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NASA Needs Your Help Building A VR Mars Simulator

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Earn money helping NASA build a next-gen simulator for researchers and astronauts. Built using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, the Mars XR Operations Support System is a virtual environment developed by NASA in collaboration with Buendea that simulates life on the planet Mars. ” Credit: HeroX.

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Dive Into a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse Built on Unreal Engine

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Victoria VR is among the first to harness the latest augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies to offer a hyper-realistic metaverse created and owned by users. From Real to Unreal and Unreal to Real. Unreal Engine has the capability to render real-life photos into photorealistic graphical images. ej Dobruský.

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Training AI & Robots in VR with NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck

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At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck. They’re using Unreal Engine to simulate interactions with people in VR to train a robot how to play dominos.

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How Inworld AI Is Populating the Metaverse

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Inworld AI is a company building a tool to create brains that experience creators can put into virtual bodies to populate the metaverse – whether that’s games, simulations for enterprise and education, embodied chatbots in immersive retail environments, or whatever else you can think of. What is Inworld AI ?

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Steam Audio Promises More Realistic Sound For Games And VR

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The tech promises sound which very realistically responds to a virtual environment and would serve as an improvement over the standard 3D audio. In the demo video below you can hear the audio change as a player moves around a virtual room. Steam Audio uses the actual scene geometry to simulate reverb.

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NVIDIA Shows How Physically-based Audio Can Greatly Enhance VR Immersion

Road to VR

Getting that directional audio to interact in realistic ways with the virtual environment itself is the next challenge, and getting it right came make VR spaces feel far more real. Traditionally these simulations have been too resource-intensive to be able to do quickly and accurately enough for real-time gaming.

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Amazon Sagemaker Ground Truth can now create virtual objects for AI model training

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In machine vision applications, that means creating different environments and objects to train robots or self-driving cars, for example. But while there are quite a few tools out there to create virtual environments, there aren’t a lot of tools for creating virtual objects.