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The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into

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See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. That’s because VR is capable of creating such immersive, interactive, and social experiences.

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The AR Space Race, Part IX: Epic Games

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Project Anywhere Epic Games has signaled its commitment to a real-world metaverse with the AR launch of Project Anywhere. In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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Teens slow to adopt VR and more bad news for the metaverse

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According to IDC, both consumer and enterprise interest in virtual reality fell last year. Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans. It’s all Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, and occasionally Microsoft Teams. Image courtesy Unreal Engine.)

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Will Meta’s Open Framework Dismantle Apple’s Walled Garden?

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Horizon is also the immersive framework behind the firm’s Worlds metaverse platform. The firm seeks to drive socially connected virtual worlds ready for cross-platform delivery on headsets, phones, and desktops. Meta is a crucial parenting in the OpenXR update.

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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! Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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The XR Metaverse Market Map for 2023

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Today, we’re looking at just some of the metaverse innovators that are beginning to introduce the world to the potential of these new digital landscapes. Meta One of the better-known names in the Metaverse landscape today, Meta (previously Facebook), is a technology company investing in the creation of immersive virtual spaces.