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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.28): GDC, GTC, Snap’s acquisition of NextMind, and more!

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When you are in virtual reality, you see the objects closer than they actually are. I think it was only me that had this problem, but a new article published by the Iowa State University shows that this is a common situation: people doing the test had a perceived distance to virtual objects that was 75% of the real one. Upload VR).

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

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Other universities such as Arizona State University, New Mexico State University, Purdue Global, University of Iowa, and many more have entered strategic partnerships for the programme. Finally, Epic Games kicked off its Augmented Reality Center (ARC) with Oakland University Michigan.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.11.19): Meta announces Project Aria research kits, a wave of Chinese smartglasses is coming, and more!

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Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta opens applications for Project Aria research kits A couple of years ago, Meta unveiled Project Aria, a set of glasses it was building as a stepping stone towards its future Augmented Reality glasses. To inspire potentially interested research centers.

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