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Conversational Gameplay & Interactive Narrative in ‘Starship Commander’

Road to VR

Developer Human Interact announced this past week that they are collaborating with Microsoft’s Cognitive Services in order to power the conversational interface behind their Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, interactive narrative title named Starship Commander. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Subscribe on iTunes.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.18): Magic Leap 2 price revealed, new rumors about Apple, and more!

The Ghost Howls

In my opinion, Magic Leap 2 is a superior device to HoloLens 2 (see my hands-on here ), so I think that with these prices, it can have good success in the enterprise market, starting to gain shares with regard to Microsoft. Probably the communication machine of the company is not as strong as before, so the old message still hangs around.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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Xenoma Mixes AI with AR / VR, Launches e-Skin Clothing for Gesture Tracking

VRWorld

The vision of the company is to create stretchable clothing with built-in electronics that detect user’s movement, all while being a piece of clothing which can be worn comfortably with machine washability just as regular shirt could do. Now, e-skin is coming to Kickstarter.

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A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) realityI.

AllThingsVR

Already, this blended approach is being embraced by industry players like Microsoft. “We Full Sail’s workshop is packed with 3D printers, laser cutters, and milling machines. Students learn everything from basic carpentry and spray-painting to how to make their own circuit boards.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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