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Meta’s Social VR App is Coming to Web & Mobile Soon, Alpha Begins for Members-only Rooms

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For now, the company says it allows creators to earn revenue from purchases people make in their worlds, which includes hardware platform fees and a Horizon Worlds fee, which Meta says is 25 percent. It was too good to be true.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Now, he turns his eye towards virtual reality with Gnomes & Goblins , an original production from Wevr in partnership with Reality One. THE FAMOUS ICELANDIC ECCENTRIC EMBRACES VR. All hardware manufacturers are chasing that time when the tech shrinks enough to be able to wear PCs on our faces.

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How science fiction precedes science fact and what it means for the metaverse

Hypergrid Business

I wrote my own ViFi novel, MetaWars , in 2010 after the Icelandic ash cloud grounded flights across Europe. Anyone who spends their days working from home, on what feels like non-stop Zoom meetings or Microsoft Teams sessions, is living a type of virtual reality.

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The Road Ahead in VR and AR Will Have Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

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John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. The hardware is not there. That’s coming.

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Google-backed Magic Leap Reveals Mixed Reality Music App

VRWorld

They invited a reporter from Pitchfork, an online music magazine, to its offices to check out a new mixed reality app Tónandi created in collaboration with Icelandic band Sigur Rós. It is obvious that the company still does not allow anyone to speak of the hardware they have on-hand.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

Virtual Reality is becoming always more important in enterprise settings , for training, architectural visualization, prototyping, and more. Companies are understanding that virtual reality is making them spare a lot of time and money , and also guaranteeing better safety for their workers. Why is this relevant?

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CCP Invents Cross-Reality, Launches EVE: Valkyrie Warzone

VRWorld

Not having access to VR hardware will no longer hold gamers back from diving weapons-first into intense and highly competitive space combat with friends. “If you can play first-person shooters, you can pilot one of EVE: Valkyrie – Warzone’s amazing ships. ” said Andrew Willans, Lead Game Designer, CCP Games Newcastle Studio.