Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The theme of VWBPE 2023 conference is Uncommon Realities Once again this March, the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference (VWBPE for short) will take place in Second Life, running from March 23rd to 25th, 2023. This free online conference is produced entirely by volunteers.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Two-time GRAMMY Award winning artist William Patrick Corgan is teasing us with a music video for his new VR experience. The 2-D preview version is for Corgan’s new VR video “Aeronaut,” a single off his recently released solo album “Ogilala.”. The video and VR experience was directed by Viacom NEXT’s David Liu and Rob Ruffler.

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ARPost

JUNE 15, 2023

According to Shroyer, people who didn’t like playing video games were now spending hours playing Pokémon GO. See Also: CrimeTrip Introduces AR True Crime Cases for Your Perusal Moreover, it’s become a social phenomenon, allowing players to interact with others in virtual worlds.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Movement in virtual worlds is not yet achievable as seen in the film. To be totally honest, I doubt whether a virtual world of this type makes sense or not. The amount of data that the entire infrastructure should be able to manage for the real-time rendering of objects, avatars, and environments is impressive.

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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

Space Invaders is a shooting video game created by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978 and manufactured and sold by TAITO. It was the first fixed shooter video game and is considered one of the most iconic arcade games ever. Players can defend their real-world neighborhoods from 3D invaders emerging from nearby buildings and landmarks.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 25, 2021

Firstly, the term ‘metanomics,’ in relation to virtual worlds and the economy within, is something Doug Thompson was involved in more than a decade ago and ran a show within Second Life and a series of podcasts with the same name. It’s a video game first but definitely a metaverse second. by Theo Priestly. Michael Bobroff.

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ARPost

JUNE 21, 2023

Generative AI Generative AI takes a prompt and turns it into some form of media, whether an image, a short video, or even a 3D asset. Generative AI is often used in VR experiences to create “skyboxes” – the flat image over the virtual landscape where players have their actual interactions.

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2021

Before hopping into the virtual world, attendees select their name and choose a personal photo (preferably the one you used for your badge) to serve as the head of their avatar. Once finished with a Q&A, attendees are then transported to the third and final virtual world, Film Party. Image Credit: Sundance Institute.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

If you’ve played any video games at all – particularly open-world RPGs – you know that getting NPCs right can be hard. In these virtual world environments, people are often more comfortable talking to virtual agents,” said Gelfenbeyn. “In we need something better. Inworld AI is working on it.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2021

The Virtual Burn is being created by devoted teams of independent technologists, who are building six wholly unique virtual experiences that will welcome anyone from around the globe August 22 through September 7, 2021. Learn about all six Worlds on the Virtual Burn website. What is your favorite virtual World and why?

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XROM

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Enhanced Accessibility and Convenience: With YouTube VR now available on the PICO4 platform, users can enjoy a vast array of content, including both traditional videos and immersive 360° videos. Unlocking Immersive 360° Videos: One of the standout features of YouTube VR is its extensive collection of immersive 360° videos.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The company behind the multiplayer plugin Normcore proves the viability of a virtual office and beyond. The 2017 video from Normal VR started with an adorable, yellow, blob-like virtual avatar daintily standing in the middle of a real, physical office. It was a glimpse of the interconnected metaverse of the future.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 29, 2024

The police in the UK are currently investigating a virtual rape in the metaverse involving a young girl under the age of 16 who was sexually attacked by a gang of adult men in an immersive video game. The need for laws that recognize and criminalize non-physical but psychologically damaging forms of abuse in virtual spaces is urgent.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To highlight this, Varjo also released a video showing an unmodified capture shot through XR-1 Developer Edition, which shows a cockpit-based XR solution built by Bohemia Interactive Simulations which lets the pilot and co-pilot to interact with the physical cockpit while immersed in a virtual environment.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The sand is then carefully scanned by a Kinect depth-sensing camera, from which a virtual world is rendered. With the terrain data now built into your own virtual track, you can buckle up in the new Audi Q5, which becomes a portal to the virtual world you just created. This virtual world has real depth.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

How is modern technology setting us up to move around the virtual worlds of the future? 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. No longer is a joystick or a button needed to move your head around. With the SteamVR 2.0

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) Metaverse-fuelled programme saw its viewings rise 3 percent on Sunday evening, attracting 3.9 The virtual world will also allow users to use Otherdeed virtual world land plots ahead of the launch of the virtual space, where a total of 200,000 are set to launch.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

One of the videos from Oculus Connect 5 that stuck in my mind till tody is when Michael Abrash showed a real space transformed into a virtual one that has exactly the same shape, but a different mood. This video is from 2018, but I still dream about it today. Your space can be turned into a virtual world.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Seven of the best virtual worlds available to explore in VRChat. London’s Raindance Immersive Festival takes place from October 28 to November 22, enabling virtual explorers to discover a world class selection of new indie games, fantasy worlds and multiplayer experiences from home.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It can be used as an overall term to describe other technologies similar to, but different from, an actual Virtual Reality experience. AR augments the real world in front of you whereas VR creates completely immersive virtual environments. AR is 25% virtual and 75% real while VR is 75% virtual and 25% real.

