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How and Why Brand Engagement Is Driving XR Development

ARPost

This summer, 8th Wall released their 17th major platform update , which expands world effects with a focus on AR portals. These portals open up new virtual worlds for users to walk through or otherwise interact with. Once a portal has been opened, the user needs only to walk through it to enter a 360-degree virtual environment.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.09): New Half-Life: Alyx videos and details, coronavirus makes events go virtual and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The game appears fantastic : the graphics are high-level, the interactions are carefully studied to be natural (e.g. I had no news until some days ago, when various Youtubers and professionals publicly or privately claimed that they have been invited to join a private beta of the virtual world. 3dRudder becomes wireless.

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Can the Industrial Metaverse, XR Build Future Smart Cities?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

My mom [who recently experimented with the Meta Quest 2] started to understand this because she was in the form of an avatar in this app, looking at her hometown of Ireland while sitting here in Memphis, Tennessee. Every time we design a virtual world, we are able to set these things up as part of our business plan.

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