Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Another Axiom, the studio behind the viral VR indie hit Gorilla Tag , has revealed the first glimpse of its next project. With its low-fi graphics and simple gameplay, you might not think it but Gorilla Tag is one of the most popular Quest games ever.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The reason for the delay was that Meta wanted to make sure its VR metaverse was ready for a larger community of users. Users can today jump into a large community of early Horizon Worlds settlers who’ve already been hard at work crafting various experiences for the company’s growing metaverse. Feature Image Credit: Meta.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 19, 2024

Defined as Meta’s “premium” headset for metaverse explorers, the Pro was designed to elevate Meta from a consumer-focused headset vendor to a competitor in the enterprise space. The Quest Pro has a higher price tag than the Quest 2 and the new Meta Quest 3. Now, you can access the Pro for as little as $999.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2023

Credit: Meta “Whether you’re Instagram famous, a casual doom-scroller, or an adventurer about to head off on some daring VR exploits, your Meta Avatar lets you represent yourself seamlessly and hang out with others across the metaverse,” said Meta in an official release.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

The starting price tag is 2,999 yuan (~$440). Some articles about the metaverse. More info (Dating in the metaverse) More info (Legal implications of the metaverse) More info (The metaverse in the Gartner Hype Cycle). SodaWorld, the first African “metaverse venue” has just got an investment from a Swiss fund.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Two Quest features make us dream about the metaverse. Steam now support VR tags. After last week’s drama, finally Steam added two new tags for its games: “VR only” and “VR supported”, so that users know if a game requires VR the moment they buy it. Gartner’s strategic predictions include the metaverse. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

of the Metaverse : “Apple is always coming next year, every year”. Gorilla Tag is coming to the Quest Store! The ultra-popular indie game Gorilla Tag is finally coming to the Quest Store! Some articles on the metaverse. The technology is not ready, so they need more time than expected to finalize it. What a great success.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2023

.” Largely, Zuckerberg says Apple is making some telling design tradeoffs, as its higher resolution displays, advanced software, and external battery comes alongside a $3,500 price tag—or seven times more than Meta’s upcoming Quest 3 mixed reality standalone. Photo by Road to VR But it’s also about ethos.

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ARVR

MARCH 22, 2022

The past year was also marked by the emergence of metaverse mania. A fully-actualized metaverse is decades away. Beyond the metaverse, AR and VR continue to be defined by steady progress in several areas. View the Instagram layer for geo-tagged stories from friends, and the Pinterest layer to discover new products.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 17, 2021

While in-store, smart mirrors and RFID tags open up new avenues for product suggestions to customers. Trends in Virtual Reality The 2022 technology that many people are excited about is the metaverse, which requires virtual reality development expertise to create. The same is true with things like shopping. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

At the same time, it proves that you never know what will be the next big hit : Meta has invested millions in exclusive games, and then the most popular games on Quest are an application where to slash cubes and a rough tag game featuring gorillas. This is fun. This is the exception, instead. Let’s not forget it.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

If you’re looking for an affordable way to enter the metaverse and unlock the power of enterprise XR, you have more options than you’d expect. Meta Quest 2 Price: $299+ Right now, Meta’s Quest 3 headset is the most exciting latest release from the metaverse-focused brand.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

The OpenSim metaverse is now a virtual home to 480,003 registered users. Kitely is second with 18,307, followed by Wolf Territories Grid with 13,184 regions, ZetaWorlds with 8,037, and Alternate Metaverse with 7,584 regions. Alternate Metaverse : 1,617 active users. Image courtesy TAG grid.). Hypergrid Business Data.).OSgrid,

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

NVIDIA wants USD to become the HTML of the metaverse; Major extensions to NVIDIA Omniverse , the computing platform for creating virtual worlds and digital twins. Metaverse “real estate” is going down and down. More info (Price of virtual land goes down 85%) More info (Mark Cuban talks about metaverse real estate). Other news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2024

Could we see another Case of a “Metaverse Crash” However, despite valuable prospects, keen XR observers might be having a flashback or two. It wasn’t that long ago when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was touting the Metaverse as the next big thing.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

OSgrid , Kitely , and TAG grids still dominate in terms of land area, usage, and online marketplaces. Kitely has 18,325 regions, ZetaWorlds has 8,189 regions, and Alternate Metaverse is fifth biggest grid with 7,339 total regions. Image courtesy TAG grid.). Progress in the size of OpenSim virtual land area over the years.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Last Saturday, Psychic VR Lab debuted its Real Metaverse Project via the firm’s extended reality (XR) content creation and distribution platform STYLY. The new Metaverse experience enables global STYLY XR creators to place geotagged augmented reality (AR) art in a real-world environment.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

More games are experimenting with Gorilla-Tag-like movement mechanics , and 2. More info (Why Apple Vision is better than Quest Pro) More info (Problems of the Apple Vision Pro) The Church and the metaverse Another article I found worth a read this week has been the report about the use of the metaverse for religious purposes.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The OpenSim metaverse is also home to 475,905 registered users. OSgrid has 23,117 hosted regions in total followed by Kitely with 18,390, Wolf Territories Grid with 13,168 regions, ZetaWorlds with 8,035, and Alternate Metaverse with 7,507 regions. Alternate Metaverse : 1,690 active users. Image courtesy TAG grid.).

