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Meta’s Responsible Metaverse and the Enterprise

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The company later joined responsible metaverse alliances such as the Washington, DC-based XR Association and the Metaverse Standards Forum. It has also encouraged people to establish personal boundaries in virtual worlds. Meta added visual indicators and even physical control like camera shutters, age, and comfort ratings in VR.

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The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! A computer science degree will teach you programming, as well as the fundamentals of data and database management, how hardware works, and networking.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Instead of having to physically bring an object to a person or bring a person to the object, digital twins allow decision-makers to review digitized items from anywhere in the world, speeding up processes and helping with environmental concerns. However, the technology is still finding its place in the enterprise.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Oculus has done a quick 180 on their position on Digital Rights Management: after repeatedly blocking patches that would enable users to access non-Oculus content, Oculus quietly updated its hardware-specific runtime and removed all evidence of that controversial DRM – and did not mention the change in its runtime notes.

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VR poses challenges for software testing

Hypergrid Business

And as the cost of the hardware continues to drop , headsets could eventually be as integral to gaming consoles in the home as motion sensors were a few years ago. For example, Otolith Labs, of Washington DC, is developing a prototype device that sits behind the VR user’s ear. Army to customize development for its HoloLens headset.

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Bundling the Best of AR with Ease of Use, with BundlAR’s John Martin

XR for Business Podcast

Google gave a grant to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, so they wanted to reboot the Mayor Harold Washington exhibit. But at any rate, what we realized was when Google and Apple gave this gift of AR to the world just three summers ago, saying they were all-in with AR, meaning that the hardware was going to work, it was like, wow.

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Bundling the Best of AR with Ease of Use, with BundlAR’s John Martin

XR for Business Podcast

Google gave a grant to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, so they wanted to reboot the Mayor Harold Washington exhibit. But at any rate, what we realized was when Google and Apple gave this gift of AR to the world just three summers ago, saying they were all-in with AR, meaning that the hardware was going to work, it was like, wow.

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