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VRScout

JULY 10, 2017

In a Twitter video posted by NY-based virtual reality developer Normal VR , the company showcased an augmented reality experience featuring one of their custom avatars drawing a Tilt Brush-esque painting right in the middle of their office. Instead, this application brings digital elements from the virtual world into reality.

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Road to VR

MAY 22, 2017

Oculus recently published the first installment of their ‘Developer Perspectives’ video playlists, detailed on the developer blog. Over the coming weeks, Crytek says they they will publish some 40 videos exploring those experiments and the thinking behind them.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

From the videos, it looks wonderful. Go to SideQuest Sponsored Area Do you need a virtual world? In case you are in need of a solid team able to build a high-quality XR virtual environment, please let me know. So the user can look at where he wants to go, and then he can pinch to teleport there.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 9, 2024

A starting frame for a platform video game generated by Genie. This year, we’re seeing the same progression happening with video. Early versions of AI couldn’t remember what they did before, so text and images and videos were inconsistent. The authors say that its model is already able to create digital worlds.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Use the Metaverse to Unlock New Marketing Opportunities The metaverse is a virtual world in which users, represented by an avatar, can shop, socialize, take part in leisure activities and learn. This is where the metaverse, Augmented Reality(AR) and Virtual Reality(VR), come into the picture.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

This week, Microsoft Teams will debut AR filters from social media platform Snap giving its massive enterprise user-base access to fun virtual environments to dial in from. The project partners will debut more than 20 AR filters to help dispersed Teams users to stay engaged during a video call.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Virtual reality is described as a “three-dimensional, computer-generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person. That person becomes part of this virtual world or is immersed within this environment and whilst there, is able to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions.” (“What is Virtual Reality?”,

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Having that type of control in a virtual environment opened up so many possibilities for Vermeulen. When asked about why he focuses more on AR, Vermeulen says , “I don’t want to completely escape reality, I don’t want to be in a complete virtual world. I just want to augment my world.”.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Events are a hard category to stay on top of, and to judge,” Daniel Dyboski-Bryant of Educators in XR and the Virtual World Society said in awarding the Event of the Year – another category new to this year’s awards. See Also: FIVARS February Edition Showcases Virtual Reality Storytelling. Video Experience of the Year.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In effect, this lets you walk around the VR user’s virtual environment and freely take in the scene at any practical perspective while the VR user goes about playing the game. The smartphone itself also has its work cut out for it, as it must simultaneously run ARCore and decode video, which all adds noticeable latency.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

In VR, the user is completely absorbed in a virtual environment and minimises boundaries and markers. The system creates everything in the user’s environment, which may be exhibited inside a blank room via head-mounted displays (HMDs) or other equipment that helps users feel they are physically inside the virtual world.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 15, 2023

With virtual reality, companies can provide their virtual assistants with a comprehensive insight into their day-to-day operations, processes, values, and business missions without the need for complex in-house interactions. With virtual reality, it’s possible for remote assistants to conduct much more in-depth screening practices.

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VRScout

JUNE 29, 2016

In the video below, the team is showing an experiment on how you can bring characters to life in VR by picking up toys, moving them through space and time, and then replaying the scene. They took more risks knowing the virtual environment was designed for play. They felt comfortable performing and speaking in funny voices.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Yes it’s crude, but the graphics and the gameplay aren’t the point; rather than artificial locomotion like teleporting or sliding around the virtual world, in ‘Return to Grindelind’ you physically walk an equal distance in the real world to navigate the virtual town while searching for clues and advancing the narrative.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Virtual reality is no longer restricted to the world of video games. Slowly exposing the object of fear in a virtual environment can minimize phobia. Guest Post. This innovation has catapulted health care into the next stage. A similar approach treats phobias. Anxiety and Pain.

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ARPost

APRIL 15, 2021

As we increasingly spend time in virtual environments, we place mounting value on our digital lives and our digital goods. While a blockchain-backed award is cool, it’s only one example of the potential for non-fungible tokens being a sign of value in an increasingly virtual world. NFTs and Virtual Fashion.

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