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 17, 2023

OSgrid gained the equivalent of 595 standard regions, GBG World gained 297, and Tag Grid and Wolf Territories Grid grew by 64 regions each. From prior surveys, this dark metaverse of OpenSim grids might actually be bigger than the one we know about, because those grids don’t need to promote themselves, and we never hear about them.

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Hypergrid Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

OSgrid, a free-to-connect, non-profit world, now has an equivalent of 29,770 standard-sized regions in total, followed by Wolf Territories Grid with 25,504 regions, Kitely with 18,301, ZetaWorlds with 10,386, and Alternate Metaverse with 9,949 regions. image courtesy TAG grid.). They have an easy region installer here.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 8, 2023

However, the firm chose to settle with a multi-million dollar price tag. ” The news comes after Meta closed its doors on two major Meta Quest software developers – Metaverse platform Crayta, developed and operated by Unit 2, and VR gaming developer Ready at Dawn, operators of Echo VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2022

Additionally, the accelerator aims to support emerging technologies crucial to Metaverse experiences, such as augmented reality (AR), non-fungible token (NFT), and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. The virtual store platform also claims to increase return on investment and customer engagement with Metaverse shops.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 15, 2024

Top 25 most popular grids this month: Wolf Territories Grid : 5,578 active users OSgrid : 5,250 active users DigiWorldz : 2,168 active users GBG World : 2,112 active users Alternate Metaverse : 1,996 active users Darkheart’s Playground : 1,680 active users WaterSplash : 1,384 active users Moonrose : 1,202 active users AvatarLife : 1,133 active (..)

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 15, 2024

Top 25 most popular grids this month: OSgrid : 5,276 active users Wolf Territories Grid : 5,271 active users GBG World : 2,221 active users DigiWorldz : 2,138 active users Alternate Metaverse : 1,971 active users WaterSplash : 1,342 active users AvatarLife : 1,196 active users Moonrose : 1,111 active users Littlefield : 1,000 active users Neverworld (..)

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

Generative AI is becoming a strong tag-team partner for the XR space. Following a mainstream steer away from the Metaverse by some towards genAI – the latter may be gaining the most focus currently – but roadmaps are already in place by firms such as Microsoft to develop the industrial Metaverse by 2024.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The metaverse now spans an area of 125,877 total standard region equivalents, 95 percent of which is hypergriddable. From prior surveys, this dark metaverse of OpenSim grids is significantly bigger than the one we know about, because those grids don’t need to promote themselves, and we never hear about them.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2022

See Also: Varjo Enters the Metaverse With Reality Cloud Platform. While a price tag wasn’t included in the release, Russomanno told ARPost that the full package of Galea beta hardware and software will cost a hefty $25,000 – with a $5,000 deposit for preorder. The company makes brain-computer interfaces. That comes at a price.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Think about Gorilla Tag, the very successful free tag game: it can’t be monetized at all by its developer notwithstanding its enormous success because the game is available only on App Lab and he can’t add IAP options to earn money from it. Read the Metaverse Primer. When your survey is a bit confusing Funny link.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 15, 2024

Top 25 most popular grids this month: OSgrid : 5,155 active users Wolf Territories Grid : 4,715 active users DigiWorldz : 2,196 active users GBG World : 2,081 active users Alternate Metaverse : 1,837 active users WaterSplash : 1,354 active users Darkheart’s Playground : 1,342 active users Moonrose : 1,138 active users Littlefield : 1,036 active (..)

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 18, 2022

The ByteDance-owned XR firm announced sales of the Neo3 Link in May at the Laval Virtual Europe 2022 in France, where it debuted the novel headset with a price tag of £399. vr #ar #xr #mocap #gamification pic.twitter.com/xA0dz6YUQA. NeXR Technologies SE (@Nexrtech) August 17, 2022. #vr NeXR Technologies SE (@Nexrtech) August 17, 2022.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

One major hurdle that the Apple Vision Pro will face is its price tag of $3,500, which may turn off many consumers. You have to see that the whole, let’s say, metaverse, technologies, VR and AR, we’re still that’s still technologies, very infant technologies,” said Illenberger on the accessibility of VR technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Namely, with the rising industrial Metaverse approaching, XR leaders are outlining the methods of integrating emerging technology into the workplace and everyday life – urging people to get hands-on with the technology. The impact of the Metaverse is real, and it’s happening today, right now. –

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 15, 2023

OSgrid now has an equivalent of 29,281 standard-sized regions in total, followed by Wolf Territories Grid with 25,440 regions, Kitely with 18,294, ZetaWorlds with 10,132, and Alternate Metaverse with 9,369 regions. image courtesy TAG grid.). Event organizers looking for the biggest audience — you get the idea.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 18, 2022

The ByteDance-owned XR firm announced sales of the Neo3 Link in May at the Laval Virtual Europe 2022 in France, where it debuted the novel headset with a price tag of £399. vr #ar #xr #mocap #gamification pic.twitter.com/xA0dz6YUQA. NeXR Technologies SE (@Nexrtech) August 17, 2022. #vr NeXR Technologies SE (@Nexrtech) August 17, 2022.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Event organizers looking for the biggest audience — you get the idea.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 25, 2022

UploadVR said in its report that the Menlo Park-based firm will issue 18 and up tags for mature content on its immersive world-building platform. The company also invested roughly $50 million USD in September last year to ethically develop the Metaverse along with supernational organisations and contributing partners.

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