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This Technology Can Turn The Real-World Into Living Art

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Researchers can take an image and use it as a reference point to create a virtual world, object, or person. As companies explore having a metaverse presence through a digital twin, the ability to quickly and easily build out stylized 3D content and virtual worlds will only become more important moving forward.

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Europe wants to shape the future of virtual worlds with rules and taxes

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EU lawmakers are moving in on the metaverse and making it plain that, whatever newfangled virtual world/s and/or immersive social connectivity that tech industry hype involving the term may refer to, these next-gen virtual spaces won’t escape one hard reality: Regulation. EU initiative on virtual worlds.

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Comprehensive Glossary of the Most Frequently Used VR Terms

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An avatar is the 3D representation of the user in the virtual world. Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). This is a virtual reality environment, delimited by 3 to 6 walls. To create the VR environment, projectors display the elements of the world on the walls. Computer-Based Headset.

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Metaverse – Expectations vs Reality, Part 1: Technological Possibilities

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Before we reach such an advanced level of VR, we must first work on the following: hardware, infrastructure, interoperability, and content. Movement in virtual worlds is not yet achievable as seen in the film. The Void was a virtual arcade experiment that used this principle. What would be the use of this? Infrastructure.

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Olfactory Engineering: The Future Of Multisensory VR Could Be Scent-Based

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Aaron Wisniewski, CEO of OVR Technology, has introduced the Architecture of Scent (AOS) to bring olfaction to VR through hardware, software, and “scentware” components. Even without bullets flying, loud explosions, or chaotic commotion, these scents can effectively immerse soldiers in a wide variety of virtual environments.

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Lowe’s Opens 3D Product Library to Metaverse Developers

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In the past 100 years, Lowe’s has transformed from a small-town hardware store to a large-scale retailer of building and home improvement products. Now, Lowe’s is extending the same support it has given its customer builders in the real world to the metaverse developers of the virtual world.

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MeetKai’s Take on the Metaverse

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In this capacity, a number of readers have already used AI services from MeetKai, though behind the label of hardware companies and app developers. Our vision is that you bring back whatever knowledge you like to use in the real world and apply it to the virtual world,” said Weili. The answer is, once again, sort of.