe in locations like Currys PC World, GAME, and Scan Computers. Oculus has a healthy smattering of demo locations across the US in many Best Buy and Microsoft stores.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets. Meanwhile, some software startups grapple with the “gap of disappointment” predicted by Unity CEO John Riccitiello wherein VR headset sales lag the dart throw predictions made by analysis groups.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

AR has opened a new door for games developers to combine the real and virtual worlds for immersive interactions. Using immersive technology, creators can start to build more community-driven gaming experiences for the Metaverse, and build groups of adoring fans for their brand.

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Ryan Schultz

JANUARY 14, 2024

The course, co-taught by a computer science professor from the Faculty of Science and an interior design professor from the Faculty of Architecture, is titled Building Virtual Worlds: Users, Techniques and Tools. To use the virtual world of Second Life (SL for short), you will first need to create an account.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 22, 2022

The Khronos Group has hosted the groundbreaking consortium of Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) to explore methods to develop interoperability and remove obstacles to a future open-source Metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself. Some months ago, the company made the world dream showing a monkey that could play a simple computer game just with the power of its mind.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. HoloLens 2 could be put on sale on September. In any case, we will see.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For many, that’s been the general reaction to the metaverse , an all-encompassing virtual world that big tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg really want people to inhabit using virtual or augmented reality headsets. That’s what Match Group, Tinder's parent company, reportedly has in the works.

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ARPost

AUGUST 3, 2022

The following year it launched on Steam and the year after that, it was purchased by Microsoft in a bid to expand their mixed reality portfolio which has always been a kind of awkward collection. Initially, the purchase by Microsoft didn’t mark many major changes. You can’t customize it at all, and most of it isn’t very interactive.

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ARVR

JANUARY 18, 2022

Meta corporations and Microsoft almost simultaneously announced work on unified virtual worlds, and the focus on the “internet of the future” even led to the renaming of Facebook (but only the companies, social networks left their familiar name).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The omniverse solution is available as a platform-as-a-service offering, running on Microsoft Azure. Cavrnus Otherwise known as Cavrnus VR, Cavrnus is a Metaverse builder platform , designed to help every creator share their vision of a metaverse on the internet.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Russian company Radix Universal is working on a new kind of omnidirectional treadmill for VR, that according to the company can also simulate you going on stairs in the virtual world. The negative reputation could stick with the social network, but not influence products like Oculus headsets, for instance.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

After further tests on the device, t he Army has begun accepting the first 5000 units that Microsoft should manufacture. K-pop group Blackpink has just won the MTV MVA award for “best metaverse experience” for their show inside PUBG. The news was reported everywhere, but it seems we declared this project dead too soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

DJ Smith is the co-founder of The Glimpse Group, an XR technologies accelerator that’s doing startup incubating in a whole new way. Alan: We have an amazing guest today: DJ Smith is the co-founder and chief creative officer at The Glimpse Group. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

DJ Smith is the co-founder of The Glimpse Group, an XR technologies accelerator that’s doing startup incubating in a whole new way. Alan: We have an amazing guest today: DJ Smith is the co-founder and chief creative officer at The Glimpse Group. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup.

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VeeR VR

APRIL 10, 2018

Alan's business has worked with companies like Samsung, HBO, Techweek, Microsoft, Comcast, and many more. Sabarish is a 14 year-old Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality developer. He is the youngest AR developer in the world to be sponsored by Microsoft to develop for the Microsoft HoloLens. Antony Vitillo.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Yes, I know this blogpost is somewhat off-topic for a blog about “news and views on social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse,” but hey, my blog, my rules. Community Support : Join online forums, communities, or user groups dedicated to macOS to get help, tips, and advice from experienced users.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

We have Brandon Harper, he’s a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. One other thing that I noticed that you guys are covering is virtual worlds and digital twins. We have Brandon Harper, he’s a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. What does that mean?

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. Microsoft has been very active in this area for years and their video on the history of flight simulation is a good introduction.

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