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Terrifying VR Living Room Shows How Smart Devices Are Manipulating Us

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Brought to us by the directors of Netflix’s THE GREAT HACK , Persuasion Machines aims to a shed light on the many dangers threatening consumer privacy by immersing users in a multi-user VR experience in which players explore a sterile living room environment filled to the brim with various smart devices designed to weaponize our own data against us.

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‘Facebook Spaces’ Overhauls Avatars to Be More ‘fluid and natural’

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The update will also come with new controls to adjust the size, position and angle of your avatar’s features, as well as an overhaul to the automatic avatar creator which runs your photos through a machine learning algorithm to extrapolate an avatar. The company says the update will arrive sometime this week.

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HaptX Gloves Will Help Transform VR Training and Design

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When combined with a VR headset, HaptX Gloves hope to revolutionize human-machine interaction, enabling users to feel countless virtual objects with unprecedented realism. Disclosure: The HaptX launch trailer was filmed at VRScout’s mixed reality studio. Image Credit: Az Balabanian.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.07): Samsung is planning to launch an XR device, PSVR may arrive in 2023, and more!

The Ghost Howls

A study conducted by HTC Vive together with a Chinese university shows that Virtual Reality has much more addictive potential (+44%) than traditional flat gaming. Vox Machine has been released with Single Campaign mode. More info (Vox Machine review on Road To VR) More info (Vox Machine review on Upload VR). Learn more.

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Family Gaming: VR Experiences Transforming Together Time Under Lockdown

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For many parents and guardians this means learning to work from home while simultaneously keeping their families safe, happy, and healthy under quarantine. For over 10 years Angry Birds has delighted audiences with all sortf of family friendly content, including games, film, and TV. Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs by Resolution Games .

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China shows its masterplan to lead Virtual Reality in 2025

The Ghost Howls

If I remember well, some company in China was already experimenting on cloud rendering for the HTC Vive, so users could spare buying a VR-ready PC. The whole machine equipment. The last paragraph of this point talks about VR videos. – Near-eye display technology. There is a long list of examples of things that should be improved.

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Meet Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR

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What we found most notable about the conversation was unexpected: a good 40% of Epic’s VR efforts are outside of gaming and Nick provides a lot of interesting insights and lessons learned between the two spaces. What do you think cinematic folks can learn from you folks in gaming? . Read on for the full interview.

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