Hypergrid Business

JULY 11, 2017

Amazon is going all out today with deals on virtual reality products, running the whole gamut of headset options, computers, and accessories. For extra bang for your buck, make your purchase through the Amazon Smile program for OSgrid , and half a percent will be donated to OpenSim’s biggest non-profit grid and testing ground.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Back in the time, there were already some virtual worlds having interoperability between them, there has already been written a document about avatar rights, and there were already big concerns about privacy. Sony acquires Bungie and thinks about Capcom. Sony acquires Bungie and thinks about Capcom. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Since this framework makes the real-world objects an active part of the AR experience , this is an additional tool to blend the real and the virtual worlds Meta openly released the Digital Twin Catalog (DTC) , which is probably the world’s largest and highest-quality 3D object model dataset for 3D reconstruction research.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We’re excited about the depth and richness that the resulting characters bring to the game for our players” Popul8 the Virtual World with Didimo Solutions like Didimo’s Popul8 platform have grown in popularity over the last few years due to increasingly demanding production pipelines for gaming and real-time 3D (RT3D) content.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Interestingly, these controllers are nothing revolutionary, they are not implementing inside-out tracking like the Quest Pro, but they are refining instead the existing design, a bit like Sony did with the controllers of PSVR 2. This is quite cool, actually, and very very helpful when demoing VR to other people. Great job Pico on this one.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

With this operation, Facebook secures another amazing development studio (after Beat Games), making sure that it will be able to provide high-quality games for its headsets in the future, and protecting itself from hostile acquisitions of other companies (like Sony acquiring Insomniac). Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. More info Buy it now!

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

It’s important to remember that every VR device fits one of three categories: mobile (meaning it uses the user’s smartphone to produce its virtual world), tethered (meaning the device must be hooked up to a PC or console) or more recently, “all-in-one” (meaning the computing hardware is built into the headset itself). from Amazon.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It reminds this author of Sony’s efforts on the PlayStation 3 with the Home project. A much delayed and oft-derided free service provided by Sony, Home was originally touted as a new way of interacting online with other gamers and was promising everything under the sun before it landed with a thud. What do you think?

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VRGames

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It reminds this author of Sony’s efforts on the PlayStation 3 with the Home project. A much delayed and oft-derided free service provided by Sony, Home was originally touted as a new way of interacting online with other gamers and was promising everything under the sun before it landed with a thud. What do you think?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

This was the final big surprise of the event: Sony Pictures and Meta, in partnership with nDreams, will bring the famous franchise to virtual reality. Image by Amazon). Amazon may be working on an XR device. A job listing from Amazon may point to the interest of the company in developing an XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I had the pleasure of meeting Daniel a few times, sometimes in the physical world when I attended AWE US, and other times in virtual worlds, especially when I participated in some events on ENGAGE. He was a very kind person and a true pleasure to spend time with him.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

My favorite one is “interoperability” : you shoud be able to go through all virtual worlds carrying with you what you have got in one into the other ones. PSVR 2 Controllers (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). No one still knows how to build the necessary technologies to make it happen.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Regarding the compatibility of older PS4 titles (including VR ones), Sony has clarified that most of titles will be compatible, but some of them won’t work on Day 1. He has set a shooting game in his apartment, and in it he can also use his real table as a prop in the game , moving it in the real and virtual world together.

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