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Beyond the Joystick: Companies Building the Future of VR Locomotion

VRScout

It wasn’t long ago that the best method of moving around games and virtual worlds were two joysticks or a set of keyboard keys and a mouse. With the advent of consumer VR that allows for room scale mobility within virtual environments — the game has changed completely. Driving and Flight Simulators.

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Why I Suspect Quest 3 Lite Will Support Color Passthrough Mixed Reality

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Some apps offer passthrough as an optional background instead of a virtual environment, but few developers offer full mixed reality content that truly integrates with the geometry of your real environment. The reference to Panther was in a debug feature for "simulating" it on Quest 3 (Eureka).

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What is the Influence of Major Corporations in XR and Spatial Computing?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

It allows users to walk around in a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller. In the medical sphere and in the simulation space, what is important is data and the data that you can actually gather from this mat because at the end it’s tiles, but it’s like a mat, I guess it could be really interesting.

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6 Roadblocks Stopping Web3 And The Metaverse Becoming A Reality

Bernard Marr

At the moment, we don't have clear laws on what's acceptable and unacceptable in virtual environments or even which jurisdictions they come under. If I’m physically at home in England, but I’m exploring a virtual metaverse environment hosted by a Chinese provider, will I be subject to English laws or Chinese?

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The Five Benefits of Enterprise XR, According to Meta 

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Meta says that some of its questioned firms reported that workers feel a significant increase in levels of immersion while working in a virtual environment. The Menlo Park-based firm also found that end-users experienced more natural digital conversations during virtual meetings.

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Is Sound the Secret Sauce for Making Immersive Experiences?

VRScout

To build truly believable virtual environments, we need to believe our ears as much as our eyes. The point of all of this wasn’t just to test torture interns, however, but to gain in-depth understanding of the way that humans perceive sound, so they could figure out the best way to simulate it realistically.

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The 25 Best Free Meta Quest Games & Apps - Winter 2023

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Bigscreen’s theater designs range from rooms in simulated homes, like the relaxing Residence environment, all the way up to our favorite theatrical experience — the Grand Cinema — with its roomy stadium seating and subtle reflections of light from 2D or 3D content illuminating your surroundings.

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